I see that you too are a person of culture.

You might have been using dd to burn an ISO image onto a USB stick or some such, but sincerely doubt that you were writing just the kernel to the first sector of a 3.5" floppy disk and then booting off of it, while it found your ISA hard drive.

Hannah Montana Linux, or HM/Linux as I’ve taken to calling it, is the sign of true civilization.

I’ve been using Linux since you created a boot floppy by using dd on the kernel. I use Ubuntu because I just want something that works, is stable in the LTS sense of the word, and I don’t have to futz with. I’ve heard enough about Mint now that I’ll probably switch over to it when I build my next machine in several years.

Mint looks nice, maybe in a few years when I decide to build my next one.

I’m on Ubuntu because last time I built a computer I was doing a lot of ROS development. I’m pretty uninterested in experimenting with distros and just want something with LTS releases that lets me work and play some games. If I ever decide to move off Ubuntu it will probably be to Debian.

Oh! Came up with a new one, though it’s more of a unixism than a Linux specific thing.

I really wish that the core utils and other cli tools had a standard structured output option, like yaml, json, or toml so that it would be easier to parse rather than all of the random regular expressions needed when piping output around.

Edit: And it would be great if we also picked that same format for config files instead of all the bespoke stuff in /etc.

You mean like git?

Honestly, not much.

The first would be that the webcam in my work laptop goes in and out of working pretty regularly. It happens to the whole team so I know it’s not just mine. I end up using an external one pretty regularly. Mostly I’m annoyed at Dell for not providing proper driver support.

The second is that there are a very small number of applications that I occasionally use where I need to fire up a VM. But even that is more of I’m annoyed at the organization that forces me to use an obsolete proprietary file format once a quarter.

I had a GUI on a computer with 256kB RAM on no hdd.

Honestly, between Lutris and Steam it’s now pretty easy to run most things from windows in Linux. There are some exceptions, such as Office, but the majority of my Steam library runs great. It’s come a long way, even in the last year. The frontends really simplify things.

You mean trusted Open Source projects.

Yup! SNW is one of the few that has an actually good pilot episode.

By series:

• TOS: City on the Edge of Forever
• TNG: Measure of a Man or Inner Light
• DS9: In the Pale Moonlight or The Visitor
• VOY: Scorpion
• SNW: 1:1 or Memento Mori
• LD: Crisis Point

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That strongly depends on where you live, how much you need, and how good of a home chemist your are. Enough to take down a large building? Hard in most places. Enough to kill a bunch of people in a crowd? Quite easy.

This one, officer, this one right here.

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That is a surprisingly strong recommendation. I’m glad everyone was safe, keep it shiny side up.

Thanks for the review; I’m glad it’s working out well for you. Time for me to meander out for a test drive.

Oh, that’s really handy to know. Thanks!