I think so too actually if you’re looking to learn the basics.

Arch has very little actual “distribution” in its system (mostly pacman and mkinitcpio) and the former is a glorified tar with a database, and while it can run scripts, you’re expected to configure and set up everyone yourself using the upstream tools, and these usually come vanilla

I daily drove it for 15 years before I switched so it’s not like Arch is insured for that. But if you want to learn the basics of modern Linux it’s a good choice

Technically, the question was even easier (yes/no), but I agree with the sentiment

Well, but the question wasn’t “what is a hash used for”, but rather “what is a hash”

Often times when there was a big new update for GNOME, I’d try it out, decide I still don’t like the concept and go back to plasma.

I don’t get the appeal of that desktop. Even the tiniest changes need gnome-tweaks? Why isn’t that stuff part of the base settings? But ok. You can’t ungimp GNOME. The usage concept is baked into it. Fine. But why?

I mean there must be people who want this and nothing else, otherwise people wouldn’t use it.

I think once you’re at the level of caring about that stuff you’re no longer considered a newbie

Introducing the dummy thiccpad

I will roll into my grave

That’s a fun 50/50

You’re not supposed to modify shipped unit files, that’s why systemd supports drop in snippets

resolved is entirely optional and disabled by default, I use it on case of non-mobile devices but leave it on laptops etc.

DNS resolution isn’t something exotic, it makes sense for systemd to implement it in a simple optional daemon

No od either

It’s Stockholm syndrome

I mean who doesn’t like putting mandatory quotes around all variables (though exceptions, like in [[ ... ]], apply)?

Or keywords like fi and esac or worrying about $IFS

I like it (am actually sponsoring) but I’m not sure development is still active. I hope the author finds the time and energy to work on it again it’s someone else picks it up

Almost nobody cares about these features for new shells. POSIX compatibility in my opinion is an anti-feature for interactive shells; for scripts, use the shell referenced in the shebang. There are even newer POSIX compatible shells like oil if you want one of these.

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It should be noted that e.g. DeepL which is a very good AI translation service isn’t an LLM but rather falls into the category of “Neural machine translation”. So this would still be fine

Edit: I leaned it’s an LLM now, my knowledge is outdated.

This is what GPT was invented for

👉👈

Almost, as I said, arch-chroot didn’t exist back then, and while the official method is still manual, archinstall is part of the official ISO, while back then, no helper was provided, so you had to do it manually.

archinstall?

Back in my day, we needed to do all of that by hand, and there wasn’t even arch-chroot, no, we had to bind mount dev, proc and and sys manually as well!

Though in fairness, before that, there was the AIF, which I also used, but that doesn’t sound so manly.