Orion does it now too.

They live mostly on gels and polymers I think.

Hasn’t been my experience

Hopefully Debian or LMDE. Canonical is becoming a mini-Microsoft.

emerge -uDN @world

…and head to bed for me.

If all she’s doing is living in a word processor, she can use a tablet with a keyboard, or any old laptop with Debian/Ubuntu and LibreOffice on it.

Hundreds of years ago, Christianity inspired some truly incredible music. Bach’s BWV 63 (especially the Gardiner recording) is a miracle.

Contemporary Christian music, though, is probably the falling domino that ultimately led to the realization that my Christianity was just tribalism. Modern American Christian “culture” has no redeeming value, other than its lucrative redemption for fiat currency.

I do love visiting cathedrals, though.

If you see someone go overboard, get someone else to start throwing stuff off the deck to where they are in the water (while you keep pointing at them). Makes for much easier locating by others, and a quicker rescue

If you Emerge, Gentoo would at very least tell you before you install something that it’ll break as a result of dependency issues with a list of said dependencies, and offer to update those dependencies for you.

Portage really is an incredible package manager.

I think it’s funny that so many Linux users talk about how locked down Windows is, when 90% of them live in an effective walled garden defined by their package manager, or other inborn restriction of their distro. I doubt that even 10% are compiling from source with any regularity.

Why do you need to wait for someone to repackage FF for you before you install it? Just go get it if you run Arch BTW, but you know the overwhelming majority of ArchBros really only know how to install it through Pacman.

Real Chads don’t use a DE.

Zorin.

Me too! Well, technically Yellow Dog Linux, but that lasted all of two weeks.

I know Ubuntu has had that for a while, which means that others probably have as well.

Wasn’t the German government running SuSE?

I don’t know… Debian 12 or latest Fedora (ugh) are pretty darn idiot proof. CLI doesn’t really enter into the picture on those if you don’t want it to. And, your computer won’t have to be tossed out for another 10 years.

I’m personally just getting back into Linux after a 20-year hiatus, and configuring/compiling Gentoo from the ground up has definitely given me a different perspective on computers.

In general, almost all Linux distros stem from 3 primary distributions: Debian, Arch and Fedora. (The outliers would be things like Void, Gentoo and Slackware.) All of these other distros that “just work” are, for the most part, skins of those primary 3 with different apps pre-installed.

Kali? It’s Debian. Ubuntu? It’s Debian. Mint? It’s either Ubuntu (which itself is Debian) or now Linux Mint Debian Edition. The “look and feel” of a distro has nothing inherently to do with that distro.

What they all have in common is that the eye-candy Desktop Environment is there to provide a “friendlier” interface than a CLI - but there is nothing a DE can do that the native terminal can’t.

I’ve also found it’s just faster/easier to install things via terminal than browse through an artificial “app store.”

Maybe I’m moving away from the idea of a desktop environment in general, in favor of a Window Manager that just handles putting programs in floating windows in a black space.

Add PS2 to that https://youtu.be/DjGG-5343AY

Gentoo: yeah I’ll run on a potato if you tell me how to do it.

The OS I direct the technologically-illiterate to when I don’t plan on supporting it myself is invariably iOS. Boomers don’t need anything more anyway.

No kill like overkill.