Used it in the past, and it’sa pretty alright desktop OS. It would work as a server OS, but that’s not really its main focus.

It’s debian based, so might as well go for actual debian.

“I have two copies of War Thunder running, and neither is working”

High IQ scores mean you’re good at IQ tests, and that’s it.

Eons ago, when I joined the army as a conscript, the officer said I scored higher than 90% of anyone taking the test.

The test results implied that I’m smart. My life experiences prove otherwise.

I always liked putting it in D&D terms: I’m not sure if I have high INT and low WIS, or if it’s the other way around.

It’s been a while since I selfhosted my email, but I found it pretty efficient to set up a spam filter that periodically logged into my Gmail address and used its spam folder to train a bayes classifier.

Firefox has been rewritten as a Perl/Tk script.

Even I, fluent in both, am appalled at the idea.

Been a hetzner customer for around 20 years. No regrets.

It said 1~2 originally

Still more plausible than 1W

Yeah, it sounds more plausible like it’s amperes

“We’re off to fix the shitter…
This wonderful shitter of ours”

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Love Dark Side of the Moon. Best Rush album ever. Plus, James Hetfields vocals on Stairway to Heaven remains unmatched today, 25 years later.

Same

You’ve never had to bike over to a friend’s house 8km away to download a modem driver and copy it onto a floppy and bike back home only to realize that the floppy had bad sectors and you had to do it all over again, and it shows.

That’s just the way network hardware has always been, regardless of OS.

Yes, but it’s easy to work around.

Source: I bought a brand new Lenovo Legion autumn 2024, and the GPU needed a very recent nvidia driver, which in turn needed a newer kernel than what was available by default. I had to install a mainline kernel, and download nvidia driver from their site. Took maybe 30 minutes to get it up and running properly.

After 30 years of playing whack-a-mole with piracy sites, this time it will surely help.

One can argue that Linux Mint isn’t that up to date. But in my opinion, it’s up to date enough.

It’s new enough that you’re not living in the digital medieval era, and at the same time, any software installed is for the most part mature, well tested, and stable. And I find that more important than bleeding edge versioning.

And on the few occasions where I need something newer than what can be found in the standard repos, there’s always the option of building from git or adding additional sources.

I’ve been a linux user off and on in varying capacity since the 90s, combined with some FreeBSD, but linux was only a secondary OS on my desktop until I made the complete switch once I saw the trajectory of Windows 8.

Mint reminds me of how Windows 7 was designed: Simply a good OS.

I heard it’s a Mastodon thing

ssh

Barebones, usually. In general I prefer software that does only one thing and one thing well. Input or output to/from said software can be handled by other pieces software.

I’m a big fan of modular designs where you can swap out any layer with something else, provided that the data interchange is c9mpatible.

Lacking the above, I usually go for softwares with support for plugins/extensions.