I like Gemini a lot and use it often, but I did disable it for web search.

Of course it’s his choice, it’s his system.

The general advice is that handpicking updates from main repos is a big no-no. There are only a couple of reasons you would ever need that, like updating archlinux-keyring on a very outdated system.

Even on my 13 year old install with many thousands of packages, it’s not hard to spot if anything is out of the ordinary when doing huge upgrades. You should pay attention.

That being said, I often just do pacman -Syu --noconfirm && poweroff these days. It’s so rare that anything breaks and I can very easily fix it if it does.

Just look at their principles.

If your upgrade says anything out of the ordinary, which it most definitely did here, that should probably trigger something in you. This is the case for any distro.

Same, my desktop PC had Arch installed in 2012 lol

Arch is definitely not “an experimental distro”. It doesn’t just break, and all the software in their repos is considered stable.

If you have been using Arch for any meaningful amount of time, the massive output from OPs upgrade should be glaring.

The whole point of the update is to avoid the silly Windows-like mentality of flatpack. It splits the package up so you can choose what you want instead of installing a bunch of crap you won’t ever use. If OP had been awake while doing a full upgrade on his bleeding edge system, he would have noticed.

Yeah I can’t believe he’s been using Arch for 5 years and didn’t even bat an eye over the massive pacman output

When an upgrade spits out that much text, you should bat an eye.

95% of the kernel is just drivers, so ofc it makes sense to cut out what you don’t need when you know exactly which hardware you will have forever.

Same with everything else. It’s a video game console. The real point is that Linux with Proton, which you can install anywhere, can now beat Windows at its own game so to speak.

Actually, the apple climbs up the tree and claims it made it

Can you though? Can I build the apk myself and use their services?

Electrical engineering and embedded programming is quite far from what I do, so that makes sense! One of my friends graduated EE 10+ years ago and his pace is much slower, but he’s much smarter than me lol.

I can get up to a pretty high apm when I get in the zone, and admittedly I enjoy the feeling of being a hackerman zipping through terminals…

Software development too, but also lots of sysadmin-like stuff so I spend lots of time in terminals/SSH. And I’m a vim fanatic.

Of course I also spend a lot of time in the browser, but also man pages/local docs in a pager

If you actually do work, getting used to a tiling WM is like a drug. I can’t live without it now.

(that’s a lie, I do at work cus I’m forced to use Windows, so WSL with tmux is an acceptable alternative)

My company only allows us to use the company-provided Windows image, so I do all my work inside a WSL2 tmux session.

JetBrains IDEs and VSCode also have WSL connectors so it works acceptably well.

It also handily dodges all the Windows security policies (like installing software). You can even run Xorg apps from it.

I’m still forced to use MS Teams and Outlook, though…

Source?

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.

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!

What about EndeavourOS?

What about Arch?