please remove the AI sentence before the questions in your post

space engineers does

lol mine is like 76GB. have been running the same install for going on 9 years now

distro barely matters beyond how you get the packages.

there’s a reason arch is popular, it can be whatever you want it to be.

tbh, it sounds like you don’t have a great understanding of Linux (not an attack!) so I would definitely stay away from Kali, and other distros like that.

stick with Arch if you’re confident you can maintain it, or if you want to have a system which you don’t have to poke at Fedora is a great option

EULAs are not legally enforceable anyways

yeah, although Linus admitted he is gay

redhat provides enterprise support for Linux.

my very large tech company heavily uses Linux (and I personally have both a Linux laptop AND desktop).

it’s not the easy path, but when it happens it is so nice

a duress password typically wipes the device when entered.

so the data would be destroyed

give them the duress password gg

“privacy friendly” and “free cloud storage” are oxymorons. If you aren’t paying for a product, you ARE the product

question the requirements baby

staying on an end of life unsupported programming language does not spark joy.

open source projects are (often) maintained by unpaid volunteers. unpaid volunteers doing something for the passion of it often don’t want to build with one hand tied behind their back

python 2 to 3 is actually an enormous change

it’s quite modular. I would argue that each individual component does follow that ethos

You can probably guess, but the US

unfortunately definitely not.

my team has a strong emphasis on working with hardware. remote work doesn’t really make sense

Hit me up if you want a job where you’ll be forced to learn about inter-satellite laser links (free space optics)!

This is SO true. I’m hiring for a software engineer position right now. We’ve been looking for MONTHS. Recently, we’ve finally managed to fill the first head.

So many applicants just can’t even code. My company is not a place where you learn how to code, it’s a place where you learn all the stuff which you didn’t think you’d have to do as a software engineer.

We still have a qualified applicants shortage.

I mean, that entirely applies for self hosted git as well

why not zsh? that’s why I switched from fish