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ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 03:07:57 JST ins0mniak
@verita84 @nyanide @sneeden @phnt Yeah, Linux is really kind of insufferable now, especially with all the idiot politics.

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  nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 03:18:03 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:
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  @WilhelmIII @phnt @sneeden @ins0mniak @verita84 i typically just add `contrib non-free` to the repos in /etc/apt/sources.list and move about my day, it works just fine that way. im using debian right now
  
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  ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 03:18:04 JST ins0mniak
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  @WilhelmIII @phnt @sneeden @nyanide @verita84 yeah, functionality is way more important than flash and looking pretty.
  
  I feel like thats one solid debian selling point, it tends to play nice with hardware far more than some
  
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  WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 03:18:04 JST WilhelmIII
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  Debian's weakness, if you can call it that, is their rigid adherence to being totally open source.
  Generally that's a good thing but when I need to play an MP3 I don't want to have to jump through a bunch of hoops to do it.
  That's where Ubuntu and Mint and some of the other derivatives came in. They took the stability of Debian as a base and put desktop functionality into it.
  And in Ubuntu's case added support for proprietary, yet ubiquitous, server-side hardware.
  
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  WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 03:18:05 JST WilhelmIII
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  Pretty much. I've had the occasional problem with oddball hardware, like a flatbed scanner.
  Now I just have a networked multi-function printer and run the HP software to connect to it. It just works.
  Mint has run on a number of laptops for me. Dell, HP, Acer and I even have it running on an antique Panasonic Toughbook.
  It's kinda boring but when I need to do work that's what I want.
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  WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 03:18:06 JST WilhelmIII
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  I've been using Mint regularly as a desktop for at least a decade.
  It pretty much just works and I can get work done.
  I have other systems for dicking around with.
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  ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 03:18:06 JST ins0mniak
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  @WilhelmIII @phnt @sneeden @nyanide @verita84 Yeah whatever works man, really.
  
  I think its pretty friendly to most hardware, laptops and such?
  
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  WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 03:18:07 JST WilhelmIII
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  The guy that runs Mint got shouted down some years back for being pro-Palestine.
  He's avoided politics since then but I doubt he's moved to the ZOG camp in the interim.
  
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  ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 03:18:07 JST ins0mniak
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  @WilhelmIII @phnt @sneeden @nyanide @verita84 Ive never really used it, I think I tried it once back around like 2007ish.
  
  People liked it back then because it came with mp3 codecs already installed which back then was rarely the case. noob friendly and such.
  
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  Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 03:34:03 JST Phantasm
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  @ins0mniak @sneeden @nyanide @WilhelmIII @verita84 People bitch about systemd on Raspbian, but they never talk to about how atrocious the Pi hardware is to configure. Needing a utility and an OS running to configure basic settings like serial and boot options is insanity. Give me U-Boot over serial or DIP switches like a normal embedded device.
  
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  ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 03:34:04 JST ins0mniak
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  @nyanide @phnt @sneeden @WilhelmIII @verita84 Something that the Pi os is great at for that board.
  
  People bitch about systemd but meh
  
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  Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 03:34:25 JST Pawlicker
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  @WilhelmIII @phnt @sneeden @nyanide @ins0mniak @verita84 pov: you use linux
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  WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 03:35:07 JST WilhelmIII
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  My primary problem with running on Debian comes down to this:
  Stable: How old do you like your software?
  Testing: It usually works
  Unstable: You like down time, don't you?
  I used to run Redhat, back before it was Redhat Enterprise. I installed RedHat back when one of the language choices in the install was "redneck." I ran Wordperfect for Linux on Redhat 5.1.
  And then I suffered three back-to-back rpm database corruptions in about six weeks.
  So I moved to Debian Testing. And ran that for some time. Eventually I wanted to run a non-open-source backup program from Veritas and it really, really didn't like running on Debian (even had issues running on Sid), but ran fine on Ubuntu.
  So I switched to Ubuntu for a desktop. And then I bailed on Ubuntu because of Gnome3.
  And ended up on Mint.
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  ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 03:35:08 JST ins0mniak
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  @WilhelmIII @phnt @sneeden @nyanide @verita84 Gnome3 is an abomination
  
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  ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 03:37:19 JST ins0mniak
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  @phnt @sneeden @nyanide @WilhelmIII @verita84 Its the same on the C4 boards I use
  
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  nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 03:39:04 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:
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  @WilhelmIII @phnt @sneeden @ins0mniak @verita84 the software being old thing definitely presents a problem at the best of times :fubukiD:
  
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  Jerome (j@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 04:36:11 JST Jerome
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  @PurpCat @phnt @sneeden @nyanide @ins0mniak @WilhelmIII @verita84
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