Fedora offers a very good set of choices.

So is eating vegetables. In order for you to live, something has to die.

I’m not knocking your veganism. I fully support your choices. But I harbor no illusions that all life requires death to survive. And much of that death is actively done by all creatures.

I’m leaning more and more to recommending Atomic distros for newcomers now. Fedora SilverBlue or Kinonite are excellent choices. Bazzite or Aurora for gamers. It’s pretty hard for newbies to mess up their install and rolling back to a working install is easy if you do. All the while letting users install software without effort through flatpacks and appImages. Even updates can be automated easily.

If Linux becomes common, then they won’t be a ‘special haxor’ anymore. Can’t be having any of that you know.

Over the years, I have seen less and less of the ‘RTFM noob’ attitude and Linux forums becoming more welcoming and accepting of new users. But assholes still exist and won’t ever go away. But they do make a good match with the newcomers that expect to have everything work just like it did in Windows or even Mac because they’ll be damned if they are going to learn something new and different. And yes, they exist. Why those people even try Linux is beyond me, but you do run into them if you spend time hanging out in forums.

The argument about X11 and Wayland is pretty much over. All the major distros, Fedora, Open Suse, even Debian. And DEs, like Gnome and KDE, have fully committed to Wayland and the smaller DEs, like Cinnamon and Budgie, are in process to make the switch. Only a small handful smaller distros have stomped their feet and said no to the switch so far. So that’s not really an issue anymore.

And having lived through the RPM Hell, unmet dependencies, compiling drivers and custom kernels, and unsupported hardware years, if I have issues with a distro that I can’t solve in a few days of goggling and effort, then I’m either going to live with it or I’m out.

Yeah, it does take some malice aforeskin when choosing hardware. It doesn’t take much anymore. But you do need to consider what you are using and what features you expect to work.

It seems it’s always best to be just a bit behind the bleeding edge of technology when committing to a any distro. If you want to be on that edge, you should expect to bleed every now and then.

Yes, they do. But you can now choose to download via Easy Print from your phone and run the printer if you want. I’ve never even tried the app. My Prusa is still my trusty Mk3s that runs on Klipper now.

Ahhh, the Sackcloth and Ashes, I remember it well!

So many config files…

Only because it’s easier and faster to install new kernels with. Otherwise, I suspect he doesn’t much care about gaming or other more “normal uses.”

The rate at which he went through French Courtesans alone would have been enough.

Ahhh, dirty old Ben! He knew a thing or two about seduction and sex. And he never let age get in the way of a good time.

It was some Tool’s fault though.

That’s a question that the C-Suite needs to answer for. But the point is, if those switches are installed -for whatever reason- they do need to work correctly. And if they do not, that’s an indication of a failing management.

If the installation of the circuit was done correctly in the first place, all 3 switches will turn the light on and off.

If they do not, there is a problem and it needs to be fixed. If you don’t fix the issue, you have a major underlying problem in your company. And you are not worth my time.

I would rather stand a type an entire program into mill or lathe by hand than ever go back to something like that.

If you have never assigned a drive to F: or G:, how can you even say you lived?

I’m glad my punch tape drive is long gone. We used a paper punch tape reel to reel on a garden cart to wheel around the shop floor to load CNC programs onto CNC mills. Often with hand written gcode. Gods, I hated that thing. Floppies were far faster and far more reliable.

Ahhh yes. Sitting there drinking tea and flippin’ floppies for half an hour or even longer. And there was always that one that would read well.

I think I still have a few 3 1/2" and even 5 1/4" around here somewhere. I even had a 120mb Superdisk drive. I bought it used and got 4 or 5 years of use from it. It could hold 1000’s of CNC programs and even CAD drawings.

***Great Googlely Moogely! You can still get Super disks on eBay!

RTFM is good and can be useful for newcomers, if you help them through finding and understanding the RTFM. Many of them are poorly organized and written. It can be hard to understand them.