Linux: Some getting used to…

One of the biggest things to get used to is trackpad scrolling. i.e. on a laptop

Pushing fingers from middle to top of the the pad takes me to the top vs pushes the page to the top. I suppose, with touch phones, we’ve gotten so conditioned to push the paper around vs use a scroll bar. This trackpad behavior is so foreign, I believe that M$ Windows has followed suit with the phone/tablet behavior.

NOTE: This is KDE Plasma 5.23 on Slackware15.0

Now that I finally changed it, I am habitually confused. Often subconsiously pulling down to go down. But “Consiously trying to go down

Slackware services & daemons: initd/rc.d vs services

Remember Slackware is traditional. it uses init.d / RD.d << {Slackware Config how-to}; Its a little extra typing, but just call the command via /etc/rc.d/rc.xyz instead of service xyz or systemctl xyz

There was a discussion of switching to runit??? “Not Yet interested”

Discussions: init/rc.cs/systemv/services daemons & controlls:

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