In this case, I'm using idiom in its "I was a Creative Writing Major at College" sense; that is:

A speech form or an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements, as in "keep tabs on".

*credit to Wordnik.com

So my use of the word here just means "expression" or "figure of speech," which is probably what I should have said in the first place; sorry for the confusion.

Edit: a grammatical correction no one but me would probably notice or care about.

Fair enough.

Oh wow, this takes me back. I've thought video games were cool since the first time I saw a Space Invades arcade cabinet when I was like 4. But the game that got me really into video games? I dunno. It was either Donkey Kong or Ms Pac-Man.

Yes, I'm old. Yes, I've been playing video games since the 70s. No, I'm not particularly good at them. But ask me whatever I guess 😁

Okay. Then use Endeavor. Easy to install, good tools, and not run by people who've let their SSL cert lapse 4 times.

But honestly, if you can't deal with Arch install, I have to wonder if you wouldn't be better off with something other than Arch and Arch based distros. Generally speaking, Arch based distros require more command line and config file editing.

I just don't think Arch and Arch based distros are a good fit for beginners. If you're intimidated by a TUI installer, you should start somewhere else. Fedora has a... usable installer and great GUI tools, for instance.

I'm not judging or bashing on anyone. But it's like trying to learn how to knit by starting with a sweater. You're in over your head before you even get started.

Although I like NixOS, I have to agree with the documentation being crap. Which wouldn't be so bad if it weren't so damn different. I mean, other distros have bad documentation, I just read some man pages or check the Arch or Fedora docs.

Every time I read that phrase (amen brother), I hear it in my head in Hulk Hogan's voice. Is that weird?

Are you familiar with the U.S. Presidential electoral process?

Okay, I think I understand now.

What you're talking about sounds wonderful. It sounds hopeful, like things could actually change. It's not all that crazy to think it could work. It's not really all that different from what the Founders were setting out to do, but with an extra two and a half centuries of cultural advancement and the knowledge that all people really are created equal - not just white dudes who own property lol.

So yeah. I get what you're saying. And I can totally respect it. And anyone saying you not voting helps the opposition is kinda missing the point of opting out. Kinda like I was missing the point until someone (you) finally took the time to explain it properly, and I took the time to listen.

So thank you.

I... don't get you. I feel really dumb, but you're going to have to explain it to me a bit more.

I get that no one is better than anyone on a basic human rights level. That makes intuitive sense to me. And I'm all for a cultural paradigm shift. I'm also 100% in favor of a massive overhaul of the entire government, up to and including a complete re-write of the Constitution and the bill of rights (I feel like we, as a nation, can do better than a founding document that defines some humans as being worth only 3/5ths of others, for instance).

But how?

Oh I like the look of that! I'm generally very happy with how Gnome looks/works and don't use extensions that modify the UI, but if someone slapped together on that did this, I might actually use it.

And now I can't ridicule the Gnome people any more

Then maybe stop ridiculing people at all? Seems like a waste of effort for basically no payout.

Signed,

A long time Gnome user

What makes this weirder is that while all older distros have this problem, none of them come anywhere close to being as bad. This is probably partly because of Ubuntu's start as a noob-friendlier distro, but I don't think that completely explains it.