Stop making him cry, ask him some Rampart questions!

When you see what they did in the 60s and 70s, where they ran an entire country’s social security system in a mainframe with a whooping 16Kb of memory (I’m not sure if it was 4 or 16, but it doesn’t make that much difference).

Sure (with a bit of effort). Can you run Windows software with just 2GB? Now that’s a completely different problem.

While I did switch to Linux because Windows 3.11 (or more specifically MS Word) sucked, I never found the need to go back, even back then. So there’s that.

You’re clearly not running servers.

Well, there’s always, you know, mail.

Thanks!

I installed OpenSuSE!

As if users understood anything related to their computer.

And when you’ve finally managed to decipher them, that’s when the grammar hits you.

Those are wise words.

Remember that in the end, all the distributions end up doing and installing pretty much the same thing (from the user’s pov). It doesn’t matter all that much what you use. Most of the major ones work just fine.

That’s a very useful feature for all those people who reinstall their system each time they turn their computer on.

Eniac??

Plugging cables in jacks to program it? Yes, it’s technically a computer. But have fun running stuff on it.

Or you can run OpenSuSE which comes with one of the best Kde versions by default.

It’s another enterprise type distribution that’s rock solid. It also has a rolling version.

1lso it’s based in Europe, which some see as a plus.

Regarding the true Unix, there was also Unixware, which was AT&T’s effort to move Unix to PCs (with Novell). It later passed on to SCO before they were sold, restructured, renamed and rebranded and subsequently became lunatics, In the end it seems like they offloaded it so some other company that’s just letting it die.

It was a good system. Not super fun, but industrial strength server stuff that was really reliable. Bit of a shame.

But of course, Linux was just simpler for everyone, it just doesn’t make sense to keep a million proprietary systems.

Sorry to hear that it didn’t work for you.

Nobody knows. They don’t know either. They’re terrified that someone will figure it all out and they’ll have to pay back all that VC money. Hence the current crisis.

At least that’s my take.

If you want fairly bleeding edge, go with OpenSuSE Tumbleweed and you’ll still have a stable system with no version update worries (well, technically, there’s a version update every other day).

Back in the 90s I’d configure && make && make install my kernel regularly, even with nvidia drivers, and there wasn’t much to it.

Now, modelines, those could be tricky.

<package manager> install nvidia

The horror! Sometimes you even have to log out and bacd back in…

In truth, I’m going to have to deal with a shitload of new stuff. I’m going with a Dell or Supermicro server (as in rackable server) with between 8 and 16 disks, so I’m also going to have to deal with new hardware (I suppose everyone kind of has to, since they’re not running their usual software). And of course, I’m also doing HomeAssistant stuff on top of that, with all the Zigbee (or whatever other proper protocols I can stick on MTQQ) stuff, or else where would the fun be.

It’s a good thing I’ve been managing Unix stuff for decades (not that it makes me feel any better about juggling a dozen new things at the same time).