I suppose as terminal Cool Stuff goes, it is pretty neat. And tbf, you probably don’t need a more full featured WM or DE if you’re just going to use it to open and tile a few terminal emulator windows anyway.

Let me guess, you’re a massive terminal junkie?

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Cute rat, must boop lil rat nosie.

👉🐭

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That’s… not a DE.

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You are absolutely right.

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Yeah, I’m pretty similar. I use the particular Linux distro I do because it works and it gets out of my way and lets me use my computer the way I want to. Which Windows no longer does. I have nothing against people who choose to use it, I’m just no longer willing to fight with it myself and lately not very happy with the company that makes it. I see distro wars or dissing folks who still find Windows to suit their computing needs as utterly pointless, counterproductive, and antisocial behaviour.

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I do find that 7s can be a little annoying about their pet projects, but that’s to be expected considering how many computer nerds are autistic folks with a special interest in this stuff.

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Yeah… I care a lot more about socialism than computer operating systems, and I know my leftism alone exhausts people’s patience with me. Otherwise I probably would talk people’s ears off about how there is a solution to their constant Windows frustrations.

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Huh. Guess Debian really is the Universal Operating System that’ll run on anything.

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If a thing like that existed, I’d use it. Software that has graphical controls but also tells you exactly what it’s doing is my favourite, I’ve seen a small handful of it out there. The terminal is wicked cool, but the documentation and discoverability issue makes it a bit unapproachable.

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I’m generally more of a text worker than visual, but good lord I hate CLIs.

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I found a Windows XP theme for Cinnamon. Not because I need it to look like Windows, but because nostalgia can be fun and XP was iconic. The bit I really like is the actual Windows XP default system sounds I also got my paws on, though. That was back when software developers cared about good soundscapes!

Though I have to admit, the classic grey boxy look basically every computer GUI had in the 90s is also something I really like. So maybe I’m just way more stuck in the old days of tech than my chronological age might suggest is possible.

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Great, you made me want cat eyes again. It’s bad enough when I want the ears and tail…

DOS? That’s ancient technology! Who still uses that relic!? Lol.

I like some assembly

So, do you work with minimum spec hardware, or are you just a masochist?

I once saw an application, I think some sort of old computer emulator tool, on a smartphone, read a punch card using the camera. Which made me think, QR codes are a difficult for humans to read way to put code onto a physical sheet of paper and them pass it to a computer, just like punch cards were, when it comes to technology, there is nothing new under the sun, and on a cycle, everything old is eventually new again.

“I’d make that group, but I don’t want to moderate it.”

Neat.

Eh, more accounts to keep track of sounds frustrating. And the kinds of people who call Hexbear unfounded insults on political grounds and defederate from us probably aren’t people I want to talk to anyway. I come on Hexbear and .ml for an explicitly leftist experience. I think I’ll stick with just Hexbear and the communities we are federated with for now.

Let me guess, libs who dislike “tankie instances”?