before learning all the new tools like Linux distros, vpns, compartmentalization, offline storage, security…etc.

You better start controlling the apps/services you are using NOW !

Youtube, Gmail, Facebook, X, Maps…etc. all has shit tons of data about you. Limit what they can use. Dont give your info out easily (main email account).

“Much like Android XR, Google says its new Aluminium OS is ‘built with artificial intelligence (AI) at the core.’ This implies deep integration with Gemini”

.Nah fuck off somewhere else please would ya

micro$oft is getting desperate though

https://kotaku.com/windows-11-pro-upgrades-going-for-pocket-change-for-black-friday-2000647371

these people deserve a big FUCK YOU to the face, in front of an audience.

man i hate those online content that you MUST pay to do homework for the courses. They were over priced and back when i use them, they didnt even grade the homework correctly. E.g. the stupid Mastering series Mastering Physics, Mastering Chemistry and Cengage. I once spent 3 days on a problem because the system didnt like how I wrote the answers. So something like

• coordinate (3x,space herey)

instead of what they want:

• coordinate (3x,y)

yeh at first i was like why all Arch users reference the wiki like its their Bible. Until I use Arch and troubleshoot myself, i would know how detail it is. You can find basically.everything about Linux there.

The downside? They need to structure the layout better. It is soooooo easy to misread or skip over stuff.

“…Based on listening to two and a half episodes of Dual Boot Diaries and a brief text conversation with Will, I’m going to install CachyOS, an Arch-based distro optimized for gaming on modern hardware, with support for cutting-edge CPUs and GPUs and an allegedly easy setup…”

One of the most important lessons I learned from using Linux: Follow the packs, use the distros that a lot of people use not just some recommendation on some ranking sites / youtube vids. Ffs, might as well use vanilla Arch at that point so you can find answers faster. . Even Mint or Ubuntu LTS is a solid option.

The problem with new distros is that it is very hard to find answers to problems. General questions? Sure you can find help. Some bugs that mess up your system? You better pray to the GNU Gods that your distro spins are not that different from the original, e.g. Regolith’s i3wm vs normal i3wm…

Holy C is too much, I am not worthy

is omarchy a new distro or new window manager?

I stopped distro hop a while ago, and fixing tiling configs is not worth it anymore for me.

Fedora then? Just choose the default Workstation. Easy to setup. Easy to do stuff too.

“xchat” sounds like one of those porn chat rooms

usually people out it in bashrc and have it autorun

neofetch is pretty but it is slower than the alternatives: pfetch, fastfetch…etc. I either use those 2 or no fetch whatsoever: I want my terminal pops up and is ready to type.

everything is a file lol, unlike on Windows where a lot of things are GUI based:

• Want to change your grub font size? Heres a file.
• Your python gives dependencies errors? Well, because the libraries (aka files) are in a different directory.
• want to change your password and username? Heres a file to change …so on and so forth

On Linux you have a lot of power, can use sudo to make changes to a file. If you know what youre doing, great. If you dont, system can break. Even without sudo, a misplace / mistype of files in the /home directory can cause weird stuff.

So TLDR is: be careful when make changes to files on Linux. Dont listen to stranger on forum who gives out command to paste and run. Do your research what the command does.

we need all repos to be stored offline, and documentations to troubleshoot.

the 1st i have no idea how much space we will need. Most linux packages are prerry light, no? But there is A LOT of them…

the 2nd is easy. Heard someone say the entire of wikipedia is 200GB, should be doable. Dont forget the technical wikis too: Debian, Gentoo, Arch.

wonder what eventually makes everyone ragequit on the ricing part lol

for me? it was the battery management and suspend/hibernate stuff. You need to do a lot of weird file configs to get them working.

I riced i3wm, dwm and even exwm and suspend/hibernate problem would pop up now and then.

On a full DE? Shit just works.

I do miss ricing though. Especially window managers, I can just git clone my dotfiles and have everything setup in seconds.

could just replace it, no? Unless your keyboard is weird, the size of window key is pretty standard right?

depends what you do, tbh. If you try to get a 3D program (that works well in Windows) to work on Linux, or try to get a game running as smooth as it is on Windows, then you are in for a lot of work.

But if your usage involves: simple web browser / email, codes, file operations. Then Linux is just plug and play, even much simpler than Windows. No ads, no constant updates nagging.

Linux just leaves you alone, if you mess some thing up it is you fault. On my Win 11 laptop, I got logged off by the damn OS just for it to display a popup with something bullshit like “Sign in to OneDrive to protect your PC”

Started at low for 6 months , then I travelled to the valley of despair.

I lost my mind and stayed there for a long time. 1 year? 3 years? who are you? who am i? (send help plz)

A traveller names Fedora rescued me. Now I am further down on that curve: Fedora silverblue.

Would a pixel phone running GOS be future proofed, or one day Google can just push out some hidden updates that prevent you from running it at all?