Come on! I’ve stopped logging on as root, can’t we just leave it at that?

Why not just stick to what we’ve always been doing?

1. wget something.tar.gz
2. tar something.tar.gz
3. man tar
4. tar xzf something.tar.gz
5. cd something
6. ls -al
7. ./config.sh
8. chmod +x config.sh
9. ./config.sh
10. make config
11. Try to figure out where to get some obscure dependency, with the right version number. Discover that the last depency was hosted on the dev’s website that the dev self-hosted when it went belly up 5 years ago. Finally find the lib on some weird site with a TLD you could have sworn wasn’t even in latin characters.
12. make config
13. make
14. Go for coffee
15. make install
16. SU root
17. make install

But of course, how else could you describe yourself as having experience with TeX? /s

I think our TeX savvy lemming here confuses a knowledge level in the expert/consultant sphere with “having experience”.

Having worked with LaTeX on and off for 15 years, and on occasions developing TeX macros (ie copy pasting stuff from stackoverflow and shotgun debugging it until it sorta works) and creating various graphics with PGF/TikZ, I would describe myself as having extended experience with the TeX environment. But I still can’t tell you exactly what causes \hbox underfull without looking it up… Probably because it’s never caused a failure to output my documents.

Ok, go on then, tell the class what underfull hbox is. And no googling!

Win8 was a case of “dress not for the job you’ve got, but the job you want”… Luckily Windows 8 just wanted to be a handheld OS and not an AI interface like win11.

Me: Can you please just not change the UI?
Microsoft: now you need to expand the right click menu to access your most used actions.
Me: what?
Microsoft: and we replaced all the cpl and msc files, so now you can’t use the old settings interfaces.
Me: wait!
Microsoft: and ALL the new settings uses edge webviewer, so if you manage to remove edge you’ve fucked your install up
Me: sounds terrible, surely I can just reinstall edge
Microsoft: you can try but all links to edge on our website are just links that launches edge, because you can’t remove it - so why provide an installer?
Me: do you expect me to die?
Microsoft: no Mr User, we expect you to cry! Muwhahahaha

I’ve seen too many android devices with corrupt memory showing something like that to want it as a my watchface…

Debian Bookworms REPRESENT!

Also … you know … try to see if you can push another penguin in

Sometimes I actually do prefer to just SSH in to a tmux session.

Gnome = KDE = bloat

I don’t care about a modern feel, I need to not care about learning new interfaces. Xfce is fine for me.

I’m very close to just editing that comment

No, I’m not trust worthy

Ok, I may have forgotten about the “:” but I stand by the rest, if you can’t remember how to do a qw, then you can’t be trusted to write to a file.

Hit Esc then type “q!” <- how hard was that? Don’t listen to the vimxit liars

Tried Debian stable, kept not being able to get stuff to work because of the packages always being too old. Not advocating for Ubuntu either, but Debian? For a desktop? GTFO! I’d sooner start using emacs instead of vim.

Not being allowed to remove an app has lead about two people to switch from windows in the last 10000years.

their* /s