There seem to be way more people that keep saying that they hate Arch users who keep saying that they use Arch than Arch users that keep saying that they use Arch.
less or bat, but I usually use by paging up and down so it's not that different from more... My terminal emulator only pages up and down, I like it that way.
I understand the problem of "code it yourself". But if they won't code it themselves, and it ought to exist, who has to? Everything that is provided is provided for free and with love and passion. If something is lacking in that there are only a few options. Including code it yourself or pay someone to code it for you. The only reason you get anything at all is because of the "code it yourself" attitude of the people who developed the software in the first place, as well as their willingness to share it.
I started out on Void, then to Arch and finally to Artix. The Artix experience really feels like a mix of Arch and Void to me. As for gaming, I'm really not a big gamer at all, not having played for years. I do remember playing Minecraft without issues as well as a few Steam games such as CSGO. So it's fine as far as I can tell.
I'm on Artix and I have removed sudo after installing doas. I do have a symlink sudo -> /usr/bin/doas in /usr/bin. Have had this configuration for about a year, nothing broke.
I see, didn't know about the new Cherry switches. Regarding Cherry giving up the lead in the enthusiast space, I think it's even worse. GMK bought their tooling from cherry when they started. Cherry could not only have been a leader in switches but in double shots at the same time...
The "now" part I'm not sure about because I'm out of the hobby for some years.
The "people" part depends on who we are talking about.
Maybe Cherry is still popular in boards you can buy in shops or on big online stores, I don't know.
But in my time, Cherry was far from a popular choice to put in custom keyboards. Almost all switches used were cherry style switches, meaning they fit the same keycaps, are roughly of the same size, fit in the same pcb's, etc.
But people usually get them from other companies, eg Kailh, Gateron, etc.
There is just more choice in terms of materials, colours, bump profile, smoothness, springs, click mechanism, you name it. It was also common to combine switches, like using the top of one switch with the bottom of another or swap stems. Other brands were perceived to be higher quality. Cherrys were known for being scratchy instead of smooth, having a weak tactile bump, clicky variations being rattly instead of crisp as well as lacking in some other areas such as stem wobble and sound. For example, I'm typing right now on Gateron Ink Black v2 switches lubed with Tribosys 3204, filmed with Kebo films and springs swapped for bag lubed Tx L 16mm 62gr springs. On the other hand, there is a smaller group of people that is all about vintage Cherry switches, desoldering them from old boards to use them in new builds. The sheath on the stem switches you saw are probably some sort of box switches (I think it's supposed to reduce stem wobble and thus smoothness in practice).
So basically they are in trouble and in order to appease their creditor they need to reduce costs? Moving production to China might reduce quality, but Cherry switches are only used in prebuilds for people with no knowledge or experience with custom boards so I don't think it will matter. Unless something big changed from when I stopped paying attention onward, almost nobody puts contemporary Cherry switches in their builds.
Artix because it is more Arch then Arch according to Arch's own goals: "focuses on simplicity, minimalism, and code elegance". There is no way systemd is more simple, minimal and elegant than its alternatives. I don't think systemd is bad, but I do think it is a bad fit and Artix is what Arch should have been.
Most plastic keycaps are ABS or PBT, also vintage ones. But there are some white on black double shot cherry profile POM vintage keycaps as far as I remember. You would have to find them on ebay or something or research on which boards they came in order to get em.
edit: I just look it up, it seems you can buy POM keycaps new. The vintage one just stuck in my head for some reason.
I like fish abbreviations. They are like aliases but expand when you press space or enter. That way you can edit it, and also still see the full command so you are less likely to forget it when you don't have your aliases. Of course I have some scripts as well.
There seem to be way more people that keep saying that they hate Arch users who keep saying that they use Arch than Arch users that keep saying that they use Arch.