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what are pros and cons of linux?
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PRO: Customizable and reproducible setups.
CON: The Arch community. All those "RTFM" asshats. There's even a spot in the Arch wiki for that acronym because it's so heavily used. "This acronym is an invitation to self-care, not an insult." Gaslighting motherfuckers.
What I miss?: Nothing off the top my head. All my games work, coding is easy (Python/R), browsers do a lot of heavy lifting in terms of compatibility.
But did you RTFM?
I used Arch for ~15 years before switching my daily driver to NixOS. In that entire time, I never once posted a question to the forums. The wiki is that well constructed.
If you do post a question without searching first (that's a big no no), they will link to you the exact steps from the wiki to use. They might treat you badly at that point, but in a way you would have been treating the community as a personal assistant to look up things for you which I would say is equally bad.
Sounds like a skill issue TBH
Thank you for proving my point.