Just like the good old days of running Windows 3.1 on an Intel 386sx. We’ve come full circle.

Hell yeah, that’s an earworm alright.

She Don’t Use Jelly - Flaming Lips

No, but yes.

Empathy.

Also avoid handling black holes without appropriate protection.

I have not made any case for Manjaro. I simply said it works well enough for me.

I also said that I know the story and have used many different OSes and Linux distros, so I know full well their underlying philosophies.

You seem to want to get me to defend Manjaro to have someone to argue with. Sorry, I don’t have enough investment in Manjaro to argue with you. I’m just too lazy to distro hop.

Sorry, I’m not aware of the meaning of those acronyms. Can you expand?

Just like the bad old days, when entire sites were made in Flash and Linux users were shafted. Ridiculous.

Seconded. This is what I value in a game. You can do great storytelling and/or addictive gameplay with low poly, low res, low color palette.

In fact, I’d argue that hardware limitations sharpen creativity.

My newish Xiaomi has an IR diode which is very useful to switch the AC on or off when I can’t be bothered to find the remote, and to mute TVs in restaurants.

It has a 3.5mm audio jack too.

Honest question: which euro alternatives do you recommend for mail, cloud?

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the only people who like manjaro haven’t tried anything else and haven’t really thought about their distros philosophies at all, or just got really unlucky with other distros.

Look, I’ve used more different OSes than I can remember. I used everything from CP/M to Solaris. I’ve used Microsoft Xenix, HP-UX, OS/2, Haiku, BSDs, you name it. I’ve used Slackware, Knoppix, Tom’s RootBoot, Puppy Linux, Debian, RedHat Linux (not RHEL, the original), Corel Linux, Mandrake, Caldera.

I love weird OSes and their history. I think I have enough knowledge to jump ship when a distro is giving me a hard time. I use Debian on all servers, Xubuntu or Kubuntu (de-SNAPed, of course) on desktops. But my personal laptop is running Manjaro for years now because it works, stays fresh, and gets out of my way.

Maybe, I don’t know. I tend to stay on the .deb side of the fence.

Are you dual booting Ubuntu with Windows? Because Windows fast boot causes that behavior.

This week I went to a concert, bought the vinyl there and it came with a download code to get the FLACs.

I won, the artist won, the middlemen got shafted. Great success.

I got a little bored with the anxiety of point version upgrades that standard distributions follow every 6 months or so.

Rolling distros like Manjaro work much smoother for my use case (web browsing, some gaming, light coding).

It’s not going away. The cat is out of the bag.

As with any tool it has its use cases. It’s not a good fit for everything. You can drive a screw with a hammer but a screwdriver works best.

We’re experiencing the capitalist euphoria that happens when something new comes along. This needs to get regulated into submission like all the previous bubbles.