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[–] [email protected] 75 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

Queue any discussion of Wayland/Xorg, Systemd, flatpacks, snaps, distro choice, ~~Pipewire/Pulseaudio~~ (last one is easy, Pipewire ftw), Vim/Emacs, GPL/MIT, immutability, etc..

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cue* in this case. English sucks.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Thanks. Wrote cue first, but changed it because I got confused.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hah yeah it's crazy. Anyway, zsh or death.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fish is obviously superior (:

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

It's POSIX shell or nothing

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Tried Helix yet?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

C++ mfs: Nvim <=> Emacs

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Unless you're good at Emacs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

How does Emacs in evil mode fit?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Nvim < Emacs + Vim keybindings (aka evil).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Apt is the superior package manager. Everyone else is wrong.

Lol

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

but does your package manager show a video game animation when you download a package? (pacman for life)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Pacman + yay is superior. pacman for most packages, and yay to use the AUR, where you can get pretty much anything that can be downloaded online, but as a package so that you can more easily manage what shit you've downloaded before but no longer need.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Until the package adding and removing entropy lits your whole system on fire and you have to untangle dependencies, purge keyring, flush your system and reinstall

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Luckily that hasn't happened to me yet, though I'd say pacman is still far better than something like apt, even if you have to untangle dependencies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Have you tried out our lord and saviour xbps?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I think I only recognized like 5 words in that entire paragraph.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wayland and Xorg are responsible for display, Systemd is an init system, flatpaks and snaps are containerized, cross-distro packaging formats, you know what a distro is, Pipewire and Pulseaudio are responsible for audio, Vim and Emacs are editors, GPL and MIT are open-source code licenses, I can't explain immutability.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Vim and emacs are editors

Woah woah we're talking newbies here. Nano will serve you just fine until you wanna get fancy lol. (Although sometimes it needs to be installed first)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Go watch some Brodie Robertson and Distrotube

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Y'know how they say its only the tip of the iceberg? Yeah this iceburg is probably larger than the entire planet

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Since when is immutability controversial? Linus called out the Google patches as badly designed with massive code quality issues for good reason. Theo described OpenBSDs approach to it and it is truly a simply concept with good security ramifications.