I tried distro hopping. In the end, I always just came back to Debian like one of those no-place-like-home stories.
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I don't go back to straight Debian, but generally something Debian-based.
By that, of course, I mean Kali to continue my on-again-off-again pentesting studies... I know there are other platforms, but that is where I'm comfortable.
Sadly, my daily driver is fucking Win11 (gaming rig). Why? I work in IT, and MS is killing Win10 so I'll have to support shitty Win11 soon enough, need to know its quirks to support it. I do miss my Linux build for gaming though.
I did that for a while to try out everything out there, but after hopping from fedora I somehow always returned. Guess that's the one.
What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?
What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?
"You're about as useless as JPEGs to Helen Keller" - LOL - some great lines in there!
I did a line by line "does this hold up" on this song, and I found lines fall into one of three camps:
It occasionally hits moments where it's still modern, like "Play me online? Well you know that I'll beat you, if I ever meet you I'l Ctrl-Alt-Delete you." is comprehensible today. And I don't think "I believe yours says "Etch-A-Sketch on the side." is timeless.
Then you get the completely antiquated, liek "I'm strictly plug-and-play. I ain't afraid of Y2K." and "I've got a T1 line to my house" which are now hopelessly outdated. Hell even the term "Pentium," it was once Intel's flagship branding, by the end it was their badge for "next to shittiest" and then entirely discontinued.
And then sometimes it gets into "this would have been impossible in 1998 but kind of par for the course today, such as "I've got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM" or "I've got a flatscreen monitor 40 inches wide." In 1998 I don't think there was any PC hardware on the market that could address more than 4GB, and 256 or 512MB was power user level. Fast forward to 2025, the PC I'm typing this on can support at least 128 if not 256GB of RAM (4 slots of DDR-5) not counting any VRAM built into the GPU. I have 32GB installed, but it would be relatively trivial to up it to 128GB. As for monitors, yes in 1998 the question would be "Where did you get a monitor that big? Who made it?" It's trivially easy these days to find a 4k flatscreen television 40 inches or bigger that will work "fine" as a computer monitor and you can get bespoke computer monitors that are that big; hell some of the ultra ultrawide monitors out there probably exceed 40 inches in width. Though I think a modern power user would brag about having multiple monitors rather than a single large one. Also, CRTs are no longer commercially produced so we don't feel the need to specify "flat screen" anymore.
Yeah, did that for some time. Turns out, it gets pretty repetitive if youre just going back to arch every month after trying something else because on everything else you just go through a withdrawal of that feeling of ecstasy and pure hatred every time when your PC takes 0.5 seconds more to boot/update/do anything and you start praying you won't have to troubleshoot it for the next 5 hours and somehow finish your work by midnight
Alright, let's run a quick pacman -Syu to get everything squared up before I start this time- critical task.
...oh fuck
Help I am being attacked.
My world simultaneously viciously hating Arch when something breaks, then absolutely loving Arch, then hating it again when something breaks, then loving it again
Distrohopper's anthem!
I too screwdriver hop every week, gotta find the best screwdriver for my IKEA furniture!
I disassemble and reassemble all of my furniture at least once a week, with parts I get from different IKEAs.
Still haven't found the best IKEA to source the perfect parts for my furniture, so I keep trying.
Does a new one every few years count?
I read that in his voice. How did you do it?
I read it in your voice.
Let's Sausage!
Who is this? lol
Ordinary sausage. Dude makes weird food and funny sausages
Homie is so wacky! I love it!
Been there lol, still like Mint the best for general use though.
Wut! Wut! ...What?