Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Is it time yet to begin accepting that Arch is kind of ass anyway? I had a bad experience with updates crapping out on Manjaro, the original Arch-plus distro, and then somebody told me that Arch developers build all the packages on their local machines, not a secured build server??? Maybe that was just the AUR stuff, but still. And you need to update all packages in lock-step. Iāll take the flexibility of Gentoo every time, where I can easily keep a stable base system and experiment with less-stable upstream packages around the edge, and still have it all make sense.
Having a bunch of out-and-proud fascists and bigots maintaining one of your most popular frontends is the kind of shit that kills projects. Itās not just Framework, Arch needs to get out ahead of this if they donāt want to get passed up. Not too long before having Valve downstream is the only thing theyāve got going for them, and thatās not guaranteed to be a happy relationship forever.
Foxboron (arch maintainer dude) seems pretty good about rejecting fascism, heās in the framework thread linked from the post above expressing discontent.
I am being a bit unfair, itās good to see project principals getting out ahead of this. A lot of people glom onto Arch because of some perceived elitism, and itās a hop skip and a jump from that to convincing yourself youāre part of the āmaster raceā
Genuinely, arch linux is just like any other distro once you have it installed, aside from having the AUR.
YAY!
Manjaroās package update delay thing does tend to fuck stuff up, EndeavourOS been behaving quite fine for me.
bongrip Manjaro is a psyop to make Arch look less competently maintained than it really is
second bongrip Manjaro is an indoctrination program to load up Linux newbies with stupid questions before sending them to Gentoo forums~
third bongrip oh shit im the couch
fourth bongrip
The computer was a mistake
I guess one of the main attractions of Arch is the AUR plus the rolling-release update model. Personally, Iāve had Arch as my daily driver for over 5 years and I havenāt run into any system-breaking issues with updates (there have been small hiccups, like my custom keyboard layout stopping working), which is a better record than I had with for example Ubuntu. But I suppose itās very dependent on the particular hardware and software one uses and Lenovo laptops are generally well-supported.
Lenovo Thinkpad laptops are generally well-supported (at least the mainstream business oriented product lines). The Linux support for Lenovoās consumer oriented budget laptops is just as much of a crapshoot as other manufacturersā.