Pre installs an AUR helper

Delays base packages so AUR ones break

DDOS AUR

Based on what, distrowatch? You do realise that’s just showing what people clicked on distrowatch, not the actual numbers of users…

And what improvements could come from incompetent fucks knowing your hostname, mac adress, and other identifying information? Aside from improving their financial status that is…

Is it enshitification if it was shit all along?

Good thing it only happens to the Chinese…

Doesn’t that defeat the only benefit - anonymity?

It’s ok at best, when it works. When it runs out of API hits for the day at noon, you need to use something like https://searx.neocities.org/ and retype your search multiple times until you manage to hit an instance that can actually perform a search.

Also, no suggestions.

I mean, it’s not like he’s going to say “I’ve got a few mil in redhat stocks, and they signed a new $800+ mil deal with the DoD 2 months ago, so we’ve got to clean house”

Though even if they weren’t, it is the morally correct thing to do to give Russian state actors the boot.

Meanwhile Linus is fine with supporting USA DOD and making a profit from it. Funny how morality changes when you introduce other interests… It’s a purely business move and has nothing to do with ethics.

Depends on what you do.

If you’re just browsing, and doing casual stuff, it’s not really noticeable. It’s perfect for the less technically oriented because nothing changes for years.

I’ve been using MX for about a year now, but I definitely wouldn’t have without flatpak and nix. I need packages that aren’t years out of date, so they’re all installed through nix home-manager.

The benefit of this combo is that while user packages might break, the system itself will be predictable for the next few years. That means no new bugs, but also that minor issues won’t be solved.

AFAIK everything was dropped in the end, and people went back to using audacity

Yeah, who’d hate using a package manager that increasingly slows down your boot time with every package installed, or that uses a closed source store to provide you FOSS

Maybe there’s a reason canonical has to force it on their users

No, Debian doesn’t take your apt install ... command and install a snap behind your back…

I dislike that it takes way too long to boot

1. Use the Daemon, it starts a new client in a fraction of a second
2. Improve your config and it’ll start in under a second anyways

Emacs had some “premade IDE” project I recall that I tried and wasn’t that enthusiastic about.

Doom Emacs, spacemacs, etc.

And there are plenty of nvim “distros” like that (lazyvim for example).

They make getting started pretty easy. I’ve been using Doom for years and never bothered to make a full config of my own.

AI is quite fit for the task of understanding

Sure, and parrots are amazing at spotting fallacies like cherry picking…

Icy peepee

Or

I see peepeee

???

73 and 76, but I got them mixed up, ed is older.

That’s for original Emacs though, the gnu version came out in 85

Emacs is older than ed

Inb4 it becomes/is a subsidiary of the NSO group…