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Slackware!

If it’s a steal, buy it and try it. Worst case, you could turn a small profit by reselling it.

May i see the output of neofetch?

I promised myself I wouldn’t cry because slackware didn’t make the cut, yet here we are.

Omg you just described slackware. Join us!

I just had a flashback to 1999 and compiling a custom kernel to get my damn Logitech mouse to work.

I was messing around with sway for a while and started with this, which I found easy to grasp and very convenient.

https://nwg-piotr.github.io/nwg-shell/

Slackware: nothing, it’s perfect just the way it is.

Yes to KDE for windows users. There’s nothing wrong with cinnamon. But kde is much more impressive in a “wow! This is all free?” Sort of way. Just today I used both k3b and ktorrent!

I have the version of this controller with the Nintendo button layout. I like it, but steam refuses to see it as anything other than a standard x box controller. I’m sure I could solve that, but I’m lazy and it works well enough as it is.

How exotic! Haha

My $100 laptop is also the craptop! And my desktop running slackware is the slacktop.

I am not one of the million, but I’m glad flatpaks exist. Anything to increase ease of use and hopefully wider linux adoption is a good thing.

Oh man, you really owned those libs

I’m totally posting there tonight!

I’m happy with my abundance of p-cores! Hopefully they don’t nail it.

This is the first I’ve ever heard of a write protect screw. That’s so silly!

A friend of the family built it for us. I think it was ‘96 or so. I was maybe 13 or 14. I had used computers a little at school and at friends’ houses.

It was a pc clone that ran win95. Cyrix p166 cpu (which actually ran at 133 mhz), 16 mb of EDO RAM, 800ish MB hard drive, a 4x cd rom drive and a 33.6k modem. I loved that thing and learned everything I could about how it worked.

We didn’t have internet access at first, so I started dialing in to local BBSs. I eventually found a local board running wildcat that shared it’s ISDN internet connection to users. And I would download pornographic images and save them to floppy disks to sell at my all boys catholic high school.

I’ve been on slackware almost exclusively for 2 decades-ish. I’m team kde. I always liked it, but I had shitty hardware from like 2010 - 2020, so I was on xfce because it’s a lot lighter. But I always had kde installed so I could use some of their native apps.

3rd, but I recommend getting the kde variety (used to be called kubuntu). This will give you the most windows like experience. Regular Ubuntu ships with gnome and has a different feel to it.

Also, gnome suxxxxxxxxxxx! There, I said it!