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I might be missing something, but the order I know and have always seen recommended is REISUB. Terminating processes might write data to disk, so it seems to me like you should sync after, not before. Though this is also generally unimportant with modern filesystems and storage media.

I use Arch personally, and as mentioned you should restart every update - but you can just not update everyday (updates don’t even come at a scheduled time, it’s just packages getting new versions whenever, so by the time you finish updating there could be another updated package for you)

I think updating weekly and as necessary is a good schedule, though if you don’t update frequently and try to install something new, the version pacman will try to install will be based on your local repository information, matched to your other packages, and might no longer be available in mirrors. And you shouldn’t install an updated version of just one package, because if it pulls in the wrong updated dependencies you could break your install.

I recommend starting with SysRq+E before that, there’s a chance it gets whatever the shutdown was waiting for. And if that fails… REISUB my beloved.

People looking up alternatives doesn’t mean they actually want to use them. Switching to an alternative necessarily means some pains, in terms of changed interface, functionality, and community. You can’t just magically switch between platforms and have all the people follow you there, and that’s a dealbreaker for many.

As far as I know, the fediverse is growing, just not explosively. We can hope that at some point it reaches a threshold that convinces a lot of people to move over, cementing it as a “proper” platform.

I do think the R6 Siege situation is a bit different, to my knowledge it was about Ubisoft adding a new cheaper “Starter Pack” option that lets you access a multiplayer-first game on different terms. It seems scummy to give users playing the same game on the same servers different terms on different storefronts.

I would say that the technical details are a separate thing and I don’t condone gnome forcing CSD in Wayland ;D

Though apps using GTK is another case of having choices, this time for the developers of individual apps.

That all sounds reasonably fair, but it seems like my point still stands, since nowhere do you actually put the blame with GNOME - it’s the distros choosing it.

I’m also not sure if I’d agree with you in general, it might not be worth bothering too much with users who will immediately dismiss Linux because the distro they chose ships with a DE that has a slightly nonstandard workflow. That sounds like a person that refuses to try or research anything and will probably either make a nuisance of themselves or leave for other weird reasons anyways.

they doubled down and said, “You’ll use your computer our way, and you’ll like it!”

I think that’s a dumb way of looking at it, because you’re not forced to use GNOME on Linux. Just because tiling window managers exist, or scrolling ones, and some even more specific ones (like gamescope, which doesn’t even display multiple windows), doesn’t mean they’re trying to force you to use your computer their way.

Having diverse options is good, it doesn’t lock you into doing things a specific way, it gives you more options of how things work. The only thing that sucks is that they made the change as an update, so previous users might be excluded, but even then it’s opensource, the developers can (and should) change the software to fit their vision, and if you don’t like it you can fork it (which people have done with gnome).

That’s presumably (and hopefully) not GenAI, but a much lighter classification model built with the sole purpose of judging if an image is problematic, I have no problem with those.

I’m pretty sure we got taught about that in school, though I forgot most of it, including what you’re supposed to do…

While funny, this answer to the question is useless, thus making the question not actually be good, so the answer would have to be different. The only issue is it could lead to a paradox, where if the answer were to be useful the question would actually be good, possibly the best, which would mean it should’ve been the answer, etc.

It’s my turn to ask this question, it seems, but if this image low resolution and very compressed?

Divinity Original Sin (1 and 2) lets you play as big of an asshole as you’d like.

I haven’t gone through it myself, but I think Baldur’s Gate 3 has ways to side with “bad guys”, I believe I’ve seen patch notes about expanding the content there, so that’s also an option from the same devs.

But the origin characters generally aren’t perfect and have their motivations, especially The Dark Urge.

Despite having Table in the name, FAT isn’t a table, but rather uses a table, and FAT itself is a filesystem. Thus, it’s different from a machine with “machine” being in the name or a number with “number” in the name, and it seems entirely reasonable to refer to the crucial index table in the FAT filesystem as the “FAT table”

Not the wrong place if you want to comply with the law, as he explains in the PR comments, the law requires the installer to prompt for age when creating users.

It’s more like “Arch Linux breaks if you don’t update for too long, then try to naively update without knowing what you’re doing and without checking the arch news for breaking changes”. Which is more breakage during updates than stable distros, but absolutely manageable.

I think the “independent” label might be more about the decision making being dependent on an organization?

This is also a meme community and those charts are never that serious, and considering people will disagree about the placements anyways, trying to have more precision might be pointless.

Okay, but MacOS doesn’t work on everything because Apple doesn’t want it to. They want you to only use their devices, and only run their systems on them.

Ironically, I think Arch might be a better first time distro than CachyOS, because if you’re willing to go through the manual installation process and learn from all the fuckups you’ll make, you can come out of it with the knowledge necessary to manage your install. Though of course I would only recommend it with the warning that your system will be mostly broken for a while and you’d be constantly figuring out and fixing things, so not a good idea if you need your computer working.

But it does seem like a nice distro for if you already know what you’re doing and want to save time getting things set up (and maybe those performance improvements are significant enough, I’ve seen people give big figures)

I don’t think it counts as ragebait on the Linux memes community