pathief

pathief, 6 days ago

Since when does EndeavourOS supply a GUI package manager? They don’t even have Discover installed out of the box.

I don’t think it’s more confusing than Arch, if you know how to maintain Arch then you’re not gonna have any trouble at all.

I agree that their eos popup is a bit meh but you can just press the “Don’t show me again” button and be done with it

EndeavourOS is basically Arch with an easy installer and reasonable defaults. Don’t expect it to be more than it is!

pathief, 6 days ago

EndeavourOS has been a wonderful experience for me, can’t recommend it enough.

pathief, 6 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

I had the opposite experience. I have been using EndeavourOS on my desktop since November, zero issues. This weekend I’ve been distro hopping on my old MacBook pro and almost every distro had a problem. Some didn’t boot, other had wifi issues, trackpad issues, keyboard volume keys not working, high CPU usage… EndeavourOS was the only one I tried that just worked out of the box with no issues

pathief, 11 days ago

Can you even run Windows with just 2gb?

pathief, 11 days ago

Just because it’s wildly used it doesn’t mean it’s the best, otherwise you’d be suggesting OP to install Windows 10.

Manjaro has several legit criticism. Maybe they’re not important to you, but they are still legit and relevant points to make. Personally, I ended up going with an Arch derivative that uses the official arch repos. Everything else you like in Manjaro can be easily installed.

pathief, 11 days ago

It’s not nonsense, just concerns that you don’t seem to have. Which is fine, really. If Manjaro is perfect for you, keep using it. No judging here.

I personally don’t like Manjaro holding out on package updates, Arch stable branch is more than good enough for me. Everything else can be easily installed if you want to. Therefore, there’s really no reason for me personally to recommend Manjaro.

pathief, 11 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

Which one is a concern you share?

My main concern is trust. How can I trust that the Manjaro team is competent when they can’t keep up with something as simple as certificates. You say they helped the AUR but they actually DDOS’d it several times due to problems in pamac the software store they developed. By using Manjaro, you are saying that you trust the Manjaro team more than the Arch team, since you are using their repositories. Their actions do not inspire trust on me.

Arch actually has an unstable branch, that is “bleeding edge”. Most people run Arch on the stable branch, which is perfectly fine. You can run into problems, but so far I have never encountered any. Holding packages for “stability” is a neat idea but if the Firefox and Arch team deemed the new browser version to be stable, that’s good enough for me. I don’t see the Manjaro devs as having more competence to judge such things than the Arch community and the software devs.

This is a pointless discussion anyway, I’m not changing my mind and neither are you but all least now you know where I’m coming from. Cheers.

pathief, 11 days ago

I don’t know which provider is the best but I’ve been using Proton Pass and it’s excellent. Proton Pass is a password manager but you can use it just to generate email aliases on the fly. The paid version has unlimited aliases and only costs 2 euros a month. I think it’s a very nice value.

pathief, 12 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

I use Linux servers on my job and I did a ton of research. I felt confident in moving from Windows to Linux and for the most part it went very well. Most distributions provide a live environment and the installer is extremely easy.

I had a ton of small little problems with Nvidia, Wayland, audio… I ended up fixing most of them, or at least apply some workarounds but it was a painful experience.

Gaming works really really really well, which I found surprising.

pathief, 13 days ago

I miss some Reddit communities, to be honest. There are no communities here for most of my hobbies and that brings down my enjoyment of the platform. Most things that spark joy in my life are not here.

Another thing that has been bumming me out is that people are way more aggressive now. Lemmy was a very friendly and welcoming environment, even in the most toxic topics you could think of. Lately I find a lot of elitist comments where anyone that doesn’t have the same opinion or needs is objectively an idiot.

On the positive side, I switched to Linux because of Lemmy! And I’m (still) learning Rust!

pathief, 13 days ago

Even good developers make mistakes. It’s really nice to catch these mistakes at compile time.

pathief, 14 days ago

I get it. The problem is that the target audience doesn’t watch these videos. We all have that one friend who thinks VPNs make you invisible.

pathief, 24 days ago

The mechanical keyboard topic was just an example. Because I’m kinda into mechanical keyboards, I can instantly spot the obviously bad recommendations. If the topic was something like microphones or washing machines, I’d be toast.

pathief, 24 days ago

Thanks for sharing, I’ll definitely start asking there!

pathief, 24 days ago

Unfortunately this doesn’t work in Portugal. Most sales people don’t have any sort of training in the products they sell and they are heavily pressured into selling services rather than products. Your budget is 200 euros? They’re going to try to suggest you a 100 euros product and then try to get you to buy extended warranty and/or insurance.

Source: I did sales to pay for my college

pathief, 24 days ago

That’s a very neat idea, to be honest. I hadn’t thought of that!

pathief, 27 days ago

I only played the boardgame is ascension 0 and I feel like the experience is the same as playing the videogame in ascension 0. The early encounters are very easy and provide no challenge. Monsters in early encounters have 3-9 HP, each attack deals 1 HP. It gets more interesting in the second act.

The game provides you with a way to start the game immediately in the second act. You can skip the first act altogether if you don’t find it interesting.

pathief, 27 days ago

Their website says Temporarily sold out., one can only assume. Fingers crossed!

pathief, 27 days ago

Proton does improve their products, that’s true. I’m very happy with the improvements they have been making with Proton Pass, for instance.

But they don’t improve their linux products, at least not at a reasonable pace. How many years to we need to wait for WireGuard support? Or ipv6? :/

pathief, 27 days ago

That Boss guy says it there, Linux customership is negligible.

Yeah, of course. I understand this. Developing for Linux is hard and probably not worth it financially.

It’s also a chicken/egg problem, isn’t it? If a Linux user is seeking a VPN software, why would they pick Proton over something with a better client? (eg: Mullvad). You can’t get a good user base when your product is so inferior.

The Proton Drive problem is something I don’t really understand. How hard would it be to develop a v1 product with rclone and then a v2 product that was actually nice?

pathief, 27 days ago

Proton supports Wireguard on Windows for several years now.

pathief, 27 days ago

I know about this but it sucks for several reasons:

• This doesn’t use the proton vpn client
• You need to setup configuration files for each country you wish to connect
• You configure a server directly, you can’t just connect to “France” and have the client choose the server with the least load
• You can no longer select a random country, you have to introduce the randomness yourself
• You have to manage configurations like kill switches on your own, since you’re no longer using the proton client

It’s certainly a viable option, but why must linux users have all these drawbacks? :|