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20 years ago - perl

10 years ago - python

Nowadays - go

Idk what’s up with your fingerprint rant, but the drivers for that have been out for years. Not official ofc, but it works better than in windows.

The issue is that it’s essentially useless because Linux has no support for any type of fingerprint reader, so you can maybe set up your DM to log you in.

Xkill doesn’t kill the process, it just stops showing it to you

I mean, org-mode was invented because LaTeX is too hard

Sure, and not every arch user ends their comments with btw.

But that was consistent across multiple years, devices, and derivatives. It’s usually a 5 min fix/workaround, but it’s still annoying.

Nobody’s raving about the install, that’s just useful for people who don’t know what makes a Linux distro.

It becomes your personality after a few years because every update might break anything, and you need to regularly maintain random shit. Also if you forget to update regularly, the chance of everything crapping out rises exponentially.

I hope you’re using something like btrfs, because rollbacks are a must.

Second council of Nicaea?

Does your company have a serious IT department that manage devices?

If yes, then you’ll need to do whatever they say, and be ready to be told that’s not happening.

If not, I’d suggest a stable distro, encrypt the disk, and use flatpak/nix to install fresh packages. Fedora could work, but I’ve had bad luck with it, and wouldn’t want to risk my device crapping out because of an update.

The rest is really going to depend on your work and your it department.

If you’re a developer and you don’t know how to deploy to Linux servers you’re useless.

Welp, found your red flag

Both look really cheap, and are badly designed, especially when compared to lotr.

For example look at the angles on the chest.

Boromir’s armour is angled to deflect incoming strikes. So if someone tries to stab him in the chest, the strike will slide off. It makes sense, and is the basis of good, functional armour throughout history.

Now look at these other two. You can aim for the heart, miss and hit the ribs, and the tip will still slide and go under the pec. It directs all strikes towards your heart instead of away from it.

Ubuntu, RHEL and Fedora use it as the default and they are very big distros. Idk if it’s enough but that’s what I know.

I mean, that’s pretty irrelevant. If you were for example at least comparing the downloads of fedora Vs spins, that would be a beginning of something.

Idk. KDE was unstable for me and it always has bugs after major releases. They should test things better.

1. In case it wasn’t obvious: stability is not reliability

2. So does GNOME, especially when you have a lot of extensions

3. KDE is pretty crap in both regards

Personal opinion.

Is that why every distro comes with vanilla GNOME? Oh wait…

But hey at least it’s getting better over time.

Meanwhile over the years KDE got lighter than GNOME while constantly piling on features.

the most popular

Citation very much needed

one of the most stable DEs on Linux

Hardly, but I’m guessing you’re thinking of reliability instead. Not really surprising when it’s so stripped down that vanilla GNOME is pretty much unusable. When you extend it, in order to get a proper DE, that goes right out the window.

That fact makes it especially funny that vanilla GNOME is by far the fattest DE around. How it manages to use up more resources than KDE is beyond me.

Pre-blowback: fucking children is fine if they consent to it

Post-blowback: friends explained to me that it hurts the children and that they can’t consent

Terminal velocity is the maximum speed attainable by an object as it falls through a fluid (air is the most common example). It is reached when the sum of the drag force (Fd) and the buoyancy is equal to the downward force of gravity (FG) acting on the object. Since the net force on the object is zero, the object has zero acceleration

Objects in a vacuum have no drag and no terminal velocity…

How would it reach terminal velocity in a vacuum?

XFCE I find a little tricky to get tiling working right

Just replace xfwm4 with i3wm for example. That and the fact you can use most Xfce tools outside of Xfce is why it’s my favourite.

That’s because of users, not OS… right?

It’s a factor, but constantly upgrading to the newest version of software does come with risks. I’ve had Arch and derivatives fail to boot on multiple devices plenty of times after an update.

Some people say that they run arch for years without having any issues, but that’s either extreme luck or bs.

I love to deal with problems but I don’t want to waste my time.

You can usually just use a btrfs snapshot to rollback, boot, and try to update later. But there were situations when I had to use arch-chroot, and it can be problematic to install new packages in that situation.

All setups have tradeoffs, but I’d wholeheartedly suggest a stable distro like MX and nix + home-manager. It avoids all of the previously mentioned issues, and comes with other benefits. Do note that you might need to make or copy a hyprland.desktop file because home-manager can only alter files in your ~.

Thou shalt write two k’s, no more, no less. Two shall be the number of k’s thou will write, and the number of k’s of the writing will be two. Four shalt thou not write, neither write thou one, excepting that thou then proceed to two. Three is right out. Once the number is two, being the second k is written, then lobbest thou thy message towards thy foe.

Tbh home-manager is going to be overkill in most scenarios. A dotfile directory + git is going to be more than enough, and you can use stow to symlink everything.