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  1. I use windows too. Any computer that comes within arms reach which is infected with that Microsoft virus gets thrown out the nearest window.
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  2. I'm still running the Crunchbang system I installed in 2013 on this hardware. 😁 If course I've had to hack it quite a bit to switch the repositories over to standard Debian and fix the packages that were orphaned when the Crunchbang repos went away. Still, I've just updated the base Debian system as it changed and my system is now running Debian 12 with the Crunchbang Openbox WM on top. Sweet. The system's a bit old now and runs a bit slow for some of the things I try to make it do so I'll have to get a new machine soon but it might be a toss up between Crunchbang++ and Archbang when it comes to the system to install on new hardware.
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  3. You know that they were running Linux on the antikythera machine two thousand years ago to calculate phases of the moon, eclipses, and to keep their todo list in line.
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  4. The fact that Windows introduced PowerShell and more and more stuff is done in PowerShell shoots down the argument against Linux's terminal use. Neither Windows nor Linux are dependent on the terminal, however you can achieve a lot of things in the terminal that are either impossible or really clumsy in a GUI. The reason that so many things too do with Linux involve breaking out the terminal is that mostly people are trying to do something special; something involved and complicated. Also, the terminal is a lingua franca across many distributions of Linux. Not all commands are the same but you get the gist of how it is done and can work it out from there yourself in many cases.
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  5. Time for a snapshot of the VM prior to futzing with /etc/fstab. :)
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  6.  @terrydaktyllus1320  I've just put Alpine Linux 32bit on an ASUS eeePC 701 4G as I couldn't get other 32bit systems (e.g. Arch) to run on it. No desktop environment; just CLI but I think you can build up a DE if you like, but the screen and keyboard are too small for me to make that usable.
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  7.  @InventorZahran  I watched the video. That was really cool! To be honest though, Linux wasn't actually running on the teletype. But it was acting as the I/O device to a Linux system running on another machine, which was a great achievement. I used to use literal teletype terminals for my programming at Uni in 1983 and I used line editors like they were using in that video. Wild stuff.
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  8. I agree with you there. Another problem for me is the networking. I can't figure out how to bridge to my LAN. NAT works fine but bridge mode defeats me. I find VirtualBox better for mucking about with stuff though it's disk performance (especially spinning rust) leaves quite a lot to be desired if you really want to use that VM. KVM on the other hand has better performance for when you've decided you need a VM for a real task. That said I've a hell of a lot to learn about KVM and sometimes it's a bit frustrating.
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  9.  @SoundCubed  I have two Dell Inspirion 1525's from 2008. One runs LinuxMint MATE and the other runs Pop-OS!, both based on Ubuntu 20.10. They run really well with a little 120GB SSD and only 4GB of RAM. Good reliable hardware with great operating systems. No reason to throw these things out 'cause they just keep soldiering on.
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  10. "We're all individuals" (from somewhere down the back) "I'm not"
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  11. My number one tip is learn to touch type. The number of people I've seen hunting and pecking, backspacing over long screeds to correct errors caused by watching the keyboard as they type instead of watching what is ending up on the screen ... The productivity of half the people at my work would double or triple if they just leaned to touch type.
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  12.  @markkeilys  My son gave me a "Das Keyboard" for my birthday a couple of years ago - the one without any markings on it at all! Even the special keys. I love it. It's a beautiful keyboard for actual typing.
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  13. I love VIM and use it everywhere but I'm much less a fan of macros than of using awk or sed for those kinds of edits. Macros have their place no doubt but the way my brain works, I'd usually rather write a short awk script, even on the command line, than run a macro. Also you can use '.' to repeat the 'dd' which is often easier and quicker than either counting the instances or just typing 'dd' over and over again. It repeats the last delete, yank or paste command.
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  14. Windows consumer editions are almost entirely an advertisement delivery system with the legacy functions of running some software that the user wanted to install. Windows 11 delivers nothing that Win10 doesn't for the moment while trying to force people to buy new hardware - this at a time when chip shortages are making all kinds of tech more expensive and more difficult to obtain. If ever there was a time to show average users how to run something like Linux Mint, now is that time. Hey, you can either buy new hardware with the new OS, or try something different on your old system. No loss because if you don't like the different OS you can just buy that new hardware and OS that you were being forced into anyway. Why not try something different because Microsoft is forcing you to relearn the whole UI layer once again, and if you can move to Win11 from Win10 with no change to your workflows, you are a user who could just as easily switch to Linux Mint with hardly a hiccup. What's to lose and maybe you save some money - and pain.
