Slackware was the shit in the 90’s. I bounced around slack, Debian, and a bunch of other floppy based distros. My first install was onto my Amiga, before I got a new pc. Good times

Nowt wrong with a gateway distro if it gets you out of windows land

There are some good enough automatics out now at very reasonable prices.

Of course there are also crazy expensive ones also, but they all do essentially the same thing - convert your movements into time measurements 😀

That would possibly work

I may or may not do this occasionally with byobu and my own services. Byobu is easier to use.

Dripping

Ooh. Thanks

We are deep in the technical weeds here. 95% of Linux usage really doesn’t require such humour unfortunately.

Feels like a business opportunity to me

What else would you supplement a terrible diet with?

Nobody drinks Lipton in the UK

This is the answer! Next question is why doesn’t the flatpack install do this for you?

It’s a fine distribution. I have it on my desktop and at least one laptop. But yes, a weird way to decide to distro hop 🤣

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Top tip, if tired, replace the rm -f part of the command with something innocuous for a first run. Actually, is better to do this mistake once so that the two important lessons are learned… Backup (obviously, in your case it was backups, but the point still stands) and double check your command if it has potential for destruction 👍

csh FTW eh 🤣

You can have both python 2 and 3 on the system. It just depends upon which is the default as to how much you break it 👍 The symlink to /usr/bin/python is the important bit for most software. For deb-based at least, update-alternative is your friend.

Really? Do you have a source for that?

If not, it should be. 🤣

This was new to me. Thanks!