Fair; that was mostly a general warning, not necessarily directed at you, because many people do copypaste terminal commands without knowing what they are actually doing.

As long as you understand what a command does, absolutely go for it. No point typing that shit out when somebody else already has

Rankine and Kelvin have zero at the same point, which is absolute zero, and should not be used with the degree symbol

This concludes my TED talk

Do not copy and paste into Bash if you don't understand the commands you're pasting in

Most of our gun violence is actually pistols, but they're certainly not legally owned

This is the biggest thing. I'm very comfortable in Bash, but that is not the norm; the second my wife needs to run sudo apt get, she's out, fuck that

I was thinking more that the whole pointing a pistol at the sun is awful fucking American

As a Canadian, I'm piping in to say that no, they probably don't mean me

It's probably the standard in both POSIX and the Single UNIX Specification, so I guess ask Ken Thompson?

LxQt is nice, it is barebones like Xfce, but built on the Qt framework like KDE. Xfce uses GTK, like GNOME.

Fuck Henry Kissinger

Linux vs. Windows doesn't generally affect the cost unless you're building the machine yourself, or buying from a Linux specific vendor like Framework (which are generally more expensive than what you'll find at Best Buy anyways). The major PC manufacturers are going to have Windows pre-installed whether you want it or not.

If that's getting me, they can have me