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  • In some parallell universe this happened at the first try...

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    [Noob] Is it worth getting a LTS kernel?
  • Don't worry too much about it if it doesn't make sense to you. It can be really valuable if you're deploying a substantial amount of IoT devices on the edge with no to little possibility to do over the air upgrades reliably or when the cost of failure is high (i.e. a technician has to be on site to fix it). So, sometimes you just want it to be running as stable as possible for as long as possible without management.

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    What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux?
  • I think it was about 1995. I was going to the university and was looking for something Unix compatible I could use at my home computer to perform assignments instead of needing to go into school computer lab. Remote work basically. Think I was using LessTif instead of Motif for some coding task.

    Ahh. Those were the days. Used modem to connect to school and connect remotely to the network using Linux. :)

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    What are your must-have packages?
  • To add to all great comments here I have one that I’ve used for ages and not seen mentioned here: lftp

    It supports many protocols for ftp like over ssh and allows for shaky connections with resume and back in the days when this was more common I used to just run it in the background to download huge files that took days to download and it would gracefully just reconnect/resume/retry until done.

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    i++
  • Well, not all languages allow for fun programming :)

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    i++
  • Isn't the evaluated value different from the expression? i++ returns the value of i before increasing. i-=-1 would return the value after it has been increased. Wouldn't it be more correct to make it equal to ++i

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