your blueprint
The Grandpa
It will outlive both of us, and it knows it.
- base
- Debian Stable
- desktop
- Xfce: unchanged since your favorite decade
- gaming
- a chess engine, probably
- escape plan
- you escaped in 2009 and never looked back
- terminal
- bash, unadorned
- bonus
- uptime measured in seasons
second opinion · Ubuntu LTS, if you want the biggest support ecosystem and can make peace with snaps.
What will still annoy you: Your software is two years old. So is your peace of mind. Fair trade.
your setup prompt
Paste this into the LLM of your choice. It contains your hardware, your skill level and your blueprint. The AI walks you through the switch, one step at a time, and debugs with you when something breaks.
This is the generic The Grandpa blueprint. Take the quiz to personalize it with your hardware, your Windows anchors, your terminal comfort, and to get a copy-paste setup prompt that makes an AI install it with you.