The idea of liking an operating system is kinda bizarre to me.

So far explaining why I like one has just been a case of whether or not it frustrate me. Fedora just failed me on that one. I don't love anything particular about Arch - it just never make me want to pull my hair out, and in the rare cases something fails, it is always possible to fix and I often learn something in the process. It is also hard for me to put my finger on why I dislike a distro - other than the process of using it causing me frustration.

Also I'd like to give a shout out to SparkyLinux - a small Debian distro that just works.

edit: ea. an operating system shouldn't be there for me to have opinions on it, it should sort of just melt away in the background without needing me to think about its existance.

#linux #arch #fedora #sparkylinux

Using “AI” to manage your #Fedora system seems like a really bad idea
https://www.osnews.com/story/144006/using-ai-to-manage-your-fedora-system-seems-like-a-really-bad-idea/

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It's a useless #bubble for most applications of #AI!

#Linux

Day 7 of #AdventOfCode still wasn't the expected nigh impossible puzzle, but it allowed for another nice visualisation. :)

Part 2 did require some thinking. As in "Yes, I understand the instructions, but how does that lead to the given result??" Once I had figured that out, it only required a few small adjustments to part1 (and some trial and error).

(More by luck than judgement, the brute force solution didn't even occur to me until I was almost done. It would have been easy enough to implement and would have allowed for another nice visualisation. Instead I got the same visualisation for both parts. 🤷)

One very pleasant aspect of C++ is how easy it is to refactor code. For part 2 I needed to count, so I used a vector of long long (just in case) instead of a string. With a single exception, the only places that needed adjustment were exactly those where the algorithm changed, so I didn't need to keep track of what I needed to update because the compiler did.