Depending on the state, some agencies will test drinking water samples for a small fee that is much less than $200. In Michigan, the department of health did it for me. This is likely hard water. And if it’s from a well, it should be tested every so often anyways.

Check to see if your local government does this instead.

Debian is 30 years old for a reason.

They used to call this era of minivans, “dustbusters”.

Wait what

This is the answer.

I liked Ubuntu prior to snap. I’ve gone back to Debian and aside from a slightly complex install, I think that the distro is the epitome of stability and “just works”, especially for the normal software stuff I do. It’s 30 years old for a reason.

My experiences with arch are that it just broke if you looked at it funny and I like stuff that doesn’t require the constant tinkering. This is the same reason I don’t do smart tech and still own dumb and mechanical watches.

I feel like I’m in the minority in this community lately.

Just use Debian tbh

What’s wrong with Wayland?

What’s wrong with Debian?

What is Zelda 3?

HP stands for heinous product.

And honestly, nano as the default makes sense, it’s lightweight and gets the job done. I still have that as my default.

Honestly, most of the defaults are good enough for me. I just run vi and it does the job well enough. If I need to configure a good dev environment, I’ll just install stuff with apt-get install and mangle stuff onto my PATH.

It works with WINE ok, but you might get better luck with someone more native.

Java is absolutely not dying… unfortunately. Billions of people depend on spaghetti code written by corporations every day. I think Java will be the next COBOL. It won’t die and it’s unfortunate.

Seconding SumatraPDF, it has steered me through storms for years.

Debian, because I can just have a computer without needing to fiddle with a million things. I work in tech and don’t want to mess with any more code or configurations if I’m on my own computer. It’s worked for me for 5 years and has worked for others for 30 years.

Who’s buying this shit anymore? The last game I got was the original MW2. None of my friends have bought CoD games in ages. Am I just in the wrong friend circles?

What’s with everyone recommending a different distro instead of trying to help the user in the thread?