The Ramen Dutchman

Shit, it’s good for one thing, at least!

I mean really, fuck Microsoft and Windows!

If your mum is not OK with this, can I be your adoptive parent?

On my Linux at home it types nothing but if I press the I key again I get î. I can also do ê, â, ô and û this way.

US Intl Macintosh layout.

you’d basically be coding in porn

Promise?

This reads like AI, not the least because the text is as disconnected to itself as the fact that it’s about a train instead of a bus.

Yeah, it talks like it was made for HR managers.

Yeah and it’s quite old, this one has nothing to do with vibe coding.

What took you five disks?
I think even the Heroes of Might and Magic I played was 3 disks, and it took ages!

And just yesterday I complained about having to wait over 2.5h to download and install a game over our 12 MiB / 100 megabit cable, I’m becoming spoiled…

Is it?

I’m checking the comments to be sure, as I also get a slight “AI-feel” from this meme.

Little side note

those computers in question had either i5-4750 (I think?) or i7-4970 so running windows 10 with all its bloat was not going to be an easy task

The i7-4790K is still quite powerful, so I’m pretty sure this wasn’t the problem, at all. Perhaps they’re running on an HDD, have little RAM, or you got the CPU wrong.

You can see the CPU and RAM by launching System Info from tbf start menu, and see if it’s running on an SSD or HDD by launching Disks from the menu.

Nope, indentation is still the same.

For example eight spaces are going to be twice as big as four spaces in just about any font, and Verdana still accodomodates well to this with its wide spaces.

Verdana.

The I/l and O/o/0, 0/8/ø are all distinct, so are all the different kinds of brackets. Also, this isn’t a monospace font, so wide letters such as m and w are wide, instead of being squashed into an unreadable barcode.

Letters aren’t meant to be monospace, and sans TUI nothing in computers still needs to be.

If you do need one, ex. for TUI, I second JetBrains Mono!

Also, Verdana is not a libre font, Noto Sans is a libre font that also has these properties, although code does look much better in Verdana to me.

It is better NOT to put them in system directories since those will get overwritten by upgrades.

That’s a purely Atomic thing, isn’t it?

Unless someone ticked the “encrypt storage”-box in the installer, you don’t even have to pay for Pro to use it!

Yeah but it’s Microsoft JavaScript.

Real!

After installing and restoring Arch for the third time in 1.5 year I decided to go back to Mint. In the past 5.5 or so years, nothing needed to be reinstalled or restored; Mint’s more stable than Windows by now!

My first was Ubuntu in a VM because everyone recommended it, I distro hopped in VMs until I just ended up using Mint in a VM almost exclusively. It was when I complained to someone about the issues with the VM when locking the laptop and they asked me “Why not just run that system as-is?” that I installed it for real.

I’ve also used Manjaro for half a year, a very minimal Arch+i3 install (without the install script because I wanted the “real experience”) for about 1.5 year, and dual booted Bazzite and Mint on my gaming PC for a year (it’s just Mint now), all the while trying out other distros big and small on older hardware or in VMs.

I don’t feel I’ve found “the one”, but somehow I keep coming back to Mint… Although, perhaps NixOS is it… Who knows?

Just adding that Tekken 7 and 8 run better under Linux with Proton than under Windows, and that modding is just as easy!
Shogun 2: Total War also runs fine under Linux with Proton, but I couldn’t get it to run on Windows, anymore (Flash).

So it really depends on your game.

Unexplained, or just poorly documented?