It was a struggle. You went to buy some device and you had to check it was not one of those windows-only ones. Modems were particularly bad, for example.

You had to read the how-tos and figure things out. Mailing lists and newsgroups were the only places to find some help.

You had to find the shop willing to honour warranty on the parts and not on the whole system, as they had no knowledge of Linux at all. But once you found them, you were a recurring customer so they were actually happy. You might even have ended up showing them memtest86!

You would still be able to configure the kernel and be able to actually know some of those names, compilation would take several hours but it was a learning experience.

You could interact with very helpful kernel developers and get fixes to test.

You could have been the laughing stock of your circles of friends, but within you, you knew who'd have had the last laugh.

And yes, Loki games had some titles working on Linux natively, Railroad Tycoon was one. Too bad they were ahead of the times and didn't last much.

You can choose KDE as desktop environment during Debian installation, or replace whatever DE you installed at any time.

Do you mean SKB (or skbb, never figured out how they want to be abbreviated)?

Of course it's KT.

Only?

Oh, come on, did you really have to pull emacs into this crossfire? Leave us weirdos alone!

And they could establish data link with the Saab aew that Sweden has promised

Ok. He's copying putain. We are doomed

It is very usable, provided you pay attention to major upcoming changes. To give you a very recent example, during May they switched the time libraries to use 64 bits, and like others said, it was dependency hell until the tide of all the packages being recompiled passed. In those cases, unless you know EXACTLY what to do, it's better to wait for updates to come in, let apt sort out what could be updated and what had to wait, and just make sure it doesn't propose you to delete things. After 2 weeks it was all business as usual. Side note: aptitude (my package manager of choice) was unusable, while apt threaded on and pulled me out of the tangle.

It's difficult because sinking them with submarines is considered impolite.

I tried once. Could not figure it out. I'll leave that to the young people.

Nice try, FSB

Clean install on a new computer. Then upgrades until the computer gets retired. Debian at home, Ubuntu server at work.

I like playing with distros and other OSes in VMs, if the thing doesn't have a well defined upgrade procedure it gets ditched pretty soon.

Where is this?

Nice. Now work on storage solutions to cover nights.

In the eighties and nineties a title like this would have had a totally different meaning

JFC I hope for them they don't. CatOS still gives me flashbacks.

You are right. I once heard a pilot say "popping flares", so that's my usual choice.

Dad humour flourishing

I like your WAR acronym