doesn't explain the mini hdmi port

It looks like a pretty cool device but, since I started working from home, I have no use for a ultralight device. I only have a laptop because that's what everybody gets but if I've moved it a mere meter around, that was too much.

The software industry has enough disasters of its own that we don't need parallels from other industries to learn. That actually makes it look like there are super non-obvious things that we could apply to software when it fact it's all pretty mundane.

Slackware in my circles around '99 was always the elitist option from day one.

You were using Debian, Red Hat or SuSE? Not Slackware? Pfff... normie.

I think that consolidated it as difficult for beginners. The fact it offered very few technical advantages was the nail in the coffin.

I remember I used SuSE for ages based solely on how good Yast and Yast2 were. Its almost quaint to remember how Linux was back in the day, where an installer/setup tool that actually managed to make your system fully usable and configured without any extra tweaking or compiling kernel modules for hardware support was an honest to god selling point and killer feature.

Reflecting back on it makes me appreciate all the early gurus who got us to where we are now.

Same here.

But I tried Ubuntu "Warty Warthog" and jumped ship.

The wikipedia page is pretty complete.

Debian is more important than ever, in face of corporations abusing open source.