[-] ethd@beehaw.org 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I would argue that NixOS absolutely is the OS you get if your time is worthless, but not every distro is the same. I'd argue that if you need something that doesn't have so many issues a stabler or easier to use distro (Debian, Ubuntu, Pop!_OS, Linux Mint, and even Fedora or openSUSE) is going to be a better option than trying to bend specifically NixOS to do what you want.

I personally use a mix of Pop, Debian, and Fedora, not because they're particularly powerful, but because they tend to be more straightforward for what I want to do than NixOS, Gentoo, or Arch. I don't mind tinkering, but for my main machines I don't want to tinker much.

Edit: I should clarify that there are plenty of reasonable uses of Windows and I don't fault anyone for using it especially if their familiarity is keeping them from understanding Linux as well as they want to. But I also would make the case that there are a lot of distros out there.

[-] ethd@beehaw.org 24 points 4 months ago

I think their joke was that Thinkpad Arch users (at least online) have a strong correlation with trans women

[-] ethd@beehaw.org 12 points 6 months ago

Manjaro isn't that fragile on its own. No, seriously, their goal is to make a stable version of Arch. No wait stop laughing —

The majority of issues with Manjaro itself (notwithstanding the team's other issues) would be fixed by retiring the AUR as an official software source altogether. It simply isn't a repository built with Manjaro's slower burn in mind; it demands a bleeding edge system. If you don't use the AUR, Manjaro is as stable as any other system. It just sucks for many other reasons, which is why I personally wouldn't use it.

[-] ethd@beehaw.org 14 points 6 months ago

Oh hey, I was thinking about DSL recently and was bummed that it'd been discontinued for so long. It was my first Linux distro, downloaded over the course of I think a day and a half over rural dial-up. I moved to Ubuntu once I was able to get blazing fast 1.5 Mbps "broadband" but DSL still holds a special place in my heart. Going antiX-based was probably a good move to make it a bit more manageable, and while I downloaded it originally because it was 50MB I agree that it's probably more realistic that people will download it with a connection much faster than dial-up, and the hard cap on a CD-sized image is I think a good compromise. It's still, as the name says, damn small, at least by modern OS standards.

[-] ethd@beehaw.org 33 points 7 months ago

Every company you can buy a smartphone from is "another big company that will do anything to make money, no matter how much they're already making." This is an issue with capitalism, not just inherently Apple. Don't fault people for using the tool that works best for what they're doing.

[-] ethd@beehaw.org 16 points 7 months ago

The final boss of polyamory

[-] ethd@beehaw.org 16 points 7 months ago

Honestly the most surprising part of this news is that it took so long

[-] ethd@beehaw.org 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Are you referencing this ad?

Union dues cost around $700 a year. A new video game system with the latest hits sounds like fun. Put your money towards that instead of paying dues to the union. Delta DontRiskItDontSignIt.com

Or are you saying this unironically?

EDIT: I'm awful at formatting images inline in Lemmy comments apparently. Would you believe I write documentation in Markdown for my job? Because I sure don't!

[-] ethd@beehaw.org 19 points 8 months ago

Ok look I'm not a huge Arch fan either (it's great for learning the ins and outs of Linux but I've gotten to the point that stability is more important than anything to me) but the wiki is the most thorough Linux documentation you can get anywhere. It always, always has the answer, even if you don't use Arch, lol.

[-] ethd@beehaw.org 18 points 10 months ago

I accidentally misspelled my hormones

[-] ethd@beehaw.org 35 points 11 months ago

Cool.

Cool cool cool.

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