Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

@nuala This is lovely.

@justizin I enjoyed things like busybox init and learning to get along with Sway which is pretty awesome once you figure it all out. I noted in the blog post though that even the creator of Kiss provides a flatpak build script which amused me no end, but he really dislikes dbus (so no bluetooth and some other limitations.) It's a nice exercise though.

@justizin I had a lot of fun with it, but lost a lot of time screwing about with the kernel config because Kiss encourages everything in kernel (no initramfs although it's optional) and it's a job to get the storage stack behaving

@justizin Oh sorry, it's an actual project! https://kisslinux.org

@justizin KISS is cool too, I liked the clear-headed philosophy behind it.

@justizin It's been an inspiration in Slackware Multilib, that much I do know

@justizin It's a shame some shops don't encouraging packaging anymore, like Plex and occasionally the devs bundle a better package in their flatpack repos which isn't feature matched by the maintainers of distros.

@justizin I've found snaps and Flatpak have made me very lazy, so I try to avoid them now, as much as I can.

@justizin The only non-standard thing I really like is sbopkg, provides a curses interface to the slackbuild repo with queuing and just enough automation to really speed complex packages up.

@justizin Not me! someone on Reddit wrote that bit!

My autocorrect was obsessed with changing 'distro' to 'bistro' so there's probably still some in there I didn't catch

On Linux and conflating the tool with the work of the tool.
https://media.sully.site/the-tool-as-the-work/ #linux

Some people happen to like the way Slackware does things. These complaints come around every so often on LQ by people that I think in the nicest possible way are missing the point of it all.

Bunch of bullshit

https://www.reddit.com/r/slackware/comments/122umzv/why_i_loved_slackware_in_2009_and_cant_stand/

The tool is not the work, use whatever works for you and enables you to carry out what you want it to.

@Mitsu
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1724616-crab-rangoon

@Mitsu Don't make me use the Crab Raccoon image again

@HebrideanHecate Normalisation.

@nyquildotorg It was a gigantic album, made a lot of fans and the band's fortune. I long since grew out of any snobbery about it.

@nyquildotorg Nothing wrong with either. Later (post AJFA) albums tend to get a hard time from fans of the earlier material, but they're all worthy.