I got one more like for ya, I came long into this thread. I probably should read it all.
Yes that’s the antispam (default Discourse settings), common practice in any forum and such.
I already liked it when I read the whole thread (phew!), but you’re up to 47 now; 3 more to make 50.
Yeah $100 for a lifetime membership to Lunduke.com seems almost criminally low! I figure I’ll just auto-renew at $54 a year and give him some repeating income stream 
He’s on fire lately; really fun to read and listen to.
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Same here.
To be fair, I’m still a Gentoo fan and don’t plan on fully replacing it with OpenMandriva. They’re just different beasts for different purposes.
That said, I do intend to replace my (K)Ubuntu with OpenMandriva—mostly for my workstations and servers. Gentoo tends to crash things randomly, and that’s not cool for a job environment.
Ubuntu communities are fine, but I’ve never really felt connected to them. The gap between contributors and the project leads feels way too big.
So far, OpenMandriva works mostly fine right out of the box. A bit annoying that Telegram has a dark mode bug after install, but it’s not a dealbreaker. As a new user, that’s not the best experience, but hey, even Ubuntu has weird LiveCD crashes sometimes.
Good work, guys! I’d heard of OpenMandriva years ago from Linux Journal, but the “Mandriva” name never really clicked for me as I’m not much into Redhat/RPMs or French stuff (Mandriva SA). Still, after a week with it on my Asus Z13 2025, it’s running pretty well.
Keep up the good work! And stay out of politics—whatever side. We’re engineers; let’s focus on fixing things and let them work!
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Welcome! We are happy to see you here and hope you decide to make this your home.
I had that same Telegram dark bug on Tumbleweed. It persists here as well.
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You can always go with the Telegram Flatpak. That let’s you enable dark mode and customize things as needed 
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or also get the telegram binary directly from the website.
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