I was making a rather annoying joke. LFS might work on with Asahi’s bootloading, but then you are dealing with Linux From Scratch which could only ever make sense to any degree with Nix

It ends with LFS >:3

The only reason why Reddit is anywhere close to where it is right now and not considered the sweaty place it was and right after 4Chan in dissociability is Reddit’s data sharing with Google and the reception of better search rankings.

Good, next step is installing Artix :3

View that as a good opportunity to get into Gentoo

I don’t see how information couldn’t be entertaining haha Maybe the point is more about attention spans and there being a fall off in the number of people you can reach with lengthening of the required attention span.

true and people forget how troubleshooting makes them smarter

Linus is not at all a moron. The trouble with him is that he plays the role of a boulevard journalist. So he constructs bs narratives to have something to talk about, even when it makes absolutely no sense to create these little plot points.

It seems to have gotten to a point where he can not switch his style off. Seems to have gotten this way since he started LMG.

This is why you use Emacs, Kate, Neovim and so on. Never understood how anyone could use a software as confusing as VSCode.

I mean it’s Python. This is what we get for having been overly reliant on it.

All kidding aside, I am a more than a bit confused by this.

Debian is kind of too big to fail. Maybe NixOS if you want something that will almost certainly gain popularity in the future.

Don’t think though that distros are the layer which you want to look at. Lots of stuff happens at the level of DEs, drivers and individual apps, which sure is preconditioned by the distro you choose but at the same time not that strict of a thing. You can get anything working provided you have the time.

x11 is still in its last round before retirement it seems, using Wayland is going to future proof what you’ve got majorly.

My 2c. Feel free to critique.

I would honestly love to share my stuff but I’m afraid that what I have to share contains too much identifying information with screenshots and all. I probably spent 24 hours in total with my current install and at least triple as much getting a previous Cinnamon install that I screwed up because I went to the experimental Wayland session to look and act a certain way. Back when I studied architecture we would consider all the failed attempts as a natural and indeed deeply necessary aspect of design, therefore I count the previous install as being the starting point of my current one. I hope that made sense. All of this is to say that I spent an inordinate amount of my recent life on this. I would love to share, but my paranoia is really keeping me from doing that. It took me 24 hours alone to create a decent repository of thematically and aesthetically matched backgrounds with all the selecting and editing of images. There is just so much that you have to do.

Warning you’re going to get the urge to try Gentoo to customize your system even further

Too late

All distributions are easy as long as forum posts and well sorted documentation exists.

And all distribution can be hard when they’re nerfed. Try modding Debian to behave like like a crazy arch setup. Program X requires KDE Plasma 6.5.x, you can only use 6.3.6 because Debian. Then you have to go to a GitHub page and compile an earlier version of program X by yourself. During this you get errors and mess your installs up. You clean up. Rinse and repeat until you have got something working. By then you’ll have spent an hour, if not two. On Arch I would have only had to have typed a little thing into the terminal. This is one of the less complex examples fyi.

In the end it’s gotta work out. A nice evening to you too

That makes you a certified cool person in my book :)

You forgot to include Emergency Alert System fans.

The alternate wail of a Federal Signal T1003 will never not be music to my ears.

Hong Kong has got to be pretty darn cool. Didn’t know there was such a thing as a portable rice cooker. You learn something each day I guess haha

…Or maybe pedantry?

But now that I’ve said this, does it make you feel unsettled about it?

Considering that rice cookers are expensive where you are from, I suppose it is a sensible choice. I can’t exactly say I’m unsettled. Let’s suppose these devices being much cheaper relative to local salaries and there being plenty space for a rice cooker, then I’d be unsettled. But only if you are a regular consumer of rice, as I am ;)

Proably a cultural thing.

True. Some simply prefer plain-jane cooking or more steaming without the use of a dedicated cooker. A rice cooker though is “fire and forget”, consistent and simple. Most people want that sort of clarity and in that sense I do believe in the rice cooker.

Aye, you get it