mr_MADAFAKAMicrosoft’s latest Windows 11 update improves and breaks dark mode
TriangleSpecialistGood ol’ CS flashbang PTSD.
Guess Explorer is now a webapp too?
I hate the little animations everywhere. Luckily I no longer need to use windows.
That’s some software gore.
How does that even get shipped?
dindonmaskerJust tried. Yep it does do that…
i used to be a windows guy. discovered arch linux and it’s not enough. i wanna do hardcore shit so i’m going kali
merci3Not if you are a 1337 H4XX0R like the baddass you’re answering to.
Hmm, I personally place Nix at the same level as Arch, because I see both distros being hard to get into because of how different they do stuff when compared to the average OS.
Maybe the real level up is trying to run BSD on unsupported hardware?
The real level up is bare-metal Emacs.
Shame this OS does not come with a solid text editor.
Let’s skip all intermediate quotes and directly jump to the xkcd reference:
I only program with butterflies.
Of course, there is an Emacs command for that: good ol’ C-x M-c M-butterfly
Arch is easier in my opinion, at least if you want to leverage the power NixOS can offer. A simple
/etc/nixos/configuration.nix maybe not, but once you enter custom options / submodule territory and use stuff like lib.mapAttrs, I’d say NixOS is quite harder. Or just a more complex overrideAttrs. But then again, Arch doesn’t have an equivalent to that…
I didn’t need to learn a programming language to install Arch btw. I’d definitely agree Nix is an unnecessary complication for very little gain for the average user.
Well, you don’t need to learn nix as a programming language for a simple installation, you can use it like a slightly different job, which the configuration.nix part was about. You can get the reproducibility aspect from just that, so I wouldn’t say you get no benefits at all without learning the language.
There are more disadvantages (like time required to rebuild because you added a single package), so Arch is the better choice depending on preferences. Arch is a very good traditional distribution in my opinion, can’t go wrong with it
No no, there isn’t “no benefit”. There’s just very little gain, compared to the effort. The average Linux user definitely will not care about reproducibility. 😅 So the effort required to either add Nix stuff to an existing distro or install NixOS itself will just be wasted effort for most people, I imagine. Myself included.
As a power user, I’m still not interested. Chezmoi serves me more than well to sync between my work laptop and my main desktop PC, because I’m running Arch on both systems and I still haven’t had the need to reproduce a system in over a decade with Arch. 🥰 So stable.
But yeah if you reinstall frequently or manage a lot of machines daily then it might be worth looking into. 👌
The average Linux user definitely will not care about reproducibility.
I think a lot of people do care about it, just not under that name. But I think a lot of users asked themselves at least once “what did I do back then to achieve X”. Not in that the whole system is reproduced 1:1, but certain aspects. That’s something much easier to answer with nix.
I think the average user only cares about that if they have to do it again. Or to help a friend perhaps. But then the answer would be “use nix” and that’s not super helpful if you’re offering support. 😆
I’ve had to go back to investigate certain things when installing a new system but it’s all in the Arch wiki for me, and sometimes there’s even newer and better ways of doing stuff after a while so just keeping my system set once and for all might not be what I really want anyway.
Change is life. 😌
i’m new to this shit (started arch yesterday) so i dunno
i use my macOS terminal all fucking day so i know my way around a linux interface, it’s more or less the same shit (macOS uses zsh and linux uses bash…the syntaxes are almost identical, if you know one, you know the other)
Nice to know you’re enjoying Linux :P
I think that later on in your adventure, you’ll notice that you don’t actually need a distro that’s hard to maintain in order to do the hardcore stuff.
Going back to more tame distros (Mint, Debian, Fedora, Solus) may actually suit you better, even for said tasks.
what would you recommend for cybersecurity? i’m interested in a few things (shell scripting, web dev, nlp), but i’d also really liek to know how to stop hackers
Cybersecurity and “stopping hackers” are very extensive and complex topics. It’s kinda like a mix of many areas of knowledge (software, hardware, coding, internet of things, etc…)
So one advice I think I can give you is that there is a “tool” of hacking that is often overlooked: Social Engineering.
i know a little bit about that, haven’t done it much tbh. do you do any social engineering? is that like how you network with people at meetups and shit?
You’re going to feel right at home with TempleOS.
i’m autistic and schizophrenic
people seriously have compared me to the guy who made it (why tf can’t i remember his name)
Terry Davis.
Welp, here’s sincerely hoping this is not a bad omen.
terry davis! i had it right on the tip of my tongue. they only thing i know about terry is that he’s schizophrenic and he made templeos. i have the paranoid variety…well, not quite, i was diagnosed schizoaffective in 2019, in other words roughly half schizophrenic and half bipolar
i don’t know how people feel about the use of the word “schizo” around here…trust me, it’s totally fine, we call ourselves schizos all the fucking time, lmao
And he’s also the best fucking programmer of all time.
