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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 21:26:25 JST nixCraft 🐧

   What is your favourite thing about #Linux?

   • schrotthaufen (schrotthaufen@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 21:32:25 JST schrotthaufen

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     @nixCraft It ships without baked-in spyware

   • Penguinclaw (penguinclaw69@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 21:35:21 JST Penguinclaw

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     @nixCraft that it's open source ☺️

   • Urzl (gooba42@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 21:35:33 JST Urzl

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     @nixCraft Autonomy.

     It does what I tell it to do.
     When it breaks, I broke it.
     When it works, I fixed it.

   • Owen Tyme (owentyme@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 21:59:31 JST Owen Tyme

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     @nixCraft Control over what's mine and trust in the OS, because I can actually look at the source code.

     In real practice, I don't bother, because I trust the distribution maintainers to be sane (Linux Mint), but I appreciate having the option. Besides, if they lose their sanity, I'm sure it will hit the headlines of Slashdot, which I read daily.

     When such important, OS-level code is hidden, it can never truly be trusted, because the motives of a company will never align with my own.

   • DoomBananas (doombananas@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 22:00:43 JST DoomBananas

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     @nixCraft compared to windows; the availability of command line tools and applications. Package managers like pacman and apt are also crucial!

   • PerlPlayer (perlplayer@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 22:10:16 JST PerlPlayer

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     @nixCraft Tux and the fact that it's Linux 😁

   • TintedKiwi (tintedkiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 00:20:06 JST TintedKiwi

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     @nixCraft It stays out of my way and lets me do what I want, even if I probably should have double-checked that command :hurb:

   • Lucas Janin (lucas3d@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 00:21:19 JST Lucas Janin

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     @nixCraft The magic of
     apt update && apt dist-upgrade -y

   • Radio Azureus (radioazureus@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 01:57:59 JST Radio Azureus

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     @nixCraft Vim, protection of memory, resource allocation, HDD SSD superiority in FS management, no defrag on HDD, was there from Alpha days when Torvalds was on Usenet
     I could go on for days

     🖋 #Vim #VimMasterRace #Amiga #Bram #BramMolenaar #bash #sh #zsh #100DaysOfCode #1000DaysOfCode #Linux #POSIX #Programming

   • Karma Sahne (neuimneuland@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 02:20:23 JST Karma Sahne

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     @nixCraft Worked better than NetBSD when I set up my first x86 PC ~26 years ago.

   • Wossen Wyatt 🇬🇾🐧💿💾 (wossman@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 05:07:53 JST Wossen Wyatt 🇬🇾🐧💿💾

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     @nixCraft Maybe not my absolute favorite feature, but it recently came to my attention, out of necessity, that you can change the size of (or even remove and add) your swap file on the fly, without rebooting. You can even have multiple active swap files - oh the possibilities.