I'm OK with them. There's definitely such a thing as overusing them, but I think they can be useful for conveying tone.
mrbigmouth502
joined 1 year ago
I guess I'm getting old. I do turn 30 later this year. :p
Agreed. I was hoping Reddit's in-joke culture wouldn't make it here. sigh
I see your logic. I still wonder how this became popular though. Is it just one of those things people have been doing for a long time that I didn't notice, and then one day I noticed it and I started seeing it everywhere?
I like the changes that have been made so far. It's neat having a positive reputation score for once. 😅
I thought this was going to be a thread debating the merits of the two disc formats, and I'm disappointed that it's not. :(
I know that particular format war didn't last very long, but I wonder if there's anything HD-DVD ended up doing better than Blu-Ray.
As for the actual topic of this thread, I'm not sure if it's the right analogy. Blu-ray and HD-DVD were incompatible with one another, while Kbin and Lemmy are mostly compatible. I'm not entirely sure what to compare it to, maybe Linux vs. BSD?
Hot peppers. Whether it's jalapeno, cayenne, habanero, Thai chilis, ghost pepper, or even the milder ones like banana peppers, they're all great. :D
Good thing to be aware of. I usually edit fstab manually anyway, but this is worth knowing if I'm helping someone out.
Neat! I usually edit things manually in fstab, but I'll have to keep this in mind for when I'm helping new users out, or if I just want to set up a drive quickly.
Can gnome-disk-utility set up permanent mounts? I've used it for other things before, but I've never used it to permanently mount a drive. If so, I wish I knew about that sooner.
I've gotten used to adding extra drives in fstab, myself. I do wish adding permanent secondary drives was a more straightforward process though. I understand the Windows approach of making them instantly accessible has security implications, but I feel like that's something distros could implement as an optional setting.
I think little things like this hinder Linux adoption among end users. The purists may cry foul at this idea, but I think there should be more and better GUIs for system management tasks, so users don't have to use the terminal or muck around editing text files as much.
EDIT: Apparently gnome-disk-utility might be a solution if you're looking for something more straightforward than manually editing fstab. I don't know whether it can do permanent mounts or not though.
EDIT2: Turns out gnome-disk-utility can create fstab entries, but it can't remove them if you've used it to delete a partition.
As they say, there's nothing more permanent than a temporary fix.