@jlw_the_jobber

Give me all the waifu and husbando stuffs. Sign me up!

@wyatt @jlw_the_jobber

25 days until I've been on Debian for two years.

@jlw_the_jobber @wyatt

I have no clue, my previous record was one year. Anyone have any ideas?

@rl_dane maybe?

@amin @jlw_the_jobber @wyatt

Well, it's something like:

• you install Debian when it's had a recent release (like now)
• you install all the packages you need
• for packages you need to have more-up-to-date, you install flatpaks
• you gather the few packages that you need to compile, and compile them,

and then, you just... enjoy the stability. XD

#Debian

@mirabilos @jlw_the_jobber @wyatt @amin

Personal preference, of course.

Would I prefer native .debs for everything under the sun? Yes, if Debian went to a yearly release. 😁

@mirabilos @jlw_the_jobber @wyatt @amin

and/or still your thirst for too-new things

I honestly don't like the constant software treadmill.

Unfortunately, things like KDE Plasma are currently improving and evolving at a fairly rapid pace, and a semi-annual release cycle is kind of long in the tooth to enjoy the improvements.

But yeah, good point, still. ;)

@rl_dane @mirabilos @jlw_the_jobber @wyatt

SwayWM seems stable enough at this point that I rarely actually notice changes in its updates anymore. So Debian works fine.

@rl_dane @mirabilos @jlw_the_jobber @wyatt

I really do want to give another shot at getting X-based WMs working with my display; if for no other reason, my lock screen setup was the most awesome thing I've ever done on Linux and it's just completely impossible to recreate with swaylock.

@amin @mirabilos @jlw_the_jobber @wyatt

If you try X11, you have to try #XScreensaver.

The modules are insane, and it seems to have the most secure locking mechanism, or at the very least, it's written by the only person I know of that has ever spent the time to write about the relative (in)security of various linux screen locking mechanisms, #jwz.

@rl_dane @amin @jlw_the_jobber @wyatt jwz is certainly opinionated.

I never figured out how to actually start xscreensaver and stick to xlock, which I know from OpenBSD.

@wyatt @amin @jlw_the_jobber @rl_dane @wyatt (wait, did you lose your profile picture?)

yeah, he insulted me for asking how to start the screensaver, and if it had been on Fedi he’d have blocked me (alas, Fedi was still a long way to go from back then)