“Never meet your heros.” is as old as celebrity itself.
I think many of my heroes live larger in my mind than they could or should ever fulfill; they couldn’t possibly live up to that hype and I wouldn’t want to take it from them through the actuality.
Damn shame.
(Side-glance at you UK BBC.)
Install your own from one of the parent distros: Debian, Fedora/openSUSE, sources (eg. Exherbo, Gentoo), the state-based one I always forget.
An atomic distro is one which is in my understanding, has a basis in libostree, right? I’m familiar with the Fedora/RedHat versions but not any others.
Immutable distributions, for me to are wonderful when they are sparse. I don’t want anything on my OS which I don’t use at least once on a while.
If I install Fedora (RPM) Workstation to a large extent I can remove programs that I don’t want. Whereas SilverBlue (libostree), I’m stuck with whatever the maintainers template (is there a blocking mechanism?).
However, with sparse Fedora-IoT, I can’t break it - to a large extent - and it doesn’t have anything I don’t want.
I always install minimal versions of OSs, from Fedora (Everything iso), to Debian (debootstrap) to ArchLinux to Exherbo to Talos, just keep them cleaner longer. Then I fix them until they break!
I think they’re ideal for those starting out in Linux because they are not ready to break; not saying that they’re not for others too.
There’s enough documentation, at least for Fedora atomic distros, to make your own custom spin.
I’m not switching for any desktop, unless the basic OS is minimal; but have switched for Raspberry Pi OS to Fedora IoT (atomic distro), at least temporarily.
Yes. I’m British.
I live these old stories. Kinda gave up programming by 1996. It was a short-sighted thing to do!
Having grown up with Acorn Atoms. BBC Micro, MS and DRDOS, Gem, Xerox something, Windows 1, don’t remember 2, 3.0 to 3.11, NT. I didn’t realise how nice early (2004) Linux was until I used it in a Windows server hosted VM to handle my phone calls (VoIP@home or something it was called).
I did everything I could to ditch Windows after that. The webification of QuickBooks was the final release.
I agree. I used it to move my vocab on enormously.
Oh ok.
I haven’t been to a circus recently. My knowledge in that area is wanting, I’ll admit. 😳
It’s actually not that pricey for what you get from it. The problem is that they have a tendency to be closed mouthed about their plans.
I bought a 2.5 GBE router, to replace my elderly and difficult USG, and was about to buy a 2.5 GBE WAP - there was a problem with them having issues with only one chipset inside the first version, so I didn’t pull the trigger immediately. Within a month there was a 10 GBE WAP being sold. A 10 GBE Router appear soon after. Damn.
The only viable alternative, IMHO, is pfsense (mostly US users) and opensense (not US users) and you need your own hardware.
I run my Gateway without a UI login, a local account. I lose some of the features, but that’s ok with me.
The irony of using ‘Z’ in the title.
It’s our language; you broke it.
[grin] I get that!
I’m sure that there are others I used to like - I’m an old fart - but this is the only one that occurs to me now.
For some reason, my long term memory stopped in the late nineties. I’m convinced that there are series I’ve watched that I loved that it’s going to take a replay to remember that I loved the incoming theme.
There were several cult shows on BBC2 and ITV back then: Thirty-Something, a few about UK barristers, Moving Story. Damned if I can remember any of the theme tunes.
Cars younger than last century have two modes of indicator available.
[ BMW, Merc and Audi drivers: nothing to see here. Not in this whole post and comments. ]
A soft push in either direction gives a brief - I don’t know what the definition/legal requirement is - period where the indicator flashes before cancelling itself.
A harder push has the indicator stay in that position until the steering wheel or the driver cancels it and it stops.
Maybe you’re complaining about people using the soft mode.
In my country, there is no requirement to indicate when moving back to your lane after moving into the/a overtaking lane. I think that’s a little weird tbh. I’ve always indicated, wherever I’m going, on the basis that when I don’t, someone will sideswipe me through my own negligence.
Of course, these days the sodding lane-change Nazi in my car won’t let me pass any line, but happily forcefully steers me into the hedgerow/ditches on country lanes where there are no road markings. You can turn it off every time but not generally.
Hell, I remember a time people just said “um”, “er” quietly and paused between words when they hadn’t thought the thought through.
Instead now they use ‘like’ as a space between words whilst the processing is still taking place.
It gets real confusing when what they’re explaining is the concept of similes.
I started some time ago by reading his Ethereum emissions. I have a relevant qualification but it was handed down last century.
Yeah. I need a refresher. 😳
That’s not to say that the bits which I did understand weren’t elegantly put and digestible.
I do like this man’s musings. This is one I actually understood.
You should go see Gentoo or something if ArchLinux causes you problems.
It’s my go-to rescue cum doing-backups cum new-install distribution because it’s clean (meaning low cruft), minimalist, and most importantly, rolling. I run it as a console OS. I adore it.
Have I run it as my Workstation OS? Yes. Would I again? No. It was too fragile then.
Pacman is too strange to use with the options reduced to letters and having to include the double dash every time you remember the long form. Gimme dnf, Aptitude or flatpak.
My daily driver is Fedora. Is my heart in my mouth every six months when 4,000 packages all need reinstalling? Yes.
Have I tried Debian Testing&Sid as semi-rolling? Yes, fantastic, until they did something weird with systemd instead of just doing the conf locations as intended like everyone else. And the weak-dependencies lists were unfunny. Did I mention I loved aptitude?!
Have I tried, source distros (exherbo, Gentoo, funtoo)? Yes, never got any work done. I was always compiling something for that 1% corner-case performance gain.
Don’t think I’ll try anything else save maybe openSUSE or that NixOS. The first seriously, the second for fun - NixOS smells a tiny bit like Gentoo or ArchLinux to me (sorry, not sorry).
Personally, I think bro needs an immutable Linux OS. Fedora SilverBlue, openSUSE MicroOS, the ArchLinux one.
Then someone needs to write a timer such that when he’s really concentrating hard at 2am, it stops and puts some graphical meme on the screen for three hours. Then he’ll feel at home.
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As a male, none.
Have been helping people in family court for twenty years. The shift had been catastrophic for marriage from a male risk/reward.