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Unix like - AIX, HP/UX, Solaris. I normally write *nix and the one time I decided that’s overly pedantic someone calls me on it :-)

Of course. I was just blown away by his response, and this article reminded me of it so I shared.

I’m a retired Unix admin and I hate Microsoft and Apple.

I hate Netanyahu as much as the next person, but I sadly believe this. When the invasion of Lebanon started I contacted a friend of mine who is Lebanese (Christian) but doesn’t live there. I wanted to let him know I was thinking of him and his family “back home”. I don’t recall his exact response but it was something along the lines of “yes, it’s tough now but it’s for the best”.

Edit - I’m curious about the downvotes. Do you think I’m some sort of Zionist stooge trying to defend it?

Most of the mobile “office” use will be to view stuff that’s maintained on desktop. I hope it can handle that?

I can’t elaborate - it was a while ago. I think I did try the AIO and the consensus here then was that the AIO isn’t necessarily the best way to go. That’s why I’m asking before I try again - to see if there is any consensus. Apparently not.

I did try the AIO, or maybe read the docs and decided not to. Either way - it did not present as painless. Maybe your decade+ experience makes it hard to imagine what it’s like for someone coming to it fresh?

I used excel daily in a corporate environment for the last 10 years of my working life lots of VBA etc. I was the person people came to for excel help. I’m now retired and treasurer for a small non-profit and I use LibreOffice. It’s good, but not as good. My needs are pretty basic now, so I’m not pushing the capabilities, but my main gripe for now is formatting pivot tables.

This is one of the things that frustrate me about Debian based systems. I know most distributions ship with lots of different tools to do the same job and you pick the one you like. But with something as fundamental as system timers it just feels wrong to me - when I want to change the timing of something I first need to figure out is the cron job real, or just a stub referring to the systemd timer, or visa versa.

So for a while I had removed cron from all my systems and fully committed to timers. Now I’ve decided I don’t like systemd and gone fully the other way.

I know it’s not that bad, but that’s the way my brain works - and I can remember getting really screwed up with some early Ubuntu systems.

Or:

shampoo -> /bin/busybox

conditioner -> /bin/busybox

I find it funny that systemd gets so much hate for trying to be all the things, but haven’t seen the same criticism directed at busybox

I get the joke, but it’s weird for me that my highest ratio is for a Debian 13.3 ISO - 767MB down, 13.85GB up

It’s not just that it’s slavery, but it’s literally destroying the people doing it. Being exposed to so much horrendous content has lasting impact. It’s like the coal mines (or any number of other body destroying examples) but it’s not lungs that suffer, it’s the brain.