I don’t care what it’s called as long as it’s a decent distro and does what I need it to do.
I don’t care what it’s called as long as it’s a decent distro and does what I need it to do.
If you’re going to not use software because you don’t like a program with a similar name, I really don’t know what to tell you… 🤷♂️
Cheaper than what? Scrounged free parts?
Unless it’s all you have. Speaking as someone that’s at times been poor af, sometimes people just have to cobble up a frankensystem from whatever parts they can scrounge.
One of the things I love about linux is that it makes this reasonably possible.
Weechat. Terminal based, flexible scripting system using a handful of languages, still actively developed, and I can make it work the way I want it to work.
Nah, I’m good. I’m fine with services being limited to what information they can convince my browser to give them, rather than what they can convince my phone to give them. Or try and convince me to give them permission to access.
I wouldn’t even bring my phone, or if I absolutely needed something like that, I’d buy a cheapass pre-paid burner. And keep it off until you actually need it.
Yep, I and a few friends use it.
Compiling code converts it from human readable source code into optimized machine code which the processor understands how to execute. For a lot of software you can just unpack the source code, run ./configure, run ‘make’, and then ‘make install’. This can vary a lot and is a simplified explanation, but it’s a start…
Fediverse and RSS mostly.
My take: I don’t recommend distros like mint because they’re windows-y, I do it because they’re good ‘shit just works’ starting points and Linux newbies probably don’t need to be spending 2 hours figuring out why audio doesn’t work or whatever. Once they get their feet under them and learn their way around a shell, etc then they can start playing around with other distros if they like.
Absolutely not. And they can fuck right off with that whole needing an account to use a terminal thing.
Annnnd that ended any curiosity at all I may have had for it…
Indeed. I’ve been doing my best to spread the love. :)
Building in minetest or wandering around fishing and stuff in FC5. Pretty area, shame about all the cultists.
I use chatty. Works pretty good.
Wezterm. I love some of it’s features (quick search).
Ideally I’d like it as a playlist, sort of like youtube-tui’s library, but this seems like it might be a workable solution. Also, even if it turns out not to be, very nice script. I’ve always sucked terribly at bash scripting.
Oh definitely. I’ve been using linux on and off for…a long time. “Stuff just works” is a great thing for a daily driver (mine is xubuntu). I save the tinkering for machines I don’t need to use constantly.
I don’t hate windows, it just annoys me. I’ve run linux in a VM under windows for years and about 2 years ago it annoyed me enough (I think it was something about a patch breaking things badly enough that I had to restore the system) that I said ‘screw it’ and switched the arrangement to linux and the few windows programs I really wanted running in wine. I’ve been skipping back and forth between them since Yggdrasil was a thing, so it wasn’t like it was uncharted territory.
And after hearing some of win11’s BS, I’m glad I did.