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Re: Knoppix Operating System :-)

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On 4/22/24 05:56, Joel wrote:
> Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 11/8/23 18:11, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>
>>> I recently installed Linux Mint on an old computer.
>>
>> That computer soon after than got pissed at by my cats and went dead.
>>
>> I installed Linux mint again on a newer Dell computer (with SSD), and
>>from a month back have been using nothing but that one. Did various 
>> different stuff on it. I should say, now, I like it better than Windows
>> 10. There's a good chance I'll never go back to Windows again.
>>
>> I'm glad I didn't start with Gentoo. If I had gone that route, by now I
>> had either quit Linux altogether, or gone nuts about it like Farley.
>>
>> The level at which I use my computers doesn't ... how should I say it,
>> is not in harmony with that much detail work and expertise in an OS to
>> gain more control over how I want to use my computer.
>>
>> So like Joel, I prefer, certainly for now, to use Mint and get it over
>> with.
>>
>> Ahah! The word is "justify" :-) My use of computers doesn't justify the
>> effort required in learning Gentoo.
> 
> 
> Mint is great, you can't go wrong.  Some people just want to be
> "leet", so they have to make it harder to install or less pretty.
> 


"Leet" is close, or may be exactly it. I use the word "freak" for it.

The slight advantages, and the fact that they're getting more and more 
skilled in it as they learn, make them drift toward nerdiness about it. 
I'm myself like that. If I happen to spend a good amount of time, 
successfully, in doing a challenging task as I learn it and get better 
and better at it, I become entangled in it for the long haul :) I become 
a "freak". Hence, "Physfit freak" or "Clutterfreak" or "math or bio or 
excel freak" etc.

It really doesn't matter what particular engagement it is that one is 
in. It can be something worthy, like Gentoo, or Physics, or sailing, 
etc, or it could be something close to nonsense. An example for the 
latter case is Carpentier :) Hahhahhahh :-))

The guy is either an AI with all its shortcomings included, or if he 
breathes, he is at least at times totally out of it. I'm not making just 
idle talk. I _know_ there's something wrong with him.

Ok, now that I spent so many words about that let me finish it too: here 
is a quote of what went between me and him a little while back:

Physfit:    "I read a little bit about Gentoo's features. Looks like it 
is a form of Linux that is ideal for only scientists."

Carpentier: "I don't know what that means. Any tool available on Gentoo 
is available somewhere else."

!... Do you see it? A certain wire, or a few wires, are missing in him. 
Ok, if it is not that obvious for you mortals to see that, then I'll 
bring an analogy for it. Here is the analogy:

Physfit:    "For this picnic that I'm participating in, I've made this 
wonderful sandwich with just the right ingredients :) "

Carpentier: "I don't know what that means. Any ingredient in your 
sandwich is available in any grocery store [so why not taking a grocery 
store with you?]. "

Now you see it better, don't you :)

So Carpentier is a "nerd" that chose the silliest form of activity to be 
drifted towards. That of, "Just jump at anyone who says stuff about what 
you know, regardless of what it is that he says. Jump at him." That's 
how silly, a task toward which one can get nerdy, can be.

Fuck, my time is worth more than wasing it on some "Carpentier".

Yes Mint is better than Windows 10. I have tried win10 (on this same 
computer, which has SSD), and I did just about any use I've ever had 
from a computer using the Mint part of the SSD during last month, and 
Mint wins against Windows 10 in everything that I'm concerned with. The 
only issue I have with it right now is that when I change the keyboard 
layout to a specific form of Persian, the layout works for every app 
except Telegram app. With formal Persian layout Telegram app has no 
problem, but for informal one like the one I use (phonetic Persian) it 
doesn't work. So I have to type everything in a text editor and paste it 
into telegram. So far, this is the only issue.

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