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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome
Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 07:06:00 -0400
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candycanearter07 wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote at 18:04 this Monday (GMT):
>> On 2025-05-05 13:06, rbowman wrote:
>>> On Mon, 5 May 2025 08:36:03 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>> 
>>>> The text games required a level of patience most people don't have
>>>> nowadays. They also more or less demanded that you create maps, take
>>>> notes and so on. My nerd cousin could do it, but no one else was willing
>>>> to.
>>> 
>>> I didn't have the patience back in the day either. I remember one based on
>>> 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'.  I didn't care that much for the
>>> book and I never got further than a bulldozer driving through Ford
>>> Prefect's house or something like that.
>>
>> I wasn't a big fan of the book either and thought the movie was awful. 
>> The TV show seemed to be okay from the limited exposure I got to it. 
>> Either way, you were at the very beginning of the story. I only checked 
>> out the story because I was told that it was science fiction genius, but 
>> I guess it was a very different time when that applied.
> [snip]
>
> Hitchhikers guide is one of my favorite books!

I tried reading it, but found it too twee and stopped after a few pages.

-- 
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
		-- Albert Einstein