Twenty years ago, you’d run it every now and then because it was kind of fun. I’m not sure if it counts as actually using it though. There were actual window managers for that.

I’m not sure what the use case is nowadays, I’ll have to install it someday.

make && make install

Done.

Android may be vaguely user friendly, but it’s horrible to use for anything except launching a self-contained app.

So it’s ok-ish for phones, but horrible as a general purpose system.

For a grey background, yellow text is usually preferred.

We can’t tell you. It’s a secret.

Ten minutes? What are you doing for the other eight? Basking in the warmth of a job well done?

There’s no purpose. It’s 100% security theatre.

I agree about that today, but it wasn’t always so easy to install linux for noobs as it is now.

And yet we still did it. From floppies.

Ubuntu’s role in the ecosystem is important.

I think it used to be. There’s still some inertia, but Canonical has used up a lot of goodwill through the years and other distributions have picked up the slack.
Nowadays I wouldn’t point a newcomer towards Ubuntu. It’s trash. Just use anything else.

More characters than Ascii? Surely you must be mistaken.

Oooh, I’ve had that with some device. I think it was a camera or something like that. I’d forgotten about it. It took me ages to figure it out.

It’s still a good habit to get into as this kind of thing could potentially bite you nastily if you ever end up on the wrong machine (which can happen).

Are those Windows only?

Use pkill, not killall.

Absolutely. Funky installs go in ~/bin. (Ok, plus the valve directory)

Everything else comes from standard repositories.

I’ve found that it’s mostly ok at some settings but less so at others. As in it will display well at 125% but not necessarily at 135%.

Then they go on .external, obviously.

It should be reserved for sex toys.

Just saying.

I don’t use it (haven’t used Windows in decades), but I kept a small partition with Windows 11 on it which I boot from time to time as I enjoy watching what it’s becoming.

It’s like watching a slow motion industrial accident. Horrifying fascination.

Does it work with porn videos?