Especially when your first distro is literal goddamn Arch with a few bells and whistles

Today, I use MPV to handle the most screwed video files

Working in the food industry :)

Sodium glutamate and aroma compositions are there to help!

I know, so you can make your own without them!

Or just not add anchovies, they don’t add that much to the taste anyway

Yeah, Russians refer to space (the thing up above) as “cosmos” (which also happens to be present in English), and spacebar as probel (i.e. a white/blank segment)

Su often takes more time and is more involved, even if it’s a difference between very little effort and no effort at all.

For example, I update and install apps through CLI about once a week, and I’d rather just bang the sudo <update command> than go su, enter root credentials, and only then go for what I wanted in the first place.

So for all that time one could do THIS?

Beautiful

Honestly, yes.

Linux lacks a native Task manager, and this is one of the “death by a thousand cuts” roadblocks that prevent its adoption.

A user must be able to launch a graphical tool to manage processes even if everything else froze. That’s just basic usability.

Can it be currently resolved with a terminal? Yes. Should it be resolved with a terminal? No.

I once accidentally unmounted the system drive. You know what? Aside from some crash messages and a lost battery indicator, the system just kept going.

I finished my Zoom call just fine, finished what I needed to do real quick and then rebooted.

It all went back and was just fine.

That’s one of my gripes with Arch, too. It takes too much manual interaction on an everyday basis, it’s not a “set it and forget it” kind of system.

To some, sometimes lesser, extent it also translates to its derivatives, be it Endeavour, Garuda, Manjaro or whatever strikes one’s fancy.

Fair enough. Honestly, fear is the main barrier

If you can open a YouTube video, open a terminal and not scream in horror, you fill all the prerequisites.

These odd freezes, especially when moving files at scale, is something I struggled with on all Arch-based distros I had installed: Arch itself, EndeavourOS, Manjaro.

Either Arch doesn’t like my hardware in some way, or it’s just something Arch users struggle with.

Any other distros worked just fine in that regard.

Arch can be configured without archinstall in 20 minutes by a YouTube video even if you’re a grandma with 0 technical skills.

Let’s all stop pretending that having it manually installed means anything and just use whatever does it for us. Like, well, Endeavour.

Well, maybe it was considered user friendly decades ago, but with the way interfaces evolved, it didn’t progress all too much. Peoples’ expectations did change, though.

Didn’t hear about it, at least recently when Linus Torvals came to Linus Sebastian (aka Linus Tech Tips), they were still discussing Fedora

Yes, they want to phase it out, though currently it’s still there. My general point is, it’s just not designed for Linux newcomers and that’s a big shame.

Interesringly, ostree didn’t solve the VPN issue for me, and for others too. Works fine on all mutable distros I tried, though (including regular Fedora editions).

Can’t remember how it went with Wine. Besides, as far as I remember, installing native packets via ostree drastically increases update size and adds extra entries to manage, putting a limit on how much stuff you can reasonably install this way.

With that, I figured I’d rather take mutable system and apply good practices to it whenever possible. Snapshots? Check. Flatpaks? Always preferred. Sane management for native app repos? Yes. And with that, I never had my system fail me.

My use case can be a bit rare and specific, but there are plenty of different “rare issues” out there, and there’s nothing more frustrating than figuring out your distro doesn’t work with thing X and nothing can be done about it.

Immutable distros are cool, and hopefully it will all get resolved in a sane way. But to me, we’re not there yet.