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I started using Linux at university, and my first distro at home was SuSE in 1997, because my father got the CDs at work. Then I ran RedHat for a while, because that's what my friends were running, then Mandrake, then Knoppix, then Debian. Loved Debian and AfterStep.

About 10 years ago I moved to Ubuntu because I had a hardware issue that was solved in Ubuntu but was a pain to fix in Debian. I liked that as well.

But this year I bought a second-hand ThinkPad T490, and it was randomly locking up (mouse still moves but nothing else responds). Googling and trying to troubleshoot by looking through logs wasn't working, and I'm pretty sure it's not a pure hardware issue, because I've got it as a dual boot system because my girlfriend's son uses windows on it, and hasn't had any issues.

So yesterday, I decided to back up my home directory and install Debian Forky. It feels like coming home. And so far, no lock-ups...

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[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 24 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I hadn't heard the name Forky yet and went down a mini rabbit hole to figure it out and discovered for the first time that DEBIAN RELEASES ARE NAMED AFTER TOY STORY CHARACTERS!

[–] Eric@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Because Ian Murdock was working at Pixar

[–] Slashme@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Ah, that I didn't know!

[–] Eric@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago

Yea very neat piece of Linux trivia

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

That is wrong Bruce Perens was the one working at Pixar not Ian

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 points 3 days ago

The Still In Development (SID) version is named after https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Sid_Phillips

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 3 points 3 days ago

Yep, always have been :)