this feels more like a programming thing than a linux thing

why is firefox the de-facto ‘haha compile time = big’ package :(. pick on chromium instead, it takes like 7x longer to compile and is made by a worse corporation

as of right now the second xkcd you linked is in an identical format to the newest xkcd. Not relevant to the post, just think it’s cool

oops yeah brain fart sorry

it’s de-obfuscated, a human didn’t write it (in that form) thankfully

void I would put with Arch but I agree with nix

I like your funny words magic man

to be fair it does still make sense with lower-level distros like arch. usually it is as simple as installing pipewire + wireplumber or whatever, but that sometimes doesn’t work out of the box and there are also other ways to do audio

oh god not CLRS

THIS. The people who actually read the error messages aren’t going to stop there, they’re going to look up said error message, find a solution on their own, and continue with their day without having to interact with another human.

Ok this describes me annoyingly well. Ubuntu, then Manjaro, then Arch, and now Gentoo. Now I don’t really want to go any further because I quite like this distro :p

i’ve literally never seen ‘systemctrl’? it’s always ctl for the command-line utilities