I have been around since production servers were predominantly HP-UX, Solaris, and AIX. I settled on Vi because it was the one common editor that was preinstalled on every *NIX OS, including Linux and you could jump right into edit mode while reading a file without having to exit the preview first.

Nano is fine, but one you’ve gone through the pain of committing Vi to muscle memory, there’s no point to switch.

One hundred percent, but don’t forget Jony Ive. The mythology of Steve Jobs is built on the genius of Woz and the designs of Ive.

So a perfect open source name then.

The myth of Steve Jobs needed the actual genius of others to exist. Steve’s gift to the world was recognizing and pointing out actual gifts tonthe world that would have otherwise gone unoticed or not brought to their full potential.

If Steve was still around, he would have taken Ronald’s idea and had it rebuilt with a little polish and an exorbitant price tag.

You upgrade?

I am pretty sure I started with either Halloween or Mother’s Day because Red Hat Linux for Dummies came with Red Hat 2.1 which I am pretty sure came out in 96 or 97. I know Red Hat 6 was released in 1999, because I was neck deep in Y2K work at the time I installed it on my Compaq laptop.

That is strange. The entire

I have been on this Linux jam since 1996 with a CD copy of Red Hat that came with a magazine (Byte, maybe?). In 2018 I made the jump to Debian based distros specifically because I got tired of the surprises. Now my lab runs LMDE. The only thing more stable and boring is Debian Stable itself.

Like you said, I want to focus on my projects, not have the OS be my project.

I was setting up some template VMs on a fresh Proxmox VE (VM server) yesterday. Total install and troubleshooting times for each template were as follows;

• Linux Mint Debian Edition - 20 minutes
• Windows 10 IOT LTSC - 3 hours
• Windows 11 IOT LTSV - 6 hours, with the benefit of lessons learned from the Win 10 install.

The amount of obscure configs I had to dig up just to get them going was disgusting. Also, why the fuck are so many drivers not in Win10/11 by default, yet Linux has no issue including them all at a fraction of the ISO size?

More and more of our clients are using VDIs (cloud based VM desktops) to which you connect to with complex 2FA.

I’m not a fan of tech bros but, for once, this isn’t on them. This is on the dealers. It should be the dealers responsibility (and expense) to track down and patch each and every car they installed this garbage on.

Our clients are some of those “biggest companies in the world” (US and Europe). Sadly, Oracle is very much so in it.

Oracle is the choice if you need a high performance RDBMS capable of processing extreme amounts of data at extreme io rates. Nothing comes close for enterprise level applications. THAT SAID, it requires a special kind of individual to be able to get the most out of it. Even better if that person knows of the existence, value, and use of the many undocumented v$ tables, etc.

Once you can migrate most of your data out of an RDBMS, you options open up significantly.

For smaller projects. Oracle makes no sense, unless the expectation is vast and rapid growth.

EDIT: Oracle is the most evil corporation in tech. Those who know, know.

Well, yes. There are many different answers to any specific question because there are many ways to accomplish the same task. That doesn’t mean that one way is correct and the rest are wrong. It is up to you, the end user, to decide which of the correct answers suits you best. If you don’t know, pick one and move on until you have to revisit the solution.

I find this to be one of those memes that’s not actually based on facts but on feelings. If you ask a question that could have been answered by a quick search, or asked a very vague question, then sure. Otherwise, I find that the linux and FOSS community as a whole tends to be extremely helpful and patient. Yes, there are assholes, but overall the community is full of people willing to help.

Why does Arch not work on my PC from the early 2000’s?

It probably does though.

Nice. Could you recreate my mess using it? We all carry bad habits and inneficiencies, so I’m down to learn a cleaner, more efficient way.

find dir1 – find something within directory “dir1”

-type f – specifies that what you are looking fir is a file

-name ‘crunk’ – the file name is ‘crunk’

-exec bash -c – for the results, execute bash command

The command executed is move (mv)

‘mv “$0” “${0/crunk/chunk}”’ {} ; – move from crunk to chunk

User @zeppo@lemmy.world is who mentioned the use of “rename”. Mentioning in order to grab their attention.

Yep