Yeah. Youd be surprised how many people just throw away computers. Ask around, im sure someone you know has one lying around theyd like to get rid of (maybe with some minor problem like needing a new hard drive or something)

Sounds like my job at a small full-house IT company. We did anything IT related the customer wanted. We got paid $1.2k by a rich guy to fix his son’s Roblox account once.

I had a screen get burn in (forgot to turn it off, oops) removed it from the laptop, waited 3 days, put it back in and it was flawless again.

I had a laptop that refused ethernet and would only ever use wifi… When the ethernet was connected. No wifi unless that cord was connected. Confirmed it was, indeed, wifi by using a dummy connector.

Bought a 10tb hdd that refused to read anything at all, opened it for giggles/curiosity and found a piece of scotch tape stuck to one of the disks and one of 4 disks completely shattered. The disk was still factory sealed (by appearance, anyways; they still had the antitamper stickers)

This is the only cursor setting ive never used for very long because its so easy to lose. May i ask why you use it?

Nothing about my IT or software career has changed anything about my set up, except maybe some of the OS hardening info, which could be easily googled.

No need to gate keep, we kill google one laptop at a time :)

Yeah same. Aur has been significantly less virus prone than the windows norm (inb4 wut abut winget >;ppp) of “Googling some shit you want and clicking the first website to roll the dice on predatory ads or malware or maybe the thing you wanted”

…not to mention if you have btrfs you can just rollback a month or two and call it a day.

Careful with those K’s, pal

Thats the other thing: a glaring issue or bug with linux is likely to be fixed within a few days.

Ive had issues with microsoft in 2012 that still exist today

A lot of info going through the network is either using or converted to either json or xml. If the software being developed is entirely local, then sure

Thats the gross part!

Have you tried them in the past 5 years or so? Apt has given me WAY more issues than pacman has.

(Also everyone secretly uses yay or paru instead)

Nano is great for editing files. It is absolutely terrible for any amount of text processing or anything other than raw code copied from a tutorial

Yeah but even then a VM isnt crazy terrible for those. I had a job where i was running my pc through 4 different vms before i could reach the users PC (which was running on a VM)

Also wine

Cachyos is Arch for people who want to use their computers

Arch is for people who yearn to control the parasympathetic nervous system with iron chains

Give it time…

Im trying to imagine what software is so obscure no one has updated it or ported to another distro, but is important and good enough that you use it for 70% of your comluter time.

Even (often, especily) extremely old programming languages and stuff are still maintained by someone

I imagine a lot of people have spiderwebs of dependancies and obscure abandoned projects that collect dust and eventually break everything. If you stick to maintained projects or learn anything about package management at all, youll likely have no issues ever.

I just type “yay” into terminal every month or so when im bored

My biggest problem with Arch over the last 3 years (after skill issues, of course) has been the roughly 2 days when some lib package was rewritten in Rust, breaking a bunch of depancies, so i had to rely on a flatpak.

My biggest problem with Ubuntu has been the 2 or 3 times Canonical decided to uninstall my wifi drivers on my headless server or obliterate my kernel or just decide randomly to never update a package again (even though theyve shipped said updates)

My issues with Arch have always been solvable in under and hour or my fault. My issues with Debian (specifically ubuntu) have been catastrophic.

Easy, dota 2 isnt fun

Arch is good if you know what youre doing or need a hobby. Cachyos is great if you want arch but want to do things other than troubleshoot your own mistakes