What’s happening to me? Since I discovered EOS last month, some kind of weird lunacy has been creeping over me. I’ve been using Linux since the earliest days but I’ve always been a bit distro-agnostic, or maybe distro-blind. You know, the right tool for the job type of thing. I need Adobe sometimes professionally, I use MacOS, I use Windows, I use Linux, I have iOS, Android, whatever I need.
But suddenly I care about the distro I’m using. Suddenly I like the utilities that come with it. Suddently I have an opinion about the package managers and that opinion is that pacman and yay are freaking awesome. I live in Seattle and the University of Washington colors are Purple so suddenly everything on my desktop defaults to local Husky colors. Suddenly I’m hard core customizing my shell and desktop in ways i never used to care about. Suddenly I’ve got an AwesomeWM desktop side project. Suddenly I’m making accounts on forums to talk about my distro. Suddently I run EOS now btw.
Seriously tho I’ve been using weird OSes since the 70s when, as a kid, I discovered VAX/VMS in the computing center and Unix soon after. I had Apple at home when it was the hotness. We got TCP/IP on the desktop in the early 90s and by the time Linux came along, the world was absolutely dying for a FOSS operating system. I was an enthusiastic early adopter, along with all my friends. It only took a year for us to forget all about OS/2. A bunch of y’all remember those days I’m sure.
So I’ve never really bonded with a distro/desktop combo for daily driving. But EOS really feels like I got a wish list of everything else I want: frequent updates, support for all the desktops managers and WMs, support for gaming hardware, “best-practice” type maintenance scripts, a great underlying distro and package managers, good compatibility.
I’m so into it it’s embarrassing. I’m not crazy, right? Is there a next step to my fandom? Are there hidden scripts under the hood or goodies I might be missing while cruising in my Plasma desktop? Is there a 24-hour MTV style EOS iptv channel? Is the Linux desktop really this close to happening?
using weird OSs in the 70ies? i was playing with Wooden blocks back in that time .. in the 80ies start getting interested in electronics like .. Radio HIFI recordplayers e.t..c
Welcome here and simply enjoy what ever you want to endeavour with on this little OS
I literally just finished watching Singles then saw your post. Great read, btw, haven’t heard mention of VAX for a little while…
Yes, yes you do.
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Makes a great gaming system, laptop, htpc with 2.0 to 5.1 upmix; I hope “Can it run EOS” becomes a new sport, like EOS on an ATM, on a TI calculator, etc.
It works. I use KDE Plasma customized to my 2 large displays. What works for me, may not work for a laptop. But, hey, it can be customized the way you like. Everything is super fast.
Did, I say, I run Arch Linux, btw!
Ha I just drove by that apartment complex yesterday! Back in the day I knew a guy that lived there and they paid his rent for a year and he had to follow their schedule for three months.
It’s funny you mentioned other machines too, because I’ve started installing EOS on other machines now too, it’s won the distro battle for me haha
Thanks. I was so lucky my step father was the manager of the whole computing services department at the local university and I got to run around pretty much unsupervsed. He’d let me take home modems and parts and all kinds of junk. On the first saturday of every month, there was a huge swap meet where we’d gather around a highway underpass with a bunch of parking lots and people would buy sell and trade computer parts, software, magazines, and everything else you need to be a computer nerd in the '70s. There were Apples there, I saw a couple of those british computers, forgot the name right now, serial cards, weird flat memory sheets, all kinds of stuff. Within a few years it was all moving to the music stores and radio shack.
I don’t think anyone’s really talked much about the days before computer stores, it was exciting. Anyway sorry for the long winded reply.
Nice, when I was a kid there was something similar in Melbourne where we lived at the time, Mendax used to frequent it.
Sinclair home computers & BBC Microcomputer were 80’s, iirc, but Sinclair ( Science of Cambridge) had that weird little MK14, kind of Rpi of its day. Could they have been that, or Acorn (of Acorn Research Machines fame) like Eurocard, either of these seem familiar?
happy to have you join us. Once you go purple, you never go back!
Hey & welcome 
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