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  15. Looks very nice - clean and compact with fresh software. I'll be giving it a look over.
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  16. Looks good. I'll have to give a run and the fact that it comes as a flatpak makes this so easy with no long term commitment. :)
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  17. My first line editor - after the punch cards - was I think 'ed'; Yr 11 at high school, 1977. Later in the days of MS-DOS 2.0+ I learned 'edlin' which was essentially a DOS port of 'ed' and I wrote all my batch scripts and basic 16 bit C code in 'edlin'. My first 'screen' editor was actually a DOS port of 'vi' and that was so great to use after making do with 'edlin'. When I first used Linux in the mid 1990's, I felt at home in 'vim'. Never did properly learn to use EMACS, though another DOS editor I used for work seemed based on it. These days, I just use vim everywhere. It's pretty hard coded into the muscle memory.
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  18. Re your last point about people wanting to argue: People should check out the Monty Python Argument sketch. Brilliant!
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  19. I export them as an OVA - sorry that's in VBox. Duh.
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  20.  @kirschkern8260  This is not actually copy/paste. Many terminals though (not shells) do have a copy/paste function . E.g. Terminator (and some others) use Ctrl+Shift+c and Ctrl+Shift+v to copy and paste. Just highlight with the mouse cursor and off you go. Sometimes you can just highlight text in the terminal then right click and it will be pasted onto the command line. Useful.
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  21. This is a classic example of someone knowing just enough to be dangerous.
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  22.  @act.13.41  Well at least it's easy to find the ethernet port. You can see it every time the cat walks away from you.
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  23. the horror ... the horror ...
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  24.  @markkeilys  Das Keyboard 4 Ultimate - yup, that's ma baby. It's pretty glorious. The best way in the world to interact with your computer. My son gets the good inheritance for giving me that one.
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  25. If looking for a distro to run in Windows WSL 2.0, Kali is great as it comes without all the tools and so is ultra light weight. Just add what you need on top of that. As for Kali itself, as it says on the pack, it is ultra quiet on the network. It doesn't spam out heaps of random network traffic which is nice in certain scenarios, e.g. where you are trying to actually monitor network traffic. It's a great distro to have on a bootable USB for those unexpected situations as it has tools for almost everything.
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  26. Do people still know about ^Z and 'bg'? If you launch a program from a terminal, such as mpv, and your terminal is locked, just type ^Z (Ctrl-Z) in the terminal followed by 'bg<enter>'. You have both a usable program and a usable terminal. Much less fuss to my mind than a special script and aliases to just hide (but not release) a terminal. Or better still, when you type the command into the terminal just follow it up with a '&' to automatically background it. Simple.
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  27. I have two 13 year old Dell laptops that refuse to die. I'm running LinuxMint MATE on one and Pop! OS on the other and they both run really well. The Mint box is for use by my brother who is not a Linux guy and generally has difficulty with computers. He finds it no more challenging than Win7 or Win10 and, as DT said, the work flow is very similar to Windows.
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  28.  @duckmeat4674  I am running Debian with Openbox. It's just Openbox as configured by Crunchbang because I don't feel the need to change it up. It works for me.
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  29. I'd guess that this was to do with the HAL (hardware abstraction layer) in Windows as well as drivers. VirtualBox pretends to be hardware that Windows has supported forever by default when you let it know that you're installing a Windows guest. Fixing this would be hard though if you have a Win XP installation disk ISO you may be able to use Safe or Recovery mode or whatever it's called to try to fix it. But if you have installation media, I'd just do a clean install.
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  30. Terminal is more environmentally friendly - takes less power to drive a CLI than a GUI, hence less greenhouse gas emission. Viva la CLI. Oh yeah, you can actually do more in a shorter time with the CLI. Maybe that evens things out on a kwh basis. Ethical tech is hard.
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