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hummm
a lot.
i use windows 10 on my game notebook, use win2000 on pc9821 nr300 and sony vaio pcg-c1s. Use windows 98 on pc9821 na12 and use ms-dos 6.20 on pc9801 ns/l
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I wish I could get PC98*1's easily here. They don't really exist in the United States and getting one with a correct monitor can be a problem.

OS/2 Warp 3.0 Connect, and Debian.

I once was on Windows 10 (sadly) but moved to Linux pretty much just out of hate towards Windows. After a few years I am now another arch user (sorry to disappoint).
I tried getting back to Ubuntu (for stability apparently) but I realized just how much I despise apt and then Ubuntu started auto updating...

This post has been edited by UselessIdiot: Jul 29 2021, 17:30

I once was on Windows 10 (sadly) but moved to Linux pretty much just out of hate towards Windows. After a few years I am now another arch user (sorry to disappoint).
I tried getting back to Ubuntu (for stability apparently) but I realized just how much I despise apt and then Ubuntu started auto updating...

Debian testing is quite viable. Ubuntu is cancer but Debain's apt is quite nice once you discover how to read the package docs. e.g. once upon a time I designed several scripts from my certbot hooks on Arch, later discovered that the Debian certbot package was doing pretty similar things to what I was writing by hand - similar minds think alike I guess.

Debian testing is quite viable. Ubuntu is cancer but Debain's apt is quite nice once you discover how to read the package docs. e.g. once upon a time I designed several scripts from my certbot hooks on Arch, later discovered that the Debian certbot package was doing pretty similar things to what I was writing by hand - similar minds think alike I guess.

I run Sid myself, and very much this.

If there's a package that doesn't do what you want or is built wrong or has some dependency built-in that you hate or whatever, you can usually make your own customised .deb packages pretty easily. And even automate them.

Had the same install on my desktop since 2014.

Ubuntu was pretty good in 2010 (among stable/non-rolling release distros), but it's been following the same (IMO misguided and downhill) path as Red Hat in recent years.

I despise snaps/flatpak. And PPA's were usually sort of bad, too, but there was a time when I was too inexperienced to realize just how bad they were.
(AUR's are basically just PPA's, but in Arch more stuff isn't packaged officially so you have to depend on AUR's for more stuff.)

Not a big fan of docker either but I guess to get a job I should probably know how to use it.

Also, the single biggest improvement to dpkg/apt came when I changed a setting in apt.conf to stop apt-get from automatically fetching recommended packages, because that made things stop trying to pull systemd init into my installation.

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APT::Get::Install-Recommends "false";

If you run Debian on a non-x86, non-ARM architecture with low installation base, that setting becomes even more important because there can be some packages that do not build on your platform which you can avoid.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Aug 4 2021, 17:15

(AUR's are basically just PPA's, but in Arch more stuff isn't packaged officially so you have to depend on AUR's for more stuff.)

That ain't a bad thing. Arch was made so that if you just install crap all the time it will eventually die, and the system states that explicitly. I know exactly what parts of my system are AUR installed and keep it well under control. If an AUR starts to require silly dependencies people shoot it down pretty fast. (Albeit not before the AUR package breaks someone moron's install, but hey, he got a lesson he will not soon forget.)

Not a big fan of docker either but I guess to get a job I should probably know how to use it.

I know that feeling well. Docker is probably the one thing that generates the most security issues these days. It matters not how well designed your tools security is, if your tool is basically a mallet for idiots to nail system nails then no matter what you do you will always find a bigger idiot. For example, your docker container cannot communicate with the other container over the network? Easy! Disable network NATing over the entire cluster!

That ain't a bad thing. Arch was made so that if you just install crap all the time it will eventually die, and the system states that explicitly. I know exactly what parts of my system are AUR installed and keep it well under control. If an AUR starts to require silly dependencies people shoot it down pretty fast. (Albeit not before the AUR package breaks someone moron's install, but hey, he got a lesson he will not soon forget.)

Yeah, I have pacman/the building tools installed under /opt on my machine so I can more easily build a patched GTK3 library (since they ruined the file chooser a few years ago).
My tweaks to that PKGBUILD keep growing since gtk3-typeahead moved to Meson. Especially for the cross-compiling I am doing for my Powerbook.
Arch barely does anything cross-compile related and only targets one or two architectures so it's been interesting.
Anyway, since I am building from sources and all, complete system breakage is probably a little less of a problem for me - especially as I always read the PKGBUILD before I run anything and ensure that the 'libdir' is correct for my architecture so I don't get multiple different versions of gtk on my system (/usr/lib, /usr/local/lib, /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu, etc.).

If your tool is basically a mallet for idiots to nail system nails then no matter what you do you will always find a bigger idiot. For example, your docker container cannot communicate with the other container over the network? Easy! Disable network NATing over the entire cluster!

Is this something that actually happened? This sounds like something that actually happened.

And yeah I'm increasingly sure that all security does is causing getting things done to become harder and to encourage people to cripple the security by disabling all notions of it (easier to turn off a firewall than add exceptions to it).

Containers just feel like "works on my machine" windows dll's bundled with a program.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Aug 5 2021, 01:20

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Windows 10 on my laptop.

Main driver is Arch, backup and gaming machine still runs Windows 7 without an internet card.

I've been exclusively using Linux Ubuntu on my desktop and laptop, previously I used Windows 8.1 and tested out Windows 10 before.

I have never understood why people make a distro the suffix instead of the prefix.

win 10 as a .net developer. honestly any linux variation less handful at home pc but servers

Until recently I was a long time Debian user, but due to an issue with Nvidia drivers last year I ended up making the switch to Arch. I'm fine with it and I like the AUR.
Needless to say, I will not be buying another Nvidia GPU.

windows 10

Until recently I was a long time Debian user, but due to an issue with Nvidia drivers last year I ended up making the switch to Arch. I'm fine with it and I like the AUR.
Needless to say, I will not be buying another Nvidia GPU.

It was not something Arch "fixed," in all likelihood it was because NVidia dragged its heels for months on updating its linux drivers for the 5.9 kernel. Arch was probably using a different kernel version.

Also if using proprietary drivers I only install them via their installer and not via package manager. Annoying when I have to download updates via Lynx, but whatever.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Sep 8 2021, 05:36

Windows10 One UI 3.1 and IOS 14.7.1

Right now, it's Ubuntu MATE for every machine I have. I used to hop around a couple other GNU/Linux distributions, and for me Ubuntu MATE is the balance I want. It looks decent, is convenient enough, and I can turn off the window compositor. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Sticking with Win10 for now. Just don't feel like installing a Linux distro right now.

Windows 10 Enterprise

Windows 10 sadly