GNU readline is a library that handles text input

On the other hand, discord is a great way to help organize a community wiki.

When you are trying to build a community

…Don’t use community software, got it.

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Have you heard of bookmarks?

Firebird for me.

Yeah…wifi.

Good luck!

Linus Torvolds and the folks at kernel.org work to continually improve the kernel and ready it for each release cycle.

Ubuntu and other distro maintainers take that work and make sure that they are shipping to you a compiled kernel(s) that dependably works with all other software on their distribution.

Maybe someone close to him has a hot glue gun.

Be the only user that can run code as root.

Microsoft and their “trusted partners” do not deserve closer access to my hardware than I have.

It’s the internet, mate. The world is your oyster.

Get friends that only game on linux.

Linux compatibility or I send it back!

“Debra”

Deb is short for both spellings.

Deb & Ian

ZFS? pf?

The tooling is just superior in some cases.

I use IBM Plex Sans and IBM Plex Mono

You have to manually manage new kernel branches with the manjaro-settings-manager.

Lots of people get told “it’s arch with good defaults! Just sudo pacman -Syu and you’re good!”

…which leads to them eventually breaking their systems and blaming manjaro.

No rolling release is appropriate for people who can’t RTFM.

6 years on my manjaro install, zero problems.

You mean I can get all this stuff for free and all you can do to stop me is try to scare high schoolers?

You can put a myriad of setup and administration options into the GUI and most people still have no interest in them. These people just have no interest in using a computer like that. They “just want it to work”. It’s not a CLI v. GUI problem, it’s one of assumed responsibility.

This is an inherent limitation of “free as in freedom” software.

“Free as in freedom” really only refers to developers. The non-developers are beholden to whoever packages and distributes their software for them. We Linux users who aren’t system developers let the “distro maintainers” do the developer work for us. That’s why a distro’s website is full of mission statements and declarations of philosophy–it’s how we decide who to trust.

And it’s the same for the “non-nerds” with system administration. Businesses hire admins to handle their internal software and networks, and at home people let Apple, Microsoft or Google take increasingly more control over their devices so that they aren’t responsible for getting it all working.