Yeah… I care a lot more about socialism than computer operating systems, and I know my leftism alone exhausts people’s patience with me. Otherwise I probably would talk people’s ears off about how there is a solution to their constant Windows frustrations.

Huh. Guess Debian really is the Universal Operating System that’ll run on anything.

If a thing like that existed, I’d use it. Software that has graphical controls but also tells you exactly what it’s doing is my favourite, I’ve seen a small handful of it out there. The terminal is wicked cool, but the documentation and discoverability issue makes it a bit unapproachable.

I’m generally more of a text worker than visual, but good lord I hate CLIs.

I found a Windows XP theme for Cinnamon. Not because I need it to look like Windows, but because nostalgia can be fun and XP was iconic. The bit I really like is the actual Windows XP default system sounds I also got my paws on, though. That was back when software developers cared about good soundscapes!

Though I have to admit, the classic grey boxy look basically every computer GUI had in the 90s is also something I really like. So maybe I’m just way more stuck in the old days of tech than my chronological age might suggest is possible.

Great, you made me want cat eyes again. It’s bad enough when I want the ears and tail…

DOS? That’s ancient technology! Who still uses that relic!? Lol.

I like some assembly

So, do you work with minimum spec hardware, or are you just a masochist?

I once saw an application, I think some sort of old computer emulator tool, on a smartphone, read a punch card using the camera. Which made me think, QR codes are a difficult for humans to read way to put code onto a physical sheet of paper and them pass it to a computer, just like punch cards were, when it comes to technology, there is nothing new under the sun, and on a cycle, everything old is eventually new again.

“I’d make that group, but I don’t want to moderate it.”

Neat.

Eh, more accounts to keep track of sounds frustrating. And the kinds of people who call Hexbear unfounded insults on political grounds and defederate from us probably aren’t people I want to talk to anyway. I come on Hexbear and .ml for an explicitly leftist experience. I think I’ll stick with just Hexbear and the communities we are federated with for now.

Let me guess, libs who dislike “tankie instances”?

Tbf, a lot of versions of Windows sucked.

(I wonder if anyone wrote up one of these for MS-DOS back in the pre Win9X era. That’d be interesting just to see the roots of the copypasta, lol.)

Nice. Always neat to see that virus removed from a home. Are you running a Windows free home, then, or is it just your own individual tech that’s malware free?

Huh, never seen that comm before in the Linux comms. And the link returns an error for me.

I am convinced that everyone, including kids, should be forced to learn computers starting from a command line only. “You can’t have a GUI until you can operate competently without one.” Admittedly, I’m useless with a terminal myself, and a little scared of 'em, but that’s actually why I think this. I wish I wasn’t so scared of the CLI and reliant on “pointing and grunting” rather than “using my words”. I wish I hadn’t “learned computers” starting at 4 with shortcuts that make things easier but abstract away things I really should have had to know from the beginning.

Yep. Standards are definitely useful. Stick to the standards. If you don’t know enough to know why you’d want something counter to the standard thing, then you don’t need to be messing with that thing.

Tbh, not sure about the seat. The guy might be fun to start a “best distro” argue-til-blue-in-the-face-about-something-pointless with, and the wolves… if you feed them, you’ll have a pack of cute puppies who want their bellies rubbed, and I like dogs…

I’d suggest AntiX, as it’s great for crappy hardware and a personal favourite of mine, but seeing as I chose Mint for my first distro that stayed installed more than a day, after I broke AntiX and couldn’t figure out what I even broke or how to fix it… (don’t ask who recommended that as a beginner distro to my clueless self…) yeah. Mint. Maybe go with XFCE or something rather than Cinnamon, modern DEs take up a lot of resources on an already chugging shitbox.