“Fire early”

Uhhh, “cowboy duals” were on “draw,” not “make ready, aim, fire.” They had rifled barrels and six shooters by then not smoothbore muzzle loaded flintlocks with one ball that’s likely to miss.

“There was 40ft between them when they stopped to make their play, and the swiftness of the Ranger is still talked about today. Texas red had not cleared leather 'fore a bullet fairly ripped”

This line means Texas Red was slower on the draw than the Arizona Ranger with the big iron on his hip, that’s all. Texas Red reached for it (they stopped to make their play), but the Arizona Ranger was so much faster (the swiftness of the Ranger) that Red’s gun never even fully made it out of the holster (Texas Red had not cleared leather) before the Ranger’s shot connected ('fore a bullet fairly ripped).

BTW: These duals are almost entirely an invention of hollywood. They did happen but very very rarely and not exactly like the movies portray. I fucking love Marty’s music but the music he made isn’t based on historical fact, but rather hollywood fantasy. It’s basically The Outlaw Josey Wales in song form, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

https://hi-luxoptics.com/blogs/history/wild-west-quick-draw-duels-how-real-were-they

That said, by the hollywood rules, the dual was fair as all hell.

Well good to hear the Polish are stable.

…so you’re saying if I do cocaine and we sleep together you’ll send me link?

Basically the head dev if graphene was a dick, but tbh so is Torvalds and I’m not about to stop using linux. That dev stepped down as head anyway iirc, still works on the project (which is good, cause he’s good) but just isn’t the face anymore (which is good, cause he is a dick lmao.)

Can someone hack this “bloc” and release all their private chats? Like, work and personal, conversations about their giant hemorrhoids and all.

Yeah fuck that.

Actually that is illegal (at least in my area), they’re required to give at least 24hr notice for maintenance or the landlord themselves coming by, etc. Exception is cops, they can always let in cops (and EMS and Fire I think).

Totally forgot about that scene until you said something lmao.

Oh my god that’s hilarious, I hope that really worked!

As to KOTH:

“Unlock my door or I’ll kick your digital ass!”

*crying* “My door won’t let me in, Hank! Everyone leaves me, Lenoire left and now even my house left me!”

Dale however never got one, his house is still secured by Daletech. Shishishaaaaa!

She could wash dishes in the sink but how the hell was she supposed to make toast—over a candle?

Oven refusing to work too? Broil that bread, and put two bullets in the toaster for insubordination and dereliction of duty.

This is great though, gonna have to read the whole thing and/or other book!

Poker night: Read 'em and weep boys, straight flush!

From the other room: *flushing noises*

usb power port on the outside you could plug a battery into.

Until someone with a flipper figures out that port transfers data too, lmao.

“Hello amazon I’m a police, I need you to unlock this door at 123 Rainy St, Arlen TX 76043”

“Ok Mr. Police right away!”

Sounds great!

This comment said “newsflash not every animal gets to reproduce,” which equates autistic people with less than favorable social skills to animals who deserve to die without experiencing love.

Mmmmhmm. Howbout you go fuck yourself Mr. “Deleted.”

(Also side note, username checks out, but dating != reproducing necessarily and the person who posted that is a clinical moron.)

No dating for the autists who aren’t good with social cues, got it.

I never at any point said people can’t/shouldn’t be allowed to learn Linux.

Right, you think it should be less like linux and more like windows, but you still want windowslinux available, I get it.

how you could even make that logic leap.

Because windows has their fancy GUI because

A) Forcing people to use the same DE is “easier” and

B) Billions of corporate dollars.

The only way linux could be the same, is if there was one standardized distro with one DE, which is bad.

I never said I needed GUIs to do shit, in fact I said I used the terminal and didn’t have problems with it.

You’re arguing for another guy, you take up his arguments too. Besides, “then quit complaining.”

If by “it’s me” you mean that I consider swapping my distro every month to be deranged behaviour while my friends don’t, then yeah, guilty as charged.

Trying new things? MADNESS!

I’ve been running Fedora for 4y straight now…

And how Linux works isn’t one of them.

If you want to run linux, yeah it kinda is.

Or maybe Linux could afford

Well give them Microsoft’s budget then.

You’re (or whoever ykwim) just not willing to do the work to switch to “new thing,” and that’s fine, it’s not for you (of course Microsoft will hide the control panel you’re used to and make you learn a new gui way to change some setting that they keep changing back every update, for instance, but at least it’s incremental I suppose.) But not everything has to be for everyone, all is good! But it isn’t because “linux hard” nor “cli bad” nor “they are too fucking dumb to learn a few commands,” it’s because they don’t want to, people want what is familiar and many think they’re done learning the second school ends.

No no, that was my point, you said “umm akshully, Mint touched my nono square.” FOH dude.

I just believe that wanting widespread use while being against simplification/abstraction is an incompatible view.

And I believe people should be able/willing to learn if they want to adopt a new system, especially one that allows so much freedom the standardization you seek is antithetical to it’s entire ethos. Just by the existence of both KDE and GNOME you’re already “abstracting” things and making it “more difficult” than “you will suck Microsoft’s one DE and like it,” and that’s just two of the DEs to choose, you’d rather there only be GNOME “because it’s simpler and will help new people learn?” Well too bad, I like KDE and I like that you’re free to choose GNOME. “Thinking people should switch from X to Y is incompatible unless you make Y as much like X as possible,” isn’t it, we’re saying “X is bad, Y is better, try doing things Y’s way.” Making X like Y isn’t “doing it Y’s way,” it’s just windows with extra steps.

