Not in my experience. Granted that was mostly Reddit, but I often read entire threads about this, with almost nobody coming up with reasonable criticism.

I guess that was different on moderated bug trackers and so on?

topgrade

*paru

Oh I’m sure there was valid critique, but at the time it was completely hidden under a pile of made-up conspiracy bullshit about red hat being the devil or so, or plain wrong assertions like “it’s monolithic” or “it forces you to use binary logging”.

If the debate would have been about technical merits, maybe one of the other init systems would have won by being slightly better, but systemd’s detractors prevented that really well by making the public “debate” a compete farce.

Wayland has to overcome more real problems than systemd (because X11 was a giant monolith of compatibility hacks that everybody used, as opposed to a hundred piles of messy shell scripts that was SYSV init). But it has no alternatives that could possibly have more technical merit; I can’t even remember the thing Ubuntu announced for a hot minute.

I have the opposite experience. Multi monitor setup for my was always a half broken hassle on X11 and just works on Wayland.

Maybe also some undead refugees from the “systemd hate” hill or something.

You can also switch between all of the ones you named using ostree rebase or so, which is pretty rad

Hmm, when a car has problems, you go to someone who fixes that for you. People under 60 usually don’t do that for PCs.

I don’t recommend Arch to newbies, but I do prefer it because it’s more robust: other distros patch stuff to make it easier, but those patches mean things are farther from the tested upstream version. Arch doesn’t do that as much so I run into fewer bugs.

But this view might be outdated. I just remember that before 2017 (when I installed my current Arch system) I constantly had problems with dist-upgrades in Ubuntu

You might just have learned more about how stuff works by now. Arch is very much “you need to make every choice manually, but then you’ve seen what choices exist”

Funny meme btw lolololo

… why are you like that?

Mint is still on X11, pretty much all other distos switched over to Wayland by now, which works much better with multi-monitor setups.

There’s a subforum in the mint forums about this, and this is the reason why I don’t recommend mint for newbies anymore.

Mint is behind the times with this one: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewforum.php?f=266&sid=988182d121dabb7be8085b31e8d3e6d1

Other distros have switched to Wayland long ago.

Multi-monitor setups on Wayland are much less fragile, including different scaling and refresh rates.

Exactly. I’ve seen so much data destroyed silently deep in some bioinformatics pipeline due to this that I’ve just become an anti CSV advocate.

Use literally anything else that doesn’t need out of band “I’m using this dialect” information that has to match to prevent data loss.

No:

• CSV isn’t good for anything unless you exactly specify the dialect. CSV is unstandardized, so you can’t parse arbitrary CSV files correctly.
• you don’t have to serialize tables to JSON in the “list of named records” format

Just user Zarr or so for array data. A table with more than 200 rows isn’t ”human readable” anyway.

Our AVR (audio video receiver, aka home theater amplifier) can be turned on via home assistant.

Felt magical the first time I turned it on by clicking a button.

I like the heading styles! The tildes are unusual but the reasoning is sound!

What would that be for? It’s hard to search the internet for.

I think I remember from my Ubuntu days that I used it to switch JREs? Arch has something for that!

That or both wrong and an asshole. I was trying to be charitable.

I think you’re confused. It’s really easy to use. You have to learn 3–4 command line flags instead of subcommands, but that’s all that separates it from others in usage patterns.

Whenever domine mentions accessibility to shit on Wayland, but doesn’t actually give a single detail about which kind, they’re always concern trolling and aren’t actually missing anything themselves.