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Why i love the older parts of Linux, but hate the more recent DE centric stuff. Because the older, unix derived, stuff will tell you front and center what went wrong (unless it is so wrong that all the kernel can do is barf a hex dump of the memory region on screen).

The newer stuff will come up with unhelpful messages or just an eternally spinning pointer, and yet they are supposedly bringing Linux to the desktop. F that.

And i wonder how many times now i have fed a Windows error code into a search term and found a bunch of people asking all manner of channels (both Microsoft and otherwise) for help and get nothing (W10 don't like the card reader on a tablet i have, and all i can find is that maybe, just maybe, MS screwed up the driver. But Intel seems to no longer provide any usable chipset bundle...).



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