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  • 90s was Mandrake, early 2000s was all about Ubuntu.

    Since then I’ve tried just about everything including BSDs. It’s all pretty much the same thing, as long as you like the package manager and release schedule. I don’t like snap or flatpak so avoid distros that use them a lot.

    These days I mainly just use opensuse leap, although I love arch etc but it’s just too much work for me now.

    I only really need a terminal, firefox and emacs and I’m happy.



  • The dark crystal is the greatest fantasy movie of all time.

    One of the reasons I think they hit different is because of the technology used to film them and the practical effects.

    To me horror films from the 70s and before seem more real and scary than modern ones that are full of CGI and weird pallete swaps like when they film night scenes during the day and then darken them after. It just gives off this whole ‘this is a fake movie’ thing to me.









  • When I was about 9 my family went to the jorvik viking center in York. They had a ride thingy where you could be driven around a realistic viking settlement and whatever the fuck they used to make the realistic smells of smelly vikings and pig shit really fucked me up. No one else was that bothered but I couldn’t eat properly for days.

    I’m guessing whatever chemical they used really didn’t sit well with me. It must have had a pretty extreme effect because that was 31 years ago and it was the first thing that popped in my mind when I saw this question.



  • I always end back up on leap when all the other distros piss me off, and I always wonder why I even bothered with anything else. It just works for me.

    It is one of the best KDE distros, the yast config took is brilliant, the installer is great, it has fast servers in Europe (fedora installs and updates are way slower for me) and on top of all that it has a cool and instantly recognisable logo.

    The only real nagative in my experience of opensuse is the long install times.

    I am a pretty simple user though, I only really use Firefox and Emacs.