Journal KGIII's Journal: Mindless Linux Drivel... 6
So, as those who "know me" know, I am a long-winded poster who adds inane drivel more often than not. It is a pass-time and a lot of the time I simply can not say what I wanted to say in a short blurb. My thoughts do not fit on a bumper sticker. If they did then they would be so superficial that they would not be worth adding to the conversation. Also, many folks like to argue and this argument seems to come from them not actually understanding what I wrote. Replies frequently look like, "I agree entirely what you said. You dumbass!" This means I take care to include all of the information that I have because I can not reasonably assume that the readers will have that information. It is not like I am all the bright or anything - I just express myself poorly so I make up for it with verbosity.
Having said that I will add that I frequently type out long, well thought out (I think), replies only to stop and think about it before clicking the send button. (Imagine that. Thinking before posting? Life is strange after a few years of not drinking.) Sometimes, perhaps more often or perhaps less often, I will delete/cancel those posts. They usually address the subject that I am replying to but are only tangentially related to the actual subject of the thread.
Today I authored a response to a zing at Samsung for having disabled Windows Update recently. I finished it, typed it all out, and hit the preview button only to realize that it was so far off topic, and such a high word count (low for me), that it simply would not be a good response. Rather than hitting the almighty enter button and submitting my drivel to the thread's page I figured that this is my journal and I can post anything I damned well please in it.
Then I thought about how badly used the journal feature is here. It really is a nice feature for what it is. It is not much but it does what it does well. It allows you to post drivel in amongst other folks posting drivel and it is never consumed or lightly consumed meaning that you are only stroking your own ego by posting it. See? Simple. I defy you, nay - three of you, to spend an hour in my head! They tell me that I am sane. I tell them that is the same thing the voices in my head tell me. They'll take me serious when I blow up my own lawn gnomes!
Anyhow, I figured I would post that comment here. It is mostly being posted because I think I may like to come back to it and visit it again someday. It is not well written, it does not have witty insights or pithy sayings, and it isn't anything important. So, I am not going to edit my response to suit, I am just going to post it as it was originally authored. If you read it then I can only call you a sucker and say that you were warned.
I hope so. I am an old UNIX then various flavors of Linux user. I have alway, pretty much, had an open source OS on one of my partitions in the past many years. Somewhere, near XP SP2, I just stopped using FOSS desktops as my OS. I am not sure why. I still used Linux in the real world. But, I just stopped. I have taken my three most used compute devices (two laptops and a desktop) and converted them entirely to Linux Mint (I call it Linux for Retards - like me).
I have an MSDN subscription, a nice one too, and I suspect I will set a new system up with 10 on it and use that to do my dev play as VS, honestly, can not be beaten, yet. I will probably keep paying Microsoft many dollars for my subscription. It is automatic so... Well... I will never actually disable it. My heirs will be paying it long after I die.
So, I would like to say - yes, get rid of Windows Updates. They would bork up my Linux for Retards installs (I am now so intimate with the installer that I am planning on sexxing it tonight). It is good to be back though I keep dropping into the terminal to get shit done. I am not sure why.
Anyhow, I am an addict. But, today makes 13 days and I am so far behind on
I am going to have to start hiding in closets and shooting up Microsoft Office too. It will run in WINE they said. It runs fine in WINE they said. Just use OOo.org they said. Use the online Word they said. Those fuckers need to die a painful death.
Also, LinuxMint, it's for retards. As a user, I fully endorse this statement. It is nicely unified aesthetically. It's as stable as a female pop singer by the time I get to it. Cinnamon won't start? Revert to blind man status? Abso-friggen-lutely. That is what I want you to do. How about piping an error message to me as the default action? No... It will take me longer to figure the bug out, reinstall. Where did boot logging go, anyhow? You know what? I have no idea because nobody seems to care enough to point it out to me and my google-fu is lacking. It is a moot point now, I can just re-install the bastard in a half hour or so and be done with it. I lose a few settings and the next install means I did not go back and tick that box. (Though if I knew which box it was, I would break it. I had not even done anything special to it.)
Finally, I suppose, I am done with my rant. Instead of just dicking with Linux I am using it as my main OS for now on. I will probably switch distos. I have been playing with a lot of VMs so I have tried every one of the top 20 at the distrowatch site. I will, likely, be switching to Mageia next even though openSUSE gave me a handy under the table at a fancy restaurant. I will not be going with FreeBSD because the installer is stupid and I am stupider. ArchLinux, openSUSE, and even PCLINUX (better than expected actually) get a nod as well. Fedora, Ubuntu, and CentOS do not suck so much as I can not stand what is essentially a taskbar in the wrong spot. I am not going to change desktops to something different as I always end up wasting too much time figuring out the dependencies. I am sure there is an easier way but I am fickle and will just move along. Slackware looks really nice but I sort of did not play around with it as much as I should have so I will reserve judgment until I have done so.
What the hell were we talking about again?
Oh yes. Samsung was disabling Windows Update a while back. They stopped it. I read it here on this site. If they said it then it must be true. They can not post lies on the internet. Anyhow, at this point, albeit a bit flustered and exhausted, I would say that that is almost a good thing.
So, there it is. If someone should deign themselves worthy of calling me names, giving insight, belittling, or even just babbling about stupid stuff then there it is, in all its glory. I do wish I could disable moderating in journal posts. It serves no function.
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Ha. It is 7pm on Thursday night and I am still sitting in the office reading the slashdot firehose for the nth time where the bth time was already two letters too many. In which I saw your journal. As I am on the firehose and have excellent karma, I thought abut simply down modding it as my ritual of culling most stuff on the firehose that doesn't interest me - really, isn't that what every mod does on this site? But for some strange reason I clicked on the link - perhaps it was to reenforce the fact that i
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I am glad that it kept you occupied for a spell. Thanks for reading. And yes, the state of affairs with Linux is disturbing. It is almost like they have decided that they are not going to be the mainstream desktop OS so to hell with it. Do not get me wrong. I appreciate it and I am using it right now. However, it is much more frail than it was. The user-land environment is disjointed (for lack of a better term). It is counterintuitive... KDE looks like it was created for someone who is blind, OCD, ADHD, and
Friend's journals (Score:2)
For some reason, probably because you posted some amazingly insightful comment in the past, I have you marked as a friend here. Thus a new journal appears in my message center and I read it :)
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You can not say that I did not warn you. ;) It's a pain in the ass to convert back to Linux. So much has changed and yet so little has changed. Sure, it was installed but I seldom used it unless I had a reason or felt like geeking-out for a while. I am also a whole lot patient than I was when I was younger. When you get to be my age even a week spent learning is a good portion of time. I could be doing other things. However, I am planning on filling some of my free time with some OS projects and contributio
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Thus a new journal appears in my message center and I read it :)
Same story here.
Two things:
1. The word is "pastime".
2. Regarding FreeBSD: Have you tried PC-BSD?
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Thank you. I should have known that. Lack of sleep and forgetfulness (call it stupidity if you want) are my only excuses. They are not even good excuses.
I have tried PC-BSD. It seemed dated, to be honest, and a bit too much like Windows. After I poked for a few hours I went and checked their site a bit further and it had some things that turned me off in some regards - nothing major and they might be smart things. They do not, it seems, have a bunch of major updates. There does not seem to be a lot of atten