This thing is so early 2000s; I kinda love it for that

Surely it’s less work to maintain security patches for a few prior versions of windows than it is to indefinitely maintain backwards compatibility

The full Microsoft XP source code was leaked and is available for anyone on GitHub; not the same, I know, but it’s atleast NT based. I’ve just always wondered why a community never formed to fork it

Idk I kinda wanna try the grippy socks, but the rest of it sounds like a bit of a hassle tbh

Fwiw I’m new to Linux and went with KDE (using X11) and it seems totally buggy as shit. I love it though. I don’t even wanna try the other desktop environments

Me after the sleep

I’m going to go against the grain here and recommend that you NOT use Mint. I’ve been using a linux for a month now, so I’m new to it like you.

My first time trying Linux was Mint, and I didn’t like it at all. There was too much crap downloaded on it, and it abstracted the underlying systems too much, so I found it all very confusing. I suggest that you download a distro that Mint is based on, and then install the actual stuff you want on it.

Mint is based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian. I decided to go with Debian as a total noob and it makes waaay more sense to me this time around. I enjoy customizing it to my liking rather than Mint doing it all for me—often in ways I don’t like.

I can’t entirely recall the precise details now, but I was trying to uninstall Nvidia and Mesa packages to fix some driver issues. Some mesa-related packages were remaining, and I couldn’t figure out why, so I manually typed their names in and purged them, then proceeded to watch python, the desktop environment — everything — all uninstall haha.

Cheers I’ll skibidi to that

don’t

Love the disingenous photo of him giving a monologue to imply for the people who can’t read past headlines that he said this as some sort of speech

I’m still in my first month of using Linux, so apologies for naive questions. My local icons folder is empty, hence using the global folder; do you know why my icons are being saved system wide and not in the local icons folder? I’ll definitely modify the script to use the local folder if I can save some applications there.