Aesthetics, design stuff...

Any one else here like tinkering with computers, displays, and fonts? I use Linux as an operating system, and yes it makes you do the work often .... but with just some moments following tutorials, guides, you can come up with something that exceeds what a corporation bundles together. And you get the joy, of not only doing the work, but rewarding someone else's hobby.

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SwampFlower · 31-35, F

I don't really rice out my desktop anymore like I used to when I had free time but there are a lot of little customizations and tweaks I've gotten so used to I can't work without them now.

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SwampFlower · 31-35, F

@SW-User It is truly unfortunate they took that direction. OSX back in the 10.5 days was a thing of beauty. I couldn't work on Windows after that so linux was the logical next step. Haven't looked back since. I am glad things have gotten more seamless over the years or maybe I have just gotten better at not breaking my system 😉

SW-User

@SwampFlower Heh, you'll laugh at me for accidentally deleting my boot partition the other night. I was using Ubuntu 'Creative Studio' and for some reason they follow the mistake of creating a swap file instead of a partition. One evening when my slowed to a crawl using the Gimp I decided to try and use my Fedora swap partition instead. Well guess what happened, I formatted the wrong partition. Very broken system. As this was a work night I loved that with Linux, I could simply use my USB stick to boot up into something working and the rest could be cared for when I had more time.

SwampFlower · 31-35, F

@SW-User oh, that's funny because it was just a totally careless error, haha! At least you knew how to fix it. I remember back in the day how stressful it was when something would break like that and frantically googling the fix before I understood the system. Fun times but I think it's part of the initiation, LOL.

A Windows update on a partition I rarely even boot deleted grub and rewrote my file system Monday. Disk manager in Windows had me thinking the data was gone but I found it restored it via the liveusb. I was ready to burn Microsoft.

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