I don't wear hats cos am busy using debian

What comes default on fedora KDE spin

Using Fedora without codecs?

Honestly yes. A few years ago when I was still getting into linux I'd customize the shit out of everything, wm with lengthy configuration, mostly terminal apps, "minimal" ui with custom made themes, and all that.

My current fedora system is almost default Sway with a few convienent shortcuts and a few tweaks, using GUIs where it makes sense or simply because I just want something nice. I just don't have time or the need for something so customized. Defaults are good.

Heck, I'm even considering switching to Plasma once I get a better PC (gonna need to sell a kidney or two for that to happen tho), since default Sway still requires considerable tweaking and there's a few quirks I just don't want to deal with.

I would say we should burn the light-mode heritics, but they've already done it to their own eyes.

Fuck FreeDOS

All my homies use Plan9

Why is it constantly booting to a black screen with text?

This is easy, just install steam and go

Ahh the beauty of this Debian server, don't even need to get out of my sofa because I have SSH on my phone.

I have too sneezed with a nosebleed, those are spurious allegations

Heck yeah they did! I remember going over to my grandmothers house to use Word on her computer running DOS. She used that computer to keep her personal budget, do the accounting for her office supply business, write letters, and the newsletters for her church and social clubs. No gui, just a command line and some things that we would now call a TUI.

It was stigmatized by Windows, because the Windows terminal was terminally shitty. People swear to me that their new terminal is awesome, but I have my doubts. Microsoft seems to have a problem with making stuff that doesn't suck.

It’s still somewhat early days, but you might want to check out https://v-os.dev/

I’ve also been playing with Haiku on an old laptop and it’s pretty decent as a daily driver for the basics.

Can you explain why are you fond of haiku? What are it's strong points?

I had it in a VM, and liked the UI design. It was retro and unique. but that's about it.

The whole idea of someone not being sure if they want to use Linux while having an aversion to systemd, a system they likely don’t even have full context for, is just bizarre.

You’re either new and don’t know what you want or you’re someone who already knows well enough if Linux is for you or not, and likely exactly which version you want to use.

Oh Im deeply aware those exist. My daily is Debian Stable.

I know you’re trying to be helpful, but I clicked the link, sure that I was ready. Now I’m scared again.

I’ve got a laptop to give it a go. Gonna save the good files and let err rip. It always comes down to just wanting something that works. I really would rather learn something else with my limited spare time.

Still scared. Getting closer to making the switch every day though.

Neat. Nearly watchable. I tried kitty/sixel options but those are too high-res and cause even more frame-drops (at least on the older hardware I tested it on, no drops playing with normal mpv), with a 360p video it's isn't scaled up.

Then again, I guess it's a whole lot more watchable than the blinkenlights (Starwars) thing via telnet.

my poor cpu. You don't even need to use -vo=tct as mpv will draw to the frame buffer if x server is not available. There's also fbi and fbpdf for displaying images and pdfs to the frame buffer

I use the terminal for terminal shit. File manager is not terminal shit (for me).

Have you used a terminal file manager with image preview like yazi? Or just a thumbnail viewer like lsix?

Def possible

Linux has a wide selection of GUIs. For those comfortable with Windows I would recommend either Mint's Cinnamon or KDE.

A clone of MS DOS Shell and maybe Win 3.1 is all anyone really needs.

you can literally replicate Windows 98 if you wanted. XFCE is possible, KDE is easy to replicate. there's a very good git repo of this called Chicago95 that does everything, even the old Windows 95/98 boot screen.

Hell I had my KDE Plasma desktop looking exactly like NeXTUP for awhile. someone even recently made a spot on version of MacOS9 for KDE Plasma.

A regular user will never in a million years create a script.