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I want to be left alone (2024)

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179 points car | 1 comments | 03 Sep 25 01:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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jackvalentine ◴[03 Sep 25 01:41 UTC] No.45111369[source]▶
I bought a 5 year old Lenovo x13 and installed Debian on it, haven’t used linux in years but wanted to play around.

Installed, logged in for the first time and got the ‘welcome to KDE’ screen, dismissed it and then… nothing.

Every time I log in… nothing.

It just sits there waiting for me to do something. It doesn’t tell me to do anything. I’ve been mostly using it to play Civ2.

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1. ryandrake ◴[03 Sep 25 02:04 UTC] No.45111524[source]▶
The idea of a technology device just sitting there waiting for your command, without bombarding you with notifications and dinging and buzzing, and without trying to beg and convince you to do something, is so anachronistic! I'm thinking back to my Commodore 64 or my DOS PC where you just turn it on, and it just prompts you, the user who is in charge to decide what to do this time.