He knows how things work “we do as we please” they are not done the way she thinks “we do it as the law and rules say”.

Bless his heart.

I mean…mine was theoretically usable. But practically, it was compiling all the time.

I really don’t understand how can people use it. I really tried.

I had Gentoo as primary for 6 months. 6 months of an unusable computer always compiling.

I did a bit of LFS and while I didn’t get to a full desktop, it helped a lot.

Well, Slackware was a main distro two or three decades ago. I give you that. Il pretty sure that’s what I installed when I installed my first Linux mid/early 99’s.

Gentoo has always been niche.

I’m very choosy with AUR. I know people hail it as the holy grail but the lack of vetting makes it “delicate”.

This is, in the best of cases, what’s being packaged hasn’t been properly tested. In the worst, you really need to read the package file and understand it enough to confirm you can trust the sources or risk being surprised.

Went to the class. Obviously, 3 hours is wetting my toes, but I wonder why I didn’t do it before!

At least I know that I learnt a bit of flat joining and that I would need to learn other techniques for vertical welding, angle welding and others. I hadn’t realized there were differences.

I hope others chime in with advice of tips and things to focus on.

In that thought experiment there are more scenarios. Remembering that stepping on a butterfly can change… This is, small input changes can have big repercussions down the line.

You cannot assume what Linux would be in that scenario.

Who knows if it would have been colored by a main corporation.

Capitalism would have found a way to leverage it and new computers would be sold.

So, it’s the worst for you and still the best for others, right?

Arch is the worst because… And the best because…

Same with every other.

In fact I’d argue that every single distro is the best for at least one person.

More, if you read between the lines.

So, you really think that a new CEO will act any differently? No lives were saved. The problem is the system. Not an individual CEO.

You don’t understand that criticizing hypocrisy is not the hypocritical part?

The criticism is not that they go on grinder. It is that they go in grinder while being publicly homophobic.

To be fair the idiots are the followers. They are very smart scammers.

Skipped the gym? Not the Christ depicted in so many churches where he looks like an Olympic gymnast, 6 pack and all.

I don’t like unmatching cutlery. Every fork needs to be the same style and bent at the same angle so they can “spoon” neatly in the drawer. (Yes, incorrect the bend when I see one who deviates) What kind of monster do you think I am.

In fact, that’s why my wife and I live in different apartments. Her drawer loons like the thrift shop cutlery box. 😱

Edit: I’m just reading that people consider forks “bad” when the times are unaligned. It’s quite easy to align them. I check them after each wash. Using a knife to slightly bend them in place does the trick.

I always wonder what happened to forks in other houses where they are all bent. Do people chew on them?

What did you think I asked about Windows?

“Misterious”?. In that same line of thought, there have been some misterious décapitations of cartel members in northern mexico.

Windows 8 and that was at work. At home, windows XP, although I kept updating my dual boot “just in case” to see what was new all the way to windows 10. When I tried to upgrade to Windows 11 my desktop was no longer supported (no TPM). I used a workaround that failed and never cared to waste time. I may do it when I have more time.

I was still familiar up to Windows 10 as sometimes I helped my dad. He is quite technical but he is now 91 (still sharp enough to drive, socialize extensively, deal with bureaucracies, etc but tends to forget more than what he learns). Unfortunatelly he lives 4000 km away but when I go, there is always something I can help him with.

Ad I said. I realized I can’t have an opinion because my experience is old.

With that said following your tools analogy, and based on that old experience. imagine if over time, your tools became slower and slower until someone came to do maintenance and mine didn’t. Or if when you were closing shop for the day, the tools started updating and you couldn’t close the tool box.

Now, based on what other people are saying, imagine that every now and then your tools at home stopped to play an ad for more tools.

You wouldn’t see this from corporate tools because someone else takes care of it and it doesn’t show ads.

By the way. I used Windows really well (since the early days) so I could call myself an expert at the time. In my early life I was the one behind the scenes ensuring people could work seamlessly. I never really liked it the way I like Linux.

So no, not all tools are the same. But if you like yours, all the best.

I left before the ads era. That’s sounds awful. I’ll search to see how they look.

You mean my distros?

Different distros are the best for different purposes.

My Fedora is the best for my laptop because it just works and all the hardware is supported.

My Arch is the best because it’s a super fine tuned setup that prevents distractions and doesn’t waste memory or CPU doing things I don’t care about.

My mint is the best because it’s simple, stable, beautiful out of the box.

My debian is the best because servers are no nonsense.

My puppy Linux was the best when I was a developer for the distro because it was the smallest lightest and fastest distro I’ve ever used.

Etc.