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WITNESS NT

I do not understand why Windows lets windows steal focus like that. I have to use Windows for work, and I'll be typing in my password or token, and it'll steal the focus WHILE I'M TYPING. It's infuriating behavior and potentially a security issue.

Oh god. I started with Slackware in 1998 and used it on the desktop until around 2008, then on the server until 2017 or so.

In later years, the last panel definitely felt like Slackware. I was afraid to upgrade for fear of breaking things. Installing new software was tough because it was like, well, I need this dependency for that package, but what about this one? Will I break package A if I install the dependencies for package B? Only one way to find out!

Slackware is probably much easier to handle now, with the proliferation of docker and the like, where the software includes the libraries it needs and doesn't rely on the system libraries. Just run everything in a container.

"Everything's shiny, Cap'n, not to fret!"

"You told me these packages were supported for another 6 weeks!"

"Your last Pacman -Syu was 6 months ago, Cap'n!"

"My OS don't crash. If it crashes, you crashed it!"

Sounds like a driver issue

Refuel your car next time instead of your tank, sheesh

I kinda want to try LFS with Nix, but I think that’s literally just NixOS

Ugh, interesting yet so obvious! It's been years... well decades since I played with LFS, time to read on https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/9.1-systemd/chapter06/pkgmgt.html

I feel the same way on PoPOS. I have compiled my own kernel (it's actually not that difficult honestly) and done all matter of work at work. It's also how I know the system is super stable and I don't have to mess with things for my daily driver stuff.

the thing I think a lot of "linux dorks" (and I use that term lovingly) forget about is that most people want to work on their computer, not work on their computer. The OS, for most people, should be the software equivalent of a motherboard -- an invisible plinth upon which the actual things you care about sit. With a motherboard, that's your GPU, CPU, RAM, etc. and with the OS, that's the applications you run.

there's nothing wrong with making fiddling with your computer a hobby, and I've been known to dabble myself over the years, but for me and most other normal people, that ends up being too much work for too little reward in the end. Mint getting to the point where you can daily drive it and not have to worry about it even if you're a complete brainlet when it comes to Linux is a massive W.

That's why I love Ubuntu/Mint too.

It's boring stable.

I've been tempted to try out other distros, but honestly, when it works as well as it does for me, it's too hard for me to give it up for something that might not be as stable of an experience.

KDE more like goodest desktop

+1 Kubuntu.

KDE Plasma and Debian is where it's at.

Comfortable, familiar OS GUI, working drivers out of the box, and a non crashing kernel with updates once a month.

And also steam works.

Steam and gaming working is a big thing.

Like 96.6% of the operating system.

Kubuntu is great nowadays.

I went through LFS' build process three times. By the third time, I felt like I might actually have a clue as to what's going on. Then I tried build X.org, and discovered what package managers are for. Tried a few "standard" distributions with their binary packages, none of which satisfied my newly discovered control freak tendencies. Ended up settling on Gentoo, been with it ever since.

The meme is definitely LFS.