Great, you made me want cat eyes again. It’s bad enough when I want the ears and tail…

“I’d make that group, but I don’t want to moderate it.”

Neat.

Eh, more accounts to keep track of sounds frustrating. And the kinds of people who call Hexbear unfounded insults on political grounds and defederate from us probably aren’t people I want to talk to anyway. I come on Hexbear and .ml for an explicitly leftist experience. I think I’ll stick with just Hexbear and the communities we are federated with for now.

Let me guess, libs who dislike “tankie instances”?

Tbf, a lot of versions of Windows sucked.

(I wonder if anyone wrote up one of these for MS-DOS back in the pre Win9X era. That’d be interesting just to see the roots of the copypasta, lol.)

Nice. Always neat to see that virus removed from a home. Are you running a Windows free home, then, or is it just your own individual tech that’s malware free?

Huh, never seen that comm before in the Linux comms. And the link returns an error for me.

I am convinced that everyone, including kids, should be forced to learn computers starting from a command line only. “You can’t have a GUI until you can operate competently without one.” Admittedly, I’m useless with a terminal myself, and a little scared of 'em, but that’s actually why I think this. I wish I wasn’t so scared of the CLI and reliant on “pointing and grunting” rather than “using my words”. I wish I hadn’t “learned computers” starting at 4 with shortcuts that make things easier but abstract away things I really should have had to know from the beginning.

Yep. Standards are definitely useful. Stick to the standards. If you don’t know enough to know why you’d want something counter to the standard thing, then you don’t need to be messing with that thing.

Tbh, not sure about the seat. The guy might be fun to start a “best distro” argue-til-blue-in-the-face-about-something-pointless with, and the wolves… if you feed them, you’ll have a pack of cute puppies who want their bellies rubbed, and I like dogs…

I’d suggest AntiX, as it’s great for crappy hardware and a personal favourite of mine, but seeing as I chose Mint for my first distro that stayed installed more than a day, after I broke AntiX and couldn’t figure out what I even broke or how to fix it… (don’t ask who recommended that as a beginner distro to my clueless self…) yeah. Mint. Maybe go with XFCE or something rather than Cinnamon, modern DEs take up a lot of resources on an already chugging shitbox.

Fun. Reminds me of an image I found on Tumblr, from one of the Linux gimmick blogs, IIRC…

Yeah, immutables have… probably a usecase, but even as someone who Should Not Be Messing With Core System Stuff, I don’t want or need that, and can’t see an obvious usecase.

you’ll be blown away by how asinine windows is once you’ve got used to Linux.

This, absolutely. I really hate Linux sometimes. But then I have to deal with Windows, which I hate even more. It’s not that I like Linux. It’s that I like it more than Windows.

And the bear hugs. Pandas are so cute. But yeah, the food would be amazing.

“Welcome to The Tankie Website. Brick walls to argue with are just over here. Let us know when you’re ready to have a good faith discussion instead.”

Hexbears: Stronger than brick walls.

That should be a tagline. As should the comment you’re replying to.

Ooh, reminds me of one of my favourite catchphrases. “The biggest lie you were ever told about the Cold War, is that the American people won, not just the global bourgeoisie.”

That it most certainly did! Large, powerful socialist countries, that aren’t particularly isolationist, certainly do that. After all, Western communist parties were a lot less useless when the Comintern was a thing. And while Lenin’s predicted revolutionary wave or domino effect theory may have ended up dead in the water after the October Revolution, it’s probably true that the more places we can make socialism happen in, the easier each further revolution will be to make happen.