Re: Now I've done it

On Fri, 16 May 2025 08:46:36 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

On 2025-05-15 21:34, rbowman wrote:

On Thu, 15 May 2025 16:35:51 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
 

There is no reason for Linux to be complicated. Making it simple for
novices to learn it doesn't prevent people from using it in a
needlessly complicated fashion should they choose to do so.

 
I certainly didn't need an excursion into udev rules earlier this week.
A couple of months ago I didn't need to learn the intricacies of
pipewire and its little friends. I'm not either novice nor a Linux guru
but I really don't like wading through that '90s style configuration
crap.

 
If Larry Pietraskiewicz had his way, people would be forced to go
through that 90s style configuration crap all the time. Imagine needing
to enter the horizontal and vertical refresh rate of your monitor every
time you install Linux. It would be a pain in the ass, but that's how it
used to be.

The first thing I do with a new machine is to set the mouse to left
handed. Even that was a pain in the ass finding xorg.conf and then dealing
with the obscure Pointer buttons.  Good old days my ass.