Gibberish? That’s poetry. I sang it to Billy Joel’s ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’

I always pronounce it “fezzik” like Andre the Giant’s character from The Princess Bride.

LFS (Linux from Scratch)

Get a load of this guy - he’s got ladies just coming up and talking to him.

The script just does all the actions that you would otherwise be manually typing in the terminal. When it’s finished, you have the same minimal environment as if you’d done it manually, but with less work.

Exactly. And the archinstall script makes it almost as easy as Ubuntu. I think this comic is obsolete.

You might want to check out the i3 tiling window manager. Shit’s under 50MB and makes every other DE I’ve ever used feel bloated and laggy.

Inspecting the file with a hex editor would give you lots of useful info in this case. If you know approximately what the data should look like, you can just see where the garbage (header) ends and the data starts. I’ve reverse engineered data files from an oscilloscope like this.

The main benefit is that when people get tired of distro flame wars, they can move on to init system flame wars.

I use a combination of both. Objects are declared const, all members are set in the constructor, all methods are const. It doesn’t really work for some types of programs (e.g. GUIs) but for stuff like number crunching it’s great.

My current and all-time favorite laptop is an older MacBook Air (Intel) running Arch Linux. The quality of Apple hardware combined with Linux is unbeatable. I can’t wait until we get a reliable Linux distro that runs on Apple silicon.

This is the trust-fall of Poe’s law.

Some projects achieve total perfection and require no more support. No, I can’t name any.

Zalgo is Tony the Pony.

AUR is so hot right now.

I always assumed everything else is a middle stop on the way to LFS, though I might prove myself wrong someday.

First install was Ubuntu 9.04 on a very basic and mainstream Dell desktop at the time. Most recent was Arch on a 2013 MacBook Air. Honestly, the only thing that made this complicated was that the bootloader was so out of date that it didn’t recognize the newer NVME drive I put in it. After installing Arch, I messed around for a while getting the Fn/shortcut keys set up perfectly. I would not have even thought of doing that back in 2009.

Can confirm. Easiest install was my first one. Hardest install was my most recent one.

I’m actually disappointed when I boot up and nothing is broken or needs maintenance.