I am Stine. Comfort the afflicted. Afflict the comfortable. High School Wrestler™. Can usually correctly use the past tense in French. Suffers from clinical depression. @stinerman@mastodon.social on Mastodon.
Microsoft’s most important customers are businesses, who generally don’t deal with this (they have corporate images). Home users also generally don’t deal with this given they buy a computer that has already been configured.
Linux-based systems have always needed to be better because almost no one buys a computer with $DISTRO already installed and configured.
I had forgotten about that and now I am sad that I’ve been reminded.
If Back to the Future was made today, Marty would have traveled back to 1994.
Glad I could be of service.
Ahh the halcyon days of downloading one song from a private FTP server with upload ratios, found by Lycos FTP search. Over a modem, natch, so it took about 50 minutes…and that’s when your mom didn’t kick you off the internet so she could make a call.
It will come down to the laws in your country and how much money you plan to spend on lawyers if your employer wants to force the issue.
Running an absolutely ancient kernel.
Still using a Pixel 2 XL as my primary phone thanks to LineageOS.
Which was built because of the limitations of ALSA.
GNU/pedophilia
I would call anything running the Linux kernel “Linux”. Granted my LineageOS phone isn’t very much like my Debian PC, but they’re both Linux.
I’ve literally done the rm -rf / thing. I thought I was in a different subdirectory, but I was in / and did rm -rf .
When it didn’t return after half a second, I looked at the command again and hit CTRL+C about 20 times in the span of 3 seconds.
I had to rebuild the install, but luckily didn’t lose anything in /home.
Agreed, but I think there are enough flavors of Debian to satisfy someone if they want newer packages without resorting to Flatpak/Snap/etc.
I don’t mind the old packages (I’m typing from Debian Stable right now). If that’s a bother for other people Debian Stable isn’t the way to go. Even I wouldn’t recommend Stable on a desktop/laptop unless that person knew what they were getting themselves into. I used to run Sid a while back, but didn’t want to have to deal with the mild breakage from time to time. Generally speaking it’s “stable enough” for most people, especially on a daily driver.
That being said, I have a few flatpaks running, but that’s mostly because they’re apps that aren’t packaged for Debian.
The old joke is that “Ubuntu” is a Bantu word meaning “can’t install Debian.”
That’s a classic.
Yeah I think Arch is fine, but I’d never recommend it to a new Linux user.
I run Debian and I regularly look at the Arch wiki.
There’s a guy who works as a product owner at my employer. He has a PharmD. He got fed up with the metrics for how many prescriptions he had to fill. Now he does software.
It’s crazy to think that someone has a terminal degree in a really technical field and he nope’d out because of how bad it got.