Allero @ Allero @lemmy.today

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A decent daily driver distro should not break on blind update - at most, it should warn the user automatically before applying updates. If user is expected to check news every time they want to update their system - it is not a good fit for anyone but enthusiasts.

Based on what you describe, I would strongly recommend going with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It's just as bleeding-edge as Arch, but all packages go through automatic testing to ensure they won't break anything, and if some manual actions are required, it will offer options right before update. Moreover, snapper in enabled by default on btrfs partitions, and it makes snapshots automatically before updates, so even if something breaks somehow, reverting takes a few seconds.

One small footnote is that you'll need to add separate VLC repo or Packman for VLC to have full functionality - proprietary codecs are one of the rare things official repos don't feature for legal reasons.

On Arch rant: I've always been weirded out by this "Arch is actually stable, you just have to watch every news post for manual interventions before every update, oh, and you better update very often" attitude.

Like, no, this is not called stable or even usable for general audience. Updating your system and praying for it not to break while studying everything you need to know is antithetical to stability and makes for an awful daily driver.

Data hoarders could be happy, but otherwise it's mostly enterprise use.

Still, I personally hold about 4 TB of files, and I know people holding over 30 TB.

As soon as your storage needs exceed 1-2 games and a bunch of old photos, demand for space raises quickly.

Yeah I know :)

Fiddled with Gentoo a little, just don't think it's worth it for me anyway.

Normally it means you picked the wrong distance to the screen!

Tinker with that first - it might be much further or closer than you think, all depending on your screen and eyes.

Also, a hint: the central circle should stay straight in the middle, not closer to one or the other. At that point, below there will be three equally sized pictures, and then you can switch your sight to the central one.

Several hours for an update sounds insane to me lol

But I understand it's the tradeoff Gentoo makes to add a lot of control and minor optimization

Yup, works, thanks!

Oh wait - it's simple as that? Nice!

Guess that's all I need.

I must assume Gentoo does require manual intervention here and there, and updates must take eternity for packages that are not precompiled, ain't it so?

I'm not super knowledgeable on how anonymous such routing us, hence I avoid it.

Don't know why people bombarded you so much - the other side of total anonymity is that you really never know if anything got broken and someone earned off it.

My suggestion, however, is to use Monero for payments, and not as a store of value.

Monero transactions consume orders of magnitude less energy than Bitcoin's thanks to an ASIC-resistant algorithm

Lol

Earth the planet is totally alright with everything we do. It's been through much tougher times.

We only endanger ourselves and other living creatures.

Alright you broke the edge of evil into a very different realm

Well, unlike Bitcoin, Monero is actually anonymous, and sometimes you gotta make payments online.

You can't do it privately with your card.

Photon is solid and nice

Oh, yeah I see