I’m afraid this answer isn’t 100% correct. There are ways to find out a file’s type beyond looking at an extension. For example, there are lots of file formats where all of the files start with a specific sequence of bites, known as a file signature (or as “magic bytes” or “magic numbers”).
You can try the file command line tool to check that you can find out a file’s format without resorting to its extension, and you can read the tool’s manpage to learn how it works.
I don’t think you answered the question on the title. Why should most people not use Slackware?
This website is amazing, thank you for sharing
This is so funny
If you don’t want to use PowerShell in Linux, there’s also nushell, which is another (non-POSIX) shell that can process Excel files
I liked your guide, but the vocabulary feels a bit too technical for people who have never used Linux before and aren’t tech savvy.
How do you think one should get started with Emacs? Should they start start with regular GNU Emacs or should they install one of the “distros”?
It’s kind of stupid this even has to exist tbh
No matter how good or bad the books are, their cover art is so cool
“Sorry, but we can’t pay in advance, you’ll have to put the work in first”
Is it? Didn’t know about it until now…
You have to put /s in the end, because people in this day and age can no longer recognize sarcasm, probably because we all spend way too much time on the Internet.
“Sure, we’ll pay you 2% of the profits”
Thanks for the recommendation
h and l are overrated, use w, b, e and f instead.
It’s funny.
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And I’ve heard it took years until someone managed to do it
![]()) for an image to be displayed![a cute black and white cat]()). This is helpful for blind people to know what your image is about.
Ubuntu isn’t terrible, there are just bad things on Ubuntu that aren’t present in other distros.