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Debian with Mate. As familiar as the back of my hand. Dog simple. Can't recall the last time it broke (without me doing something dumb anyway). (But "pluma"? "

Debian with Mate. As familiar as the back of my hand. Dog simple. Can't recall the last time it broke (without me doing something dumb anyway). (But "pluma"? "Caja"? Wtf names?) And none of this "eternal improvements" bs. At least nothing visible in the ui or anything. For all intents and purposes it is evolutionarily flat. Which is exactly the way I like it. (Except, maybe there is something cleverer than just slapping windows on top of each other willy nilly. I know there are alternatives. I have not been driven to explore there much.) (Also, the Windows OS is flaming garbage. Possibly literally malicious. I don't know how they stay in business.)

Ygg2 4y ago
> Also, the Windows OS is flaming garbage. Possibly literally malicious. I don't know how they stay in business. You don't have to be best, just better than the alternative. MacOS comes with specialized set of hardware. So good luck tailoring Mac, without it costing like an average Ferrari. Linux is just worse for average user. Not average HN user, mind you. But people who struggle to figure out print screen. I fought with Linux in the past. It's death by thousand gremlin bites. Big part of that is lack of drivers, but there are also major fractures in the space: Gnome vs KDE, X.org vs Wayland, etc.
- Eji1700 4y ago
  >I fought with Linux in the past. It's death by thousand gremlin bites. My experience as well. I wanted to set up a small pi box that i could just keep with me and code on in my downtime. I of course could just use a laptop but this whole setup fit in a small stethoscope case and would get me more used to linux. There's just SO many small things that don't quite work right, and the attitude of the userbase unfortunately tilts towards elitist if not downright hostile. I still want to learn more and get better with it, but I spend enough of my time at work reading doc's and trying to debug, I don't love when my freetime feels almost the same.
anthk 4y ago
Caja -> box in Spanish. Pluma -> Stylo pen. It literally means feather, but you'd obviously guess why it persisted on that name.
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Ygg2 4y ago

> Also, the Windows OS is flaming garbage. Possibly literally malicious. I don't know how they stay in business. You don't have to be best, just better than the alternative. MacOS comes with specialized set of hardware. So good luck tailoring Mac, without it costing like an average Ferrari. Linux is just worse for average user. Not average HN user, mind you. But people who struggle to figure out print screen. I fought with Linux in the past. It's death by thousand gremlin bites. Big part of that is lack of drivers, but there are also major fractures in the space: Gnome vs KDE, X.org vs Wayland, etc.

Eji1700 4y ago
>I fought with Linux in the past. It's death by thousand gremlin bites. My experience as well. I wanted to set up a small pi box that i could just keep with me and code on in my downtime. I of course could just use a laptop but this whole setup fit in a small stethoscope case and would get me more used to linux. There's just SO many small things that don't quite work right, and the attitude of the userbase unfortunately tilts towards elitist if not downright hostile. I still want to learn more and get better with it, but I spend enough of my time at work reading doc's and trying to debug, I don't love when my freetime feels almost the same.

anthk 4y ago

Caja -> box in Spanish. Pluma -> Stylo pen. It literally means feather, but you'd obviously guess why it persisted on that name.

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