Especially when your first distro is literal goddamn Arch with a few bells and whistles

Today, I use MPV to handle the most screwed video files

yt-dlp is amazing, but not everyone likes to use CLI tools (and, looking down the thread, not everyone prefers native packets as they may cause dependency issues and need extra tools for permissions control).

Even in a geeky Linux space, many people just want to push a button in a nice interface and get what they want. This app provides just that.

Abandon elitism, embrace variety. And use the tools you prefer - after all, plenty of Linux video/music downloaders have yt-dlp under the hood, and I use it on a regular.

Anna’s Archive is the world’s largest collection of pirated books, scientific papers and more. Recently they turned to pirating music as well, starting by dumping 86 million tracks from Spotify.

All of the scraped content is available in the form of BitTorrent shares, so you can always download parts of it and spread them further.

The OP wants a convenient way to access this collection and play music from it.

Ready to be killed, I guess

When you post from standard Lemmy interface and add a picture, it adds it as a link that may overwrite the URL you have entered. Annoying, but it is what it is.

Add a picture first, and then replace the URL with what you link to.

Men use AI partners more often than women, as per the article’s content

Content: 31% of young men and 23% of young women chat with AI partners

Headline: Bots Women Use in a World of Unsatisfying Men

Classic

Su often takes more time and is more involvedz even if it’s a difference between very little effort and no effort at all.

For example, I update and install apps through CLI about once a week, and I’d rather just bang the sudo <update command> than go su, enter root credentials, and only then go for what I wanted in the first place.

So for all that time one could do THIS?

Just got massive drives and pushed everything onto them, so my seed to download ratio is 0,21.

Promise to give it all back, though! Already up from 0,19 yesterday, so shouldn’t take too long!

(God bless my VPN for handling it all)

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Then in fact you do give back what you take, so, really you’re not a leecher in the first place!

You’re just sharing the data outside the BitTorrent network, and it’s awesome!

That’s one of my gripes with Arch, too. It takes too much manual interaction on an everyday basis, it’s not a “set it and forget it” kind of system.

To some, sometimes lesser, extent it also translates to its derivatives, be it Endeavour, Garuda, Manjaro or whatever strikes one’s fancy.

Fair enough. Honestly, fear is the main barrier

If you can open a YouTube video, open a terminal and not scream in horror, you fill all the prerequisites.

These odd freezes, especially when moving files at scale, is something I struggled with on all Arch-based distros I had installed: Arch itself, EndeavourOS, Manjaro.

Either Arch doesn’t like my hardware in some way, or it’s just something Arch users struggle with.

Any other distros worked just fine in that regard.

Arch can be configured without archinstall in 20 minutes by a YouTube video even if you’re a grandma with 0 technical skills.

Let’s all stop pretending that having it manually installed means anything and just use whatever does it for us. Like, well, Endeavour.

Well, maybe it was considered user friendly decades ago, but with the way interfaces evolved, it didn’t progress all too much. Peoples’ expectations did change, though.

Didn’t hear about it, at least recently when Linus Torvals came to Linus Sebastian (aka Linus Tech Tips), they were still discussing Fedora

Yes, they want to phase it out, though currently it’s still there. My general point is, it’s just not designed for Linux newcomers and that’s a big shame.