That’s how I feel about arch, it’s not “stable” but the few issues I’ve had they typically have it fixed with an update within hours.

I do have to clarify when I switched to arch from windows my entire computer was brand new and practically no other distro booted or if it installed it dumped me to a black screen.

After running my server on archlinux with the stable kernel for 7 years I did install Debian on my new server. Zfs just required an older lts kernel than I could get on arch without a ton of hassle. I didn’t need it on my Mac mini with an external hard drive plugged in. From my experience it’s not very different to maintain compared to arch but it’s nice having built in automation instead of writing my own.

Man it’s weird using a system of what I can guess is a bunch of bash scripts on Debian to set things up compared to just using the tools built into and written for systemd.

Why don’t you open an feature request on their git if you have an issue with volunteer work.

It’s funny thinking this guy uses a distro package manager potentially with unofficial patches applied to the package.

That makes a lot more sense. I remember living with $200 laptops for a while and that’s kinda what I was thinking initially.

Stop it, you’re scaring the normies away. Shoo, shoo, go back to your Thinkpad running GNU Boot.

I don’t get it…

I heard adélie Linux is really good for slow and old hardware. action retro - Adélie Linux on a Pentium 4 laptop

I haven’t used it myself but I’ve seen this guy throw it on old mac’s for a while and this was particularly impressive.

Man a laptop new enough to require a newer kernel but slow enough for gnome to be slow. That’s an annoying spot to be man.

Why does the installer still explode sometimes when I use it on my computers. I use it on my mother’s computer or our movie server and it works fine.

Maybe it just eats shit when it sees a btrfs partition or something. Nothing against Debian but I tried to install Debian testing weekly and it just refused to install on my system 76 laptop. After flashing arch on my USB drive to wipe the disk I just said fuck it and installed arch on my laptop again. I haven’t had any issues with arch since I’ve installed it on my desktop five years ago. If arch blows up on my laptop I’ll try Debian again.

The easier it is for onboarding the better, even if it includes proprietary software. The discovery of free or open source software will come when they start exploring what’s available on Linux and find workflows that suit them.

I like free and open source software but the freedom of choice is what’s really important in the end.

There’s always a virtual machine if you need it for work.

No, there is not. Updating through terminal still bypasses it and I don’t mind so much seeing how my mother might accidentally power it off in the middle an important update otherwise. Most people know not to hit the power button when the scary load bar pops up with a message saying please do not power off system.

Calm down children, they both suck. Now put the rulers away.

You can learn any workflow. Adobe Photoshop was pretty alien to me the first time I used it in school. The thing that made it easier was how good the documentation was on adobes website. I recommend anyone try krita to see if it works better for them.

I’ve heard it’s not as feature rich as gimp but more people coming from Photoshop seem to like it.

HDR games is fucking baller on the steam deck. I’m legitimately thinking of switching to kde from sway so I can take advantage of it on my new OLED monitor.

I have a physical switch on my laptop. Physically disconnected USB device as far as Linux is concerned.

I know it sounds counter intuitive but the way Debian handles things makes it really easy to break things and not know how. All these scripts that automate tasks it’s easy to try to change something manually and have a script that automatically runs break something.

It would help if their wiki wasn’t so painfully slow. How is it possible to have a website so slow it times out after like ten minutes of loading.

Just passing the tourch I guess. A random post on the archlinux forum saved me and I’m glad sharing my experience helps someone else.

My favorite part is how it broke the Intel wifi card during my Linux install until I booted back into windows just to turn fast boot off. Maybe some hackery to skip initializing wifi hardware or something?

When I was on windows I just used 7zip for everything. Multi core decompress is so much better than Microsoft’s slow single core nonsense from the 90s.

I unironically used xz for a long time. It was just eazy and all around very good compress. A close second is 7zip because I used it on windows for years.