Thank you professor stallman.

Fucking spoiler alert right here.

Yeah, have an offer, normally prefer startups but this isn’t the best time for those.

Have a newer Nvidia, but the A750 is a beast, and I want to port a Cuda stack over.

That team is hiring.

Debian is godly for servers, stable, robust, and most software is supported one way or another.

Also none of that redhat bs like their management stack, or Ubuntu and snap.

Their only weakness was they were far dated on kernels and software and that changed over the last 5 years, they’re often ahead of ubuntu now.

My first choice is always freebsd if I don’t need kvm or docker and the software is there, arch if it’s more workstationy, Gentoo if I’m in a fun mood (mained it for years but it kept breaking), and finally Debian if I just want something that works.

Even with Debian, wrote an lxc-based stack so it’s often just a base for arch for fun and Ubuntu for work. This is where it truly shines.

I agree.

But honestly, how much Debian specific anything is there outside the install?

In fact debian is branded as the most boring vanilla distro there is, for good reason.

Almost everything Linux you do is better documented in the arch docs imho.

Like I said, I use debian docs to install.

After that arch docs are INCREDIBLY thorough, they cover almost all of linux and are far more exhaustive than any other.

OpenSSL has a terrible codebase and development completely stalled for a while as it basically went to shit.

LibreSSL forked during the end of that period, but it didn’t quite get enough traction, and the demand for it went down, while openssl also a critical dependency for so many things.

Honestly OpenSSL just stole enough from LibreSSL to sort itself out a bit, and not enough people switched, plus all the new algorithms are written by academic or big corp crypto guys who throw it over the wall into OpenSSL as the default place everything gets used.

Also OpenSSL is certified which means any critical application has to use it.

Do you remember…

When someone first showed you tab completion?

Like absolute fucking wizardry man, like a Jedi Master appeared in front of you with the knowledge of the ancients.

Before that instant in your life you were typing out full pathnames, like some fucking schmuck.

And from then on, everything changed, forever.

I’m close, 93 also I think, slack on a 386.

Got stuck in vi, had to reboot.

Remember thinking how awesome 6 virtual consoles were. I think my tmux addiction came from there.

I gladly use chrome.

For work only and absolutely nothing else.

It’s great for that, standardized and effectively quarantined from the rest of my OS, but I also know when I’m using the wrong browser and jump back to FF when it matters.

… I don’t remember building grep, nor do I remember a time before bash.

Are… Are you God?

I was there, Gandalf, I was there when the modelines of xf86config failed…

…who… IN THE FUCK!!! Reads Debian docs?

Arch are the true Linux docs, maybe Gentoo docs, worst case Ubuntu forums.

Run a ton of Debian, only time I check their docs is when I’m trying to remember what the current stable release is called.

They need to start waking up and buying guns.

Women need to stop choosing to be alone.

And start choosing to keep around women friends, and we’ll-armed.

These pieces of genetic filth don’t believe no is a valid answer.

It has some wobbly bits, but it really exposes the most powerful parts of linux.

And it’s still somehow more user friendly than basically anything else in linux. Or windows for that matter.

I hate, hate, HATE GTK.

Sorry, it’s visceral, can’t stand using GTK apps, but really hate the framework, it is just so badly hacked together, and QT spoiled me forever.

Need to build one again, this time with a python wrapper, wrote one for VLC and it’s spoiled me too.

Used to work on WebKit, built my own browser for a while, but damn if they kept breaking qt/WebKit all the damn time.