That’s a great point. A nice Debian LTS release could be just the thing.

Yeah. I think you can’t go wrong with either Debian or Fedora with Gnome. I would pick whichever I’m most comfortable with. The grandparents will probably never notice.

I love to give Gnome crap for being a large install, but I’ve lost count of the number of machines that I’ve put Gnome on and had it just work. And I’ve lost count of the number of times that I’ve searched for a fancy command line way to fix an annoyance in Gnome, and discovered there’s just a simple toggle in settings for what I want.

Lol. I assumed they were shopping around for a burned out hard drinking senior developmer - one ready to walk away from computers entirely.

Holy shit. This is weirder than I realized.

I’m just realizing that the person submitting the change was demanding that their lost feature be re-added, and the repo owner decided to YOLO the change into master. Lol.

Nice.

Holds hat over heart, and salutes.

In fairness, the NASA Engineer can’t get NPM to behave either. That’s why we don’t send JavaScript to space. (Edit: Lol. I guess we totally do send JavaScript into space.)

Or do we? Now I desperately want to know what the first piece of JacaScript to run in space was/will be? It did/will mark the exact moment that we stopped taking space seriously.

The real clue here is the cropped top line “refactor…”

“Here’s a huge mostly unnecessary format change that incidentally loses some functionality I don’t care about”.

Followed by “why won’t anyone accept my contributions?!”

Oh, I didn’t realize but I’ve also had a Jade laptop. I was just holding it upside down.

Focus steal prevention is the feature I miss desperately when I’m forced to interact with a non-Linux window manager.

I feel the rage of Walter from the Big Kebowski each time an app randomly pulls focus because it fucking feels like it.

It’s just bassic civilized behavior to leave my cursor where I put it.

I miss the Sync software for my Palm Pilot. I also miss my Palm Pilot, anyway, as well, though.

Are you aware of the dedicated Surface Linux Kernel?

I haven’t encountered any Bluetooth issues on my Surface, but I also barely ever use Bluetooth, so I may have simply not noticed.

That’s impressive. I’m glad I don’t have any story to match that. Hopefully they find it hilarious now. Probably no fun at the time.

Yeah. Same here. We learned to mistrust computers very early.

I love these. I would qualify for Arborist and Valued Contributor immediately.

I had a colleague who could have won the “TeeHee” badge. I wanted to tell them about it but they disappeared mysteriously a few years ago and no one seems to know where they went. Especially not Janet, who always has a shovel in their trunk.

(This is sarcasm. I am humorously implying that a person who changes every line of every file in a single commit, breaking everyone else ability to work, disappeared under circumstances implying that their colleague killed them and buried their body in the woods.

I would, of course, never do such a thing. Okay, my alibi is established, let me get my shovel…just kidding.)

You’re 100% right.

But I defy anyone’s mouse-foo to come anywhere near the speed of my typing speed and alias list.

Even someone mastering GUI keyboard shortcuts isn’t going to be able to match, because my terminal is optimized beyond what is possible in a more graphical app.

What I’m trying to say is that no one can introduce a thoughtless mistake into production code as quickly as I can.

had no business anywhere near a project that size.

Lol. That’s a really good point, actually.

I add version control around file number 3200…

(I’m kidding. Writing even a couple lines without version control makes my eye twitch.)

It’s so beautiful! Thank you. I love that there’s a tradition where a man under a sheet carrying a horse skull prances around people’s living rooms, and academic scholars can all agree “we have no idea what is going on here”.

Lol. That’s true. I couldn’t find one in my size.

Lol. I missed that. That’s hilarious.

The Ruby community has been, at times, frustrated by people thinking that Ruby is only possible to use for making websites, due to Rails past dominance as a web library.

And the technology most ubiquitous to creating a quick website is, of course, WordPress.

Yeah. And Vim and VSCode are one product, as well, if configured correctly.

And why is the Ubuntu logo even on here?!