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Absolutely — here are clean, minimal, podcast-ready rewrites of your responses for the six backup categories. These are phrased in your voice, polished, and ready to read on air.

Backup Responses (Drew — Rewritten & Ready to Use)

1. The Question I Wish Someone Would Ask

Q: What distro do you regret recommending? A: Honestly? Ubuntu with a pile of PPAs. It felt helpful at the time, but it created a system that broke every time it sneezed. I learned my lesson.

Q: What’s one thing you changed your mind on? A: Flatpaks. I used to think they were unnecessary, and now half my workflow depends on them.

2. Hot Takes Lightning Round

Systemd haters: Most of them are just bored. If it didn’t work, Debian wouldn’t ship it.
GNOME extensions: Let’s be real — extensions are the real GNOME experience.
Debian: It’s the only distro that feels like an operating system instead of a hobby.
Raspberry Pi: The 4 was the peak “sweet spot.” Everything since is more expensive for marginal gains.

3. Tool That Surprised Me This Week

mdp — I installed it out of curiosity, and it immediately became my favorite way to present Markdown. Lightweight, clean, fits right into a scripted workflow, and doesn’t make you wrestle with slides.

4. Questions Nobody Asked (but I’m Answering Anyway)

Q: What feature would you delete from Linux history? A: Snap auto-refresh. Not snaps — just the “we’re updating now whether you like it or not” part.

Q: Which GUI app do you secretly love? A: Ghostty. It’s the one GUI terminal that doesn’t feel like a compromise.

Q: If you had to distro-hop right now? A: Fedora. As a FOSS advocate, I respect Arch, but I trust Fedora. It’s modern, open-source by default, and doesn’t make me babysit it.

5. Audience Poll (with Drew’s quick answers)

Is Wayland ready? Yes for GNOME. Not for my tiling workflow.
Tabs: top or bottom? Top. Bottom tabs feel like a kid’s menu.
GNOME vs KDE? KDE wins on features. GNOME wins on discipline.

6. Micro Linux Horror Stories

I once aliased rm to trash, forgot I removed trash, and wiped half a project before noticing.
I re-bound Mod in DWM to a key I don’t even have, live on stream. Couldn’t open a terminal. Couldn’t close a window. Just vibes.
I force-pushed the wrong branch once and thought Git was broken. No — I was broken.

If you want, I can now paste these directly into your show notes file in a clean section under your Episode 197 outline.

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