I just use restic to backup my home (to a local disk as well as weekly remote syncs). Then whenever I switch distros I just restore the files I want.

Linux has plenty of users who appreciate it for what it is, not how you can make it look and act like Windows. Linux doesn’t need those people.

Personally I’m tired of people telling disgruntled Windows users to switch to Linux.

Linux is not your backup plan, it’s not a “Windows alternative”. Yes, there are projects out there that try to make Linux easier for Windows users, and honestly they can fuck right off. Way too many people are trying to dumb down this incredibly powerful operating system to expand the market into the “gamers” and the “grannies who want to browse the web and send e-mail”.

Just… just stop.

Are… are you pronouncing “Arch” as “ark”? I guess it is a weird word, seeing as “architecture” has a hard C, but “look at the arch on that doorway” does not.

I went from Endeavour, to Arch, to Manjaro, to Void Linux, back to Endeavour over the past 3 years. I use restic for onsite/offsite backups, and man does it feel cathartic to pick and choose which dotfiles you want to restore from backups.

Also the first time I ran Arch, I had tried to switch from systemd-boot to grub and I must have messed something up, because frequently (enough) when paru was doing a kernel update I would end up with a hang into an unbootable system that required fishing out a liveUSB to resolve it.

Much like uninstalling applications in Windows leaves shit in the registry, pacman can still leave mud in various places.

That being said, I don’t think I’d do a re-install into the same distro however.

Bawk bawk BU-CAWK! – <chicken>

I have a ZSA Voyager and my escape key is on my left thumb, beside the space key.

For the life of me though I can’t imagine why anyone is still using CAPSLOCK, vbU.

That’s pedantry. If I said “the difference between cars and bicycles is 4 wheels versus 2” someone will feel the need to shout out about some 6 wheeled Mercedes or unicycles and tricycles.

Why would you carry around your secure password vault in your pocket? #thatsjustdumb

Windows 95b

DK is really small, and doesn’t try to do anything other than manage windows, and has a very simple shell script for configuration. I use sxhkd, polybar, and bemenu (with a frequency script) for everything else that I need.

I ran sway for a few months but it was missing one crucial ability that I’ve grown used to, which is to rotate the windows through the stack.

DK (similar to BSPWM or i3/sway). I have zero interest in “DE’s” like KDE or Gnome, or anything heavily reliant on using a mouse.

Oh no! Anyways …

Lazygit is amazing. I once had to roll back a feature before a deployment that was spread over 25 commits made during a 2 month period. With lazygit it was easy, with the cli it would have been a real pita. For everything else I pretty much just use the cli with tig and the github-cli.

VSCode is one of the best free editors second only to Neovim (and maybe DoomEmacs), and the world runs off GitHub whether we like it or not. Azure runs Linux, and a lot of work has been put into WSL to where it’s pretty darn handy if you’re forced to use company Windows hardware but need to do Dev/SRE tasks.

Windows 11 and Teams though can die in a tire fire.

We get it, you’re a filthy casual.

Tell us you know nothing about running Linux and rely on app stores for your software.

A bad experience? I’ve been using Linux for nearly 30 years, since the late 90’s. My bad experience is finding communities dominated by people that only care about gaming and making things brain dead easy, from flatpaks to entire distributions designed to emulate the look and feel of Windows.

And consoles? If it wasn’t for the Steamdeck/Proton 90% of you would still be running Windows. Even with all the advancements, Linux gamers are still less than 1.5% of the market share.

Also, my closet 3090 machine runs EndeavourOS and ollama/stable diffusion. Endeavour is just Arch with an installer and a couple of shell scripts.

No one cares about gamers, buy a console if all you want to do is play games, or run windows then.

If I’m paying $2k+ for a card, I want to be able to fully utilize it, and not just for the occasional bit of gaming.

CUDA has far more support than ROCm for a variety of things, from 3D render/design applications to AI powered tools. Nothing sucks more than coming across a nifty app or tool and finding out you can’t use it because you chose the wrong GPU.