vim is for nerds.

I’ve been daily driving Slackware since the late 90s or early 00s (don’t remember). There’s no systemd, and no drama. I run KDE plasma 6, steam with proton, flatpak, rocm for AI shenanigans and whatever else I want. Even the rolling release is solid as a rock. There are dozens of us! And we’re not all greybeards. I started going grey in high school, but I ate cookies for breakfast today because I’m both a grown ass man and a child.

My wife is my barometer for how beginner friendly any tech is. She had zero issues adapting to popOS. She had many issues when I tried to force Slackware on her.

stupid treatment resistant depression…

Just wait until all the money gets hoovered up by corporate owned farms!

I didn’t know we were doing QE again. That’s neat.

Make sure your laptop bios allows iommu to be enabled. This is the only way I know to pass your GPU directly to a VM. And even this is still pretty fiddly.

Don’t dismiss the steam/proton rec. Or dual boot.

Preach!

Glad I’m not the only one.

How do I sign up for the left handed ideology newsletter?

My insurance doesn’t cover CVS because their parent company is a competitor.

https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-m1s-with-4gbyte-ram/

I’ve been using the original m1 running a lineage OS based android TV for a couple years. It’s perfect. I added a nvme drive for a “DVR” in tivimate, but we rarely use it. I use a cheapo 2.4ghz remote from Amazon.

I had to hunt for it. Meta threads and activitypub. I remember a big hullabaloo about it a while back.

Hmm. My uneducated guess is maybe increased resources needed for federation? I’m sure lemmy.world is still growing at a steady clip. Are we federated with the meta thing?

Whatever you did is working. I have no more issues.

What is driving the increased demand for resources?

I’ve been daily driving Linux since the early 00s and docker confounds me too, especially the networking. I’m not familiar with bottles. I just play all my games on steam and it’s seamless.

Slackware current.

This isn’t a troll. I use it to game on my dual core pentium lovingly dubbed ‘the craptop’. And I use it to game on my mid-tier gaming PC.

I’ve been a slackware user since the late 90s. I take for granted how easy it is to install today. I’ve been tinkering with a socket 7 build, and nothing is easy. Installing slackware 8 is a pain in the ass. I can’t even get half my hardware working on win95! It’s not like riding a bicycle.

Well now they can spend a billion rebuilding with very little of their own money. Socialism for me, not for thee.

Be your own package manager. Choose slackware.