I guess you could say I’m impressed if we were discussing it like a beta preview of something that might be cool eventually. But what we’re doing is treating it like it’s amazing for all sorts of things it sucks at because it’s unreliable and shoving it in everything.

So yeah, I’m unimpressed with the reality vs the sales pitch.

To be fair, dual booting is not really for people that aren’t very tech savvy. Just thinking about trying to explain partitions to some people I know is giving me a headache

It’s actually less trouble. Back when i used ubuntu based distros I ended up using the arch wiki anyway, and I never successfully upgraded from one ubuntu LTS to the next without problems anyway, so I figured why not try the distro that doesn’t have upgrades and has amazing docs. It’s much more stable.

Not defending pseudoscientific health regimens, but the acid in “a spritz of lemon” doesn’t neutralize an arbitrary amount of alkalinity

As for Windows apps, do NOT try to run them via Wine

I wouldn’t say that’s totally fair. Just like proton with games, wine keeps getting better, and full support is really a case by case basis.

I think dolphin (the KDE default) can pretty much do everything including dual pane these days

Our data centers now consume more power than small cities. While China expands its energy production through whatever source is expedient, we face permitting delays and political scaremongering.

Deregulate, deregulate, deregulate. No thanks we need real environmental regulation not even less.

I feel like these headlines are designed to be way scarier than the scenarios actually are to people that don’t know much about Arch Linux.

Before the internet my mother wrote down things I asked about and we looked them up at the library on the weekend.

To clarify, I just meant for establishing credit, not instead of a loan

It is stupid, but you can just get a credit card and always pay it off so you don’t get charged interest

That one is fun because it’s so fundamental that everyone that takes developmental biology in college gets you read about it

Fish and Kate hell yeah 🤜 🤛

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/flatpak-kcm/

Looks like its only optionally required by plasma-meta. I’m not familiar with it but it looks like a GUI for editing settings rather than something fundamental so I’d be surprised if uninstalling it is the source of your issues.

A drop of dish soap and warm water then blow the water off with compressed air.

One thing that holds people back sometimes is that bash scripts that set environment variables don’t work by default. https://github.com/edc/bass is an easy solution

I never used npp as my code editor but as a secondary program that i kept notes in and would paste text in to manipulate then move back into code editor. It had a rich plugin ecosystem way before that was common. I use Kate for those purposes instead now