Using Linux for 30 years, I’m with MX and Xfce for years.

Lol I thought it did not exist anymore, like in Canada (where I am)

Finally! I had to uninstall FF because it was taking ~5% per hour, so in a 8h night, 40% of the battery was eaten by FF, even if I killed it there was a process somewhere

Same, I’m using MX Linux with native .deb and never ever installed a flatpak, so I have no clue what it is

I went through sh->csh->tcsh->bash

I Always save the bitlocker info on a usb drive, in case of… I had to type the 40 or so digits a couple of time!

End of 80s was un*x, I started using Linux as a main OS with kernel 0.99

Why did you start using linux? it was the 80s/90s, windows didn’t exist, I used un*x at uni, of course I couldn’t install HPUX, AIX, Solaris or IRIX on my 386, so I installed Linux. There was minix but it was not free. Also BSD was tempting.

Origin? A couple of floppy images downloaded from usenet :) there was no distro really.

I’m using MX, debian based, apt package, I have 0 flatpak/snap. They are up to date on about everything, like the latest Firefox I got this morning in a simple .deb that nala (apt frontend) installed without problems.

I never ever installed a snap/flat in my Linux years.

I’m so glad to use a distro with 0 flatpak/snap/whatever, my FF is always the latest one, with a simple .deb install from apt, ❤️ MX Linux

When you see what ONE coder was able to do in the 80s, with 64K of RAM, on a 4MHz CPU, and in assembly, it’s quite incredible. I miss my Amstrad CPC6128 and all its good games.

Already had huge X Terminal on HP mainframe, using X11R3 and mwm etc. xeyes, xload, xbiff, xterm, it was the time!

I guess it was in the 80s, open a new xterm, ps -edaf | grep vi, kill the process, then man vi to read how to exit properly.

This is how I learnt unix, do a ls in /bin /usr/bin /etc, man every command

Always has been, and I am using Linux since 1993 (my first install was kernel 0.99, on floppies, on a 486DX50)

tar, the tape archiver, I used it with tape, early 90s

I need this, my local dollar store sells 32GB USB2 key for $5, I have one for MX, MX-AHS, MX32bits, antix, etc I have multiple 32GB keys with just 1 or 2 GB used, I will check this ventoy!

4GB are used for GPU on my 32

$ free -h
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            28Gi       2.9Gi        21Gi        24Mi       4.1Gi        25Gi

same frequency, 2.4GHz, same antenna, quite often for chip that does dual wifi/BT the antenna is shared

Pretty excellent :)

MX, always based on latest Debian, is using sysVinit, but you can also boot with systemd if you want, it supports both. MX is pretty popular, simple, fast, Xfce by default, and very up to date on everything. I’m using it for 6 years now, on laptop, PC. Also maybe it’s me, but no flatpak, no snap, etc, not needed, for instance latest FF is a standard .deb