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Is it fair to say she was beaten handily?

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You stupid monkey!

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I dreamt about blowing a guy once when I was a teenager. Does that qualify me as a gay?

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Or Hunter’s laptop!

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If you are still dual booting, btrfs has a very good windows driver. Btrfs is newer and only recently started becoming the default on a couple mainline OSes. Ext4 has been around forever and is assumed to be much more stable.

Fwiw, I’ve been using btrfs for the last 18 months or so without any issue. I don’t use any of the tools. There’s no obvious or immediate performance difference like there was in the old days. We’re all on SSDs now and they’re fast no matter what.

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Distro-hop? Never. But getting something to work is way more satisfying to me than using that thing. (Slackware user since late 90s, recently diagnosed with adhd)

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Slackware users won’t! At least not so far.

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Or, kick it old school with reiserFS

Help me choose a distro/stay on NixOS

Disclaimer: I know there’s a lot of questions and posts like this but generally they’re aimed at noobs. I consider myself an intermediate user, and I know generally distros don’t matter much and you can have anything another distro has on any distro but I’m looking for something a little “specific” that better suits...

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Slackware current on btrfs for snapshots. Slackbuilds make the text go weeeeee, but the scripts will compile and build the package for you.

Plasma 6 hasn’t come over officially yet, but the main guy who put plasma together has a testing version out.

You could probably get the official proton app running, but I’m good with protonvpn-cli.

It’s been led by the same one dude since the early 90s. There’s nothing close to corporate about it. And there are great communities on IRC and matrix full of knowledgeable folks. And there’s linuxquestions.org too.

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Oh sweet child

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Thank you brave pioneers. I just felt confident to switch to btrfs last year.

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I’m a long time slackware user, but I joined the party some time in 99 or 00.

I never had the pleasure of installing from floppies, but I did compile my own kernels to speed up boot time. Sometimes they would boot, sometimes they wouldn’t. That was part of the fun.

I’ve been on a retro kick lately. I have a pentium 200 mmx based machine that will eventually run a floppy installed slackware. Or at least it will if I can get it to work.

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I’m doing trisquel on a sugar toast for my 5 year old and she loves it!

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For now…

Trump’s McDonald’s bill is big, but its prices have ballooned (www.theguardian.com)

Donald Trump’s appearance in criminal court on Monday has raised many questions, constitutional and otherwise, but on the evidence of the first day I find myself most curious about the former president’s McDonald’s order. During jury selection last week, the Daily Mail reported on a $700 (£560) McDonald’s order put in...

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Not Mackey D’s, but I placed an order for $100 of taco bell recently. They were still making it when I got there. It was the manager and 2 employees busting their asses to crank out the order as fast as they could while a line was forming at the counter and drive through.

The manager brought me the food and apologized for the wait. I handed him 3 x $5 bills as thanks. I genuinely appreciated the service and wanted to say thanks.

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I would love if someone excused a juror due to a lemmy post.

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I had a 5600x on a b450 board with Kingston pc3600 too. I had no problems running xmp profiles and optimized defaults. If cool & quiet was enabled by default then I didn’t mess with it.

I rarely use suspend or hibernate, and I don’t encrypt my drives, so I can’t speak to those issues. But even though you say you don’t need the speed, I think you’ll be very pleased with this upgrade if you go through with it.

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No reason here, other than the fact that it’s not slackware.

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Shift + insert

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Slackware needs to learn how to be hip like arch. I’m the baby in our irc group, and I’m 40. All the cool kids are using arch BTW.

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It’s nice to find another slacker in the wild.

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It’s strange!

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How very presidential of him!

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Point to where the bad man touched you. Don’t worry, you’re safe here. He can’t hurt you any more.

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You mean that down arrow isn’t an “I don’t like this so I don’t want to see it” button?

/s

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It’s only March and I’m already tired of reading the stupid shit this guy says every day.

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Sounds like something a Russian bot would say.

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found the power user!

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I promised myself I wouldn’t cry because slackware didn’t make the cut, yet here we are.

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In 20+ years of linuxing, I’ve never thought about putting the f first until now.

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I cut my teeth on DOS. I use dir instead of ls. Please don’t shame me.

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Omg you just described slackware. Join us!

New to Linux? Ubuntu Isn’t Your Only Option (www.howtogeek.com)

Ubuntu’s popularity often makes it the default choice for new Linux users. But there are tons of other Linux operating systems that deserve your attention. As such, I’ve highlighted some Ubuntu alternatives so you can choose based on your needs and requirements—because conformity is boring.

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I just had a flashback to 1999 and compiling a custom kernel to get my damn Logitech mouse to work.

I started using tiling window managers. What tips do you have? What packages do you use to make yours fully functional? Lost noob needs some guidance...

I decided to dive heads first into window managers and need your input for your guidance. I’m absolutely not a Linux-pro. I basically never use the terminal, just started using Github, and only used Gnome (+ KDE for 1/8th the time) for now....

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I was messing around with sway for a while and started with this, which I found easy to grasp and very convenient.

nwg-piotr.github.io/nwg-shell/

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Slackware: nothing, it’s perfect just the way it is.

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Yes to KDE for windows users. There’s nothing wrong with cinnamon. But kde is much more impressive in a “wow! This is all free?” Sort of way. Just today I used both k3b and ktorrent!

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I have the version of this controller with the Nintendo button layout. I like it, but steam refuses to see it as anything other than a standard x box controller. I’m sure I could solve that, but I’m lazy and it works well enough as it is.

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My $100 laptop is also the craptop! And my desktop running slackware is the slacktop.

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How exotic! Haha

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I am not one of the million, but I’m glad flatpaks exist. Anything to increase ease of use and hopefully wider linux adoption is a good thing.

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3rd, but I recommend getting the kde variety (used to be called kubuntu). This will give you the most windows like experience. Regular Ubuntu ships with gnome and has a different feel to it.

Also, gnome suxxxxxxxxxxx! There, I said it!

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Is there something wrong with me because I haven’t felt the need to use anything but pico since I started linuxing in the late 90s?

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I don’t! I’m occasionally in config files for this or that. I’m a simple man with simple needs.

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