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Toot

Written by matt wilkie on 2025-01-17 at 18:42

Hello World. 1st post from a new #linux install. It's been a decade+ since I've tried using 'nix for my daily. looking forward to this next run 'round the spiral.

[#]bluefin if that matters to you. I haven't used fedora as primary 'nix since...1996? could be fun. deb-untu has been the usual for long, long time. For n months Win11 will remain top dog, eventually deposed. maybe.

The host is my asprires-to-be-permanent laptop, a #framework 16. What a wonderful piece of hardware and culture engineering - the good kind. nourishing, sustaining.

Onward ho!

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Written by matt wilkie on 2025-01-17 at 18:48

The initiating spark? For the 2nd time in 4 years I've lost weeks of time troubleshooting networking issues in WSL without resolution. That's it. I'm done.

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4275

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/12353

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Written by Régis Haubourg on 2025-01-17 at 19:14

@maphew same here.

Network issues. VPN killing every développer in my organization.

Crash when host hibernates.

User agent nightmare with the host.

No mouse support over ssh in win10.

I'm done with it and refuse to work with my windows machine. So many days lost into trying to make it work

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Written by Daniel Wayne Armstrong on 2025-01-17 at 19:51

@maphew Also a new Bluefin user on my Thinkpad - "Forged on Jan 11 2025" - and impressed so far. I could see it becoming my new daily desktop distro, after a year on Linux Mint (Debian) and vanilla Debian before that.

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Written by Marcos Dione on 2025-01-17 at 20:51

@maphew just a nitpick:

Fedora was started in 2003. Back in '96 when I saw Linux for the first time there was RedHat, maybe SuSE, not even Mandrake...

But then it was so long ago that who remembers, right? :)

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Written by matt wilkie on 2025-01-17 at 21:19

@mdione true, I do tend to collapse redhat and fedora into a single project mentally. I don't mind the nitpick, good to be clear.

SuSE crossed my path a year or two after redhat, dunno how that relates to their inceptions tho

My first linux encounter was Slackware. I still remember the towering pile of floppy disks needed to install, after late nights downloading over 9600 baud modem, might have even been 2400, in the wee hours in order to get cheaper long distance rates. The strain of learning dd & bad sectors.

The final triumph!

a black screen,

command prompt,

and blinking cursor

[me@foo] ~> █

and "umm, now what do I do?"😂

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Written by Marcos Dione on 2025-01-17 at 21:26

@maphew haah. Almost same here, Slack, but on a CD, from ... Red Creek? A box with... 4 disks? Orange/yellow? Then RedHat and Mandrake at the uni/work (I studied and worked on the same faculty), then Debian around '99-'00 and never let go.

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Written by Jon Lasser is Hanging in there on 2025-01-17 at 21:36

@mdione @maphew Walnut Creek, maybe?

First here was Yggdrasil’s Summer ‘93, after that Slackware, Red Hat…

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Written by Marcos Dione on 2025-01-17 at 21:34

@maphew Walnut Creek, but I can't find a pic of what I remember. It was a single thick box which opened on both sides, and there was probably another flap inside, allowing to have 6 disks.

Anyways, almost 30ya, and I know I dumped it, and in any case it's 10k km from here....

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