4 years later and I look down like I’m even higher up.

Yeah, but those with the competency to remove the bloat still get this look for not choosing the bloat-free option.

Linux doesn’t “make you interact with the terminal.” Many linux users interact with the terminal because it’s a better tool for many purposes-- not just niche ones as you suggest. Your argument leans heavily on popularity: what most people are doing, but that’s kind of the point of the original comment. People are taught on software and OSs owned and pushed by private companies. It creates such a dependency that it’s hard for people to imagine how one can succeed without them. Knowing the terminal can help one understand GUIs better, and makes it easier to imagine building new ones or modifying existing ones. It also allows a person to recognise when a GUI is unnecessary and a task can be completed faster by keeping your hands on the keyboard and working in the terminal.

It’s like neovim if you had amnesia and forgot all the time spent installing plugins and getting your configs just right.

Yes, but only if it’s the editor I use /s

Title got my hopes up for Bezos. Guess this is better than nothing, though the damage is already done.

That or Giraffe Interchange Format

Every few updates my Pop_OS! suspend would break (sleep and not wake, or sleep and wake immediately). I could never figure it out beyond knowing NVIDIA was the source. Worked around it by swapping my graphics card to a comparable AMD card-- now my machine sleeps like a baby.

Barefoot, shirtless, through broken glass. Linux is one helluva drug.

I do this, but now I have 10k+ bookmarks, fairly organized, but the bookmark manager is trash. It is slow and getting slower. Also, searching history feels like '90’s web search: hopeless if you don’t remember exact keywords.

I’ve been tinkering with many of these lately, but I’ve been surprised by the lack of interoperability. I’ve yet to work with a bookmark manager that can import and export a netscape html file, without dramatically changing its structure. Of the top 2 for my needs, Linkwarden doesn’t export to html and linkding does, but loses the hierarchy.

Also, many proprietary softwares rely on open source libraries. So unless they catch, patch, and do not contribute those fixes, proprietary will be at least as vulnerable as the oss they depend on.

How likely are you to recommend Arch to a friend or colleague? 1, not likely, to 5, extremely likely.

It’s also a great learning opportunity to see how core tools like cat, ls, etc are written in rust. Relevant repo dir: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/tree/main/src/uu

Yup! If you have it on steam you can unzip the exe and take a peak at his code.

I’m convinced Mark Zuckerberg had a wet dream about pupil tracking when he bought Oculus.