Gentoo was my second linux Distro ever some time in 2003 or 2004.
Installed it by printing out the full install doc, which was like 30 or 40 pages, and starting up a stage one install. I got through the entire install by following the instructions because the documentation was that good.
I remember having a problem and hopping on an irc chat to ask for help and people there being baffled about the basic level questions I was asking while having a working Gentoo install.
They were most likely made by women, the proportions make sense when you think of a woman looking down at herself. It is just that when the first men to uncover the artifacts looked at them they said “wow, these were obviously made by men and are ancient porn!”
There are ones that have been found at various stages of pregnancy so were likely an educational tool.
I don’t use the system anymore but at the time the parts I had weren’t supported.
I got a bunch of rgb in order to set it all to purple on my desktop. But then I started using Linux full time on it so I lost the windows rgb software, and was too lazy to fix it. So it went from looking amazing to this ugly clashing thing for the last 3 years I used the system as each part eventually reverted to its demo mode.
I got it refunded. I’ll play it in a couple years after all of the patches and when I have a new gpu
My first was Suse Enterpise Linux. Bought from Best Buy in the late 90s.
It’s not Ubuntu but the fuel control systems and the pumps at Speedway run linux. They also boot really fast.
Michigan lotto terminals are also all linux.
I ran Gentoo in high school. I think I spent more time tinkering on it than I ever did getting anything done, but damn was it fast. I ripped support out for everything except for my hardware.
Just got a new laptop and put an arch flavor on it, keep thinking of going back to Tumbleweed. I’ve kept on Arch derivatives cause of the AUR, but I haven’t actually touched the AUR in a while, and a couple of the things I used the AUR for are now being published as flatpaks by the creators because of the Steam Deck.
If you read the article, it’s because the tiny particles of carbon from the wood are less damaging for the environment then filling the upper atmosphere with aluminum particles when they burn up upon reentry.
Thanks! Just grabbed it. It is my favorite so far, probably cause I used infinity on Reddit.
The strangest choice I’ve seen for a daily driver is I had a friend who used Knoppix as his daily driver. He started using it on a thumb drive when his computer died, so he just used a thumb drive and random borrowed computers for a while, after getting used to it he transfered the install to his new laptop when he got it.
When I installed Gentoo back in the very early 2000s I genuinely had no idea what I was doing. I printed out the entire install doc, then launched into the install with no working computer and just the paper doc.
I didn’t know what I was doing but the install doc was good enough that I got a working installation!
I remember baffling some people on a forum asking for help with something dead simple and them not understanding how I had a working system without understanding that thing.
“But… you installed Gentoo from scratch, how do you not know this?”
“I just followed the install doc!”
I’ve historically had ATI and AMD cards, when I built my desktop in 2017 I bought a 1080ti, love that card with just how long it has lasted, but I don’t think I’ll ever buy Nvidia again. For a good long while I just gave up on linux on my desktop and just ran windows.
It also made participating in smaller subreddits a little less satisfying, even though I liked the conversations in those more.
There was just something about a random comment in a giant subreddit suddenly getting me sooo many points, more than I had made in months!
Logically I knew karma didn’t really matter, but big numbers gud!
For a period of time illegal lotteries were fairly common on YouTube. I don’t know if anyone got in trouble for them but they mostly disappeared from the big channels as creators realized or were told “Oh shit, this is actually illegal.”