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And both of them are just remixes of Debian. So why not just use the base distro for all of them?

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I was trying to run a forum in the early 2000s and was pirating Windows Server with IIS to do it, and I discovered this entire other free, legit OS to do what I wanted to do with ease. Back in those days you could install a "LAMP" stack during install which gave you Apache, MySQL, and PHP automatically configured, whereas in IIS I was having to install a seperate PHP interpreter and figure out how to send php scripts to it and back, the whole thing seemed janky.

After that Linux became my go-to for any IT related project, and even more so when I started my electronics hobby due to how you can just make it do any damn thing you want.

In 2020 it became my desktop permanently after Microsoft decided they didn't want their OS running on my perfectly fine computer anymore.

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This is me, just getting shit done. If you are constantly thinking about what OS you're using, you're doing it wrong.

TimeSquirrel,
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Kinda just seems like arguing because you have nothing better to do.

When we don't have Windows or Mac users to feel superior against, we will invent issues amongst ourselves.

The Unity Desktop Environment an Underrated Masterpiece (unityd.org)

Why is the unity is underrated when its what i use right now with Ubuntu Unity and its actually really great experience for my 2021 HP Stream 11 Laptop and i hope you all to share your experiences using the unity de in Debain Ubuntu Arch Fedora Gentoo Opensuse Etc thanks for your Amazing community my Wonderful Friends

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Unless you tell it to. "Make this sound like a human with terrible grammar."

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I'm old school. I've been using GUI based OSes since Windows 3.11 and 95, and prefer KDE due to its similarity. Unity feels like what they did with Windows 8, where they tried to turn a desktop OS into a tablet OS. And it just feels "klunky", for lack of a better term. Too much bling for not enough benefit. KDE strikes a nice balance between eye-candy and responsiveness.

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Thank god for that website, I can't imagine being an aging millennial in 1980 with all the kids talking about "radical" this and "cowabunga" that and not have anything to look up.

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I'm curious what do people here consider "old" since that's the top complaint about Debian? It's never more than a year or two behind "bleeding edge" distros. When I think "old", I'm thinking 10, 15 years ago. That's considered "old" in the Windows world, but I guess that's super ancient geological history in the Linux world.

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As not a gamer, I keep forgetting about games and that people also use computers to play them.

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other than a disk

These days, they are probably not even going to answer with that. Optical media is almost dead now.

TimeSquirrel,
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Hang it out the back unsecured and then lose it and shatter it into a million pieces all along the highway like my old boss did to a fiberglass ladder.

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Not that I'm a proponent of it or anything, but people were saying the exact same thing ten years ago after the first big bubble. I don't think it's going anywhere. There's too much greed in the world, and it's too enticing. At this point you might as well be a nun trying to get porn banned worldwide.

TimeSquirrel,
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food of the peasants

The ignorant peasants, yes. I can feed myself for two whole days off the price of a McDonald's combo meal these days.

TimeSquirrel,
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Why not take it further and just lock ourselves into pods with feeding tubes.

TimeSquirrel,
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Checks program launcher menu

Still no embedded ads...

Worth it.

TimeSquirrel,
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Something about Linux users already being at a disadvantage.

TimeSquirrel,
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You're doing it wrong. You gotta place a metal sphere close to it connected to a Van de Graaff generator.

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If they're doing better than ever, then why are they trying to constantly hack through my ad blocker now in a desperate attempt to show me an ad one way or another? I'm always gonna be one step ahead. They lost the game before they started. But they still won't give up for some reason. That's a lot of resources for a company to spend on someone that will never give a shit and keep blocking the ads.

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booting the babies who won’t pay or watch ads

There are two ways that would happen. One is with IP bans, and even then, there are still ways around it. And if they start doing that, they'll start to cut off legitimate users with dynamic IP addresses that change often. The other is by dropping ad supported services completely and moving to a fully paid model. And I doubt they have enough people who give enough of a shit to start giving YouTube actual money for the bullshit that's on there.

Like I said, they lost the game before they started. They will never shake off the freeloaders without seriously kneecapping their company.

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I ONLY EDIT TEXT BY TOGGLING OUT ASCII CODES ON A ROW OF SWITCHES DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO MY PARALLEL PORT\n

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Onboard the ISS: "Please do not turn off the coffee maker. It also operates the CO2 scrubbers."

TimeSquirrel,
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"Hey Griswold, where do you think you're gonna put a tree that big?"

"Bend over and I'll show you."

TimeSquirrel,
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This is the part of your body under your conscious control. This is it. That's all you are. Just a jellyfish with some eyestalks in a meatsuit.

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That was a Lite Brite. I know the 80s and 90s are fuzzy distant memories, it's easy to get confused.

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I find it interesting that the machines of Zero One decided to use Brainfuck as their language.

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