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Oh to be a young lad experiencing linux for the first time again

For higher throughput in middle age, I recommend Edge-ing every so often, and then going back to a real browser.
Not knowing how anything works, being scared by errors that you don't know how to get around or deal with, not knowing alternatives for your former favourite apps to do things quickly, wondering if you get the peripherals you currently own to run?

naah thanks mate, hard pass.
- Not knowing how anything works
  
  I mean, that's how you start learning stuff - not knowing how something works
  
  Being scared by errors that you don't know how to get around or deal with
  
  Isn't that the case for every OS in existence? When something breaks, you don't know how to deal with it. Enter google/ddg/whatever
  
  Not knowing alternatives for your former favourite apps to do things quickly
  
  See point 1 - and yet there are Linux apps that let you do things quicker than Windows stuff. I can't imagine myself at this point having to use frigging photoshop to crop or add a border to a image when you could do that with a ´magick -crop´
  
  Wondering if you get the peripherals you currently own to run?
  
  Wasn't that the whole point of live images? Not that they will charge you for downloading them. And hardware support is infinitely better today than back in the day. Just look at what the folks at asahi did - that's nothing short of incredible
- Tossing Gentoo onto an old Pentium III box, typing emerge world and coming back four hours later to see if it's done was awesome.
  
  And no, it wasn't done compiling KDE yet.
  
  But I definitely wouldn't want to experiment with Linux on my only PC with no way to look things up if I break networking (or the whole system). Thankfully, this is no longer an issue in the age of smartphones.
- I feel like this supporting Windows servers and navigating Win 11/12 clients at work these days.
- There's also the fact that if you have modern hardware, you'll find that half the features that you paid for don't work properly in Linux (or at all). It's a great OS to keep an old PC alive, though.
I'm doing that rn. Not the first time as I've used it before, but this time as a daily driver.
PTSD of wifi and gpu drivers:

dog war flashback meme
- Gets super horny
Am enjoying it more than ever almost 20 years in.

Linux exists, so I keep coming

*Cumming

The owner of gamingonlinux? The same guy was a mod on the [email protected] community until they were caught abusing their moderator powers? Who then deleted their account and complained on mastodon that it's stupid design that mod logs are public? That one? [Screenshot]

it doesn't matter. In the end of the day they came
For full context: The mod abuse was a incident between sirsquid (Liam/GamingOnLinux) and 'go $fsck yourself' (the person that comments this on every linking to GamingOnLinux.com). The alleged mod abuse is Liam deleting a post by 'go $fsck yourself' criticizing the title on one of his articles. Liam later stepped down as moderator.

Was Liam being a childish? Yeah. Is there a reason why 'go $fsck yourself' is being vague about what the mod abuse actually was and to what extent? Probably.

Incident was at 2024 May 22 Mod Log: https://lemmy.ml/modlog/15063 Incident Thread: https://lemmy.ml/post/15894308

For more context, after Liam stepped down: https://lemmy.ml/post/17376889/11932442
- Very succinct and includes 99% of the situation. Thanks, and well done.
  
  Only things I would add would be: Being a moderator on lemmy and not knowing that modlogs are public is baffling. That alone really outlines the fact he was unqualified for the role.
  
  And that it seems pretty obvious the comments were only deleted by him to hide his own. He had already shown an inability to be measured and collected, as well as a poor understanding of the platform from a moderation perspective. Then, his clear disregard for the only rule for the community by lashing out at something that could have been more easily dismissed entirely. He should have just deleted the comment without a response. My mildly stupid comment just did not deserve that kind of reaction.
  
  It all serves as solid evidence that he was willing to abuse his mod role for something so minor, and a person like that wouldn't stop there.
  
  The real cherry on top is how pathetic it is to go to mastodon to complain about the public mod logs on lemmy.
Thank you! I was pretty fucking sure there was stupidity related to Liam but could not for the life of me find anything in search.
He was so horny all the time
- I don't know the guy, but I can relate
  
  🥺🍆
Yes, that one. And he still contributes a lot to the Linux community, just in a new form, which is good! Everyone has found their place and is useful to the greater things.
- Like what? All I can see is copy and paste blog spam.
He clearly lives rent free in your head, and I'm all for it.
- He showed everyone here who he really is. There's no reason to just forget his real self when people keep posting links to his generic gaming blog site instead of the actual source of information.

I too was there for the release of the 2.6 kernel

I put off the switch so long because I didn't know what udev was but I understood that it was important.
Linux 2.6 released in December 2003. Gnome 2.6 released in March of 2004. At that point Linux was truly ready for the desktop and we've just spent the last twenty years waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.
- I was alive during that
  
  Yay
IIRC that was the release that cleaned up the make output substantially.

Well played. Closest thing we have to okbuddylinux

Yeah because Edge didn’t exist back then.

Liam had his Edge game on point alright.

I too, obtain great please from gaming on Linux.

Some say he's still coming to this very day.

- Goon on, legend.

"I constantly came" is the funny bit ;)
- Thank you for clarifying! My brain could only see this as an excerpt and I was not able to seperate it from the assumed rest of the sentence.

Maybe that's the missing part...