I loved reading HOWTOs, they were a bit like scene zines, but the content wasn’t that helpful indeed

Contrary to other OSes, the information about it was mainly on the internet, no books or magazines. With only one computer at most homes, and no other internet-connected devices, that posed a problem when something didn’t work.

It took me weeks to write a working X11 config on my computer, finding all the hsync/vsync values that worked by rebooting back and forth. And the result was very underwhelming, just a terminal in an immovable window. I think I figured out how to install a window manager but lost all patience before getting to a working DE. Days and days of fiddling and learning.

Aren’t sysfs entries supposed to be created by kernel modules?

XFCE, using it for over 10 years, not planning to change it unless the DE changes radically.

Xubuntu LTS. I’ve been meaning to switch to Debian Stable when something breaks, but it’s my third LTS on the desktop and 5th on the laptop and there was just no opportunity. I also learned to avoid PPAs and other 3rd party repos, and just use appimages when possible.

You can have a kernel from Testing or even Sid, I believe, but yeah, it’s what we want to avoid - tweaking.

LTS is released every 2 years, for reference.

A mandatory part at the beginning of every Ansible playbook!

Aren’t bodies compostable?

The average French must have a huge carbon footprint with all that arson going on

Nice one!

HTTP/1.1+ broke the convenience of raw socket browsing!

How do you keep up to date? LineageOS just stopped updating S9 in December

Doesn’t gnome change their APIs all the time between minor versions, so themes and plugins have to be constantly rewritten?