Usually, Flatpaks. My generally philosophy is that if it isn’t in Debian, it probably won’t last. I make exceptions when something is the best tool for the job, like Tom J Watson’s Emote.

This isn’t not rock solid, I admit - there are plenty of defunct projects that were once in Debian repos (neofetch is still in sid), and there are plenty of lasting projects outside Debian.)

I came into Debian with that philosophy as well, but I eventually gave up on all native packages as I got tired of having to deal with the rotation of some testing packages.

Honestly, 1 GB is an extreme it could get to, but most don’t because the majority of that initial 1 GB overhead is shared with other applications. Part of this is design issues in glibc preventing reverse compatibility with older glibc applications, and so applications need to have the right version of glibc with them to work. This adds some overhead, but is mitigated because many Flatpaks use the same glibc version.

Also, to be honest, storage is cheap these days, and really, I think the ease of Flatpak is worth what becomes a pretty minor storage sacrifice.

I use Testing on my desktop. When that happens, I just switch to the Flatpak.

Honestly, I’ve grown tired of Testing. I’ve started to become a fan of stable with a few Flatpaks.

On a random note: Another person who is both a fellow Debian user AND even knows The Prisoner exists? How interesting.

Anyhow, be seeing you. 👁️👌

Try seeing if your monitor has any weird power settings. I’d imagine it’s not a monitor problem, based on it turning back on after mouse movement, but perhaps it improperly responds to some message sent over the cable.

Speaking of that, what cable are you using? Is it HDMI or Displayport, and does the laptop have a full port or are you using a USB adapter?

I checked and it already exists in the Fastfatch codebase. Apparently, they event already has a Windows 95 logo.

Less Perfect DOS VGA is what I use in my terminal on my desktop since I use the Chicago95 theme.

OpenTTD Mono is also cool, though. It almost gives Apple Chicago font vibes.

I just find Ladybird being as functional as it is a miracle at all. The rate of progress makes me hope Ladybird will one day give Firefox a run for its money in the OSS browser space, but that might be a pipe dream.

Then again, maybe not.

Completely different, but reminds me of when I created a custom Buildroot for a Pentium II laptop so I had USB support to use dd to take a raw disk image of the harddrive. I did something dumb that stopped the backup midway through, though, and now that laptop is in pieces spread across my bedroom (not from smashing, but trying to find and replace the CMOS battery, which turned out to be proprietary).

If you can recall this long story, I would love to hear it.

I do have OS 9.2 on qemu.

Also, I do use another Grassmunk theme on a few of my machine, Chichago95.

Woah. An interesting setup indeed.

KDE almost became my default when I was installing probably my first bare-metal Linux distro a few years back - Debian Buster, to be precise - on an old laptop. However, something borked with the network manager installation, so when I tried again, I chose XFCE, which worked (probably by coincidence - I probably just did something dumb the first time) and has been my go-to ever since.

From a programming perspective, I definitely like Qt a lot over GTK, though it’s not like I write GUI applications all the time anyhow.

I would say dd is the best solution for a very complete backup, but I’m also a fan of Borg Backup for incremental backups.