They have been performing horribly quarter to quarter lately, and so pretty much all of their product lines have had shit like this happen. Nerf has no springs and shoddy plastic, Wizards of the Coast are dropping a ton of middling-popular products from production, even their Marvel line has really taken a hit to quality with bad fabrics, cheap printing, etc. Everything is being cut to the barest minimum to try and claw back their profitability.

… It’s stunning they can’t seem to connect the dots, really.

Dang it, you gotta come in here and tempt me to distrohop… That’s a dang attractive choice.

Debian with the mint UI. All of the debian memes, but none of the UI headaches!

Yo mama so dumb she stores all her archives as exFAT.

Hey guys I found the pig!

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It’s got good hardware, but there’s nothing being done with that hardware. The pricepoint kept there from being any broad dev support, so its basically a gimmicky paperweight that costs $3500. At least Microsoft will directly work with industry partners for Hololens development, but there’s nothing like that with Apple to help pave over the notoriously rough super-early adoption era.

I gotta say, going into the new years, I quite respect your dedication to this.

Yeah the Church-Turing thesis holds that you can run an LLM on a casio wrist watch (if for some reason you wanted to do that). I can’t imagine this is exactly what you’d call ‘good’…

… “no u”?

Seriously though, cliche flaming aside, why did you come into this with such hostility? The initial poster was just talking about a situation where ubuntu is clearly the preferable option - installing an OS with the minimum of time invested. What does it accomplish, coming in and talking at length about why actually Arch is the best choice in this case but only if you’re skilled enough? The initial call out for elitism wasn’t based on it being about Arch, though Arch very much attracts people who say things like this, it’s based on you quite literally derailing the conversation to talk about how good you are with the software. I doubt you intended it to be interpreted like that, but it comes across so smug and self-centered that it’s almost painful to read. That is the introspection I was hoping for, that your comments are not read in the manner you intend.

I suppose hoping for introspection was a tad foolish on my part. Ah well.

This guy uses arch btw.

No seriously, there’s plenty of arch elitism in this thread alone, And other distros too. You really don’t need to be preemptively defensive about it though.

idk man I’ve been using linux since before we began recording the passage of time and automated installers are, you know… fine? There can be issues, sure, but its pretty damn rare on modern hardware that they aren’t the result of a config issue which can be sorted out in the bios (or similar). This is the Arch elitism that everyone complains about; just because something is easy doesn’t mean that it’s somehow bad.

Fucking thank you. I work with SNAP and you’ve absolutely nailed the intention of the program. That assclown is disgustingly bitter.

Well IDK what would tip them off, though just possibly it’s the fact I am a socialist…

As a prof, it’s getting a little depressing. I’ll have students that really seem to be getting to grips with the material, nailing their assignments, and then when they’re brought in for in-person labs… yeah, they can barely declare a function, let alone implement a solution to a fairly novel problem. AI has been hugely useful while programming, I won’t deny that! It really does make a lot of the tedious boilerplate a lot less time-intensive to deal with. But holy crap, when the crutch is taken away people don’t even know how to crawl.