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  • For Arch, I’d go with something like EndeavorOS. The installation is easy for someone who knows what a file system or software repository is and I absolutely loved that you can install a bare bones system: just the desktop and almost no apps and you can go from there and install what you like (I wish fedora offered this).
    I ended up not using Arch/Endeavor because of rolling releases and I found the AUR dangerous. I mean, its not dangerous, but anyone can put anything on there and its your job (and the communities) to make sure its good. I think a “build all the software yourself” is a great philosophy, but it only fits computer geeks (and I mean this in a good way). We cant all be Richard Stallman. I think for somethings, I can accept an “arbiter of software” who curates what gets on the repo and what doesn’t and that its shared via compiled binaries instead of code.


  • Fedora’s philosophy is free software only. So vanilla Fedora ships with FOSS only. Imo, they’re really good at this, but I personally couldn’t live with that. The community maintained fusion repository is essential because of Nvidia drivers and full ffmpeg. Steam is in a separate non-free repo as well.
    Other than than tidbit, Fedora is easy to install, well maintained, has a large community and wide third party support (as in software devs often build “native fedora” binaries available on their repo).
    I prefer it to any other Fedora based distro, but for the reason above, it may not be best suited for the average lemming.




  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.devPride Versioning
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    I recently realized: fuck it, just have the build date as the version: 2026.02.28.14 with the last number being the hour. I can immediately tell when something is on latest or not. You can get a little cheeky with the short year ‘26’ but that’s it. No reason to have some arbitrary numbers represent some strange philosophy behind them.









  • Lol no. They’ll just hire some people to do it like they always have.
    Create a fucked up world where a small handful of people control every resource. Everyone else has nothing. Give a few people a little more and they’ll kill for it. Its never going to be robots, we’ll be killing and be killed by our own kind.


  • Don’t most countries offer subsidies for photovoltaics? Put solar on your roof and your energy bill goes down. That’s the most direct government investment I can think of that will effect you directly.
    Other than that, its supply and demand. The government building huge solar arrays wont bring your bill down if the demand for energy keeps rising. They’d need to build more production than there is demand.