Lucien [he/him]

That makes sense

300 hours? What did you install?

Edit: nm, didn’t see the community name at first

Yeah, Gentoo builds everything from source. Supposed to make it faster, but I didn’t notice enough of a difference to make it worth my while.

For me, my first exposure to Linux was around that same time, but with SuSE. It’s still my go-to distro, even though I’ve installed and used dozens of different ones. Compiling Gentoo over a weekend is a fun experience at least once.

Not certain, I haven’t installed red hat in several years.

Aww, I miss Solaris.

I’m pretty sure that both Red Hat Enterprise and SUSE Enterprise require a license key.

Or Linux from scratch

Off topic, but I’d never heard of Ventoy before and looking at it now, holy shit, I wish I’d known about it sooner.

And OP did specify “popular”, which Slackware hasn’t been since the late 90s

And the Toyota is likely a 1-ton model, meaning it can haul more weight in its bed than the Ford. One of my first jobs was at a delivery company and we used a lot of these little Toyota and Isuzu trucks because they could get into smaller locations easily and they could haul more weight.

Absolutely nothin’!

Yeah, this article came across as if written by a complete beginner. They mention having their WordPress hacked, but failed to admit it was because they didn’t upgrade the install.