Selective perception. In a thread where everyone talks about their distro, you’ll remember the arch users because of the meme.

On MacOS: Opt+Shift+-

En dash is the same without the shift

I’ve been using them for a long time, as they are also used in German typography like em dashes in English typography – only surrounded by spaces. They are easy to type on a Linux or MacOS keyboards layout (E.g. Opt+-)

I refuse to stop using en dashes. I’ve been using them because they are good typography, and the fact that clankers got clued in to that doesn’t make it wrong.

ACAB.

Oof, that’s probably almost a full reinstall when you upgrade, depending on how stable your stack is. A lot of services will will have breaking config changes in that time frame.

It’s what Debian and similar distributions use to switch from one stable release to the next. This happens every half year for Ubuntu and every blue moon for Debian, which makes it a significantly more error-prone process than updating Arch every week in my experience.

That doesn’t happen. When it breaks, it’s always recoverable, and it very very very rarely breaks (>10 years Arch user here, never lost sleep about it)

Around 10 years here. Some issues, but much less time wasted in total than if I had done “dist-upgrade”s the whole time.

That’s why they make sense in code and config files. JSON is neither, despite the insistence of far too many people to write configuration in it.

Radioactive waste storage.

I do think that goal power plants need to be turned off before nuclear ones, but neither is sustainable.

That’s weird, other package systems have that solved by recompiling the kernel as a post-update hook that the update command waits for before exiting.

Seems like a bug that fedora’s packaging system doesn’t work like that.

I guess it’ll be a thing of the past when all systems use the new open source Nvidia driver, but there are still a lot of GPUs out there that aren’t supported by it.

It’s sole reason to exist is “no systemd because we hate it” (their tagline is literally something childish about “real init systems”) and they’re willing to drop GNOME and friends on a dime for that goal.

Choosing Artix is like choosing some fork that differentiates itself by refusing to package vim for some reason.

Apple’s chips on the other hand are very nice.

That’ll do it. The work might be impressive, but why care about a project that has one purely spite-driven goal that makes no technical or social sense?

It uses real init systems

What a completely childish tagline. Even if there was any merit to all the systemd hate, calling it “not a real init system” is absurd.

They stopped supporting GNOME based desktops and treat that in the most “sour grapes” way imaginable …

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.