Inb4 Mozilla dies because the lead of the AI development division is the ex-ceo who followed up massive layoffs with doubling her multi-milion salary every few years.

I initially tried guix -> switched to nix with home-manager because it’s got a lot better repos -> installed all user packages through nix on Debian -> nixos

Before nixos I used flatpaks for some packages because nixgl seems abandoned.

Why are you even running arch at that point, for the DE updates?

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Human communication 101: sometimes humans ask a question without expecting an answer, it’s called a rhetorical question

Most mainstream OSes have GUI for anything you’d need to do as a novice.

And how is Linux any different?

I’ve literally had a non-technical person who used Linux for less than a week fix an issue through the xfce gui while I was googling a solution.

You just need to choose a correct distro and DE for the job.

More like a restaurant that has Korean BBQ / hot pot on the menu. Most meals are completely prepared, but for some you need to do a small part yourself.

I get that for sure, but you can still use it only for specific tasks like org-mode LaTeX. It was literally made by some astronomer/astrophysicist to make writing LaTeX easier.

Come to the evil side, we have org-mode

vim user

LaTeX user

When you go to the wrong side

I thought emacs was all about ctrl + ?.

It is, but you have gui features

I use Emacs and neovim. Each is better in different scenarios.

Vim and emacs usually run in the terminal and require keyboard commands to complete actions.

It is most certainly not usual to run Emacs in the terminal.

although of course it’s possible to use keyboard commands.

And you can use Emacs with a mouse.

I mean, it’s an IBM ThinkPad, it is slow. Linux just makes it usable.

I once saw something about how if you are trying to build it yourself instead of using a pre-existing library you come off arrogant.

Js ?

What’s the total without the second grep?

It needs to mount virtual directories for each snap. If I remember correctly it does a part of the job on boot and part on login.

Removed by mod

Let’s ignore all the anti-consumer bs (like selling user data to Amazon) and just focus on snaps.

• each snap installed slows down your boot time
• snaps get installed even when you don’t expect them to (apt get install firefox for example)
• snap store is closed source

But Debian doesn’t sell enterprise support while trying to screw its users

stable is called stable because of stability

stability
noun [ U ]
uk
/stəˈbɪl.ə.ti/ us
/stəˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
C1
a situation in which something is not likely to move or change:
a period of political stability

The point of a stable distro is that it’s unchanging. That way you have predictable issues that you can solve in the same way for the lifetime of that version.

Reliability is a side benefit of maintainers choosing the best available version to freeze.