Depends how old. I have a Phenom system with an iGPU and an audio chip that went unsupported fow a few years. Then after a few cycles of updates, it became supported again.

Same with the GPU of an old laptop with an Optimus system. At some point nothing would be working correctly but then new nouveau (huh) modules got out and this old hardware could suddenly work much better than before.

Apparently I have a lot of hardware that goes through a phase of being unsupported in Linux for a while, to working better than ever before.

To be even more efficient while being lazy, try oh-my-bash. You can start typing the beginning of a command and use arrow up to cycle through only those, instead of the whole history. So if you had a very long mount command and don’t want to type it again, type mount and up arrow until it can be found. Not very useful for ls -al but very appreciated on longer commands.

Just use Slackware then.

EDIT: Just pointing out this is distro specific and not Linux specific.

Ahem. Konformists.

Ugh. That reminds me of the Microsoft admin fanboys where I worked, dissing Linux because its all command lines, while saying that MS inventing PowerShell was a stroke of genius making their lives easier.

It can’t hurt to know this but to me PS is not intuitive, looks like SomeLongString-ActingLikeA-Command, and I avoid it as much as using Windows in the first place, unless absolutely necessary.

For a moment I thought that ‘commandName -’ was some PowerShell stuff.

It’s kind of complicated. I’ve used Linux since Slackware 7 and I still have issues with some drivers.

Sometimes you just already have the hardware. Sometimes the vendor says it’s compatible but it’s not, or you have to compile drivers from a CD. Sometimes it depends on the version of the kernel used. Sometimes it depends on the architecture. Sometimes conditions change and what’s supposed to be working doesn’t.

I don’t think the meme is blaming Linux, it’s just how it is for some people. Some are gonna distro hop, some are gonna compile their own kernel.

They are UNIX systems, they don’t need an entire team to be managed once installed and running.

I’m only half joking. It’s not UNIX but I’ve been working with “legacy” systems like IBM i mainframes, and those things don’t need much to run. Sure, you have to update the system and the software once every few months, manage backups, role switches, etc., but it can mostly be done by a few people. But yeah, systems like this were (are) insanely expensive so most of his budget probably went there.

Just in case you don’t know, unless it changed last time I checked, some organizations like Comptia didn’t allow computers with dual boot to be used to pass a cert exam.

…is your taxonomic nomenclature.

When I started to use Linux more than two decades ago, Qt’s license was not considered free software friendly. Because I didn’t want proprietary software, I avoided KDE and Qt applications. I know the situation changed after a few years but it stuck with me.

Controversy erupted around 1998 when it became clear that the K Desktop Environment was going to become one of the leading desktop environments for Linux. As it was based on Qt, many people in the free software movement worried that an essential piece of one of their major operating systems would be proprietary.

Plus, it was much easier at that time to have themes and “rice” my desktop using only GTK apps.

So it’s petty but even to this day, I kept the old habit and still avoid Qt applications.

And face coverings are now illegal in public.

Have you worked as a Customer Advocate for a hosting company at some point? Because that looks like the training material they showed me when I did this job.

It’s one of the things that made me prefer using Linux a long long time ago. It’s nice to be able to rename, move, and delete files while they are used.

That reminds me of a story I saw about a handicapped athlete in Montreal’s metro. He was literally dragging his wheelchair while going upstairs and holding to the handrail.

He shouldn’t have to do that but the metro here is only partly accessible, and not his station.

Add a handrail and this might be for him.

I don’t want to gatekeep and you do what works for you.

I can only hope that you are kind enough to stop torturing this poor Debian with WSL, and can find it a proper home.

Or have you considered getting therapy for this?

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It’s also worth saying that as much as I don’t have an antivirus on Linux, and that I’m generally not too worried about malware and viruses, I have backups, follow the 3-2-1 rules, and my OS can be scarified if there is ever a problem.

But I must admit that being infected is not always detectable and taking extra care probably wouldn’t hurt.

The starting point of the attack is an email message containing a RAR archive, which includes a file with a maliciously crafted file name: “ziliao2.pdf{echo,<Base64-encoded command>}|{base64,-d}|bash”

Doesn’t it mean that a rar archive contains the malicious file?

It’s worth noting that simply extracting the file from the archive does not trigger execution. Rather, it occurs only when a shell script or command attempts to parse the file name.