alexei_1917

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.

Fun. Reminds me of an image I found on Tumblr, from one of the Linux gimmick blogs, IIRC...

Yeah, immutables have... probably a usecase, but even as someone who Should Not Be Messing With Core System Stuff, I don't want or need that, and can't see an obvious usecase.

you’ll be blown away by how asinine windows is once you’ve got used to Linux.

This, absolutely. I really hate Linux sometimes. But then I have to deal with Windows, which I hate even more. It's not that I like Linux. It's that I like it more than Windows.

Ooh, that title reminds me of one of my favourite catchphrases. "The biggest lie you were ever told about the Cold War, is that the American people won, not just the global bourgeoisie."

We are known for "walls of text".

Other way around for me - got into Linux because some comrades were saying real commies use it, I was really mad at Windows that day to begin with, and I figured it wouldn't hurt to try it out. Found out it's... sucky in different ways, but in ways that frustrate me less and where I tend to be angry at myself for screwing something up rather than angry at a corporation for being hostile to its customers, which is something I'm angry about far too often as it is.

Tbf, if you're good at that and getting paid decently for it, it probably wouldn't suck that bad. There's definitely people out there who enjoy fixing/rewriting broken code. Fixing broken stuff is a real thrill for some folks.

But it does suck that programmers good at other areas of programming, who prefer working on stuff that already works or coding new things from scratch, will end up being expected instead to fix chatbot slop.

And you only even try to set up #1 after #2 causes a catastrophic data loss, or costs you five times as much wasted time finding a file that's causing problems.