Debian has been on a downfall for years… Instead of focusing in code quality, Linux is getting politicized. Powerful entities like Blackrock disregard code in favor of political agendas. They also introduce closed source blobs and fundamental design changes that go against its very philosophy (systemd).
Fedora because most devs provide an rpm file to conveniently install, and fedora is very stable even though the package versions are newer than ubuntu, which is also another reason I like fedora.
But I don’t use Gnome anymore because I moved to tiling WMs on Arch.
The vast majority of people just want a computer to do computer things and could care less about what it does other than that. Microsoft will continue to make installing Linux a huge pain and the manufacturers of hardware will continue to prefer windows for kickbacks and internal politics. There will be an uptick, but the fragmented ecosystem, lack of support for even just a handful of programs (thanks anti-cheat), and the fact they dominate the market will mean windows users will almost all use whatever windows forces them to use.
Anyone who thinks this is the last straw underestimates the tolerance of the general population to anti user BS. I would say the only thing that would meaningfully change market share would be if somehow MS changed every background to a dick and refused to change it because that is what their product team said people wanted. Even then it would only be like 5% who would string together both the will and the know how to switch their OS.
I dualbooted a lot in the past. Windows 10 with Debian, Linux Mint and tried some different distributions out. I wiped windows of my disk because all of the “you must login”, constant message bombing and the horrible UI experience. Combined with the telemetry, spying and the constantly connections being made to Microsoft servers (i viewed wireshark for a while, and even in idle its constantly phoning home). Also tpm and the plan to bring the desktop to the cloud is what I dislike.
Since one year I am more than happy with Debian, customised my desktop with xfce4 and dwm. Feeling good to be free.
As soon as I read about Windows 11 hardware requirements, I moved my i7 4790k 16gb + Nvidia 3080TI fully to Linux, no dual boot. And endured the first 3 weeks of having to learn to work with different tools.
Creative. They’ll either use the published RHEL docker images and copy the source out of it or spin up a pay per use RHEL virtual server in the cloud and copy the source from that.
Both completely legal and avoid agreeing to the terms of the red hat customer portal which prevent you from redistributing.
The yank buffer is useful, but sometimes I’ll do an action that replaces the yank buffer, when I wanted to save that text. So put:
map K “_
in your .vimrc. Now you can use shift-k before a command to make it not update the yank buffer. For example: go to a word and type yw to copy the word. Go to another word and type KdwP to delete the word and paste your saved word. Alternately, you can also type Kcw then type something and ctrl-R followed by “ to paste.
I wish I had a puzzle filter for Open Sudoku puzzles that could tell me if there is a solution that does not require guessing. I have no clue how that could be coded but I'd like to learn how to approach such a problem
By guessing I imagine that you refer to the situation when you reach a point, where all logic paths are a dead-end; all except one: reductio ad absurdum, or apagogical statememt. In this case you claim (guess) that a square has a specific, and begin to solve the rest as if that claim was valid. If things work, all is well, if not you prove that claim invalid, go back and start with an alternative value.
I am not that deep into sudoku solving to make a script to generate sudoku riddles that do or don't include this logic method. This script only brute forces all possible combinations, until it reaches the solution.
I have no clue how that could be coded but I’d like to learn how to approach such a problem
I think you got it. It's hard to describe well, and probably just a reflection of my own mental limitations to call it "required guessing." There may be some methodical solution I am missing in any given instance. That's why it would be nice to know for sure if there is a solution. I usually struggle to see triplets in every instance, (where some combo of 3 numbers across 3 spaces in a group, result in locking the spaces to these 3 potential numbers). This is where it would be nice to know if all potential triplets are unsolvable.
Personally, I have a collection of around 100 hard puzzles on Open Sudoku that I have saved and usually just clear and replay. When I get to one I really can't seem to solve methodically, I do my best guess, finish the puzzle, and then delete it from my collection. Sometimes I forget to delete one or two. I just went into a small set I haven't played in awhile, grabbed one with a longer completion time, and solved it to what looks like deadlock after a few minutes of scanning for solutions. It already made it past my initial play and deletion regime, so there is a good chance this still has a triplet somewhere that I am not picking up on. If you have not played Open Sudoku, the notes can be automatically filled to all possible values. The second image shows the point where I would want to know if a triplet or even a quadruplet solution exists.
I think this is how it would need to be solved in code too; working up in methodical complexity until it is possible to check for trip's and quad's. It would be a lot of code to solve it this way. At least it would if my amateur self gave it a try.
I remember last year for 2 to 3 months, I was swimming in deep C language ( I was-and still am- a novice), initially starting to build the solver. From there, I moved on to create a sudoku generator, and finally to a sudoku game program, all in C. Perhaps a right way forward for you is to go backwards. While you know what you want, get a solved riddle, and then with your condition in mind, move backwards, taking out the numbers that fall into that condition, and thus create an interesting, for you at least, riddle.
Finally, when you have walked the algorithm yourself, it is time to code.
It seems a great but fascinating task.
I always think that in every impossible and unsolvable riddle, there is a logical way forward that escapes me. And while reductio ad absurdum is an inferior, weak and low-level logical method, it remains a logical method nonetheless, that in the end of the day, gets the job done.
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