In the early days, too much Metformin.

Black bears of Surrey. (UK).

Before the ArchLinux wiki became as good as it is, people like me used the Gentoo and LFS wikis as documentation for Linux.

There isn't quite enough time in the world for me to be able to use LFS in anger as much I would wish. We make do with source distros with source managers like Gentoo (surprise!), Funtoo and others which give the source distros users just enough helping hands of dependency management.

Real tears would be shed were for LFS to disappear.

Don't put parental controls on it. What do you want to control? Maybe put controls on the website that they can visit, but that goes on the DNS or router. Most kids will go to a mate's house that doesn't have any or as harsh parental controls anyway if they are particularly keen on seeing something that they 'shouldn't'. Parental controls are a fix for parents who can't talk to their kids; they make the parents feel safer but just send the issues underground. Gen X will have been writing code for a while at your child's age. I was. There was no choice if you needed to unlock a game you could've afford. At that time GUIs were a bad overlay over MS-DOS or DR-DOS. You had to know what you were doing to get the best out of it. Your kid will be fine with any distribution of Linux. If your kid is technically inquisitive likely to be good at maths/science, get them installing Arch. If not and they just want to use a browser, install one of the top five popular distributions from distrowatch.com. The Office suite for Linux is called LibreOffice. If you use Chrome as your browser you'll easily tell if your child has been on bad sites because your timeline will be filled with adverts for unsavoury impotence remedies. Enjoy.

PS printers are still bastards in Linux. Happily they're less bastardish in Linux (and Mac, because Linux and iOS use the same printing software) than Windows. If you like your life buy a decent Laser from anyone but HP - my generation bought the last decent HP printers they made.

I've not quite got across that I'm looking for learning to improvise having the basic patterns in mind.

[email protected] (don't know the form for linking to a user on Lemmy) has grasped what I'm trying to convey.

Thank-you. I'm looking for patterns tutelege.

I'm not sure I got across that I'm looking for patterns rather than metronomic timing. I explained better in a reply above.

I wish you the very best. And thank-you for the extensive reply.

I think that this is the one I'm going to end up getting, thank-you very much. I know nothing of his work but the first book you mentioned is apparently well regarded.

Thank-you very much indeed.

Second vote for Niagara. Admittedly I haven't tried other third party launchers. [Pixel 7 Pro owner who balked at the standard Pixel screen on sight in a way that I hadn't previously with any phone]

My vocab in the area is poor. I haven't got across what I'm looking for.

I was trying to ask for books which demonstrate styles of music (eg. R&B, boogie boogie etc) like the title of the book for which I've given the URL.

I like the book but I need an more contemporary version for my generationally younger cousin. She can come back to this one when she's less 'teen'! 🤣😂

That's what I thought, phew!

Global searches for things is how I discovered subreddits that are my topic of interest but are called - for me anyway - unusual names! I can't expect any one instance to carry all of Lemmy so I was asking about a search engine.

That said, your search method is probably much better than what I'm doing now! Thank-you.

I'm being dim. This type of query can't cover instances that lemmee, in this case, isn't subscribed to, can it?