Andy_Mac @andrewmacleod@librem.one

Its weird to think that the games of the 90's were prophetic tales of humanity merging with AI. Quake 2 had it spot on with the Strogg.

Welcome to your future

Does anyone remember when ndiswrapper was a pain, or when licences for mpeg2/mp3 caused multimedia playback a chore? How about recompiling programs to run on your system, or making arbitrary .mo modules to run on slax or figuring out what .deb meant?
Tinkering around with #linux was always about discovering what it takes to make things run the way YOU want
It seems like all these distros which have been baked with all these issues ironed out, have lost something intrinsic to computing as a hobby