I went and checked out Thunar because of this post, and regardless of the original intention, I have found a file manager I much prefer as a result. Thank you.

Awesome, thank you! Saving this comment so that I can refer to this in the future as well.

Oh, that’s beautiful. Thank you!

So the software you are trying to configure is using an outdated version of nodejs, has a poor default username/password combination, and doesn’t implement PAM by default/easily.

Yes, I definitely want people to use Linux if they would like to, but perhaps not the node.js web application your complaints actually refer to which don’t seem to have much at all if anything to do with Linux itself.

If your only real complaint on the OS side is that nodejs is too up to date, perhaps consider raising your concerns on the Mine-OS projects github instead of directing your anger at a tangentially related operating system. It’s like getting mad at your cars engine when you are having trouble figuring out how to roll down the new windows you just had installed at a third-party body shop.

Prompt is pretty simple, mainly just adjusted coloring and added a timestamp.

PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;36;01m\]\t \[\033[01;32m\]\u@\[\033[01;37;01m\]\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;36m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '

Maybe 1 or 2 back when things were less stable, but any time I have used Linux in the past 7 years or so, and particularly since I started using Debian as my primary OS, I haven’t had any problems outside of trying to get some windows applications to emulate correctly, and one time when I echo’d into sources.list with > instead of >>. Anything else is just stuff I had to learn, like my boot partition filling up with old images that have to be cleaned out occasionally.

For nvidia drivers it probably took me about 15 minutes and one page off of the Debian wiki.

https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

You basically add some repositories, install the drivers, and then set and check some configurations depending on what other parts of your environment look like.

Debian. Solid as a mountain.

This would be what I was thinking of then, thanks for clarifying.

If Windows and Linux are installed on the same drive under different partitions, I seem to recall that a Windows update can fuck your Linux partition.

Was there a Windows update recently?

I go from the repos myself.

At the minute, a true open source and free browser/web engine, though I know this is nigh impossible to maintain without thousands of people. Some part of me is hopeful though given recent events.

I like cmus best. It is both as simple and as complicated as I need it to be.

Wow, fascinating to see I am one of the Few Debian users. It works great on the distribution, even better than what I had heard about other platforms.