From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [IPv6:2600:3c01:e000:146::1]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7816822236 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2024 10:10:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3A954289E; Thu, 7 Mar 2024 19:10:04 +1000 (AEST) Received: from freefriends.org (frenzy.freefriends.org [198.99.81.75]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 899034289D for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2024 19:10:00 +1000 (AEST) X-Envelope-From: arnold@skeeve.com Received: from freefriends.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 42799wFn003681 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 7 Mar 2024 02:09:58 -0700 Received: (from arnold@localhost) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id 42799vAR003680; Thu, 7 Mar 2024 02:09:57 -0700 From: arnold@skeeve.com Message-Id: <202403070909.42799vAR003680@freefriends.org> X-Authentication-Warning: frenzy.freefriends.org: arnold set sender to arnold@skeeve.com using -f Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2024 02:09:57 -0700 To: tuhs@tuhs.org, jeffryrabramson@gmail.com References: <9eb334edeb7568193000f8755704af7799169b17.camel@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9eb334edeb7568193000f8755704af7799169b17.camel@gmail.com> User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID-Hash: 7ZO45HJMR5KF4BSDOGZQDPAGS737HU2J X-Message-ID-Hash: 7ZO45HJMR5KF4BSDOGZQDPAGS737HU2J X-MailFrom: arnold@skeeve.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: What do you currently use for your primary OS at home? List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: "Jeffry R. Abramson" wrote: > Thinking of looking for something simpler and was just wondering what > do other old timers use for their primary home computing needs? I run Ubuntu Mate. All the nice features of Ubuntu, plus a more normal UI and everything just works. In particular it handles current hardware (laptops, wifi, etc) fine, as well as knowing about network printers, generally without problems. I work with a bunch of terminal windows with Bash and gvim for editing, evince for viewing PDFs and a web browser. If you want a more do-it-yourself kind of feel, you might try some variant of Plan 9; the 9front fork is the most actively developed. Plan 9 has ben on my to-do list for a few decades now; maybe once I retire I'll actually get to it. :-) Be forewarned that there's a learning curve there, Plan 9 is most definitely NOT Unix. HTH, Arnold