I’ve been using Linux since the days of Slackware on floppies, and I still like Mint. It seems to just work – I’m not at all averse to “more hardcore” distributions, but would rather get on with my work. That being said, the Surface kernel is a nice piece of software and worth considering for an optimal experience on Surface.

Definitely doable! I’ve run several Linux distributions on Surface devices. I had good experiences out of the box with Ubuntu and Mint, and not-great experiences with Debian Bookworm (even with the Nvidia driver, it could never seem to work out that the external monitor on my machine was a primary. I did not try the Surface-specific kernel, however. Good luck!

What type of error do you receive on mobile?

Thanks for fixing my Lemmy notation!

https://feddit.nl/c/trendingcommunities Is also a good source of active community information.

A few ways I’ve found communities that interest me:

• Community promotion communities such as https://lemmy.ca/c/communitypromo provide pointers to topics of interest.

• A good Lemmy client goes a long way toward facilitating content discovery; I’m a Voyager user, and it supports sorting Home (subscribed) and All (unsubscribed) post feeds in various ways including New, Active, Scaled, Controversial, etc.

• When I was new to Lemmy, I used Voyager’s subreddit migration tool to match communities with my interests (see https://vger.app/settings/reddit-migrate ) – I believe Artic and a number of other clients have similar functionality.

• Just browsing the All feed has helped me find communities (and compile a list of things to block!)

Tailscale is also ridiculously easy to use for this purpose. The serve and Funnel features make secure self hosting really easy from your tailnet (one can easily provision certificates for nodes using Let’s Encrypt from the CLI: https://tailscale.com/blog/reintroducing-serve-funnel

As others have said, one’s view of Lemmy is highly dependent upon the instances and communities that one frequents. As someone who isn’t a habitué of politics, news, sport or meme communities, I’ve found my fellow lemmings to be pleasant, but I also believe that that is due to trying to be helpful and polite myself and being willing to apologize when warranted.

I hadn’t noticed that until now. Thanks!

This would be a great Kagi lens (https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/lenses.html ), perhaps for the Fediverse generally, rather than just for Lemmy. They already have one for Reddit, as well as a ‘small web’ one focused on small sites and non-commercial material.