From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us   
      
   Charlie Gibbs wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS (fixed):   
      
   > On 2026-02-15, Chris Ahlstrom  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Anyway, my first distro was the old RedHat 6. Then I bought a   
   >> no-name laptop with Windows NT on it, and used that for awhile.   
   >> Then I tried to install RedHat. Partway through the screen would   
   >> blank and a weird glow would appear. (I later learned it was some   
   >> issue with the AMD K6 CPU.)   
   >>   
   >> So I download Debian and burned an install CD. We were on a road   
   >> trip, so I spent a lot of time in the passenger seat getting it   
   >> installed, getting familiar with dselect, and getting the GUI   
   >> running. It was very absorbing.   
   >>   
   >> I didn't try any other distro until Gentoo years later.   
   >   
   > When I first decided to set up a Linux machine, I went to the   
   > local bookstore and perused the various Linux books which had   
   > an installation CD included.  The book I liked best happened   
   > to be by Patrick Volkerding, so my first distro was Slackware   
   > 3.5, which ran happily on a laptop with 48MB of memory and a   
   > 1.3G hard drive.   
   >   
   > I stayed with Slack for some time, but the lack of package   
   > management tools finally got to be too much.  Ubuntu 10 was   
   > much easier to set up and maintain, but then they switched   
   > to the Unity desktop so I bid it farewell.  I tried a few   
   > other distros (e.g. Mint, CrunchBang) and desktops.   
   >   
   > Blackbox was nicely lean and mean - perhaps a bit too much so.   
      
   I used Blackbox for awhile. On a slow machine dragging the menu   
   had a severe lag.   
      
   Now I've been stuck on its C++ derivative, Fluxbox, for years.   
   Sometimes I'll start with Xfce4. Currently I use it's power   
   manager, and picom for the compositor.   
      
   Anyway, I have 3 machines running: Debian Sid, Ubuntu Studio, and   
   Arch. I left KDE alone on the Studio box, as I use it mostly   
   via SSH to build code.   
      
   > KDE   
   > looked lovely, but was far too heavyweight; even worse, it   
   > was constantly spitting messages out in a console window,   
   > indicating it was doing too much behind my back for comfort.   
   > Eventually I settled on Debian and Xfce.   
      
   --   
   Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.   
   		-- Lazarus Long   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)