I never configured anything on X with a DE, let it be KDE, Gnome or Cosmic, but configure everything with config files I can just copy on sway. It has nothing to do with X or Wayland, but the DE/WM you use.

*sharks.

Mine was not really long and stretched out over multiple devices. First Ubuntu Server, on my server, then a Kali dual boot on my main PC (which was actually useful), then PopOS. Then Ubuntu/Debian, after some time LFS and finally Arch on my old laptop. Then Arch on my PC too, and my new Laptops, and finally Arch on all devices.

That does not oppose Kaspersky being malware in any way … so what’s the point of noting Microsoft?

I switched 4 years ago and I experience the same. But to be fair, I also use an atypical setup designed for efficiency, so basically the opposite of windows in every aspect.

They fixed one specific issue afaik, not by actually fixing it but working around it, and they didn’t address the real, main issue: The driver being closed source. Until then, there are and will always be issues that aren’t present for AMD, because the latter has thousands of experts working, fixing and adapting other programs for it for free, around the clock.

Also, NVidia.

What I noticed is that alternatives to most electron apps are much better anyway. Spotify-tui is more efficient, and Discord in a separate Firefox instance is even more memory efficient that the normal Discord.

Solution: Create a new standard (always works so well)

I thought I tried that too, but I’ll try again then lol

Compiling the kernel actually only took 40 minutes on the 13 year old laptop with a Core Duo.

And the LFS Book has excellent building instructions for all packages, including Firefox. That’s actually only relevant for LFS tho ig.

Yeah, for me it just showed me how nice a customly installed distro is, and how fast it can be even on an old machine, so it was the first to get Arch installed on. Another Laptop followed, then my main PC, Server and finally the PI.

By the time I finished, half the system was extremely outdated and probably vulnerable to dozens of RCEs. Somehow I managed to compile KDE, but not Firefox. It always crashed the whole Laptop - 2 GB RAM wasn’t enough.

For me it didn’t, on two PCs. I reinstalled Ventoy and redownloaded and verified the ISO. On the latest version. It tries to mount /dev/2024-04-xx-xx-xx unsuccessfully. And indeed, that device does not exist.

Arch currently doesn’t work with it :c

Isn’t ~/.local for such manually installed stuff, like /usr/local instead of /usr?

Problem is, I only ever need to use something more powerful than a search engine with topics that are too complicated for me and/or not well documented, in which case LLMs fail just as bad. So it’s actually only ever useful to get a general direction of a topic, but even then it could be biased to outdated information (eg. preferring bluetooth.h over DBus based bluetooth handling) or it outright doesn’t know new standards, libraries and styles. And in my experience, problems that have one, well accepted and documented standard don’t need any AI to get knowledge of.

I find it difficult to describe single functions that need to be integrated into a larger project. Especially if it needs to utilize a private or more unknown library. For instance, it totally removeded up using Bluetooth via DBus in C++. And the whole project is basically just that.

External LLMs are great for getting ideas and a quick overview of something, and helpers integrated into IDEs are useful to autocomplete longer lines of code or repetitive things.

Do you have Beta, Nightly or Developer?