It’s the KISS philosophy. The package manager is for managing packages, not for reading mail

Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Green Ubuntu, Legacy Ubuntu, … Shit, I’m out.

My ADHD and 1297 unread emails make that a bad idea.
With the alias, the news pop up in front of me right when they’re relevant.

Maybe because the jre thing was an update that required manual intervention, there was an Arch news item about it. You’re expected to read the Arch news before an update when you’re running Arch. This can be automated with alias update='yay -Pw && pacman -syu' If that’s too much for you, use a different distro.

1st: Fedora
2nd: Arch

Debian would be: “nothing changed!” (with a sad or happy guy depending on use case)

No idea what you’re on about. GIMP works fine, it’s just not a drop-in replacement for Photoshop. People need to use layers more.

Slackware

false superiority

Oh boy, now’s the last chance to stop before it’s too late.
Don’t, under any circumstances, ever install something called “EndeavourOS”!
It’s the gateway to Å̸̧͉͝R̴̫̮̅͠C̷̪̘̬̓̿H̴̡̏, and once you set foot on that path, you won’t come out the other side without Unix socks and a Blåhaj.

The German term for this is
ALARRM!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=p64PeG5O2mo&pp=ygUFYWxhcm0%3D

Traditionally, the trainee’s husband makes sure everyone is comfortable and hydrated.

This comment combines two of life’s experiences that are usually seperate.

“To run a train on someone” means you and a lot of your friends have sex with them, one after another.

Huh. I’ve installed Linux on anything from an old 32bit netbook to a Fujitsu convertible that both had such a fucked up UEFI implementation they couldn’t even boot a standard Windows ISO without Ventoy in grub mode, as well as a cobbled-together Workstation with Nvidia graphics, and never ran into issues like this.

Of course Linux has shortcomings.
But compared to Windows, it’s still the vastly better OS regarding compatibility, UI, UX, user friendliness and overall functionality. At least for me and my use cases (I use it for browsing, gaming, office, photo editing and as a streaming station).
You’re mileage may vary.

Something doesn’t add up. My guess is you’re using a MacBook but don’t want to tell us for obvious reasons.
There’s literally no reason for “specific libraries and kernel modules” when installing Linux on any x86 PC. It makes no sense.

Linux seems to be really weird like that. I run it on every computer I can get my hands on, from an old netbook to a modern convertible, to a gaming PC with Nvidia graphics, and haven’t had any major issues with any distro I tried (I tried all the independent ones, not a fan of derivatives).
But on the other hand, some people seem to run into ALL the issues.
Beats me.

Space planes carry along heavy-as-fuck wings, control surfaces and a lot of other bullshit that’s only useful inside the atmosphere, and which massively increase fuel consumption for every single maneuver while your space plane is actually where you want it to do stuff - in space. And the only benefit is that the atmosphere helps lift and fuel your vehicle to about 10% of orbital velocity. The other 90% it will have to accelerate just like any other rocket.

The SpaceX approach is much better: Land and reuse all parts of your rocket, but don’t carry them with you further than where they’re useful. Rockets leave the atmosphere where wings would work within a few minutes anyway.

I hate how good Arch is! It’s like the more exciting, younger co-worker constantly seducing me to leave my wife Debian.

I disabled all animations, the baloo file indexing and all services that start automatically at login.
I also installed not the full KDE Suite but just Plasma Desktop and then uninstalled all parts I don’t need.
So technically, I’m not running KDE but Plasma. From the KDE application Suite I use Dolphin, Konsole, the archiver, the image viewer, the PDF viewer and the system settings tool.