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  • ShellShock Live.

    I bought it and returned it. I’m being very picky here but I didn’t like the idea that a lvl 99 player can just massacre lvl 1. I think that’s why a lot of people were playing the rebound mod which is more random and levels the playing field but it’s also very long. I would prefer if advanced players had it more difficult, not easier.












  • I don’t think the sentiment is ‘anti-wayland’. Most people just don’t care. I’m using Awesome WM and it doesn’t support Wayland. As OP says, why would I rewrite all my plugins and config just to the sake of switching to Wayland? I would have to invest a lot of time and what will I gain? Absolutely nothing. On my work computer I have different distro and I’m using Cinnamon. I think it uses Wayland but I didn’t even bother to check. It works exactly the same as Gnome on X11. Why would I care?



  • I would do it completely differently. Do some intro about history and philosophy. Next:

    • everything is a file -explain and actually show /proc & /dev with some fun examples (/Dev/urandom /proc/cpuinfo and so on). Not necessarily CLI
    • explain the idea behind Unix way of having lots of small tools. Show examples of grep, cat, ps, head, tail…
    • explain piping and streams, show ps | grep and so on
    • combine it all and show some fun examples (a one liner to change display setup or something
    • explain processes, input output streams, pid, kill
    • combine and show how do a one liner to find and kill a process

    I like to courses to have natural flow where you keep adding stuff and build more and more complex things. A lot of small tidbits are hard to follow.


  • It looks like you believe I have some issue with you personally finding some value in Peterson’s writing. I don’t. You’re basically paraphrasing the same thing I’ve said. Can his writing help people? Yes, probably. Can you approach it in a healthy way, avoiding the toxic part and not becoming part of a cult? Yes, I’m sure it’s possible. Did most people approach it like this? Well, my sensation is that no, they did not. The community that grew around him became part of the right wing toxic masculinity and transphobic movements. And he never renounced it, it keeps playing a right wing guru. So yes, I don’t have any issue with people that read some of his books and found something valuable in them. But I also believe (and I think most people that are against him think the same) that he did more harm than good overall and that the world would be better without his philosophy. But of course it’s impossible to measure, it’s a subjective point of view and you can disagree.





  • Pretty much every window manager I’ve seen is highly configurable. You can find hundredths of ready themes or customize them yourself. Changing distros to get a nice desktop doesn’t make sense. Just install whatever you like and customize it. If you’re on a decent hardware just go with KDE or Gnome/Cinnamon/Mate. Default themes will vary but you get get to pretty much work/look the same. On a slower machine go with XFCE/Enlightement/Fluxbox or anything really. All or them will be configurable. Just look at some screenshots, find something you like and play around with it.