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I spent 18 years in the Linux console
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
Distro doesn't matter that much, its mostly the desktop environment (panels and settings), and kernel regressions. Like half of my thinkpad fleet now boots into a blank screen due to an regression in the Linux i915 driver. I used to run Alpine Linux on servers, decided i wanted to change to something less exotic and found that Debian is no less buggy. No idea how to go on. Windows is consistently worse, i haven't tri…
Try linux-lts. The latest "stable" releases of the kernel (since 6.10 onwards) have felt like they weren't tested at all, major regressions in every single version. I report them, but new problems keep coming. Never seen anything like that in two decades of being a mostly/only linux user. The lts is fine, no problems at all.
The Linux Foundation cut funding for LTS releases: https://www.zdnet.com/article/long-term-support-for-linux-ke... They only spend a small percentage of their money on maintaining the kernel. So I think if you want a stable kernel you need to find someone downstream willing to do that work.
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#123The guy had issue with iproute2 replacing ifconfig? I mean, the first time I've learned about iproute2 I've switched and never looked back. It's so much better. And SystemD again? Oh noes. Reminds me of a guy who was stuck on GRUB and used LILO about the time grub2 was released. Some people are weird. No idea why is this on HN.
>Some people are weird. No idea why is this on HN.
I think that encapsulates your comment pretty well... the article was an interesting read, you don't need to agree with everything the author writes to enjoy it. Go touch grass (or snow depending where you are) and relax a bit.
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#124While I have been using Linux since 1996 or so, and do have quite an opinionated workflow, I never could agree with this kind of ultraconservative approach to things. History never stops. Things change. Linux changes. Not every day, not every month, but every couple of years something has to go. And that's ok.
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#125I love pieces like this. They're great programmer sociology if such a field existed.
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#126Re: I spent 18 years in the Linux console
#127This is an article about preferring to use Linux over Windows, not using the Linux console without graphics. The author's screenshots clearly show a GUI. Sorry but this is an important dinstinction to me because I actually know people who insist on using the Linux Console.
"Console" is too generic to be pedantic about it. I mean, the Steam Deck also qualifies as Linux Console...
"Linux console" is a specific thing:
Re: I spent 18 years in the Linux console
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
First, what distro are you on? Second, have you tried windows or macOS recently?
Hey Windows it's pretty nice since they added built in Linux vms.
They also popped open a full screen Windows 11 ad after I closed a game last year. That's when I went back to Linux.
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#129> "So, vim won’t help with productivity here — it doesn't think for me in front of a piece of paper."
ai coding assistants -- "hold my beer"