#abalidoth

I am! It's easily my favorite thing on youtube, since its very beginning

Dan made me give dark souls a second shot after bouncing off it hard, and has introduced me to a lot of my other favorite games, introduced me to randomizers, ... indirectly introduced me to my girlfriend lol.

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i use Void, bc Arch was too mainstream slkdfjsdlk (okay no fr i use Void bc i kept seeing it on r/unixporn and i wanted a distro that had the "go nuts show nuts" curate-your-own-experience style Arch has but without systemd - no judgement if you like it, but it's not my vibe).

i used to use Mint and have done on-and-off since version 4 Daryna - Crunchbang was discontinued around that time and i wanted another Ubuntu-based distro to switch to.

so, if someone were looking to try something new (hypothetically, of course d: ) i would recommend considering the following first:

what's aer typical workload (and therefore what would be suitable) ?

how far would ae be willing to explore beyond aer comfort zone ?

how much time would ae have to learn new things ?

trying one or two distros out in a VM might be a good way for aem to familiarise aemself w/ any immediate quirks and pick a distro to install on bare metal (perhaps alongside aer existing distro ?)

for something more familiar i might recommend Debian Testing or LMDE (the version of Mint based directly on Debian) as they share much of the same internal architecture. i believe Debian offers a netinstall that's barebones like Arch/Void/Gentoo if trying new software (perhaps including a new DE/WM/Wayland compositor) without losing all familiarity would be of interest to this person.

for something more adventurous i would suggest Arch and perhaps picking a full DE to start with, then maybe trying an install that's more uh selective. personally, Void is no harder than Arch but the community is smaller and a person who hypothetically chose this as their new distro would not only have the barebones nature of that class of distro + an unfamiliar package manager to contend with, but additionally an unfamiliar init system (though runit is terrifyingly simple, i must say). there's also Artix, which is Arch but w/out systemd (i think they offer runit or openrc).

there are plenty of wacky distros (Bedrock, Fedora Silverblue, NixOS, Qubes, Gentoo) that would be fun to experiment with on a non-critical system/VM but they're very far removed from a decade of Ubuntu.

i appreciate this is a long answer, but you asked a lovely question and it's fun to indulge in uh um what's definitely totally a hypothetical d: if someone were to change distro i hope ae know ae can reach out to ask further questions :3

From this ask meme!

🎱 ⇢ post your AO3 total stats

User Subscriptions: 386 Kudos: 21,639 Comment Threads: 5,771 Bookmarks: 4,805 Subscriptions: 1,293 Word Count: 1,182,644 Hits: 201,006

Holy shit??? Man 21.6K kudos, that's... that's a like a third of my whole city. Granted, mine is not a particularly big city, but goddamn. And 200,000 hits? That's only a little bit less than the number of people in Salt Lake City, UT. What the hell.

🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

Oh, lord, I don't remember. Define parameters for "weird." I remember looking up where in the Michigan state code I might be able to slot in regulations pertaining to supers, does that count? But also, SO much biology shit lmao. And also how long would it take for the water cycle to stop on Earth if Earth suddenly lost all sunlight, but unfortunately I could not figure that one out, there is too much calculus involved there for me. Alas. I've decided it's like, two months. Not like anybody else knows either!

🍅 ⇢ give yourself some constructive criticism on your own writing

I found Tal hilarious more than anything. He's like that rat from the ice age movies

I’m glad you’re here. You, and all the friends I’ve made on tumblr in my many years here. You all make me smile and I’m happy to be here with you.

I love proofs. Proofs are so much fun. Discrete math was 1000% my favorite class.