Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

has printed an average of 5 pages a day for 25 years & counting.

My latest Unix workstation can print to it just fine.

My latest Linux workstation can print to it just fine.

My latest Windows workstation can't print to it at all because a compatible driver doesn't exist. No compatible driver exists because HP removed downloads for Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, & 10, & Microsoft removed it from Windows Update for 10 & 11.

But if I downgrade to S2K3, XP, 2K, or NT4, I can print to it.

@taco Also, I dove straight into FreeBSD knowing it's not at all intended for dedicated or general desktop use. Like with your poll's base Linux distros, there are derivatives designed for different & specialized use cases. This DistroWatch search lists a few FreeBSD-based ones: https://distrowatch.com/search.php?basedon=FreeBSD

@taco Functionally identical to Linux on the desktop, though I use wmx & a heavily customized .xsession instead of a full DE like XFCE.

In the shell the differences between BSD & GNU commands took a bit of getting used to, but that was made up for by a complete & actually useful `man` system. I don't miss GNU `info` at all.

@taco When I used Linux, my preferences were Debian-based, & that was because of their deb & apt package management interfaces.

(I switched to FreeBSD to escape pulse-audio & systemd.)

@nixCraft Even fewer know about `xmore`. And those who do know tend not to use it because, unlike xless, you can't pipe to it (which is a shame, because xmore has a cleaner UI).

I don't know how I should feel about Google Maps having an incredible historical landmark marker at ICBM coordinates 36.372731, 139.058436: the site of a little-known (at the time) used PC & parts store that shuttered way back in '02.