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  • my first professional experience with linux came doing tech support for ubunu & red hat on thinkpads.

    this was the mid aughts so they were t40’s, t60’s & x60’s and i always marveled at how well they were engineered; you used to be able to swap out the hard drives, keyboards, displays & cases without tools (but it was easier if you had atleast a screw driver around).

    it was so easy that it would be one of the first things that we would do to minimize amount of time that the engineers spent getting tech support. if they had even the slight tangentially hardware related compliant like slow wifi; we would almost automatically pull out the harddrive and slap it into another shell and send them on their way.







  • agreed, Debian’s rock solid for 99.99% of people.

    You just have to also accept the fact that if you’re doing something niche like VR gaming or using weird third-party custom hardware or something Debian sucks ass.

    i’ve worked on predominantly debian based infrastructure professionally for multimedia companies in the last 10ish years, so it’s a little bit funny to me that og flavored debian doesn’t do this, but it clearly can if you can afford an army of developers to create it for you.

    entire multi-billion dollar revenue streams literally exist because of debian doing this and doing it well, but everyone popularly and unquestioningly believe that you can’t do it on linux. lol