I had Slackware running on a couple of 386 machines with 200MB hard disks. It was impossible to do almost anything as it was all compile from source but I didn’t have the disk space to install all the compiler tools and what I was trying to run on them. I was originally going to use them as part of a distributed system for my degree, but in the end I didn’t use them and did something different instead.

I used CentOS at work a lot for several years and liked it, but only fully switched form Windows at home 10 years ago and I went to Ubuntu at the time. Installed KDE on it, messed around with i3 and had a great time. I then went hopping and landed on Endeavour OS which I’ve been really enjoying for many years now and have no intention of moving from. All my servers still run Ubuntu LTS Server as it has been unbelievably solid.

1950 is around the birth of rock and roll, which seems a long tine ago to me. Seems crazy that my kids might see 2100 though

I’ve got a great Plexi sound from my Helix and Les Paul for playing Led Zeppelin numbers.

Sounds like something written at the likes of Manjaro which differ enough from plain Arch for it to be problematic.

To be honest, with EOS the point is moot - they have their own excellent forums and if you do insist on going to the Arch forums, just say you’re using Arch.

Jist install EndeavourOS. You’ll get the wallpaper and the best distro to boot.

Can confirm EOS works beautifully with Steam and has done for all the years I’ve used it.

Yes. Small socks.

Up there with your retirement planning being to win the lottery.

If, instead, you like lists of designer clothes, sound systems and skincare regimes, then I highly recommend American Psycho. Genuinely, I loved it.

Him & Her

100% agree. JC3 is a gem of a game

Red boxes are very on trend at the moment, everyone is saying so

Nobody fucks with the Jesus

alias your way to something you like

4?! There are literally dozens of us!

No one in 2025 has read all of that article.

Kids love laughing. Comedy is all about subterfuge and up-ending expectations. “Trolling” is the same. Kids make up the worst unfunny jokes as they don’t understand what makes a joke funny instead of ridiculous, but they do understand the art of the unexpected.

I’m going to split this in to two categories: 1) games that were the best for their time, but perhaps don’t hold up nowadays. 2) Games that are the best today.

1. GoldenEye. This game was just so good both single and multiplayer. It was revolutionary, amazingly close to the film and a real challenge to complete. It was a huge game changer and entered in the modern era for such games.

2. I just really like Just Cause 3. It’s such fun, great visual, even better game mechanics, cool soundtrack, a true open world and massive destruction, endless ways to approach every situation.

The Gear Page is very active as are sister sites like strat forums, my les paul etc

Talk photography

Fred Miranda photography forums

Av forums

Watchuseek

What HiFi

I used to live on the winamp forums, but I haven’t for a long time and it’s pretty dead now.

The main one is how it handles corruption. It has actively been designed to do the exact opposite of what a sane filesystem should do and maximises downtime.