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@lydiaschoch @cjust

Ty alt4me for the alt text when I had no spoons.

This is the discworld reading order chart.

@lydiaschoch @cjust

So Discworld is made up of a lot of smaller series of books. Many characters and things will cross series, but each has it's own feel.

Personally I'm a big fan of the Witches series. It technically starts with Equal Rites but you could also jump in with Wyrd Sisters.

I also think Guards! Guards! is a solid entry point. And you can never go wrong with Mort. It all really depends on what you want to read about.

@cjust I didn't have "crying at the loss of Terry Pratchett again" oin my agenda today, but seems I'll have to cram it in. :crying_cat_2:

@cjust In „Moving Pictures“ he came up with the movie title „Valley of the Trolls“ and you gotta love him for that reference alone. „Monstrous Regiment“ is a femmnist manifesto and „Going Postal“ is another masterpiece with a brilliant title.

Oh well. They‘re fantastic in every sense of that word. Now I feel like reading all of the novels again.

@Tesseks It's good enough that my youngest sibling has never called me for tech support.
How many, is Lots. No, more than that.

@Tesseks I think Linux Mint is fantastic. I originally tested about a dozen distros to see which was a good fit for how I work, and decided to start with it. I thought maybe I would end up migrating to something else, but it's just simply a great, elegant, clean, effective, flexible, get out of your way, distro.

@Tesseks I liked #LMDE when I used it. LMDE is #LinuxMint with the ability to run #Debian packages.

@Tesseks cant say for myself cus i never used it, but i tell u this, mint is one distro i think i never seen anyone complain about, and thats something considering how popular it is. its probably the goto thing id hand to a gnux newb

@Tesseks It's a good distro IMHO. I've used it a lot in the past and it was really useful and helpful in getting me onto Linux full time.

@Tesseks Mint has an excellent reputation. It offers 3 desktop environments -- MATE, XFCE, Cinnamon. Cinnamon is the most modern, developed and maintained in-house. There's a focus on gradual refinement rather than adoption of shiny new things.

Mint maintains a small number of packages itself, The other packages available to a Mint user are installed directly from Ubuntu's repositories. Ubuntu periodically migrates packages from Debian's repo to its own. (In use, none of that matters.)

Is Linux mint good? How many folk actually use it?

One of the youtubers I watch uses it as their main OS and a podcast that talks about linux, opensource stuff also talks about linux mint a lot.

#mint #linux #linuxmint

@HeavenlyPossum Totally agree. The special status afforded to cars is baffling if you think about it for a minute. Your own little fiefdom on wheels, with 50% of the space in every city free for you to occupy at any time.

@_thegeoff I always thought getting Christopher Lee as the voice of Death in Soul Music was the most inspired bit of voice casting since David Jason did Dangermouse and now whenever I watch Lord of the Rings I think "ooh, it's Death"

@ainali @_thegeoff
As you should know, if Death goes missing, terrible things occur..

#discworld cannon..

@civodul given the large surface area of Guix, I think we could take a page or two from either large distributions like Debian (apt and dfsg policies) or programming languages (Python, OCaml, Scala, ...)

Anyone knows of similar deprecation policies in other malleable software projects?

@civodul Matlab comes to mind. I know it's not open source, but that's beside the point here.

@civodul I heard an interesting talk from Matlab folks a couple of years ago where they described their depreciation process. If I remember right, they had releases every six months, and wouldn't deprecate anything (or make any changes that could break user code) with less than 4 releases (2 years) of notice.

@slowenough @cjust @danlyke
For stories about wizards, may I suggest the "Young Wizards" series by Diane Duane, starting with "So you want to be a wizard"
IMHO vastly superior to anything Rowling has every written.