My wife uses Arch (actually). She calls it the internet, when she really means Facebook. She knows it isn’t Apple but it gets a bit vague after that!
The last time I had to fire up the Mesh Central client to sort something out on her desktop from work was around three months ago. Every couple of weeks I ssh into it, update it and schedule a reboot for 03:00.
If she only does basic web browsing, why not something more stable like Ubuntu or Debian?
Define stable! Both are non rolling distros so that means that you have the upgrade jolt every few years. I have several VMs that started off life as Ubuntu LTS around 16 so from 2016 and are still running but now on 2022.04. Those are servers so relatively simple - web, PHP, Samba, DBs, etc. PHP is a pain to fix up. Ubuntu doesn’t have the rather neat slotting feature that Gentoo has so you get to do quite a lot of detective work to put it back together again. Debian is similar - again I have several systems that I manage that have gone through at least three or four Toy Story names.
Arch is rolling so there is no break and continue point. There have been some packages that have broken or been broken but not the entire system and that suits me. The QA is surprisingly good from the devs. Arch really isn’t the bugbear, nightmare super ricer thingie that it is sometimes painted out to be. I find it a very thoughtfully put together distro with an awful lot of moving parts that are well integrated and a great toolset. Choice is paramount and delivered in spades without the micro management that Gentoo requires.
It also helps that I have been doing this stuff for well over two decades so some challenges are no longer the challenge they once were.
That’s torture and is outlawed by the geneva convention (btw)
Absolutely one of my favorite james acaster quotes! His whole Netflix special, “Repertoire” is just fantastic
Personally, if you can’t tell me if you are running Windows or MacOS, I don’t really want you downloading my software
Why? Are you feeling bad about all the adware you bundled in?
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I used to work with internet service for trains. I remember one support ticket filed by the train conductor:
“Internet doesn’t work”
No info regarding area
No info regarding when
No info regarding which carriage
…or even which train.Well, I managed to jump through a few hoops, figuring out the schedule for this particular individual, and could deduce which train at least. Nagios reported everything as fine, but sometimes Nagios can lie, so I tracked it down and did the usual diagnostics onboard. Couldn’t find anything wrong.
I phoned up the guy and it turned out he’d forgotten to enable wifi on his phone.
have you been im it long enough to see some that used their cd drive a coke holder.
I’ve done that myself.
better yet is the program doesn’t even have a comment feature
Penguin fellas only download software from package managers and official repos tho
Unless it’s not in a package manager, and you’re assuming those links don’t point to official repos
downloading software from the browser? Are we windows users?
I mean, I do still tend to use a browser to get the git URL…
that’s what AUR is for.
i use arch btw (not really I use EndeavorOs which is basically Arch with a gui installer)
hey i gotten a few direct from developers websites.
Lol
Penguin people for sure know theirs
And they’ll tell you about it every time.
If the client is blocking OS fingerprinting by returning generic
navigator.appVersionanduserAgentvalues you should probably just assume Linux in the first place.that one NetBSD user bursts into flames
Shouldn’t that be a FreeBSD user?
An OpenBSD user would puffer up instead.
Penguin People
Penguin People
I’ll have you know I’m and Arch Oligarch tyvm.
You mean, there are still websites that don’t auto-detect what OS you’re running and make you actually choose?
Most software sites are staticly pre-generated. For just description, download, recent versions, links… there is no need for server side code. Also many browser obfuscate used operating system to currently most popular for fingerprinting restistace.
Hmm. If only it could all be done client side somehow, like maybe there should be a client side programming language for browsers? How cool would that be?
Of course, but someone needs to add it and who still uses web browser to download system packages besides using some outdated system at friend’s house :).
Arch btw ;)
I’m in this picture :)
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indeed!
Kid named Chromebook
As if apple users had no fuckin clue
weeeeelllllllll …
(jk)
I literally bought the wrong version of a game called Heretic on Amazon in the early 2000s because it “had a cool penguin on it” lmao
