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@squirrel eesh, yeah, that's not good

openbox might be suited to making it look like irix, that one's very customisable

@squirrel I'm happy to help, not right now as octopus needs sleep, but setting things up is like my favourite thing to do

@squirrel ah yeah, pretty and nice have never really been development priorities

I've heard some good things about pop!_OS being nice to use, haven't tried it myself though

@squirrel I'm quite fond of i3 but that's because I'm one of those bizarre individuals who prefers tiling window managers

@squirrel haven't had my grubby tentacles on many toshiba satellites, I'll have to keep an eye out for them

@blackle@dev.glitch.social oh yeah, can't remember if Canada gets pyrex or PYREX, if it's the lower-case one in Canada, stock up on the upper-case stuff while you're still in europe, it's the legit borosilicate stuff

@squirrel not at all, linux is a confusing mess of stuff that nobody actually understands

confession 

people have tried to explain to me what the hell wayland is before

they have failed

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confession 

I use the linux terminal for just about everything because I have no fucking idea how to use desktop environments

@squirrel I'm always happy to help, know next to bugger all about mate but I'm sure we could figure things out together

@squirrel if there's a button for "add" then you could put in the command for xfce4-screenshot and then bind that to something useful

that's the only way I can think of though

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