Yeah, it was ready for my old AMD machine. My new Nvidia box…nah.

But since I’ve switched to XFCE, I don’t need to worry so much about new-fangled things like Wayland…for now.

The one and only objectively best answer, imo.

Who needs therapy when you have pacman?

Well even a bare bones install of Debian has USB plug and play, networking, printing…they include a bit more than Arch, even if you do have to install your own programs.

Some functionality is missing, like USB plug and play, certain network file sharing capabilities, printing…so in addition to learning pacman, having to learn all the package names, you have to look up how to give the OS certain functionalities…it’s a lot as a newbie. If you don’t love working on computers, you may not make it through that phase.

And I say this with all due respect, as an Arch user myself.

I’ve “refreshed” a couple coworker’s old PCs with Linux Mint XFCE. It’s actually gone pretty well.

“All I do is browse the net.”

Okay, I’ll put the browser right on the desktop, so you don’t have to search for it. Be patient, it’s an older computer. But at least this works, unlike Windows.

And I haven’t really heard too much from them. Internet works. Basic needs fulfilled.

I feel like someone who knows a bit more could be more of a pain. But for very basic computing needs like paying your bills and surfing IG, it can go well.

This is how I run all my services. I have a nice docker compose file, I always set my server computers up the same way so no editing will be necessary…

I was using podman, but like all Red Hat products, I found it to be unnecessarily complicated. Yes of course it has better security, but… Docker just works.

That is likely it. Okay, thank you.

You’re actually 100% right. I don’t know what figure I was thinking of, but you’re just right.

I was thinking the same thing. We’ve actually surpassed Apple on desktop. I know we’re gonna laughingly say “year of the Linux desktop,” but we have to honestly look how far we’ve come in a relatively short time.

Obsidian. I know it’s not open source, but it just felt right.

The last thing I want to do is engage with you, but let’s talk this out.

I said to the victor goes the spoils.

He said, “simplistic, a lot of conquered people told their stories.”

I said, “I never said they didn’t, but a lot of those stories were lost because conquerors are particular about their narratives.”

And that’s really it. I’m not at work now, so the language is a little less compressed on my end. I had to get to the point yesterday.

Fair enough. It’s hard to read tone on the internet. Sorry for that.

I’ll check out some of your articles/books, sure.

Because you’ve put words in my mouth.

Show me where I said all marginalized narratives were burned.

But also, some WERE burned. Lost to history. Gone. As if they never happened.

You don’t follow my thought process, or you’re being willfully obtuse?

Simplistic, but marginalized narratives were also burned in big bonfires at times, as well.

History is written by the conquerors.

To the victor goes the spoils, as they say.

Oh yeah, LMDE is definitely the future of Mint. Good point.

It’s an excellent distro. My first, after a poor Ubuntu experience years prior. I’ll always have good things to say.