I'm trying out Arch on my laptop atm, and tbh the only real advantage (at least for me) is that the packages tend to be a lot fresher than on Debian-based distros. The question is how many of your packages you really need to be that fresh.

I think a lot of Arch users feel like wizards because they connected to the home wifi using the command line, but if you've tinkered with (/broken then had to fix lol) other distros, you will have done all this stuff before

If you can't see the tankie in the room...

Yes I agree 100%. There's no other way to do it.

We have one of these on my street, and the one thing it is genuinely good for is cookie cutters and sprinkles

It depends. I installed mint on a 2011 MBP a couple of years ago and it was a breeze. I installed arch on it recently and the only snag was having to install the proprietary Broadcom driver to get wireless. It runs great though — which is just as well because it would actually be more difficult to install OSX on the bloody thing, seeing as they no longer support it.

A 2016 MBP is still a bit recent, but, as a general rule of thumb, by the time a Mac stops getting software updates, Linux will be ready for it.

But the GUI also requires memorizing — often steps that are not consistent across desktop environments, or even versions of the same one! Terminal commands otoh can be noted down for later use — and the terminal remembers them. I use the GUI for some things too tbc — it depends on your use case obvs — but you don't need to pretend the terminal is this genius-hacker level of inaccessible, because it's really not

Hang on, are Ukrainians European or not? Because I'm losing track over here

Tbh I'm of the opinion that we don't have to pay much attention to him at all, other than laughing when clowns like him inevitably move into the void on Labour's left

It's because the USSR used to outsource a lot of their dirtiest industry to Poland, and now the EU do it

And letting the greater evil in at the local level???!!!!1?!! Just admit you love Putin smdh smhmh

Yeah tbf the siege has only been going on for twenty years

I myself have often wondered this — it's hard to believe the racket that galleries have going