Wandering Adventure Party

Chris Trottier xyhhx 🫩 if you want a “scare”, you should launch it as xeyes -biblicallyAccurate :^)

the whole point of my message was that you went to complain about people using “IN MY TIMES…” as a point of pride, only to use “but in MY times!” as a point of reference in your next paragraph. it makes your previous words sound ingenuine and gatekeepy.

and I don’t think anyone’s proud of running xeyes “back in the day”. I’m feeling pride of how early I started messing with Linux (I was 7-8y/o, mid-2009), and I feel that because I put thousands of hours into it, I’m more experienced now than I would have been if I started later. My nostalgia to certain software is entirely separate from that sense of pride, and I don’t get why you’re so keen on conflating the two

Chris Trottier i mostly agree with your final point, but the first two paragraphs are absolutely unnecessary gatekeeping.

Sit down. My first distro was Slackware on a 200Mhz Pentium MMX. And back then, window managers were the hotness, not desktop environments. Back in my day, we fiddled with Xeyes in IceWM—and we liked it.

and there are people who have used linux longer than you! with twm, fvwm and so on. This argument holds absolutely no water unless you’re Torvalds himself. It reads like you’re conflating a bunch of concepts into one, and this doesn’t work.

and I don’t think there’s any shame in saying that I’ve been using $software since $year and that’s why I’m feeling more knowledgeable about it than someone who started yesterday. 2000s ended 15 years ago, this is already a SIGNIFICANT amount of time