Yeah, it’s the same for me. Work is so I have the money I need to live, but free time is so much more valuable to me.

People like this, by simply existing, make me feel like a real dumb piece of shit.

My breaks from real work are video games, TV, and this sort of shit posting we’ve got going on in this thread right here.

Package manager: This package contains an updated sshd_config file, would you like to replace your existing file with the package maintainer’s updated file?

Me, every time: LOL, no

You do have to worry about some things though. I couldn’t say what those things are, but I have a hunch that temple_os users have some pretty unique worries.

If I remember correctly ZFS keeps the whole array running whenever one is active (which is basically always). If I remember, I’ll check my UPS when I get home to see the actual power draw. The storage itself is probably cheaper to run than the main server in the rack - a gen8 HP 360p, which is a bit on the old side and I’d guess not terribly efficient being a 1U piece with many small high-powered fans running constantly.

Electricity here isn’t too expensive though, being public hydro power.

That’s a slight exaggeration. I think it was about 2 years to get close to filling that up. Keep in mind that a chunk of that is unusable due to drive parity.

It really depends on what you’re doing. In my case the soft costs like domains are pretty negligible compared to how much I seem to spend on more hard disks every six months. You might tell yourself, “96 TB of raw storage will last forever,” but it turns out forever is about a year.

(Oh, and when I said that my system is unstable, the dev told me i should have used a “test computer”, obviously)

Hey, everybody, get a load of this guy. Imagine not running a separate staging computer and custom DevOps systems for your home PC.

/s, just in case you think I’m a Gnome dev.

I think the thing that saves me from doing stuff like this is that as I get older I’ve begun to hate extraneous cables on and around my desk. For the longest time I’ve stuck with cabled peripherals, but I think my next buy will be wireless in that department. Now if we could make this foot pedal wireless…

I’m pretty sure Emacs has a portal to Narnia somewhere in there.

Ooooh yeah. I didn’t even consider that, but it looks like it comes from 4chan so there’s a good chance you’re right about the dog whistle.

I wheeze-laughed at “Ran out of keys to bind years ago, has to use pedals under desk to switch between layouts.”

Now I kinda want to do that.

Thankfully, no. The only thing I’m evangelical about is the ISO 8601 date standard.

Do I get bonus points for being vegan and using Arch?

Yup! The only remaining Windows system I personally use is my work laptop. I feel like its lack of customizability holds back my workflow but I’ve kept Windows on it so I don’t get rusty for when I need to support my users. At this point I think I’ll just spin up a decommissioned box for Windows testing and finally throw Linux onto my work system.

You’re so right that we’re all beta-testers now. If I recall correctly, MS and Google both laid off a ton of their QA people like 10 years ago and now the customers are functionally QA. Our M365 tenant just dealt with over two straight weeks of email issues. According to the actual MS advisory, this was due to a code update pushed to production to “increase reliability.” No shit!

If you wish to make an apple pie compile Linux from scratch, you must first invent the universe

-Carl Sagan

Okay, I guess I’ve gotta play the crow here … Is Arch really such a bad choice for a beginner these days? Obviously building it the “proper” way would be a bad idea, but there are tons of Arch-based distros with GUI-installers. I currently run Garuda on both my personal devices and the install process really couldn’t have been easier, and almost everything worked out of the box. The stuff that needed tweaking was all minor and mostly related to this being my first foray into KDE in over a decade. Let’s face it - that’s a pretty high bar even on Windows systems these days.

Granted, the rolling release aspect means inevitably you’re gonna get a borked update that you have to revert, so that’s a stumbling point for a complete newbie. It’s not like that doesn’t sometimes happen on other distros though - or even Windows. On the other hand, the AUR means little or no manually compiling stuff. Plus, the best wiki in the community (even if you don’t use Arch). And gaming (at least on AMD) is rock solid.

Hell, I have a fifteen-year-old intern at my work (through his school). He’d had almost no exposure to Linux when he started with us, so as a learning project I had him set up Arch with Hyprland from the console. The little bugger did find the install script, but even then he had to learn a bunch of stuff and still had a running system in about an afternoon.

ANYWAY, I’m not saying that Arch should necessarily be the first distro for most beginners, just that it’s not as daunting as most people make it out to be.

Setting up a computer for Grandma? Mint.

Already something of a power-user in Windows? Depending on your use case, Arch is worth consideration.

Same! She’ll pay attention for a bit, but I realize I can be a bit relentless in my info-dumps.

To be fair, I am playing it up a bit. The reality is that she’s an extreme introvert and needs alone time to decompress after work. We make it work - mostly by sharing memes with each other.

Lucky! My wife just browses Instagram on her phone , occasionally saying “uh huh,” while I ramble on about my latest obsession like a toddler talking about seeing a garbage truck.