That sounds like quite the combo, hope you’re doing alright. I’ll probably pass on calling you schizo though if that’s ok. I had just assumed you were shitposting tbh, but whatever floats your boat. Hope you enjoy the community and the Linux experience
i hope i do too! i wasn’t even into programming until 2017 when i had a manic episode and realized the simulation we’re in is coded in ruby
well it’s not… i mean i don’t know what it’s coded in, could be a language that only exists in base reality
x00zKali is not for actual every day use.
You can install all of its included tools on whatever distro you want.
gotcha! thank u, sir/ma’am/nb. which distro would you recommend?
InternetCitizen2Other hardcore options include Gentoo or just going Linux from scratch.
coledistro barely matters beyond how you get the packages.
there’s a reason arch is popular, it can be whatever you want it to be.
tbh, it sounds like you don’t have a great understanding of Linux (not an attack!) so I would definitely stay away from Kali, and other distros like that.
stick with Arch if you’re confident you can maintain it, or if you want to have a system which you don’t have to poke at Fedora is a great option
Is it possible to create a shim to make keyboard shortcuts act like macOS? I don’t think I can live with ctrl+shift+c when command/super is right there.
Arch is a pretty good one if you want to control and tinker. I have personally found it to be very reliable over the years, and the AUR is exceptionally powerful (although you NEED to review your PKGBUILDs, there's nothing stopping someone from putting malware on the AUR again). The packaging format is so simple and easy that I actually build a few performance-critical packages locally so I can tweak compiler flags (gimmie that -march native).
Nix is cool and kinda crazy, but honestly? I'd hold off until you're comfortable with Arch. Same with Gentoo.
i seriously am more of a tinkerer than anything else so i think i will stick with arch. thanks for the tip!
CybersteelLike those Google Chrome ones back then
Alphane MoonThe corrupt oligopolists have completely given up on QA; why would they bother when they don’t feel any real competitive pressure.
AFAIK, this has been happening as far back as Windows 8. I believe they had a giant pool of physical PCs (laptops, pre-builts and various popular component combinations for desktop) that they physically tested updates on, but they scrapped all of it because they know they don’t need to worry about competition.
joelfromausThe corrupt oligopolists have completely given up on QA
They put “make sure there are no bugs” into their copilot prompt, what else do you want from them?! /s
Joe BreuerWin 11 is one of the ‘bad’ releases for sure (cf ME, Vista, 8 vs XP, 7, possibly 10)
Beyond the title, Louis eloquently talks about this dynamic here:
Microsoft screws their neighbors while giving the EU free updates
northernlightsGood riddance Windows die in a fire. I’m glad they’re owning up to having an unmainatable 20 year old pile of spaghetti code and are giving up. Makes it die faster.
I’d love to recommend the file pilot the file explorer. It isn’t the most feature complete (it’s still on beta) but just the sheer amount of time you gain by it’s search tooling is just astonishing.
goatinspacei could make a mean comment, but i recently switched from mint to ultramarine kde and i could swear it’s buggier than w11. literally every time i look at it wrong i need to reboot.
I also find KDE to be a real mixed bag. Every time I have tried it, thinking “maybe it got better”, it has ranged from being a bit buggy to “holy shit this is well broken”. I may just have been really unlucky but I have been burned too many times and now avoid it altogether.
I have experience in KDE being a bit buggy too. It’s kinda crazy how powerful it is, but I guess more “moving parts” means more breakage.
After a while, I moved away from KDE.
I haven’t used KDE Plasma since Plasma 6 came out, though. I’ve heard people say it’s a lot less janky, so maybe my experience is no longer the case. Nowadays the only interaction I have with KDE is the 1% of the time my steam deck spends in desktop mode.
I’ve had very few problems with KDE Plasma (on Fedora) since I swapped to it like a year ago. Discover is being weird every now and then, but I mostly use dnf directly anyways.
every time i open my computer i have the tray filled with sad face emojis because discover crashed. then it will not open anymore but the sad emojis still reappear
dabster291Have you tried launching Discover through the terminal? You might get some helpful logs (especially if it’s immediately segfaulting, that means it’s a known bug with a fix!)
yes i have launched it from terminal. it only launches with sudo, it works completely normally then. funny that it nags that it’s unnecessary to run it with sudo. without sudo it’s just silent, nothing appears in terminal.
there’s also 4 updates always available, but they keep coming back after restarting discover. sometimes it gives an error complaining about color schemes, wallpapers, cursors etc. even if I remove everything i downloaded…
Huh, strange…