once you have some experience under your belt, these are non-issues:

• deciding to “learn Linux” the hard way by starting with a specialized distro (Slackware, Gentoo, Alpine)
• switching to unstable or testing branches before you’re ready ’cause you want bleeding edge or “stable is too far behind”
• playing around with third-party repositories before understanding them (PPAs in Ubuntu, AUR in Arch)
• bypassing the package manager (especially installing with curl | sudo sh)
• changing apps for no other reason than “it hasn’t been updated for a year”

unblocked: https://archive.ph/zafrE

as was foretold in the sacred prophecies of Stargate

“Itty Bitty Baby Hands and the Skipping Dipshit”

only for the low! low! price of a PhD in Hegelian philosophy

’80s (new wave, synthpop, post punk) – unadulterated nostalgia

“We don’t search for old songs,
we search for old memories.”

• the cool kids use Sourcehut
• I use Codeberg

comparing a distro release to a new game release

• pay a LinuxGem each time you open a terminal
• Flatpak is only available as a paid DLC
• use your LinuxGems to purchase randomized LootContainers with a chance of winning a Jellyfin install

(Chris Titus Tech getting blowback last year marking a whole group of distros as “Pointless” when they did nothing more than a reskin or pre-install a couple in-repo packages)

why have menus covering stuff up when you can just use keybinds?

still in the setup phase and running LabWC rather than a full desktop – but actually rather enjoying it and have been stumbling across a lot of cases finding out that even with a GUI installed, terminal programs do just as good a job if not better than their graphical counterparts (ex. I don’t think I’ll ever be a full vim/emacs convert, but for basic text editing, nano does just as well as mousepad/leafpad/featherpad/xed/gedit)

doas apk -iU upgrade

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Pëtr Kropotkin (1902)

• “Self-defense is not violence!”
• “No tolerance for intolerance!”
• you don’t want your place becoming a Nazi bar

• Alpine Linux: Immutable root with atomic upgrades (wiki article, not an official how-to)
• Alpine Linux: Alpine Local Backup (lbu) (run everything in memory)

nano -m <file> or set mouse in your nanorc

and sometimes you just need a text editor, not an entire thesaurus

pile on layers of cultural norms – some cultures place a priority on punctuality, and some cultures it’s downright rude to arrive at the time stated – and then there’s the US where workers are required to be on time but bosses don’t even need to show up

parted -s or parted --script – never prompt the user

lap siding designed to look like shingle siding