TIL. That’s pretty useful!

To reiterate, I don’t think there is anything wrong with using the AUR. I think that using an AUR helper that ties updating AUR packages to your pacman -Syu is a trap that people keep falling into despite the warnings in the wiki.

The wiki article :

• specifically says that packages are not thoroughly vetted
• does not recommend using yay or another AUR helper (which is the primary thing I recommend against)
• has a frequently asked question section that is fairly technical and should indicate that it is not for the faint of heart

The aur helper wiki has a fun red disclaimer at the top that no one reads

I like arch because:

• it is rolling release and I like having up to date software and not having to deal with distro upgrades breaking things
• it is community run and not beholden to a company
• packages are mostly unmodified from their upstream
• the wiki and forums are the best of any distro

conflict when trying to just update things naively

Sounds like AUR problems. IMO using AUR helpers that tie AUR packages to your full system update command is a trap. AUR never professed to be a stable repository (in fact it’s the opposite). AUR has a place, but it should be used sparingly and thoughtfully.

YES. Phoronix articles are good but the comment sections are insane. There are a few very vocal users that would have been banned on any reasonably moderated forum, and they largely chase out the reasonable people.

Also, occasionally there is an article about CoC or something that is obviously going to bring the loonies out of the woodwork. The comment section will get closed, but not until after the giant flamewar has gone on for a bit. Michael has to know that’s going to happen and make the decision not to close it immediately when he makes the post.

GNOME being viewed as standard because of history is the source of a lot of complaints people have about Linux when comparing to windows and that never ceases to frustrate me

Gnome is garbage lol

https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

Using moltengamepad like this person seems promising https://selfmadepenguin.wordpress.com/2024/02/14/how-i-solved-my-gamecontroller-problems/

I’d say that is more like a bug tracker than a database for if something works well

I had mic quality issues in discord for a while and it turned out it was discord’s echo/noise cancelation misbehaving. Turned it off and started using https://github.com/noisetorch/NoiseTorch instead. It’s actually way better at noise cancelation anyway.

Not that that’s necessarily what’s happening with your friend but thought I’d throw it out in case it is

Earlier this year, the CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei predicted that more software jobs will soon go by the wayside. By September, he said AI will be writing 90% of the code; moreover, “in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code,” he tells the Council on Foreign Relations.

Sure, Jan

This is drawing lines between the job market and AI that probably aren’t there. We’re just in the beginning of an economic downturn.

It’s in the tab overview menu https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-overview-menu

Fish and Kate hell yeah 🤜 🤛

I think WSL is pretty much a developer thing in reality

so how is this not the default case in Windows?

It actually is now

My systems work fine how they are and I’ve used Linux for years without ever encountering the issues they claim to solve.

Look friend. I’m not trying to be confrontational like you think. Your original post legimately comes off as an unhinged rant and makes no fucking sense. TBH I assumed you were drunk off your ass when you posted it.

You don’t have to listen to me, obviously, but you should probably take the universal downvotes on what I suspect would be a popular opinion if it actually made sense as a sign that… Your post didn’t make any sense.

Lol if you think that was anything other than an unintelligible rant you need to take a step back and read it again