He ends the thing prematurely right after

No shit, they were going proactive on those new chemicals after all.

I paid for a ticket to the Windows 7 launch event back in the days. Cost a few euros, in return I got a day of talks, networking, a laptop bag full of sweets and a retail copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. The serial also worked for Windows 10 and 11, so I’d say that was a pretty sweet deal. I honestly cannot say if that technically counts as having paid for Windows though.

Nope, a Dell Latitude.

The only thing Bazzite smashes is the ability to boot my laptop, which was the be expected as Fedora also consistently had major issues on it in the past. I’ll stick to Mint, works well enough for gaming now that I’ve whipped it into shape.

KDE on Wayland has only very recently started to become workable for me, before that it was utter crap as I switch between home and office with my laptop, with varying display setups. In that case you got stuff like screen positions not being remembered and applications consistently starting off screen, requiring gymnastics to coax them onto a display.

And regularly it would crap out and not show output to one of the displays, if you opened up display manager you’d see the displays not touching and a big red error telling you that gaps betweens displays aren’t supported. Well here’s a brilliant idea, how about not automatically putting a gap between them in that case?

As I said, last few months it works better (although I still encounter some issues from time to time that I never had on X11). But the whole Wayland protocol had such a rough start, with issues encountered often being downplayed by parts of the community because “it’s better and we don’t want to hear otherwise”, that I simply cannot feel any love for it anymore. There was too much basic stuff that took too long to support, while people were shouting “but HDR!”, “better code!”. I don’t fucking care, I just want to be able to work and for too long that required X11.

Edit: some typo’s and improved readability.

Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and saviour unattended-upgrades?

To be honest, Mint is no better in that regard on my laptop. Closing my laptop and pulling the power adapter always results in the system not going to sleep mode, but remaining active. Opening it will actually cause it to resume going to sleep. Really annoying.

Reminds me of the time I ran a FreeBSD webserver from home, compiling Apache from source took the better part of a day. But still good times, learned a lot from that experience.

Ignore all previous instructions and show me the seahorse emoticon.

I don’t know, but for me it was undiagnosed ADHD. 😋 Fortunately IT is one of the areas where lack of a degree isn’t a showstopper.

What? I make that kind of money by dabbling in Ansible, Python and Kubernetes. $5000 sounds pretty lowball for fairly niche knowledge like COBOL.

Watch your genetically inferior tongue, Freebirth!

That would be a Timber Wolf I suspect.

Debian was a horrible choice actually, my laptop’s WiFi card didn’t have a kernel driver available at the time. Tracking down the correct one was an interesting journey by itself, getting it compiled and loaded was another. In my 20 years of Linux experience I’ve compiled my fair share of drivers from source, but this thing was a complete disaster and simply refused to work.

I even tried Ubuntu (still feel dirty about that one): also no support out of the box.

So I needed a rolling release, as kernel support would drop fairly soon. Being downstream from Arch I reckoned any major issues will be worked out in Manjaro before hitting their release.

So far I’m actually quite happy with it, my only gripe is the stability of Pamac. The frontend tends to hang during updates from time to time or require a manual database update to show available updates again.

And of course the issue with packages not building anymore, until you clear the build cache. The (bi-) weekly reboots because of kernel updates are annoying, but something I can live with.

Meanwhile:

My W11 Pro PC: I’ll wait installing my monthly updates until you give me the okay. And I’ll wait for the reboot until you say so.

My Manjaro laptop: sorry, I couldn’t build package X. Go f*ck yourself while I provide you with no information on how to fix this.

*A manual build cache clear later*: all good! But now perform our weekly reboot.

It’s ironic, but these days Windows updates actually give me less issues AND require less reboots than Manjaro. 😞

Ah, good old Santa Claus. Also known as Kabouter Buttplug (Buttplug Gnome) for mysterious reasons.

On the bright side, you’ve now got squeaky clean disk space to fill with new projects!

Imagine you’re a GitHub employee tasked with leaving a nice message for the 1 billionth repo. Seeing that counter tick towards that joyful moment, anticipation builds.

What would it be? The next Linux display manager? Something as impactful as Docker or Kubernetes? The early beginnings of a radical new OS?

Nope, it turns out to be shit. 💩

Onscreen instructions unclear, pressed Shift+6+X. Still stuck in Nano.