Debian was always like this.

ah okay, thanks, I missed this one.

Are these only “just” pulled from the online catalog, or the browser itself blocks installation too from file?

If the prior, I don’t really like this action, but my browser won’t change because of it (for now?) and also Mozilla and Firefox served me well in the past almost 20 years since I use it, I trust these guys.

If the latter… that could be a different story.

Both of them is about customization. Hard. I don’t think there’s two similar Slack or gentoo installation. So, for me, at least, it feels there’s really no need distributions of those. Maybe it’s just by definition, though.

Idk man, just wanted to look smart.

I guess kinda the same reason why there are not many distros based on Slackware.

I haven’t considered Microsoft Plus! as a separate software for some reason, but fair point.

my memories are kinda foggy, but using Plus! in 98, some themes (like the space one) did change the dialog images, too, didn’t they? (so the info bubble, red circle X, yellow triangle exclamation mark etc)

don’t get me wrong, by no means this isn’t shitty, it is.

I’m just saying Windows too always had its tinkering with the registry or in text files, you just normally did that on the GUI or used EDIT.

Struggling with INI and SYS files are also kinda the same, but you are right, it was a far stretch

I do the same on Android

I mean, fucking with the registry was always a thing in windows

I used mostly Windows systems primarily and I guess I just adapted that habit of having an Administrator account for when shit goes down, and my own user account that has admin rights.

It’s just convenient. I liked my Administrator account as clean as possible, and I do the same in Linux with root. There is its time and place where I need root.

But you are right, I should change my habits. I’m not even sure how sudo and rights and environments and sessions and god knows what works exactly behind the scenes, so probably, maybe, there are technical differences too in the way I use these and the way how I should… I don’t know.

Anyway, thanks for the info.

it seems the internet has been geared towards people that think you have to ask the computer a question instead of searching for key words like how it used to work.

I mean, this is what we see/read in sci-fi series and movies at least since the 60’s.

oh wow, I did not know this

but that’s a pretty unusual setup

Nor this, but you are right if I think about it.

editing files in a root desktop session with a GUI editor does count as cheating in this case?

I mean it’s Debian, it’s stable, it should work without ever updating your system :P

(though one could always log in as root in a separate session, too…)

welp, I still need to add myself to the sudo group and sudoers file, and that’s something I need a root shell for. (unless I always miss some options during setup to make my user automatically a sudoer)

neither the folks at Tidal, ot seems

My choice is Connect for Lemmy. (on Android)

Tried out a few; Voyager, Sync (for Reddit, it was the best), Jeroba and god knows what else, but Connect was the one that actually felt right.

it’s a nice little Flutter app. it feels native (sort of) to Android. The other apps were strange to me, cause they have more of iOS UI or else, or they arw PWAs or else…

The reason why I don’t use Sync is because it had strange bugs and was limited a while ago (compared to Sync for Reddit, also my purchase of it obviously lost), also has ads n shit, which is fine, understandable, if the dev would like to earn money with it, it’s a cool and complex app, it worth the money.

Yeah, though I was like this is some behind the scenes or dvd extras material for this thread :P