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Can't deny this. But there's a few other factors that I feel when using a computer.

- linearity: logical steps are simple (boot, os, login, byte fetching)

- predictability: it can be non instant but I know what's coming

I had an old pentest distro with linux 2.4 on a key and a few recent ones using systemd and tailored DE. Whenever I used the old 2.4 era distro, maybe I had less capabilities overall, maybe a few glitches here and there, but somehow I felt in contact. Everything reacted as-is, throughput felt large (console output, file IO). Even the old sequential boot had a 'charm' to it. Even though systemd is so vastly superior in all aspects .. there was something that appealed to me. Weird.



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