Emacs has scripts that can do almost anything. If you wanted to, you could pretty much replace your graphical desktop with Emacs and still do pretty much everything you do. vi is an editor.

Kmail, Thunderbird, Evolution. That’s pretty much it.

There’s always some weird niche client somewhere but it won’t be a hidden gem. Although I guess you can always use Pine (or rather Alpine nowadays) if you want to appear ubergeeky.

That’s what you get for dabbling with computers. Of course there’s many ways to do one thing. There’s many ways to do one thing with Lego, for fucks sake. Do you really expect computers to be simpler?

Look at the properties of the file in dolphin. It will show you various file signatures.

That’s because the computer most people actually need is a tablet.

Installing Windows machines 10+ years ago wasn’t much more fun either… (I’m not sure it’s any more fun these days, but I haven’t done it in ages, so I’ve no idea).

In the last twenty years, I’ve pretty much only had nVidia hardware for graphics with very few issues.

Of course that wasn’t in laptops. Having a GPU in a laptop is asking for trouble anyway in my opinion.

I’ve been using Linux for over thirty years and the nice looking App Stores that have appeared those last few years have always been shit and have always been mostly broken in various ways. I don’t know why.

On the other hand, the ugly frontends to the package manager just work.

Isn’t the problem that it’s blocked by a number of patents, or something like that?

Because when there’s a new hardware function, the driver has to add support for it.

Tumbleweed will update six months of packages or more without breaking a sweat. It’s all about using something sturdy.

I meant using toilet paper on houses. Sorry, it was poorly worded.

Also they probably still have lots of toilet paper left over from the covid days. (Is that still a thing on the US? I only know of it from movies)

My only currently active machine is a laptop named buttwarmer as per my cat’s suggestion.

[…] in reality they just know how it works

In my experience, they know how a few utilities and how a handful of programs work, but have no idea how Windows works. Not that many people actually know how Windows works.
Roughly figuring out the boot sequence of Linux is relatively easy once you’ve used it for a year or two. What happens when Windows boots? Who knows? kernel32 probably is involved at some point.

Linux/Unix is actually relatively simple and logical once you’ve figured it out. Windows is a messy dark maze with grues waiting at every corner to eat you.

Install Linux on…

Never mind, carry on.

We don’t want a viditor, we want an editor. Why? Because ed is the standard!

Anything can be Unix if you’re willing to pay for the certification.

Well, it doesn’t find my books. :(

Correction, got it to work.

Next step, unscrambling the books.

Edit: And, done. (there weren’t that many books, 460 in total).

You thought documentation was bad, just wait a few months…