Obsidian is not open source but i also think it’s pretty neat.

https://github.com/slidesk/slidesk

that workflow seems fine if it works for you. seems overkill for debian but if it works i don’t see anything wrong with it.

one way I do it is dpkg - l > package.txt to get a list of all install packages to feed into apt on the new machine then to setup two stow directories one for global configs. when a change is made and one for dot files in my home directory then commit and push to a personal git server.

Then when you want to setup a new system it’s install minimal install then run apt install git stow

then clone your repos grab the package.txt run apt install < package.txt then run stow on each stow directory and you are back up and running after a reboot.

you can if you pick a site and select always open this site in this container then make shortcuts that opens for each site. it will automatically open the correct containers for each icon

Firefox supports containers tabs built in under settings enable container tabs

you don’t if it’s not in sid yet it’s not even worth it to try. if you want kde6 before then your best bet is try kde neon but that also has down sides and is base on ubuntu not debian.

it’s a log you can find it with journalctl

journalctl --user -u dbus

Ada would be a good stand in for A based on the historical context of the name.

Dennis Richie is a personal hero of mine and i go out of my way to buy a cake every September 9th to celebrate his contributions to the world. It’s a real shame his passing was overshadowed at the time.

Windows did have something liked this. It was the MVP program.

yeah that works totally it’s more the windows installer doesn’t respect the Linux install so if you don’t know how to do that how to do that with grub your screwed

Windows doesn’t play nice with Linux that means you always install Linux last as Linux does play nice with windows.

first steps would be to stop calling a distro baby beginner been running debian for 24 years. Linus runs Fedora the exclusive idea I run a hard distro with a custom window manager and use CLI for everything Is pure ego and toxic. Now don’t get me wrong there is no issue with using Arch or a window manager vs DE. But the idea that as you advance it’s a foregone conclusion you will used that config or distro.

stow works great then lazy git to store the charges in a personal git server been using it like that for more than a decade

for real work yeah but for getting to experience retro hardware https://protoweb.org/ works great. by no means am I advocating for any production data be used on these machines. but at the same time the code open if you want it bad enough. you do it yourself or pay a bounty to have some others do it. if you really want to use it for real work. like I said it’s great you don’t have to start from scratch the old version archive is there warts and all.

yeah that’s what I’m talking about it’s nice to be able to still run a windows 95 or OG redhat 6 distro on period hardware if nothing else for learning and museum.

people still do it today in the retro space all the time and it’s a hell of a lot harder to do on windows and Mac than Linux since every kernel is still archived. I mean am I that old to remember the 2.6 split. it’s not the same thing since that was maintained but it doesn’t mean someone in the retro space couldn’t do a back port if needed.

I was at VCF this year and people were still writing new code for PDP11s. it may not be productive in a work sense but preserving computing history is something of value and not ewaste.

the fact that it’s open and you can get old versions of the kernel. i say we are very lucky we get the support we get but ask long as that older version is still available abd opening means no e waste. even 386s

You could buy box copies of the original suse Linux that had manuals in the box the size of a TI graphing calculator manual.

Once you got X working everything else was cake by comparison.

I will say the only thing more convenient for most people is that it’s preinstalled on the computer they bought at a big box store. If that changed it would make a world of difference.