losttourist

GRUB (or any other bootloader) doesn’t care about and in fact doesn’t even know about X, Wayland, or any other userland GUI system.

There is a long abandoned (but it still runs) project called eDEX-UI (https://github.com/GitSquared/edex-ui) which basically provides a working, useable terminal surrounded by all sorts of the crap visual appearance of hacker terminals in the movies. Pair that with a terminal editor and you’ve almost got a movie IDE!

It’s kinda fun for a while although I’d be amazed if anyone actually used it as their main terminal emulator program. But you could.

have you given the Long Earth series a go that he did with Stephen Baxter?

As this is a telly thread I got all excited and wondered if someone had created a TV series of the Long Earth books … but you just mean the books don’t you?

I’m not the person you wrote that reply to, but I definitely enjoyed them, but then I’m almost as big a fan of Stephen Baxter as I am of Terry Pratchett.

It’s not a perfect analogy, but a good way to think about it if you’re not a programmer is to say “why do we need recipes when we can just buy a product in the store and read the ingredients list”.

Just because you know the ingredients, that doesn’t mean you know how to put them together in the right order, in the right quantities, and using the correct processes to recreate the finished product.

I have an eleven-year-old floofy boy who looks almost exactly like your Eddy. And Luther loves belly rubs too!

Taking your kids to the library might sound like a crazy idea but bear with me a moment. Check out the John Rylands library on Deansgate. From the outside it looks like a gothic church, you enter through a very modern gift store / cafe, walk up some stairs and then suddenly … you’re in Hogwarts! Well, not quite, but it’s an amazing Victorian building with lots of corridors and rooms and strangely-placed staircases and all that sort of thing. And the main reading room really could be straight out of Harry Potter.