Hated Windows. TechTV had a download of day that “works on both Windows and Linux!”
“I don’t know what Linux is but it can’t be worse that Windows.”
I’ve been on it ever since. That was 20+ years ago.
I honestly don’t know how windows works… I only ever used it for about a year and some change when I was a teenager in the 90s.
It’s easier to think about Linux on the context of what an individual application needs to run. Pretty much everything you do will have these components.
That’s really it. If something isn’t working, it’s pretty much exclusively going to fall into one of those categories. What that means is going to vary significantly from app to app but understanding this is how literally everything works makes the troubleshooting process a lot easier.
A small container running in kubernetes on an old laptop.
My personal laptop is whatever the first gen Framework is called. After many, many years doing the “cool” distros, I’ve settled on Mint and don’t really have any motivation to do anything else… I have real work I need to do and can’t be bothered to deal with figuring out weird shit. I just need it to work.
TBH, the only things I use my laptop for anymore is a browser, vim, git, and kubernetes tooling… I barely have any interest in running Linux on a workstation at this point. The only things that really interest me anymore are being run in distributed clusters. Desktop Linux is kinda boring and tedious for me.
Those days gave me a career so I can’t really complain.
Back in the dark, old days of Linux I spent 5-6 hours digging through dbus events and X11 configs to get my mouse working. It was unplugged.
In my defense, in those days, Linux was such an insane asylum that diving into dbus and X11 as a first step was usually the logical approach.
This is dumb.
You could do all that stuff with bash scripts but it would be a management nightmare. You’d also be completely reinventing the wheel.
If anyone seriously thinks this is a good idea, please post your LinkedIn so I know to never hire you.
What software are you using that is keeping you on windows?
FWIW, the last version of windows I’ve run was WinME circa 2001ish… I’ve been on Linux since '99 or so. You can certainly get by for day to day stuff. The only thing holding you back is going to be pretty niche.
Fuck if this isn’t the truth… Saying this as a Sr. SRE with no degree or certs.
I have a function called up. I do up X where X is the number of directories I want to go up.
up() {
if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
cd ..
return 0
fi
local path i
for (( i=0; i < $1; i++ )); do
path+=../
done
cd "$path"
}
EDIT: Don’t know if it’s just me but if you see < it should be the less than character.
distro hopping is a waste of time.
Very much so. There are limitless things you can do with a computer. Installing a new OS for me falls squarely in the annoying and tedious categories… There are so many more interesting things to put effort into.
I feel like I left arch a decade ago. 😄
It was rough going around the time of the systemd transition and needed something more consistently reliable. I’ve been on Mint ever since.
I have long loooooong ago given up on distro hopping because, at the end of the day, most distros are close enough to each other that it doesn’t really matter which one you choose at the end of the day. These new immutable ones though… They seem cool as hell. I need to give one a go someday.
FWIW, once I got deep enough into it, the thought of going back to the old way seemed like a crazy idea. I don’t want to manage servers like that again if it can be avoided. YMMV.
This was me until the kubernetes transition occurred. Now I ssh into nothing unless it’s a personal box. I’ve become a zsh convert.
Talos. Make the jump.
Not scrolling through all the comments to see if someone mentioned this yet or not but every December I check what is on the best albums of the year lists… Generally I check per-genre that I’m into. Like best black metal of 2023, best jazz of 2023, etc etc…
Other than that, bandcamp and YouTube are the biggest. I honestly buy more on bandcamp these days than I torrent though. It’s such a great site.
The FOSS absolutism is exhausting.
Most of this thread reminds me how unbearable the open source community can be.
Bluetooth on Linux fucking sucks