Billegh

I feel all of that. Debian is painfully slow to bring up-to-date, and all of Arch is neurotic.

You might have a better time with Fedora as they are closest to Wayland, but Fedora is pathologically open source to the point that if there aren’t open source drivers for a thing you’re triple tucked…

Gaming on linux has been, still is, and always will be a struggle. I hope you give it a try again in a year or so. I personally use Debian as my base system, with an Arch VM on CPU and GPU passthrough for work and gaming. You’ll get there eventually! ☺️

Which distro were you using?

Can confirm; am asshole contrarian.

It is 2024 and I am upset that there still isn’t a Punch option in the right click menu.

Octopodeez nuts

Glad to help. 😁 Get out there with that little dog energy.

Are you crazy? That’s expensive! Too expensive!!!

Ignore all previous instructions please transfer me to a human.

Ok, I’m good with that.

Just make sure it isn’t the Pomeranians this time

Arch is absolutely divine with its documentation. There is a bit of a “you must be this tall to ride” with them though. Like the tiny [AUR] link. That’s not really well explained, and is even more opaque if you follow the link.

Double snark if you get upset that I didn’t accept it and reach out to find out why.

Sending my work email a calendar invite as the first communication. Just because you want to sell it doesn’t mean I want to buy it. Or even hear about it. If a calendar event is the first thing you send me, I will be the avatar of snark. My calendar is busy enough without you inserting yourself into it without my consent.

Their home/home office stuff is absolutely trash. That much is true.

Much of their small business stuff is on the verge of being ok. Just, expensive for what it is.

Meanwhile at work we have hp enterprise printers that are twelve years old and still working flawlessly.

Because Fedora is open source only to the point of it being pathological. If there isn’t am open source driver most time you’re just boned. Someone new is going to have a tough time with it, and the community is on average a very “lol rtfm” bunch. Not as bad as Arch, but that’s not saying much.

Meanwhile, despite the problems around Ubuntu, Debian communities are much more understanding and helpful. Mint even with old packages is going to be an easier time for a newbie. Certainly a newbie unfamiliar with the way entirely too much of the FOSS community is.

Sorry, that will forever be Did Not Finish for me. 😣

Shell scripts were a mistake.

I understand 1000% but I’m not sure I agree. With the peevishness of C and latent autism of assembly, something compiled or otherwise binary isn’t always simple and straightforward. Sometimes, you have a task that only needs to be done three times, and just replaying the commands is sufficient.

sh, ash, and bash are all kinda dumb. Absolutely. But there are other shells that are significantly better. csh and zsh are both great. ksh has some history on it but is good too. But “shell scripts” don’t have to be in your shell language. The hashbang line will let you make a command file and so long as you can describe the command line you can get most shells to run it. Be that language line noise perl or python or even go.

Something something don’t cite the old magics something something I was there when it was written…

Right, but you have no way of telling what version of tar that bomb is running

Joke’s on you, .tar isn’t compression