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>>4, please listen to me. Not that it's really related to this thread. I went to check out Ubuntu a while ago; you know, Ubuntu? Well anyways there was an insane number of people downloading it, and I couldn't get past the front page. Then, I looked at the banner posted at the top of the page, and it had "KDE" written on it. Oh, the stupidity. Those idiots. You, don't come to Linux just for because it has KDE, fool. It's only KDE, the K-DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT for crying out loud. There're even entire families here. Family of 4, all installing some Ubuntu, huh? How fucking nice. "Alright, daddy's gonna run Konqueror!" God I can't bear to watch. You people, I'll give you XGL and Compiz/Beryl if you get out of this community. Linux should be a bloody place. That tense atmosphere, where two niggers on opposite sides of the street can start a fight at any time, The stab-or-be-stabbed mentality, that's what's great about Coonix. Women and children should screw off and stay home. Anyways, I was about to start initializing my raid array, and then the bastard beside me goes "Install Updates with Synaptic Package Manager." Who in the world uses the synaptic package manager, you moron? I want to ask him, "do you REALLY want to have everything installed FOR you?" I want to interrogate him. I want to interrogate him for roughly an hour. Are you sure you don't just want to try saying "install updates"? Coming from a Debian veteran such as myself, the latest trend among us vets is this, apt-get dist-upgrade. That's right, apt-get dist-upgraade. This is the vet's way of managing packages. Apt-get dist-upgrade means more freedom than hand-holding. But on the other hand the risk of breaking existing configuration files is a tad higher. This is the key. And then, it's delicious. This is unbeatable. However, if you do this this then there is danger that you'll be marked by the package maintainers from next time on; it's a double-edged sword. I can't recommend it to amateurs. What this all really means, though, is that you,
>>4, should just stick with today's special.