Contributing is what you do to other people’s projects once you are done making your own stupid things, and feel confident you will improve rather than ruin other people’s stuff.

The problem is, things never feel like they are complete. There’s always more you can do.

I might do some contribs to lichess once I am done with my current stuff.

Shameless plug : I recently finished a longterm project :
https://newdawnowl.itch.io/microtonal-grid
https://programming.dev/post/46248494

hey, when you’re used to GUIs, the install finishes and you’re staring at a command line with no idea how to get started with the desktop, yeah it’s “the hard way”.

It’s not hard, but you have to know WTF is going on. It surprised me when I got sent to the command line after reboot, I lucked out because I changed DE while I was distro hopping so knew how to install from apt.

Debian, not a bad idea but where I live I have shared wireless only, so I’d have to install the wireless drivers manually using my phone to search for advice. Not even sure how that’d go. Easier if I had ethernet.

I installed through wireless. you just set it up as part of the installation process.

I love things like this, makes it so easy to learn when it’s a really simple to understand and explicit implementation of a high level feature (read input, pass to command)