| Sysop: | Amessyroom |
|---|---|
| Location: | Fayetteville, NC |
| Users: | 43 |
| Nodes: | 6 (0 / 6) |
| Uptime: | 95:32:14 |
| Calls: | 290 |
| Files: | 904 |
| Messages: | 76,423 |
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That depends. I want to be able to *use* the thing, right off, and not have to fiddle with stuff to get it to work.
Confident in my skills? Yeah, I'd say so. Though there's a whole
lot of stuff I'd rather not have to bother with to get things functional ... I'd much rather let the software set all of this up.
.... I need to upgrade, anyhow. Having gone through the whole upgrade of Debian once on this box, I'd rather not go through that again multiple times,
so I'm going to just install 12.something on the new machine and then try and port things over as best I can.
[snip]
i see you mention running a pretty light desktop
management system so that also indicates someone who's
more into command line things.
Sometimes. It depends on what I'm trying to do. Most of the time lately it comes down to email, web browsing, and managing those files that I keep on collecting, mostly by plugging them into an HTML "tree" that lives on my server...
On 12/22/24 3:18 PM, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
[snip]
That depends. I want to be able to *use* the thing, right off, and not have to fiddle with stuff to get it to work.
Confident in my skills? Yeah, I'd say so. Though there's a whole
lot of stuff I'd rather not have to bother with to get things functional ...
I'd much rather let the software set all of this up.
.... I need to upgrade, anyhow. Having gone through the whole upgrade of Debian once on this box, I'd rather not go through that again multiple times,
so I'm going to just install 12.something on the new machine and then try and
port things over as best I can.
[snip]
i see you mention running a pretty light desktop
management system so that also indicates someone who's
more into command line things.
Sometimes. It depends on what I'm trying to do. Most of the time lately it
comes down to email, web browsing, and managing those files that I keep on
collecting, mostly by plugging them into an HTML "tree" that lives on my server...
I date back to PETs and S-100. Left MS for Debian Squeeze ~2011.
I've never followed the upgrade path as there wasn't usually anything I needed/wanted until far into the release cycle. I've entirely skipped at least one release. I have minimal web exposure and even then cookies and JavaScript are disabled. My primary internet connectivity is text based email and USENET. Fresh install route has had minimal problems.
YMMV
On Monday 23 December 2024 08:50:25 am Richard Owlett wrote:
On 12/22/24 3:18 PM, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
[snip]
That depends. I want to be able to *use* the thing, right off, and not have to fiddle with stuff to get it to work.
Confident in my skills? Yeah, I'd say so. Though there's a whole
lot of stuff I'd rather not have to bother with to get things functional ...
I'd much rather let the software set all of this up.
.... I need to upgrade, anyhow. Having gone through the whole upgrade of >>> Debian once on this box, I'd rather not go through that again multiple times,
so I'm going to just install 12.something on the new machine and then try and
port things over as best I can.
[snip]
i see you mention running a pretty light desktop
management system so that also indicates someone who's
more into command line things.
Sometimes. It depends on what I'm trying to do. Most of the time lately it
comes down to email, web browsing, and managing those files that I keep on
collecting, mostly by plugging them into an HTML "tree" that lives on my server...
I date back to PETs and S-100. Left MS for Debian Squeeze ~2011.
I've never followed the upgrade path as there wasn't usually anything I
needed/wanted until far into the release cycle. I've entirely skipped at
least one release. I have minimal web exposure and even then cookies and
JavaScript are disabled. My primary internet connectivity is text based
email and USENET. Fresh install route has had minimal problems.
YMMV
I'm not too far from that position, though of course the background stuff is rather different. I still have a couple of CP/M machines in my office here, ferinstance, though it's been a while since I fired one up. :-)