On a sunny day (Sun, 23 Feb 2020 01:14:10 -0000 (UTC)) it happened A. Dumas
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>bob prohaska  wrote:
>> The Buster install booted without issue and ran through the setup
>> menus very nicely. I added a personal user
>
>There's "your" problem. No one at Raspberry Pi ever imagined that their
>users might want another account than pi, so if you switch, things break.

Indeed!
After installing buster that was the first disaster I came across,
so added a user 'flip' and gave it root rights.
now I can ssh -Y IP_OF_RASPI without the ..@ part..
The second thing was the desktop
Replaced it by fvwm and xfm as file manager, 9 virtual desktops.
Hardly any system usage at all, 8 rxvt running one in each desktop
and in desktop 1 xfm with all the icons.
This has been on ALL my puters since ? 1998??
Third thing I did was compile old version of libforms and install that
so all the xforms based programs I wrote work on raspi.
The new debian version of libforms does not work is incompatible.

Then I have hundreds of scripts in /usr/local/sbin/
some from old raspis, some from old PCs, some needed modifying,
but that gives me hundreds of commands from the command line.

It is a bit like that supermarket thing:
 you go there shopping and look at the shelves.. takes a while..
you get what you want or come home with something else to try out...
Or go to a hardware store and ask the guy 'I want this, and that'.
and he gets it for you.
In short my command line speaks English and knows me.
All the silly tinkering and ever changing user interfaces by people
who obviously never program anything are bloat on bloat
people use ever more bloated 'high level' languages where does it go?
Many tasks can be run on a 3$ micro for 1/100 of the power with only
a few kB of memory at many times the speed in REAL time.

Modern browsers and web sites are so complex because of advertising..

The content is often still shit..
Same with TV the programs, those do NOT get any better on 4k and 8k room sized
screens..
Its the same silly Trump face and babble, but bigger and with more detail.
Same for broadband speed, 5G: anybody watch 3D UHD movies on their phone while
walking down the street?
5G does not work very well indoors I think.

Extrapolating will the next raspi 5 ? Do WHAT?

root, anybody drive their car from the passenger seat and hops over to steer at
he corners?
Mind you steering is dangerous.. its true I once ...

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