it is absolutely recommended to keep any system that has access to the internet up to date. i don’t know why people keep saying it isn’t

unless i’m missing something, any distro will do. i’d personally go with debian, but that’s my choice. opensuse is also an excellent choice if you want easy to use config tools

If DOS is like Windows the system clock ticks local time, but usually Linux likes UTC time

that’s entirely configurable

it’s just an os, you’re not better just bc you memorized a bunch of terminal commands and willingly subjected yourself to a poorer user experience

if you don’t give a fuck about user freedom and just want to use a unix os, then fuck off to any bsd out there and stfu

yes and that sucked. i’m glad we’re not like that anymore

what is it with linux nerds not understanding that you can have configurability without it being mandatory? i’m not saying the terminal shouldn’t exist, just that i shouldn’t have to use it

every time you need to open a terminal for some basic system operation is a defeat for the system

(i get that this is not a very common operation, but still)

it’s not just that this is not for me. i genuinely don’t see the point of a terminal-only editor (even vim has a gui version) without any extensibility. the reason vim and emacs are still being used despite being old and full of cruft is that their extensibility makes them very adaptable. treesitter et al seem enough now, but what about ten years from now?

it’s also weird their motivation for being terminal-only is better performance, as if guis are this super resource intensive thing and not something that’s been mainstream for at least 30 years

for the terminal

no thank you

there is currently no plugin system available

lmao

agreed. they already told us the company is based, no need to tell they have ties to the ccp

oh, i forgot gnome forces you to reboot after each update (plasma just installs the updates in the background after you ask it to)

if you don’t mind me asking: why? in my experience, keeping the system up to date is usually effortless

emacs (the master branch)

it’s surprisingly less buggy and way faster than the prebuit, stable version. it also doesn’t take very long to compile new changes if you keep building from a local git clone

i wish i didn’t need a terminal emulator

in the meantime, emacs is a decent replacement

my last personal anectode with ubuntu is this: my company decided to setup our office as a remote-onsite hybrid workplace, so our working machines were moved to a rack elsewhere to be accessed remotely and the local machines were supposed to act as basically dumb terminals that can be used interchangeably by us

we develop on rhel, but since the local machines are just to access our dev machines remotely, support decided to install ubuntu because it “just works”. turns out, since ubuntu does a lot of stuff its own way for no good reason, it broke under our network configuration (it’s complicated) and no snap application could run – so, no slack or firefox. not a great scenario for a workplace. in the end we decided to replace ubuntu by rhel and no longer had any issues

you’re right that ubuntu might work flawlessly for you and that it might never break. but, it also might break in unexpected ways. i cannot reliably recommend ubuntu to a beginner because this risk might forever put someone off of linux

i mean… when it doesn’t break, it works better than anything else. 5-minute installs, supports a ton of configurations and peripherals out of the box, makes gnome a little more usable, etc, etc

…but it breaks, eventually

you’re right, but the issues with ubuntu crop up later, when you have to update or after you install enough incompatible stuff that it breaks your system. which is a shame bc ubuntu is the most user friendly distro there is imo

what about energy efficiency? that used to be a massive disadvantage of the amds

went looking for it. “stable rolling release” sounds really interesting, but i’m scared of installing it and being mistaken for a systemd hater

people laughed at me for choosing debian. they asked why i chose to have ancient runes running in my computer

who’s laughing now?

i tried many different algorithms at the time, but it didn’t really matter. my laptop would always, eventually, lag and get pretty hot and I would check the task manager and sure enough there were the btrfs compression proccesses hogging the cpu