Interesting! I’ve been a longtime Linux user mostly with debian-based systems (Debian, Ubuntu, Pop!) And it’s been interesting to me how one small thing or another will do that.

For me it is usually Kerberos / domain authentication things that are unnecessarily tough to set up in one distro or another.

What caused you to abandon Bazzite?

It’s great… if you love Office 2007. But it has too many weird quirks and refuses to make any interesting changes to move forward past that.

I meant more for the layman who is more comfortable with a wysiwyg system. For me it is great, and I think LyX’s “WYSIWYM” concept is wonderful. But I’d never ask a non-IT co worker to consider those.

I adore latex but the barrier to entry is a little too high. LyX is kinda-sorta there but not really.

Remember the old days before /dev was its own virtual filesystem?

*Kirk shame

That sounds right.

I’m also mostly familiar with the business lines: Dell Latitude and slightly less with HP ProBook.

Given the context that we were talking about laptop chargers rather than generic power bricks, I think it’s fair to consider standard laptop power supplies. (HP has the same connectors even though their protocol is different, and I’m not familiar with other brands but I expect they are much the same).

Unfortunately, barrel plugs tell you zilch about the power supply they’re connected to. They’re a dumb connector with no data capability whatsoever, and I’ve seen the same size of plug on power supplies with output anywhere from 3V to 24V.

That’s definitely not true: Dell laptop chargers and desktop power supplies do communicate what wattage they are able to supply.

Thank you for demonstrating.

If it helps to explain it, Red Hat is owned by IBM.

As someone who uses Windows for work and Linux for pleasure: one of the cons of Linux is the lack of integrated ubiquitous file sharing via SMB and UNC paths. Being able to “cd \\server\c$” and expect that to work with 99% of programs made in the last two decades, is pretty great.

“Hardcode a few pre-selected paths and their credentials in /etc/fstab” just doesn’t cut it. Neither does autofs.

You could have done that, but here we are.

Print it out and scan it. Use a barcode reader. Use another mobile. Upload it to a barcode decoder website.

What exactly is “improper use”?

It can be done if the 1% would stop being greedy selfish assholes. So it won’t happen.

That’s all valid criticism. Im happy to say I didn’t create it, and I would love to see better. I’m a bit inclined to delete the image, but I’d love to find an alternative.

Most that I can find are more outdated and tend to assume people know the meanings of the various terms. And the other one I added (down thread) is a little too fine-grained for my taste.

It’s a fair point but is it wrong?

In reality: they don’t.

In their minds: they fear losing that paycheck just like everyone else.