Looking at your last couple of posts - you realize this is the “linuxmemes” community not the “troll linux users with kind of offensive, uninformed nonsense” community, right?

Dear KDE team:

Since the early days of Plasma 5 I won’t even consider another DE. Thank you for everything you do, the way you interact with the community of users, and just for being awesome.

Ah yes, that’s exactly what I said.

That’s all well and good, but can we talk about proper use of this meme template?

I don’t really get why you couldn’t pick one of your other installed kernels and boot that, but you seem pretty intent on blaming arch and I don’t feel like trying to troubleshoot it, so that’s that I guess.

Super happy to be that Linux guy sitting by myself with no one to bother me while I’m getting things done.

Finally a reference to arch btw that I can not roll my eyes at. Should be a sticky post.

I have servers on Digital Ocean and Linode and also one in my basement, and have had no problem. I do have all services behind NPM (not to suggest it’s a panacea) and use HTTPS/SSH for everything. (not to suggest HTTPS/SSH are either) My use case could be different than yours - my immediate family are my only consumers - but have been running the same services in those locations for a few years now without issue.

I use Arch btw was always a meme , literally no one ever said it unironically.

There was definitely a time when many folks regularly mentioned using Arch. It did have some novelty when it was new to newish. I was probably one of them.

I think we’re years past the point where the frequency of memes about people saying “I use arch btw” has exceeded people actually saying “I use arch btw” by a wide margin. At this point I’m just waiting for this one to die.

I spent just a few minutes with it and I like it a lot. I swear it’s more responsive than actual trello! :D

I mean - you control what gets installed on Arch. One finger pointing at arch is three pointing back in this scenario…

Feels like what happened to Emby to me.

(hugs Jellyfin)

Who’s gatekeeping? Why would a new user be pushed to Arch? There are many options where a user can probably get by without having to read a wiki, and certainly not the Arch wiki. It’s no harder than installing Windows to install those distros for a basic install - and no harder than an advanced Windows install for an advanced install. What problem are you trying to solve?

My point is - there’s always this underlying “well it’s not easy enough for every last untrained child to pick up an iso and install it, so it’s failed!”

My point is:

1. Netiher is Windows
2. Even Windows has a learning curve, but it’s so ingrained that folks don’t realize they’ve already traversed it and
3. NOTHING appeals to or is suitable for every last person, so why does desktop Linux (edit: Or at least Arch for sure as in OP) need to be?

And this, folks, is why there will be no “year of the Linux desktop”. The technical difficulties, and the surrounding gatekeeping.

Joke’s on you, we don’t need there to be one. Mine was 2007. Yours was whenever it was. I welcome new users, but my happiness doesn’t depend on Linux appealing to everyone, and neither does the survival of Linux as an option.

The types who appreciate what differentiates the Linux experience from Windows or MacOS (in terms of the typical benefits we’d evangelize) will find their way here. It’s naturally getting easier over time, and the contrast (especially against the Windows experience) is only increasing in its attractiveness.

You need a willingness to learn, and if you’ve never installed an OS ever before that will be true even for Windows. Why are we trying to lower the bar further than that? Not everyone has to start with Arch, or should.

[2024-03-23T09:29:01-0400] [ALPM] removed floorp-bin-debug (11.10.5-1)

[2024-03-23T09:29:01-0400] [ALPM] removed floorp-bin (11.11.1-1)

For anyone who is interested, I keep my eye on Pine for this sort of thing.

https://pine64.com/product-category/smartphones/

If you talk shit instead of genuinely having trouble with something, any hobby group will not take it lightly.

Such a simple concept. It’s surprising the number of people who don’t recognize this, then invariably go on to talk about how “toxic” the community was to them for “just asking a question.”

Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. A long time.

Thank you! So it sounds like I just need to find a GPU and enclosure combo that fits my budget (TBD) , and it’s like adding any other bit of hardware. I do have an intel-only system currently (integrated Iris XE), so I’ll have to dig in on that. Thanks!