That’s the real “difference” in the Linux camps right?

Ubuntu N00bs - “what’s a terminal?” vs. Arch, Gentoo, Nix, etc users who despite whatever camp you’re in you know you can tell them “you need to enable the systemd service” or "add option blah to /etc/program.conf and they know what they means without further explanation.

You can do that with Mint too - LMDE

yay -Syu, and around that time KDE had switched from plasma 5 to plasma 6, which involved moving a lot of packages into the extra repository, so you had to sit there and confirm each package move (unless you used --noconfirm).

TempleOS obviously

I have an old desktop downclocked that pulls ~100W that I’m using as a file server, but I’m working on moving most of my services over to an Intel NUC that pulls ~15W. Nothing wrong with being power efficient.

If you have a laptop/something that runs off a battery, upower

This thread is about the steam deck. It is a purpose built piece of hardware that runs its software in containers.

It can run regular desktop software, but it is absolutely not a replacement for “a general purpose system”.

Isn’t that technically what Android fix 15 tears ago?

Does that mean you don’t have to get down to the bus stop?

It’s been a decade. They’ll live.

She wont

The hell it does.

You’ve spent too much time talking to my family.

That’s why I only use my socks by proxy

1 minute and 14 seconds?

https://youtu.be/8utpbbdj0LQ

I don’t think I’ve had a pacman update take longer than 10 minutes before. Sounds like OP was updating all their AUR packages too.

Still absolutely a terrible thing to do on 10% battery life. I bet there’s an AUR package for “check battery level before update” out there somewhere though.

OPs meme is "use distro whose model is ‘give users enough rope to hang themselves’ " and complaining he’s at the gallows

ask chatgpt

You mean read the Arch wiki?

Mutations are also good, see any piece of software with a version higher than 1.0, or any project that was forked.

I was going to say “but ventoy only mounts the filesystem as readonly. Great for testing new distros, but not great for rolling installs you carry with you to use on different computers”

Then I quickly found https://www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_persistence.html, so TIL!

Yeah, all my Linux installs after about 2003 were liveCDs. I used to carry my Gentoo CD around as my diagnostic tools for a while helping people fix their windows machines (or just backing up everything off it before reformatting).

I think Knoppix was the first live CD I used. It was mind blowing. Now you can just carry around a whole personally configured system on a USB stick. Pretty cool.

I think you mean “Great Scot!”

Sometimes hours of work to figure out how to get a webcam to work Or how to fix grub?

The easiest solution was just “eh, I probably don’t need that anyways”