From: maus@dmaus.org
On 2021-09-20, bad sector wrote:
> On 9/18/21 1:20 PM, eho wrote:
>> Yes, I fear this group is dying.
>>
>> If it is so, it'd be a pity.
>
>
>> There once was a guy with the signature "Ubuntu - an African word meaning
>> 'Slackware is too hard for me ' " I never got that joke. For me Slackware
>> has _always_ been easier to manage.
>
> It wasn't a joke :-)))
>
>
>> Last word about the "steep learning curve". I'm 66 years old. When I
>> started with Linux, that was SuSe 4.* . Later I learned, that SuSe was a
>> Slackware clone haha! At that time, a lot of things had to be done on the
>> command line and I really really was *no* programmer, I was a male nurse.
>> And I got along.
>
> Ditto, I wasn't a nurse but the wife was. Yes,
> Suse 3.x or 4.x was the 1st fork and initially
> suse used the same Slackware install dialogs
> that still lurk in Yast's curses innards.
>
> I'll be 78 soon, started learning music to forestall
> brain-rot and am otherwise running Suse Leap +
> Tumbleweed, Slack-14.2, Devuan and Artix though
> I don't really have time to learn them much.
>
>
>> Perhaps this is my history - do I really belong to this century?
>
> Anyone that still knows what usenet is, is a has-been :-)
>
Fear not, 78 is the new 50. One of the first hospitalized here (.ie) was
94, and he is back home long ago.
USENET was better, with a reader (slrn) that is one of the best
utilities I have.
the Social media are a con. With USENET, if you did not want to read
a post from someone, you killed it on your reader. Social Media, the
dick(tator) blocks it, which is probably one of the reasons that Social
media exists.
Rant, Rant, as I retreat into the growing darkness.
--
greymausg@mail.com
Down the wrong mousehole.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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