2026/01/04
Category: Linux
Other Categories: Personal, Windows, All
I made some updates to my script Strings. I simplified things removing the home script as well as removing the requirement for a configuration file. All needed values are prompted in the scripts. You can use a configuration file if you like but it is not needed any longer. Of course there is no fancy installation dialogs are anything, it is text based prompts.
Strings really works well and now only has five scripts plus the configuration script. I use it on my daily computer and all the time in virtual machines. It is Arch Linux with a Cinnamon desktop. There is no graphic application manager so yes you have to use bash. You want that use Linux Mint. Arch Linux is not for everyone but if you want to learn Linux look at my scripts and considering learning how to manage Arch Linux. When my computer starts misbehaving, particularly after the first of the month when Arch Linux updates drop, I just open terminal and type sudo pacman -Syu and after that yay -Syu. I reboot just to ensure everything works and go on with my day. I have never had a issue with an update. If you were to have an issue use you cell phone and search online stating your issue and someone has seen it before.
I mean Windows 11 is now pushing a Microsoft Account heavily. I recently sold a Intel NUC, which had Windows 11 on it. In the past I would create an admin account and express in a note to the buyer how to create themselves another account. Then log off of admin and back into their just created account deleting the admin account. It was easy but now in Windows 11 you can not create another account without first logging into a Microsoft Account. They insist on tracking where you go online so they can sale the information to third parties or use it themselves. When did an operating system become about advertising? Seriously I use my computer for entertainment and to do work I need to do. Why can't I use an operating system for that and and not a marketing tool? I am sorry. I am on a tangent here.
I use Linux for one thing, freedom. Freedom from marketing and such. An operating system should be a sort of friend. A friend that helps you out, not one that tries to use you. The latter is an enemy. Yes I am saying Microsoft is an enemy. Try my script or Linux Mint finding yourself a friend in an operating system. Yes I am putting a lot of emotional value on an operating system but it is also free. Afterwards you will want to give something back. That is what freedom does to you. What do you not like about the below?
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