Wasn’t that because people just… Didn’t react at all? Just stood around watching the ceiling be on fire. I seem to remember there being footage to that effect

Only female bees have stingers tho

I feel like this all started around that time that there was that article that mentioned the most popular desktop environments on Arch Linux from repo stats where KDE plasma was the highest with over double gnome.

Clearly gnome foundation salty

Imagine not having an opnsense firewall deployed as an IT professional

It requires neither of those upgrades though? Unless you’re still using Windows XP I guess for some reason. It’s just an update to the image decoder

Devices became ever more locked down for developers. Between bootloaders that can’t be unlocked and drivers that have to be reverse engineered it’s just too hard to develop custom roms now.

There were always some devices like that but now it’s most of them

I mean technically so are repos to some extent. Many of them have very few maintainers and you are basically just blindly trusting that they won’t both miss anything malicious nor be the cause of it.

A little safer but not some ultimate Bastion of safety

You know it’s funny I actually find that I like the esoteric Flags more . They just stick in my head as unique and I’m never wondering whether I do update or upgrade or anything else that might sound right. It’s Syu, always has been :)

Sounds more likely that AUR fucked you. Which isn’t pacman. I’ve often found people who hate “pacman” usually just hosed their system with the AUR

Pacman is the best for the simple fact that it’s simple. APT, DNF etc get into the weeds with complex scripts trying to update databases and other nonsense that has caused apt/dpkg to obliterate systems for me too often (over like 10 years)

but pacman is about as close as possible to “unzip in place and go home” I’ve never had the actual pacman itself break a system. And the only broken update I’ve had is the stupid grub one which I solved by switching to systemdboot. On top of that even IF you somehow obliterated an arch system it’s trivial to chroot in, use a statically built pacman, then reinstall all system packages with a single command.

I unironically use arch in critical production systems as i genuinely find it to be more reliable. Slap on some filesystem snapshots as a just in case for any bugs from updates (never had to use) and I have a system that is so much easier to use and i feel more confident doing updates

The problem is that by the time I have said that to them it’s already to desktop. I cursed Myself by having an operating system that is fast and efficient and I also did not install 18 different applications that open at boot. So now I just feel left out from the group not waiting for my computer to finish booting :(

All 3 users of systems that don’t support 64bit will be devastated. Once they finish loading the news anyway

That is definitely one of the crowds but there are also people like me that just are sick and tired of dealing with python, node, ruby depends. The install process for services has only continued to become increasingly more convoluted over the years. And then you show me an option where I can literally just slap down a compose.yml and hit “docker compose up - d” and be done? Fuck yeah I’m using that

Vibe coding is useful for super basic bash scripting and that’s about it. Even that it will mess up but usually in a suler easily fixed way

I get the joke, but rust is actually pretty heavily used in the backend of services theae days. Cloudflare, Amazon, Dropbox, just to randomly name a few off the top my head. Have pretty heavily invested it into their back ends for more reliable service.

Pivoted off a cliff with swift lmao.

I’ve unfortunately gotten tired of ironfox, some of the crap they change for “privacy” (doesn’t exist on the internet and all attempts to block things actually make you MORE identifiable) just break too many websites. After the like 30th time having to switch to nightly to make something work i just said fuck it.

They really need to be more careful about actual functionality if they want to take over as the main version of ff. Don’t get me wrong I use ublock origin, decentraleyes, clearURLs etc. But i use them for performance not privacy, blocking all the bullshit sites load to eat my battery. They work without constantly breaking basic sites unlike whatever ironfox does

Save it as a pdf (using the print option) in case it gets disappeared

Getting good is an alternative, coding will always be a trade between ease and quality. Super high level languages are super easy and accessible but the tradeoff is you have no idea what is actually happening on the backend nor much control of it and it requires bloated web engines to manage and run.

I’ll never stop hating that debian is labeled stable. I’m fully aware that they are using the definition of stable that simply means not updating constantly but the problem is that people conflate that with stability as in unbreaking. Except it’s the exact opposite in my experience, I’ve had apt absolutely obliterate debian systems way too often. Vs pacman on arxh seems to be exceptionally good at avoiding that. Sure the updated package itself could potentially have a bug or cause a problem but I can’t think of any instance where the actual process of updating itself is what eviscerated the system like with apt and dpkg.

And even in the event of an update going catastrophically wrong to the point that the system is inoperable I can simply chroot in use a statically built binary pacman and in a oneliner command reinstall ALL native packages in one go which I’ve never had not fix a borked system from interrupted update or needing a rollback