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[Sarcastic ‘translation’] tl;dr: A lot of people who are relatively well-placed to understand how much technology is involved even in downvoting this post are downvoting this post because they’re afraid of technology!

Just more fad-worshipping foolishness, drooling over a buzzword and upset that others call it what it is. I want it to be over but I’m sure whatever comes next will be just as infuriating. Oh no, now our cursors all have to change according to built-in (to the cursor, somehow, for some reason) software that tracks our sleep patterns! All of our cursors will be obsolete (?!??) unless they can scalably synergize with the business logic core to our something or other 😴

I feel like I need to get back into Gentoo just to add a lil spice to the horde of Arch users around here :P

Still gonna use Arch on my laptop, bytheway 😅

Bad bot.

Welcome to Wayland, the Way(land) of the Future! ducks, flees!

But really, welcome to the Wayland club ;P

Terminology with the Nyan Cat cursor! :3 ^.^

Kinda embarrassing how few people consider that Leah, though rude, may have ever had any kinda point. Like, apparently this person spent eight hours harassing them on IRC (which is mentioned in this thread, no need to actually go check anything for oneself before demonizing somebody!) but ohhh noooo getting banned from the IRC channel is horrible how could they do that! What a monster!

Meanwhile, looks to me like everyone involved admits that, despite the libellous thread title, Leah Rowe did not steal this person’s work.

tl;dr: In this thread people skim a rant from one of two sides, call the other a monster. Grr.

I’d say Gentoo is kinda… grittier? It’s less eager to help you out and be nice. Where Arch is like “Oh, you want Foo? Okay, here’s Foo, along with Bar and Baz to go with it” Gentoo is like “'Kay, building Foo.” Then you wonder why Foo doesn’t do Baz-y things and how it’s any good to anycritter without Bar, and it turns out those are compile-time options and you didn’t set the USE flags to include them for Foo so it wasn’t built with them. Your system never downloaded, built, or installed them at all because you didn’t tell it to. It pretty well expects you to know what you want and what you need to do it >:3 … that, and have a nice beefy CPU 😅 I tend to alternate between Arch and Gentoo every few years. Am currently using Arch (bytheway ;P) after switching from Gentoo for some comfy convenience but I kinda love both.

Funtoo is… I don’t entirely remember what it was meant to be, compared to Gentoo 😅 I vaguely recall it was supposed to have some nice features but wanted me to do sensible things like stop using ancient GRUB so I just didn’t get into it. May try that next.

As for BSDs, I’ve kinda wanted to run a BSD for a long time but none of them are what I actually want (despite my nonsensical eagerness to be and do weird wherever possible- er, I mean, despite how good and stable and cool they are!) so I just kinda poke one or two every few years, accomplish nothing, then give up. I do want to like them, though 😅

If you’re having this much fun digging into distros, I have to recommend* Gentoo and Funtoo :3 I think you could have some fun with those too hehehehehehehehe

*(re-commend, not recco-mend! … Now I wonder if “recommend” at some point commonly/ever sounded like “Riikka mend” 🤔)

yay devil 😈

Edit: For those who don’t use Arch _bytheway, yay is an “AUR helper:” basically a frontend for our package manager that adds support for building packages from source.

Protondb is a hugely useful site (okay, maybe not that huge but it’s great)! There’s WineHQ for Wine but it’s kinda… a little creaky, if you know what I mean. Doesn’t seem to get much attention.

Protondb, on the other paw, has lots of useful info from a quick-and-simple “how likely is it to work?” indicator to “Here’s what I had to do to make it flawless” reports from users. VERY useful! wiggles emphatically! (also it splits reports between PC and Deck)

Oh, also GloriousEggroll’s Proton fork is kinda great, for critters who like to faff about with stuff as I do: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom Dunno if that’s of any use on Deck though.

Wait, crap! I’m already on 6.7.0-rc4 v.v Not gonna accept a lower number just to hail Satan a little extra 🤷‍♀️

Besides, 6.7 might have something neat in it. I’m not weird, you’re weird!

_{… I use Arch and/or Gentoo bytheway} <.<

Yaaaay I’m glad to provide this to you ^.^ :3

runs around in circles flailing and fancrittering about Wayland, which is (finally) (pretty) good now (for many users and usecases) :3 \ö/ 🥳