I can assure you there are lots of people in computer science that don’t know what linux, foss or firefox are.

Yes it never worked right. Specially in all shitty laptops with a discrete nvidia card and how they all had different ways to be integrated. At least for personal laptops I only buy ones with simple integrated graphics, but was always a shitty situation with work laptops. It was particularly fun knowing that the hdmi port was only connected to the nvidia card so if I disabled the nvidia card on the bios basic shit lime that wouldn’t work. Let’s not even mention how it was constantly crashing for sleep or when waking up.

Also works good in macos. Been using it instead of the lima/colima stack for a few weeks now.

Deep package insertion.

Zero. Either works or it doesn’t. More likely to just work. The not just work situations happen when it’s hardware too recent or some manufacturer that has fucked bad like doing weird things in their hardware for cameras or sound or something like that. That happened in the older days, almost 99% happening with anything nvidia related. Eventually one starts to know which hardware is good and which manufacturers suck and you start buying things that work from the start in later years of living.

Indeed 🫣

Have you guys hurd about the new release for 64bits… 🙃

And it is amazing btw!

That person homepage, the posts, the avatar… Yeah full vibe on.

The amount of times that me as a teenager had to call the computer shop after the OS being unusable because I was messing around was insane. They eventually just gave me the pirated copies of everything so I could reinstall stuff on my own. I really don’t miss the times of using windows and the constant reinstalls and breakage it had.

Wanna remove the only way to boot into the computer? Go ahead, you are in control. But sure hope you have a baxkup boot loader somewhere lol

Congrats and welcome. The year of linux is when each person decides for themselves.

If you need help with anything make sure to say something very wrong while asking.

Exactly what I feel when I look or have to interact with anything that doesn’t have pacman 😅

You need to start installing more electron applications and a bunch of jvms too.

There are some services that you can host cheaper with ipv6 only without having to buy and attach an external ipv4 address for example. I’ve been thinking of doing that for fun.

I can confidently say that I used Ubuntu (different versions even) many years ago on work computers and the Frankenstein monster it became and it breaking when updating was a real problem. I’ll never do it again. Arch has it’s problems but less worries managing it and updating.

The lts trap + old kernel version + plus their horrible custom patching of it + needing other ppas for some hardware to work on top of that of custom patched kernel to support whatever specific thing the laptop needed that was available on more recent kernel version + the need for some apps/tools with recent versions… Hell, all of it.

It is. https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/

It pays off the moment someone steals my bag with the laptop when I leave the office or coffe shop.

All hot distros it seems. I should take a careful look at gentoo based on this.

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