oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]

Some people might have also clicked on a little bear.

Also it cuts of my pronouns (and it’ll probably do that for most Hexbears), lol.

I clearly need to do better.

Most of these problems are literally just capitalism. This solution is just a band aid, and even then is unlikely to be implemented in a way that will help the problem.

For the second question, the Arch Wiki has loads of helpful information. It doesn’t just talk about Arch stuff though, it goes over a bunch of programs and configurations.

Kinda just ideological commitment. I sorta just started using Linux right off the bat, the only time I wasn’t a Linux user was way back when I was using the family Mac. Linux has gone quite far over the years, in quite a positive way.

Emacs or Neovim could also serve to replace Word, depending on what you need it for.

If you really want word, you could try Microsoft 365, where its in your browser instead of a thing you download.

CoreCTRL, but written in Rust? Based. I’ll try it out when I have the time.

Arch, becaus AUR and rolling. Alpine, because lightweight. opensuse tumbleweed, because rolling and SUSE does cool stuff. NixOS because declarative. Guix, because declarative and bootstrapping.

Those are just the distros I use, I’m sure others are nice too.

Use it to install gentoo or Linux From Scratch

bottom users rise up. RIIR!

DT coping and malding. (DistroTube made a video about how systrays are useless)

I have my EFI boot partition with 512M on /boot, zram instead of swap, then a whole lot of btrfs subvolumes, with RAID across several disks. I do a lot of snapshotting, and auto-snapshotting, but thats mostly for local rollback. I only btrfs-send to a machine on the LAN. For my real backups I use Restic, sending that data to a number of places.

I love Sway with Arch, been running it for about two years across a few devices. Sway has yet to freeze, crash, or otherwise act unstable. It’s wonderful.

Good thing I’ve been using LibRedirect with Invidious and Piped for a while now. YouTube really has been going downhill.

vim and neovim actually hold a pretty significant marketshare on Linux. a lot of developers use MacOS or Windows, so what does it matter if one more small thing is proprietary? It obviously does matter, but people don’t think of it that way.

pretty sure we have solid confirmation its pronounced yiff

Oh, and hopefully Veilid will catch on big

I trust Signal more, but the main reason I use Signal is because a lot of people I know use it. I would personally love if Briar caught on more, but given that isn’t really happening SimpleX is your best bet.