The Technology Vent and Rant Thread

[DNSB]

If someone would manage to make Wayland a worthwhile install.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by afv011

As a Linux user, not totally disagreeing, I wouldn't want my folks using Ubuntu or Fedora or whatnot, but on the other hand, ChromeOS is about the simplest and most resiliant OS there is, and it's Linux based, so these generalizations are a bit off the mark.

ChromeOS may be Linux based, but when someone says they use Linux, they almost never mean ChromeOS.

[Comfy.n]

I wish there existed some kind of public repository of custom Virtual Machines shared by users, with all kinds of OS flavours.

Just noticed Google is getting glowy, not sure I like it:

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by DNSB

If someone would manage to make Wayland a worthwhile install.

Whenever it's mentioned it triggers thoughts of T.S. Eliot's "Wasteland" and Dylan's "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands".

[Renate]

"With your Hg mouth..."

[DiapDealer]

Group texts. Please consider leaving me out of all of them. The constant blinging, dinging, and/or vibrating about subjects I don't give the slightest damn about are infuriating.

[neil_swann80]

Originally Posted by Ghostcat

No I jumped from a ship to a speedboat. Where if you don't know what you are doing you'll come a cropper.

Agree 100%

Once you're familiar with Linux and comfortable at the terminal, Linux is an incredibly powerful tool that you can tweak to perfectly fit your needs.

[Renate]

Originally Posted by neil_swann80

Once you're familiar with Linux and comfortable at the terminal, Linux is an incredibly powerful tool that you can tweak to perfectly fit your needs.

Certainly command line in any OS is the way to get things done. I use Windows and Linux, but a program for Windows in a binary release will cover more than a binary release for any version of Linux. Whose idea was it to put a local path to the linker in every executable?

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by neil_swann80

Agree 100%

Once you're familiar with Linux and comfortable at the terminal, Linux is an incredibly powerful tool that you can tweak to perfectly fit your needs.

Which is exactly why I abandoned Linux.

My first distro was Mandrake 6,iirc, and I loved the control and flexibility that CLI affers. I had a multiboot system then with SUSE and Kubuntu and fell in love with GNU Emacs (vi, pah!) but as my motor skills declined, CLI became my enemy. When one's brain and hands don't communicate well, CLI is time-consuming nightmare. That and the fact that there is nothing in the FOSS world to even come close to Dragon Naturally Speaking have ensured that I am stuck with GUI Windows.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by Uncle Robin

fell in love with GNU Emacs (vi, pah!)

Don't go there.....

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

Don't go there.....

I have to, it's the law. This place is such a calm oasis of pure Zen tranquility it needs a little apple of discord tossed in occasionally

[ownedbycats]

How do you generate a random string?

Put a Windows user in front of vi, and tell them to exit.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

How do you generate a random string?

Put a Windows user in front of vi, and tell them to exit.

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[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

More like from an inflatable raft to an aircraft carrier.

From a cruise ship to a tree branch floating in the sea.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by afv011

As a Linux user, not totally disagreeing, I wouldn't want my folks using Ubuntu or Fedora or whatnot, but on the other hand, ChromeOS is about the simplest and most resiliant OS there is, and it's Linux based, so these generalizations are a bit off the mark.

A Chromebook is a scam.