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[–] abraham_linksys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I ran Arch on my gaming machine for a few years.

It's a great learning experience, but impractical as hell. I remember the exact moment I decided to stop daily driving it. I was using my laptop for work, trying to convince my boss to let me keep using my Linux box instead of the windows horseshit they wanted to make me use. I was on a Slack huddle and trying to use my Bluetooth headphones, but they wouldn't even connect. Over an hour later I had figured out that Bluetooth didn't start by default and required being started manually from systemd. Nothing in the GNOME UI indicated any of this. Soon I was using a Windows computer that could at least connect to fucking Bluetooth out of the box 😐

I love Arch. It made me a much better Linux dev. It's impractical as hell for a daily driver.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've only been using it for a few months and it's been the most stable distribution I've ever used. We'll see as time goes on.

[–] abraham_linksys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Agree, it's great for gaming or using custom kernels and such. It's an excellent base because it generally goes with the defaults provided by package maintainers.

These strengths are also weaknesses though, because oh my god I just want to connect my Bluetooth headphones and use them for the most obvious use case without needing to look up and enter commands in the terminal.

And I say this as a lifelong hobby amateur computer scientist. It's not that I'm afraid of the CLI, it's just that defaults are kind of nice sometimes. Arch is great because it's an un-opinionated Linux install, but it also refuses to make anything "plug and play" which is more than a little painful.

[–] akai@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Star Trek and Lemmy on the Fediverse

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Boldly going forward 'cause they can't find reverse.

[–] Crazymick@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I understood that reference.

[–] Tired8281@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's a shame we're not capitalizing on this. Dragging our feet on creating new homes for refugees means they will establish themselves elsewhere, or even worse stay over there. If we leave too much incentive to stay over there, we will hemorrhage users back to there, where they can have all their Star Trek communities.

[–] Admin@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure what you mean? If mods don't want to leave Reddit we can't make them.

[–] Tired8281@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Mods are only one part of a community. An important part, for sure, but not the only thing.

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...outside of lemmy.ml

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Annoyed

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

[–] Disgustoid@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

I hope this cursed image never becomes a meme or response template.