So much of that is PDP-11 baggage or derived from it.
Or more generally Very Small Disk baggage.
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What we wanted: Wayland.
What we needed: X12, X13...
Recluse house all the way, one can always invite visitors/neighbours/friends etc, one cannot easily do the opposite when you're "too" close together.
Also, cheaper, means more money for banging parties.
I tend to use du -hxd1 / rather than -hs so that it stays on one filesystem (usually I'm looking for usage of only one file system) and descends one directory.
Pretty much any distribution would meet that criteria.
Is just pick one and get going. If you run into problems, you'll now have more specific selection criteria and can make a more discerning choice of another distribution.
Given your initial "maybe Debian" just grab Debian stable and see where it takes you.
It was the day my grandmother exploded.
It was the right time to ensure the right stock price at the right time.
An enormous company like Boeing always has myriad legal things going on. There's always a little litigious jitter in their stock price.
Everything Swampy knew, the big cheeses did too and more. Statements entering the courts' records makes them more difficult to casually dismiss. Evidence of top echelon mismanagement becomes a problem, a stock price problem.
Hate it. Though there is one that's worse.
The mini-DP retention clip. There seems to be either wide and narrow variations or simply on-/off-spec variants.
Those clips just jam right in the back plate of the video card.
Why do things that happen to stupid people keep happening to me?
When some crappy vendors (ahem, Zoom) bother to get screen sharing working on Wayland.
Until then I'm stuck on xorg at work, but it's Wayland all the way at home... not by explicit choice, just the distro default.
Yep! I always do this too.
TL;DR: e aborts the whole script on a non-zero error. u aborts when using an undefined variable. -o pipefail aborts a piped compound command when one of the piped commands fail.
Any other way lies madness. Or erasing the whole filesystem apparently!
That's kind of what I was trying to imply.
We needed a new X with some of the archaic crap removed. I.e. no one needs X primitives anymore, everything is its own raster now (or whatever it's called).
Evolving X would have given us incremental improvements over time... Eventually resulting in something like Wayland.