Geany feels more like Notepad++ than Kate does.

Me using Windows: “Oh, yeah, everything costs money. I forgot how much I hate this. Okay, no worries, I’ll just download cracked applications.”

virus

Really? There aren’t updates with new features that you look forward to? Ever?

Garuda. It’s an Arch derivative that creates a snapshot of your system every time you update. That way, if the update breaks something, you can just roll your system back to the last working snapshot.

If you don’t like it, don’t use fork Ventoy.

Vanilla Arch?

And I like having my software up-to-date. It sucked ass when I was on Mint and one of my favorite programs had an update and I had to wait months for it to hit the repos.

That’s what snapshots are for.

I read a biography of Stallman several years ago. The whole free software movement was an attempt to preserve the early hacker culture where everybody freely swapped code. So, Stallman didn’t really “invent” FOSS; he just codified that early hacker ethos.

What was minix then? A non FOSS version?

It wasn’t FOSS, but then neither was Linux originally.

GNOME + Debian

Into the trash it goes.

Me too, but I just emulate consoles.

Certain people get angry if you do not refer to it as GNU/Linux.

I’ve never seen this happen. I’ve heard a lot of people complaining about these people, though.

It’s like veganism. I’ve never met a militant vegan, but I’ve heard tons of people complain about them.

I think it’s an effective strategy to avoid taking about real issues.