Try and avoid the XY problem. I.e. “how do I do X with Y?”

You’re coming from macOS and a lot of idiomatic things will be different. Find the idiomatic ways to do (whatever) on the distribution your using.

Also, have fun, be reckless, ruin the system, reinstall try again…

“My Script” should be another dozen books the same thickness as main.

Not, I stress, for the sake of it, but for proper implementation of the suitable patterns for the application.

So did Boromir.

The customer is always right in matters of taste and style.

If you can’t get (and keep) customers for your product: that’s your problem.

I can only assume this 17% want to because they’re just parroting their Dear Leader.

Any same person would ask “why?”

Don’t forget that bush that makes you want to die.

Australia is a great place, except that everything that isn’t a gun is also trying to kill you.

New Zealand is like Aus’s overly earnest cousin, but has better internet and not even on most maps.

We’ve diverged from the OP’s question and descended into gatekeeping how to “music” properly.

Time to finish.

you can’t reason someone out of something they didn’t reason themselves into

This is the crux. None of it is reasoned.

beat off all these people with both hands.

Inside out.

I can’t take anything that uses the word “tremendously” seriously any more.

It’s another invitation to bribe him.

Eccentrica Gallumbits is #1.

Sorry. I’m not explaining myself well and “just” was a poor word choice.

I refuse to (try to) idolize anything (well anything tangible) and especially things that are important to me. So music is an art like any other art. Someone will love it others might hate it and that’s fine.

The “hype” is idolatry. Kind of in the biblical sense.

My relationship is with the music, not the artist. So no artist is with the “hype”.

Nowhere in your post did you mention that you were already looking, Captain Jobless.

Not at all, I love music. But it’s a personal experience.

Start looking ASAP.

White ethnostate system working as designed.

All of them. It’s just music.

I like the bands/albums/singles that I like, that’s enough.

Integrating a band into my identity is so far from likely that I won’t even buy or wear a fan t-shirt.

TIL! all nyt pages I can find are missing the actual article.