I have to use Fedora at work (or Windows 11 or MacOS). All our production systems are CentOS, so the supported client Linux distro is Fedora, as they can reuse a bunch of scripts, Chef recipes, etc.

I liked it enough that I started using it at home. I like using the same OS on both work and personal systems. I share scripts and dotfiles between them.

I disabled the graphical interface as I use the mini PC with Debian as a server and only ssh to it

Oh yeah, that makes sense.

If you’re used to Windows then maybe give KDE a shot. Similar concepts to Windows (like a taskbar at the bottom of the screen) but extremely customizable. You can install KDE on Debian - on an existing system, the easiest way is to run tasksel and select KDE Plasma.

I’ve been using Debian on servers for 20+ years, but ended up using Fedora on my desktop and laptop.

Debian is stable, meaning it doesn’t change often. Packages don’t get major version upgrades during the lifetime of a Debian release. That’s fantastic on servers, but can be annoying on clients since you don’t get the very latest drivers, the newest version of KDE, etc. Linux drivers move pretty quickly, especially for newer hardware.

You can run Debian testing, which is a more up-to-date development branch, but you need to make sure you pull security updates from unstable as the security team do not upload to testing. https://github.com/khimaros/debian-hybrid

If you’re new to Linux, then also consider Linux Mint Debian Edition.

If your element has an id, you can just reference it from the window scope

This is brittle, as defining a global variable with the same name (or the browser adding a API with the same name) will override it. This functionality was only kept for backwards compatibility with sites designed for Internet Explorer. The spec says to use getElementById instead.

Linux will try SIGQUIT first, and you can immediately kill a process in Windows too. taskkill /f /im firefox.exe

kill dash nine, no more CPU time

Linus Torvalds is probably clever enough to create something like that. The Linux kernel sure could take advantage of it.

hold hold

Maybe he just needs to rest his arm.

Setting up typescript takes an hour or two if you have no clue what you’re doing

Modern versions of Node.js have native TypeScript support. For scripts, you can just write the script then run it. That’s it. No build process needed. A beginner could just rely on type checking in their editor (I think VS Code has the TypeScript tooling installed by default?)

For web apps, just use something like Bun or Deno. Bun gives you practically all the tooling you’d need (JS runtime, TypeScript, package manager, test runner, bundler, and framework for building web apps) out-of-the-box. It doesn’t have a formatter, but you can just use your editor’s formatter.

/var holds log files

Not just log files, but any variable/dynamic data used by packages installed on the system: caches, databases (like /var/lib/mysql for MySQL), Docker volumes, etc.

Traditionally, /var and /home are parts of a Linux server that use the most disk space, which is why they used to almost always be separate partitions.

Also /tmp is often a RAM disk (tmpfs mount) these days.

LTS is supposed to contain stable components though. They really should wait for a stable (1.0) release before committing to it.

Non tech savvy people don’t care which browser they’re using. A lot of them do actually use Edge, since it comes with Windows.

Not just DuckDuckGo - the majority of search engines and voice assistants that aren’t Google use data from Bing. It’s the largest search engine that has a public API. Even search engines that have their own index usually use Bing to supplement their results.

I think the real issue isn’t the rewrites, it’s the fact that Ubuntu started using the new Rust coreutils even though they weren’t ready for production yet. uutils hasn’t even reached version 1.0 yet, and still fails some compatibility tests.

All your internet traffic is likely going through at least one network administered by a furry. It seems like there’s a much higher proportion of furries in network admin and cybersecurity jobs compared to IT/tech jobs in general.

Seems like BASIC but with different keywords :D

I like this part of the readme:

How to use

Please don’t.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mould

deeply sane

I hope somebody describes me like this one day.

I like Notepad++. It can handle anything you throw at it.

I switched to Linux (Fedora with KDE) and I like KWrite for similar reasons.