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Hmm. Hadn’t expected to be the target of so much bile just by asking a simple question. The Linux community has certainly changed in the two decades since I entered it.
> you need to give us something to work with.
I’ve always been willing to provide what input and assistance I can. However, “geeks” generally tend to be not just proud of their tech knowledge and skills, but need to “prove” their superiority over any perceived competitor quite aggressively. After several early attempts to engage in useful discussions as a hardware engineer venturing into software territory that ended in belittlement and vilification, I soon decided to allow the “experts” their required sense of superiority and omniscience, and take part only as a lowly supplicant seeking wisdom from the divine, an attitude that has served me well and continues to this day.
On a few occasions I’ve encountered ordinary humans on Lx forums who allow for the distinctive knowledge and experience developed by the disparate but related disciplines of software and hardware, and the discussions that ensued were both enlightening and entertaining. The rest of the time I’ve found it better to get in and out before I’m attacked by a “vastly superior being”.
> Please give more information about your computer system.
I’m quite happy to do so. However, AntiX is not my life, as pet distros often are for their developers. Don’t get me wrong: I’m exceedingly grateful for their efforts, and have always been in awe of what the FOSS community has accomplished. It’s undoubtedly one of – perhaps the greatest – social achievement in the history of technology, especially as it’s been done without the supposedly essential motivations of wealth, fame, and a note in the history books.
From the perspective of developers, my difficulty can certainly be seen as “a problem he created himself”. The solution only required a commandline invocation instead of hours spent exploring a complex desktop and reading voluminous documentation, neither of which may have provided solutions even if prosecuted to the limit.
Thanks to seaken64 and others for proving that there are humans in the AntiX developer community, but useful contributions, especially from those not expert in software, cannot come from a few terse exchanges in a forum thread: they inevitably require both common background knowledge and insightful, often protracted discussion.
As to what “information about your computer system” I could, or could have provided that would have expedited discussion, none of what’s been mentioned was relevant. Even had I been using the original desktop, I would probably still have asked here, not just for a solution, but in the (usually vain) hope of finding a developer community with which I might form an amicable relationship, and to which eventually I might be able to make some useful contributions in a spirit of mutual cooperation and friendship.
I’ve no desire to vow eternal allegiance to a mob demanding my obedience to their own conventions and whims – BE ONE OF US OR GET OUT!
A pity.