Wow

"edu-petrolhead" (edu-petrolhead) 04/09/2014 at 18:15 • Filed to: doge

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So linux. Much hacker. Very terminal. Pretty Tardis.

This is, actually, a screenshot I took a minute ago from my desktop. I run Linux with KDE4, but that doesn't really matter. I installed !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and added the command "doge" to my .bash_rc (i.e., the file that stores my terminal's configs). Now, every time I pop up a terminal to do something, I'm greeted by this delightful shibe.

The program is hilarious. It picks up some information about your computer and prints it in a doge fashion. Sometimes it write funny things, like "wow, so hax0r", "pretty linux", "very much free software" and so on.

jkm7680 > edu-petrolhead 04/09/2014 at 18:17

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If that's a thing I want Linux.

Except no Ubuntu. That was some frustrating, Arghhhh.

ddavidn > edu-petrolhead 04/09/2014 at 18:22

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That is equal parts wonderful and terrible.

Übel > jkm7680 04/09/2014 at 19:03

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Ugh, fucking Ubuntu. My first Linux "phase"came and went before they went to their terrible new GUI, so I never got adequate warning. When it came time to set up my media center last year, which was a raspberry pi set top box with a 160GB Dell Mini 10 acting as NAS (I was working with what I had). Decided to use Ubuntu on the Mini because "how bad could it actually be?" And I think Ubuntu took it upon itself to answer that question to the very best of its ability. So, so bad.

edu-petrolhead > Übel 04/10/2014 at 08:35

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I began using Linux with Ubuntu, also, but in the version 6.10. In that golden era, Ubuntu was simple (not Mac-ish), with the sleek Gnome 2, one of my favorite desktop environments.

But things started to change when they decided it would be interesting to displace the close, minimize and maximize buttons to the left. After that, that horrid left bar popped up. And things went downhill faster and faster. Ubuntu used to be a very simple distro, ideal to newcomers, but Mint and Mageia took Ubuntu's crown on that. Now Ubuntu is so different and confusing that we almost can say only Ubuntu lovers can use that well.

After the first coming of the left bar, I left Ubuntu and migrated to Mint, which used Gnome 2 at the time. Thing were good, but as long as Mint was developed to Linux newbies and I needed more powerful features, it didn't suited me. I went to Fedora, which I loved but after a year and a half I finally arrived to Arch, because I wanted to fine tune every single parameter of my installation. I'm so happy now.

Übel > edu-petrolhead 04/10/2014 at 13:04

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Yep, I started in the 6.10 era. Gnome was my home boy. I'd love to switch distros on the Mini to something a little more friendly to underpowered computers, but it took more than a little black magic to get the NAS set up in a way that both my Windows powered laptop and the Debian-based RaspBMC on the RPi could reliably communicate with it. Combine that with the hassle of getting the remote-access torrenting server set up on it, and I have no faith that I could ever get the whole thing running properly if I tried to do it again.

edu-petrolhead > Übel 04/10/2014 at 14:58

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Give Xubuntu/Lubuntu a try. They're the same Ubuntu, but without that horrendous Unity interface, coming with a much lighter and much more familiar XFCE or LXDE environments.

Übel > edu-petrolhead 04/10/2014 at 15:24

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If I was completely reinstalling, I'd probably stray away from the Ubuntu family entirely. Since 160gb isn't that much space for a media server, I'd like to hunt down the smallest distro I can find that still fulfills my requirements (last I checked, DSL is incompatible with the mini's network card.) Otherwise, I may keep Ubuntu install LXDE instead of Unity, just to avoid that shittastic interface.