![]() ![]() (only problem is that I Ctrl-+ in my browser to make the font bigger – I think it’s too dense for most people).It has a simple and functional API that lets me curl threads and write blog posts based on them. It’s way faster than any other chat app I’ve used. I’ve been using it for over 5 years now, and it’s as good as ever. Since you refer to enshittification, I’ll point out a couple online services: Not just for changing the course of my life, but after 25+ years still letting people get started in 3D for just the cost of hardware. My senior project used Maya 3 and once I had a full-time job I spent a month’s salary on a Lightwave license–but both times I was quietly asking myself “is this really what professional software is like? both of these are missing things that I already used in Blender years ago”.Įven though the VFX career never panned out and I still can’t get into the new interface, I’ll still be thankful for Blender. I spent several years learning many 3D concepts that I’d only read about in books. I entered college with my own PC and Blender 1.x had just been open-sourced. As a kid who drooled over RenderMan ads in MacUser, the quoted prices were a glum wake-up call. In the 90s 3D & VFX software had a heavy divide between free/cheap/tech-demo tools and expensive professional grade packages. Oh and the lobste.rs backend, without which I couldn’t bore any of you nerds!īlender was the first open-source project that showed me it was possible to have a valid offering against commercial software. I no longer use any of them on a daily basis but they were my gateway to programming. ![]() Honorable mentions go to FreeBSD, Slackware, CCS64, and WindowMaker. Also it’s unbrowsable on UIs written for the Spotify age :-).Ĭlang because it makes compilers just sliiiightly less insane. It’s really useful to me.Īudacious, because I have a huge music library from back when I came dangerously close to disappointing my parents and becoming a musician, and none of it sounds good without those beautiful Winamp skins. I switch between computers a lot, and sometimes I’m gone from home for days at a time. I no longer use it as my sole programmer’s editor but it’s still the one I use the most often, the most helpful and, the more I use VS Code, the more I think it’s the sanest and friendliest of them all. It’s just not the same without it :-).Įmacs. It doesn’t do everything I want but it does everything I need and it’s become indispensable to me. It’s the last in a long series of tools, some of them homebrew, that spanned over twenty years or so. Even though I don’t use it (entirely) as its authors intended, it’s been my goto personal writing tool for about two years now. Forget systemd - the system I’m typing this from is barely SysV init, it’s closer to original BSD. Today, Slackware is a Linux distro for people who love UNIX. While it may not be exactly scientific, a long time ago I heard “BSD is for people who love UNIX Linux is for people who hate Microsoft.” That seemed to capture the dynamic of people tripping over themselves to prove they could make a Windows-like desktop environment. It’s 2023, Slackware ships it, and I run it. The initial commit mentioned a bug where patches were welcome to fix, and one day later a handful of people had supplied fixes. Probably the most “Slackware thing ever” was removing the GTK 1.2 based xmms in Slackware 12.0 with a note thanking developers for all their hard work and a willingness to move to a GTK 2.0 based alternative…only to add it back in Slackware 12.2 because it’s hard to beat xmms as a media player by many metrics. So I’m writing this from X11 (“it just works”.) Software that works often doesn’t get a lot of maintenance, because it doesn’t need it - but it’s still the best software. Matching the capabilities of a previous system is a much higher bar. There will always be a new author who’s very proud of what they just wrote and eager to advocate for it. I stuck with it because Pat really seems to have internalized the issues with jwz CADT model in a way other distros haven’t. It’s just a lot easier to add things than to remove extraneous dependencies. Due to its “bog standard” approach, installing additional software tended to be straightforward, because stable versions of basic libraries and components are all there. ![]() Slackware took the opposite approach of not bundling so much desktop software and configuring things with default options, so the resource usage was a lot lower. I moved to Slackware ~15 years ago when the “desktop” distros were trying to showcase desktop capabilities, which meant using every –enable and –with option imaginable to create highly functional but highly co-dependent stacks. (Not the previous poster, but another Slackware fan.) If you want a rolling release, Slackware probably isn’t for you. ![]()
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