How many of us old Slashdot users are here, anyway? 5 digit UID here.

How quickly do you think an os upgrade of this type finish?

This is what I’ve always done. It has worked fine for me every time.

I’ve been daily driving it on my desktop and laptop for several months now, seems fine. But I don’t need the bleeding edge either.

But that’s not what the comment was about… The top level comment said Debian was hard to upgrade, and I have not had that experience.

I don’t understand that comment either. I’ve been using Debian for years on my server, and it just keeps up with the times (well with Debian times, not necessarily current times).

It’s way easier than Kubuntu was for me, for example, which required reinstalling practically every time I wanted to upgrade. A few times the upgrade actually worked, but most of the time I had to reinstall.

Ummm you go first.

My kmymoney file goes on an old compact flash memory card.

My home directory (including that file), /etc, databases, and a few other things get backed up weekly on to a USB stick.

Media raid array is automatically backed up to a large drive in another computer each evening. (The raid5 array isn’t that large. It was when I built it, but now I can buy a single drive that is nearly as large as the array…)

Pictures are backed up to Amazon’s glacier deep freeze. I pay about $1/month to back up all of my pictures. I intend to put other important things there too but haven’t gotten there yet.

I have a computer in the basement that I pretty much only use for Zwift (an online cycling game). For whatever reason it doesn’t have that TPM chip, despite the fact that I bought it in 2021 or so. So it won’t upgrade to Win 11.

But…it turns out Zwift runs great under WINE…so now it runs Debian with WINE. (Which probably wasn’t my best choice - should have gone with something a little more up to date - but it does work.)

“Many economists are saying that the market was due for a correction…”

I’ve seen that comment a few times in the last few days. They’ll say ANYTHING to support Dear Leader.

They’re things like drive mapping scripts, stuff like that. They’re definitely normal for our setup. Just not sure why they have to interrupt me!

I have an ongoing irritation with windows (use it for work, Linux at home): It steals focus from the window you’re using if another window opens.

Drives me nuts. I’ll be typing my password and pop! Oh look I just typed my password into something else that popped up because IT requires this program to run on login today.

KDE is much better about not stealing window focus like that.

I recall trying Mandrake at some point, but I don’t remember when. I might have had it installed on a laptop.

I read most of his points and I agree with them…

But I have so much else to worry about, I just can’t get worked up about this.

And I think he is ignoring the firestorm that would ensue if, say, openssh tried to change from using the current directory. There would probably be five forks started immediately to restore the original functionality - and is ssh really adding new features like he claims?

Maybe it could be a config option in the site install (which I thought it already was), but forcing a change to fix what is a minor problem isn’t worth the headache.

I do hate that some of those package systems install software into home. It inflates my backups dramatically and unnecessarily. I use opt for that sort of thing instead. For example, my immich docker install is in /opt.

It’s a pure Linux system now! No GNU!

Mine decided to randomly start rebooting about a year ago. :( Tried everything I could think of to get it to work normally, but nothing helped. I couldn’t rely on it, so I had to replace it. Like you, I hadn’t planned to replace it any time soon.

In the US, if you don’t have the loyalty card, you’re paying more for groceries. For the stores we use, any sale prices are contingent upon using the loyalty card. This can add up to $5-$10 per order.

I’m not clear what you’ve done here, but I’ve never played with the purge command. I take it you removed a lot of basic packages. How did it happen? Wildcards?

I assume you’ve never made any mistakes, ever. What an arrogant attitude.

Yep. Elon names everything DOGE or X.

Ahh, fuck.

I’m a federal employee. I’ve also had to download my most recent earnings & leave statements (something I usually ignore) and take a snapshot of my current leave totals…just in case DOGE fucks it all up.