This excuse is so dumb for many reasons. Provide me the source and I will make my own package if needed.
The same excuse is used to make terribly performing video games… Just buy a better graphics card if you want to run <any modern game> at over 60fps!
I was around 18 when I started, so doing nonsensical things was my area of expertise at the time. That helps a bit with the feeling of time waste.
Still, it was not a complete waste, because now I can fix any such problems in minutes, and I always carry an archiso drive on me (which I used maybe once in the past 5 years to fix somebody else’s PC which wasn’t even running Arch).
I will say, without exaggerating, recovering from Windows boot issues has caused me WAY more issues over the years. It doesn’t tell you what’s actually wrong, you don’t get much in terms of tools, and so it’s much harder to fix unless you want to completely reinstall Windows (which apparently is a good idea to do regularly too…).
My ego isn’t that big…
I chose Arch (in 2011) because
I do catch myself saying “just read the manual”, but not in a hostile way I think. When you’re already in a terminal, once you get used to manuals, it’s very accessible and it’s quick to get what you need.
However, that usually requires you to know what you’re looking for quite specifically, and that is something you can only learn through experience and study.
I’m very happy with my choice and the whole “you can easily fuck up your system” thing also works in reverse - you can just as easily fix your system. I’ve made a few mistakes over the years but nothing that I couldn’t reverse. Just make sure you’re not fiddling with partitions and boot loaders during work hours…
Yup, also ridiculous
I almost exclusively used both through Android with Chromecast, and I must say, I’ve had way more trouble with Emby than Plex.
Also on smart TVs, the Plex apps just have way fewer issues in my experience.
They would rather download and run a foreign binary from a sketchy website than open any kind of terminal
Luckily PCI pass-through using IOMMU works nicely these days, but I honestly still keep a Windows 10 partition for this…
Back then, upgrading the OS was borderline impossible without using a terminal. Is that still the case?
Luckily my friends showed me The Way of Arch back in 2011 and I never looked back
I’m very Danish and refuse to adhere to this nonsense. It’s pronounced “three twenty-five”.
You made this?
I honestly still use Perl for small scripts as a Bash alternative. It is very powerful and is already installed everywhere. I just try not to use it for things others might have to work on…
I shudder at the thought of the ancient 1000+ lines Perl scripts… The seal must not be broken
Yeah, until yesterday Boost was working as usual.
Now you need to patch it. It’s pretty simple, though, takes maybe 5-10 minutes with this guide.
It has been working fine since then, as long as you are moderator (just make your own sub). But now they’re banning specific user agents from accessing the API.
~ oops, meant to reply above you
Mine stopped working yesterday, but there are fixes using the ReVanced Manager stuff
Personally I left because they increased efforts to ban 3rd party apps…
I know there are a lot of bots on reddit nowadays, but I blame the bandwagoning bs more. It has just gotten worse and worse over the past 10 years.
I miss the times when the west wasn’t so divided…
Also a lot of Android browsers iirc
Yup! Boot time is the worst. My Windows 10 (dual boot) takes at least 5x longer to reach desktop, and then it’s still initializing all kinds of bs. Like networking takes at least 10-15s to work after I reach the desktop.
The installation is very clean as I only use it for two video games. They’re on the same NVMe SSD.