I reject the notion that technological advancement requires teams of hundreds of engineers.
That being said, the above statement is less and less true every year (look to physics atm), but VR still has a lot of low hanging fruit that need funding OR passion, not necessarily both
My conspiracy theory/pattern recognition shows that anyone unironically using the words “Tech Savvy” in 2026 are either well meaning pirates or just straight up ignorant on purpose. Computers have been mainstream at the very least for 2 decades and you havent bothered to learn anything about them??
We call this “monopolistic behavior”
Whatever comes with the thing is going to be most popular by default. Windows knows this. Apple knows this. Linux simply doesnt have the funds to buy out manufacturers
Yeah. Youd be surprised how many people just throw away computers. Ask around, im sure someone you know has one lying around theyd like to get rid of (maybe with some minor problem like needing a new hard drive or something)
This is the only cursor setting ive never used for very long because its so easy to lose. May i ask why you use it?
Yeah same. Aur has been significantly less virus prone than the windows norm (inb4 wut abut winget >;ppp) of “Googling some shit you want and clicking the first website to roll the dice on predatory ads or malware or maybe the thing you wanted”
…not to mention if you have btrfs you can just rollback a month or two and call it a day.
Thats the other thing: a glaring issue or bug with linux is likely to be fixed within a few days.
Ive had issues with microsoft in 2012 that still exist today
Have you tried them in the past 5 years or so? Apt has given me WAY more issues than pacman has.
(Also everyone secretly uses yay or paru instead)
Yeah but even then a VM isnt crazy terrible for those. I had a job where i was running my pc through 4 different vms before i could reach the users PC (which was running on a VM)
Also wine
Cachyos is Arch for people who want to use their computers
Arch is for people who yearn to control the parasympathetic nervous system with iron chains
Give it time…
Im trying to imagine what software is so obscure no one has updated it or ported to another distro, but is important and good enough that you use it for 70% of your comluter time.
Even (often, especily) extremely old programming languages and stuff are still maintained by someone
You dont have 11 leftover/trash computers/laptops/harddrives your family dumped on you? Im 26 and ive been given legitimately 16 different computers from my mom, dad, grandparents, and in-laws
Stage 2 is ideal. Normie self hosting. Once you figure out docker youre cooked in the pipeline
I imagine a lot of people have spiderwebs of dependancies and obscure abandoned projects that collect dust and eventually break everything. If you stick to maintained projects or learn anything about package management at all, youll likely have no issues ever.
I just type “yay” into terminal every month or so when im bored
My biggest problem with Arch over the last 3 years (after skill issues, of course) has been the roughly 2 days when some lib package was rewritten in Rust, breaking a bunch of depancies, so i had to rely on a flatpak.
My biggest problem with Ubuntu has been the 2 or 3 times Canonical decided to uninstall my wifi drivers on my headless server or obliterate my kernel or just decide randomly to never update a package again (even though theyve shipped said updates)
My issues with Arch have always been solvable in under and hour or my fault. My issues with Debian (specifically ubuntu) have been catastrophic.
I guarantee if I sold a normie a KDE laptop theyd have no idea until they needed to run an exe, then theyd review bomb me for selling them a scam laptop