caseyweederman @ caseyweederman @lemmy.ca

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The Famicom had a modem with online shopping and horse race gambling. It also had a floppy disk module with a ram adapter that also added an extra audio channel. Zelda 1 and 2 debuted on this. It also had 3D goggles, the predecessor to the Virtual Boy. It also had an entire keyboard that plugged in, and a cartridge packed with sprites, tiles, sound effects, and example code you could hack up and save to another add-on: a cassette tape recorder that saved your game projects encoded in audio.
The Super Famicom had a radio receiver that clicked onto the bottom that downloaded new games from space.
The Game Boy had an entire cartridge pin for audio passthrough so future tech built into cartridges could preprocess sound and send it straight to output.
The N64 also had a floppy-disk loading module.
The GameCube had a module that plays DMG, GBC, and GBA games (but more importantly turns the GameCube into an actual cube).

I can never remember the difference between etymology and entomology and I can't put into words how much that bugs me.

Micro is Nano but the commands make sense. It's so nice.
It even prompts you for a sudo password when you try to save but don't have permission.

You can get Gnome on Fedora. It won't have Apt.
Packages will have a different naming scheme based on the maintainers' preferences, even between Debian and Ubuntu (though those are usually pretty minor).
Your muscle memory is gonna trip you up for a while though.

I'd suggest the KDE flavor of Debian, then. Its settings manager is divine, and its software management platform ties every other package management system in (apt/dpkg for Debian, yum for Redhat, pacman for Arch, plus flatpak, nixpkg, and even snaps if you absolutely must). By default starting in Plasma 6.0.

More to @fmstrat's point, and to suggest a possible cause your friend had that impression: if you install the Minimal flavor of any distro, you're going to get a minimal experience.

My guess is: prior to Bookworm, when they started including non-free firmware on installation media by default.

And pin other repos so Ubuntu doesn't replace it. And change the apt.conf rules that alias out apt install commands for the snap install equivalent. And whatever the countermeasure is for the next sneaky ploy they put into action.

Firefox now has instructions on their "Debian-based" install section about pinning their repo over Canonical's so that doesn't happen.

Because you're right, Canonical does think so highly of their product that they will constantly attempt to undermine other options against your will.

Always was.

Elephant's Foot?

Just divide at a cellular level, nature has already solved this problem! Upstart life forms these days thinking they can reinvent the wheel.

3PS is amazing.

Lidarr and Prowlarr

Who's dueling Fats Domino?

I was looking for some excitement in my life so I installed Arch on my primary device.
I'm disappointed. I've had zero issues.
Okay, one issue, but I had that with Debian too. (recovering from sleep mode)

Voat (something I used before I realized it was just a racism thing (I know, I know, it's very obvious in retrospect)) would point you at an existing post if you posted the same link.
The execution was bad, and I have some issues with the concept, but it did make me think maybe there is a solution to that particular problem.

And when you come home late, the doll is waiting up for you And when you fix a snack, the doll says it would like one too

It's okay. That's how you know how stable we are.

You already said Debian. The rest is redundant.

Sit on this, CSIS