I don't know about OP but when I use a VPN, it's on all the time, not selectively enabled because I'm going to a particular website.

The only time I've had any kind of crash was when I did a major KDE update while in KDE, but even then it consisted of the shell crashing and reloading itself. Which I took as a sign that I should restart KDE.

I was sick of paying the "Australia tax" for new releases that took longer to reach us than most of the rest of the world.

Exactly this, except I actually stopped for a long time when Netflix first came out and wasn't geo-restricted.. then the enshittification started.

When I, rarely, need more advanced features like window splitting and session management I also use Zellij

Konsole does window splitting as well, doesn't it?

To be specific..

Install something from the main repo:

$ paru -S package

Install something from the AUR:

$ paru -S package

To search for a package, in the main repo or the AUR:

$ paru -Ss search-term

With the search results, it clearly labels if something is from the AUR or extras or the main repo, and you can make it show AUR results first or last in the config.

https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru

I don't actually use pacman directly at all, I use paru for everything and it's seamless.

Not sure why noone has pointed this out but if you use paru or yay instead of pacman, installing/searching the AUR is the same as if they are in the main repo. It does all the building etc for you.

btop is awesome. RIP htop

1. click it
2. as it instantly opens you realise you didn't change that setting yet and go change it

Mint 💯

Zram is really neat.

I really like the Mint Y icons, they're kinda round with soft colours.

I'm not suggesting it's bad, I just don't use it much and it's always preinstalled.