Delilah (She/Her)

especially as the hack flows downriver to distros with actual dignity like mint. Like this is pollution of the water supply dog!

well at least they aren’t trying to make me install snaps, and patching apt so if I sudo apt install firefox it installs the snap version.

libaom is a fucking joke. SVT might be a memory hog, but as the proud owner of a system with enough memory to run it, I can proudly say my 1 minute video rendered in less than ten minutes and somehow had worse compression than x264

Wait, whot?

If most BSDs are running on the likes of AWS and azure (which wouldn’t surprise me) then it could well be true

That’s just going to result in “beats me”

Less likely to get RTFM from people who remember what it’s like to love a computer not obsess over it I suppose

Even if you’re using debian 12 bookworm and are fully up to date, you’re still running [5.4.1].

The only debian version actually shipping the vulnerable version of the package was sid, and being a canary for this kind of thing is what sid is for, which it’s users know perfectly well.

Glad ubuntu defaults to nano. One of the few decent choices that distro ever made

Termux gang?

I run sony wx4s, wired if I’m playing piano or musedash, wireless otherwise. I don’t know anything about headphones quality, they just got good noise canceling.

That’s not fair. I’m an arch user and the only time I’d set foot on a forum is to ask a question you won’t find an answer to in the wiki, the subreddit, some weird defunct blog nobody has made a post on in 11 years or the source code. And I probably won’t be answering any questions with RTFM or anything else for that matter.

How does the snap store have worse moderation than flathub when the snap store has the weight of a company behind it and flathub is run by [nervously notices it doesn’t say]?

Yeah basically

remember when tumblr wanted to go ferdiverse?

They removed legacy font based DPI scaling. I hate it. Nothing looks right 😭

Yup. You know it’s not the closed source drivers that annoy me. It’s the fact they don’t mesh well with mesa. Ergo certain features (eg. opengl and vulkan acceleration of virtual machines) just don’t make it to nvidia cards unless you use the shitty driver.

Void being a cat lol

In our defense, nobody actually likes nvidia. They are a bunch of greedy patent trolls who actively stifle innovation with the way they run their business. And I don’t hate windows users. I just think they’re reckless with their privacy. As for mac users, I see them as cousins. At least what they’re using is posix compliant. Oh, and other linux users: if you’re using snaps, fuck you and fuck the horse you rode in on. You’re even stupider than the windows users.

• They come with apps like gnome software as standard, so you never interact with apt/rpm, flatpak or (barf) snap if you don’t want to. You might not even know which you’re installing.
• They come with all sorts of configuration utilities like networkd (In my gentoo days I used wpa_supplicant directly and had no desktop integration with the wifi configuration. I was kinda stupid lol. Don’t use a distro to impress people kids), gui tools to manage your users and groups and something called “firewall configuration” which I don’t know the package for but is preinstalled on my fedora kinoite machine. (They are available in the arch repos, but unless you know what you’re looking for you wouldn’t think to install them.)
• CUPS is preinstalled. If you don’t use an “unbloated to the point of madness” distro like arch or gentoo you’ve probably never heard of CUPS or interacted with it directly, but it’s the backbone of the linux (and macos) printing stack. In other words, printing should work out of the box wheras on arch that involves a trip to the arch wiki.
• Integration packages are preinstalled. Things like the daemon that allows youtube videos in firefox tabs to be controlled by the play button on your keyboard if it has one.
• Polkit is preinstalled, which allows applications to ask for sudo privileges and shows a popup box to the user asking their password. This is something you need to install manually on arch and gentoo, assuming you want that functionality and wouldn’t prefer to just only allow privilege escalation via sudo.
• Most packages which ship with systemd services on debian (eg apache2, snapd, docker) enable that service by default. On arch this is usually not the case.
• 3rd party debian and fedora repos ship binaries so once you’ve added them to your config they function identically to core packages. Most AUR packages have to be compiled from source either manually or through a helper like yay. (Note: there aren’t any helpers in the base system so you have to do at least one AUR build by hand before you get that part of the tech tree)
• Even bash auto-completion is an extra package on arch. No really, open a terminal on debian and then type ls -- then double press tab. It should suggest valid arguments. This isn’t a thing on arch unless you install the bash-completion package

You know liquid nitrogen cooling can get you some insane cinebench scores, but you can’t just pop a liquid nitrogen cooler in your PC and expect to boost your framerates. You need to disable so many safety things and if you don’t know why they were there in the first place you’re going to permanently damage your CPU.

Archlinux is that but for software and because it’s software there’s no physical barrier to entry. Arch is powerful, but if you don’t know what you’re doing you’re better off with fedora or debian’s hand holding.