That’s true, but not all learning is equal.

And not all people learn the same way, you need the pretty pictures, some don’t.

whether you’re in Japan or in the US, you know a trashcan is somewhere you discard stuff,

Sure, but beyond the trash icon, if you have to compress a file (or do like 99% of things including switch system languages), using the GUI doesn’t help if your computer is stuck in Japanese. C’mon dude, Kanji is random symbols regardless of if you’re in GUI or CLI, absoLUTELY not independant of language, even Romanji you’d be fucked and you know it.

(or whoever ykwim)

(or whoever ykwim)

And my experience was mildly negative,

Read: it isn’t for me

most of my friends prefer Linux

Read: It’s me not linux

People love learning and are constantly seeking new things to learn

some

People just would rather learn out of passion than necessity.

Well tbh, welcome to the real world, sometimes you “need” to learn some shit. And if you decide you “need” control over your laptop and to break the shackles of Microsoft without spending $45000 to trade Microsoft’s spyware for apple’s, then you “need” to learn how to use Linux or BSD, because short of TempleOS that’s all that’s left. Sucks bro, is what it is.

For a lot of people the computer is nothing more than a medium to do what they want,

Most people never touch anything bigger than their phone outside of work. Let em. If they want freedom they can always choose to learn, they can, they just don’t want to.

they don’t care about how it works, nor do they want to learn

Hey that’s my line. And they barely need to know “how it works,” they don’t know “how windows works,” half of them don’t even know what the registry is even if they’ve used CMD before (looks an awful lot like CLI now that we’re mentioning it, and gParted, the GNOME GUI tool, works a lot better than diskpart I’ll tell you what) yet they use it just fine. They just need to be able to get by, same as purty-gui’d windows.

Btw, it’s fine if Linux just stays being a niche OS for programmers and tech enthusiasts,

Hell it isn’t if you’re not scared, I know rednecks in trailers and grandmas that use it.

I just find it annoying how every time people point out that Linux and its communities can be newb unfriendly

That’s fair, I bet they are unfriendly when you show up saying “linux sucks I don’t want to learn make it work” which I for some reason feel probably describes you fairly well. They were always nice to me (short of literally one user on c/linux.ml, chef_koch, but he was banned 4y ago), probably because I was approaching it with a better attitude and a willingness to learn rather than animosity, but who knows.

No the newbs are just too lazy

Some are, you are. I was never told that as a noob showing a willingness to learn. Perhaps this problem is not divorced from “you.” “If you meet 5 assholes in a day, maybe you’re the asshole.”

Lastly, I just like to point out that in this thread OP said GUI are more intuitive, to which you…

And plenty of people learn to garden. Gardening isn’t for everyone. Stick to your iphone.

Was I being hyperbolic for humor? Sure. But so were you (I hope ffs) comparing learning a few commands to becoming a mechanic lol.

We’re going to have to agree to disagree that having to learn how linux works to run linux is necessarily a problem. It’s been so long since I used windows now (last was w10, not like 98, still been a few years) that now I find windows harder to use than linux cli, even with its fancy schmansy GUI. I’ve never used apple or iPhone, so I know fuck all about macOS and the few times I’ve had to touch an iPhone I literally say “ugh what the fuck is this thing, hey [friend, iPhone owner], can you make this thing do the youtube for me,” but that’s because I’m too lazy to learn the UI (because I don’t want to, because walled garden so I only use it on those rare occasions and would never buy one, but I digress), “learning” is intrinsic to “new thing,” not just “linux cli.” You’re (or whoever ykwim) just not willing to do the work to switch to “new thing,” and that’s fine, it’s not for you (of course Microsoft will hide the control panel you’re used to and make you learn a new gui way to change some setting that they keep changing back every update, for instance, but at least it’s incremental I suppose.) But not everything has to be for everyone, all is good! But it isn’t because “linux hard” nor “cli bad” nor “they are too fucking dumb to learn a few commands,” it’s because they don’t want to, people want what is familiar and many think they’re done learning the second school ends.

I also barely have to touch the CLI btw (except I choose to all the time because it’s so convenient, but I don’t have to,) I could usually use the GUI, and often do for other things that are more convenient that way. Ymmv.

Actually now that I’m thinking about it btw, being a mechanic is more analogous to working with hardware, like building a gaming rig or something. Learning an OS is more like learning how to operate that hardware. At most, you’re used to automatic, you don’t want to learn how to drive stick, but it’s not that much harder, you can, you just don’t want to.

You need the CLI more on average using linux, but many people can still get by without it. Tbh I thought I’d need it more so I learned the absolute basics it, and then it turned out I only “need” it rarely when I’m trying to do something weird or something that should be working isn’t, but I end up using it all the time because it’s just so convenient! And I learned more as I went along. Then I learned how to write basic scripts to automate stuff I wanted it to do by just chaining some of those commands together in a file, which was even more convenient. Honestly now Windows GUI is more difficult to me, I can’t just type “yo do this shit” I have to click 4000 different things.

But yeah, adobe locks you in to windows anyway, dualboot ftw! Good luck on your journey!

Tbf, of course it is better to understand what those commands do too, but it always starts there! (And maybe a youtube tutorial or two for cd, ls, pwd, history, etc.)

Man that sounds an awful lot like learning, but couldn’t be, because learning is not possible!

Just give up and exclusively use iPhones lol, they’re easier.