OP listened to some trolls and unironically picked Gentoo as their first distro.

You can theoretically learn it is not the point. Your point was “I can learn how to code up a website in a week, and my degree wastes 4 years”. No, it doesn’t.

Trust me, if you wanna learn German by being airdropped into the country with a dictionary, you’ll have a very very bad time compared to what Goethe Institute teaches.

Because in order to properly speak the language you need to know the grammar. And you will almost certainly not ever grasp it properly on your own without guidance by an experienced educator. Germany is full of those people who after decades of living there keep making awful grammatical mistakes. While people who went to Goethe Institute usually don’t.

Same for people who learn JavaScript from a tutorial and suddenly they’re a web dev, but understand nothing about algorithms complexity and so the whole fuckin internet is so slow it hurts.

Precisely because of that attitude of yours.

It takes a day to learn how to train an AI model in python. It takes a PhD to understand what you’re doing.

Please, teach me in a week how to write my own compiler and under what conditions re-compilation converges.

Sorry, I don’t know what’s a for loop or what’s a set, I only know how to do 2+2 in excel.

Go.

Even the fediverse community is now about US elections.

I’ll tell you what your “fediverse” is all about: USA. And mainly Trump vs Harris.

It’s like nothing else exist. fediverse my @$$.

the title is dyslexic at best

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality

Your immutable distro will not be tailored to your hardware by a team of qualified and paid engineers. I’m not entirely sure why the heck do you think immutability is the differentiating factor here.

History is important, although more recent history books have better evidence and data than old ones. Literature, generally, ages well, although it’s mostly survival bias. A lot of it perishes without any loss to the society. Movies sorta age well. Again, only some. Games don’t age well.

You’re like 20y late with this joke. MS runs their servers on linux nowdays.

They already have WSL and their own Linux distro.

Give them another 5 years and they’ll have rewritten their core to sit on top of unix and will have become a simple commercial linux distro. When buying a windows laptop you will be able to click through 5 yes/no promts, unlock the terminal and yum -S gnome-desktop to break free. No dual boot needed.

You know what’s the worst part? M$ will be the biggest contributor to the kernel. And that’s how linux will die.

Great. In order to prove your commitment to the cause, get to level 8 in dangerous dave.

link: https://www.playdosgames.com/online/dangerous-dave/

Your nostalgia is a bad reason for starting anything really. Most hopefully you won’t push your nostalgia on your children and force them to play outdated games.

It would be great if game developers would open source games when they sunset them, sure. But also this might make it impossible for them to make a remaster of the game and sell it.

You mention doom. But this is a 0.1% case. Thousands of games from that era vanished not because you cannot run them on modern hardware, but because they’re utter garbage by modern standards.

https://dos.zone/ exists, and you can play a lot of iconic games in your browser. What’s exactly the player count there? And those are the best games from that era.

yep, a tiny boot error and suddenly you need to punch commands into initramfs. good luck with that headlessly.

nice, thanks to you I have now educated myself: http://run-a-train.urbanup.com/77653

Because: 1) fairtrade, 2) less revenue from selling you a new device in two years once this one gets obsolete, 3) costs of long-term maintenance, 4) small volumes.

You ever compared a price of fairtrade coffee vs normal one? Yeah, x2. Why? No slave labor, no burned forests, sustainable water usage. But ofc, why would you buy it? It’s double the price.

Meh. I’d say we tie him to a post and burn the heretic.

this is a meta joke based on this video https://youtu.be/AdygBbbEnco

And then eventually you will figure out it was a plot for a world-domination level backdoor, ha.

And yet you’ll still be single.

canonical has a history of massacring their distro in the worst way imaginable. They’re specially gifted in this way.

obligatory xkcd? Nah, you know exactly which one I mean.