I wouldn’t call sway a custom WM, it uses wlroots which has become a standard.

Though I agree that wlroots seem to vary significantly in results with gnome and KDE based Wayland.

Depends on the distribution, many package managers can filter by license. So you can find anything that doesn’t have an open source license.

I use gentoo btw

Please do not care about people shitting on popular distros. As a gentoo user myself, it’s as niche as it gets, but I will wholeheartedly recommend Ubuntu and mint.

Arch works well for gaming. However, depending on what you’re doing, you should keep this in mind:

• on any distro, updates may break things or change the behavior of apps. The difference in arch is that youll update no less than weekly on average, maybe biweekly at worst. This would matter more if you have a complex setup. If you’re just using steam, I wouldn’t worry
• arch only uses the latest versions of software. If you ever install something from outside the arch repos, you have to make sure it is compatible with recent versions. Sometimes it may not be.

Markdown is awesome, I agree! I did not realize you could extend markdown with anything other than html. The html extension is quite nice to do anything that markdown doesn’t support natively, but I wish there was an easier way to extend markdown. Maybe the ones you listed are what I need.

Can you please explain what this is?

Why not matrix?

To summarize: the major difference is that Arch Linux gives you the latest versions of all programs and packages. You can update anytime, and you’ll get the latest versions every time for all programs

Debian follows a stable release model. Suppose you install debian 12 (bookworm). The software versions there are locked, and they’re usually not the latest versions. For example, the Linux kernel there is version 6.1, whereas the latest is like 6,9 or something. Neovim is version 0.7, whereas the latest is 0.9. Those versions will remain this way, unless you update to, say, debian 13 whenever it comes out. But if you do your regular system updates, it will only do security updates (which do not change the behavior of a program).

You might wonder, why is the debian approach good? Stability. Software updates = changes. Changes could mean your setup that was previously working, suddenly isn’t, because now the program changed behavior. Debian tries to avoid that by locking all versions, and making sure they are fully compatible. It also ensures that by doing this, you don’t miss out on security updates.

wine is not a distribution. It is a program that allows running windows applications on Linux, and is available on most distributions.

Thank you 😄

The terminal world has Ctrl+C and Ctrl+(many other characters) already reserved for other things before they ever became standard for copy paste. For for this reason, Ctrl+Shift+(C for copy, V for paste) are used.

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Why would one be discouraged by the fact that people have options and opinions on them? That’s the part I’m not buying. I don’t disagree that people do in fact disagree and argue. I don’t know if I’d call it fighting. People being unreasonably aggressive about it are rare.

I for one am glad that people argue. It helps me explore different options without going through the effort of trying every single one myself.

Doesn’t feel like that to me. I’ll need to see evidence that that is the main reason. It could be but I just don’t see it.

I have a feeling this is a joke. Either way I’m not following sorry 😭

A symlink works more closely to the first way you described it. The software opening a symlink has to actually follow it. It’s possible for a software to not follow the symlink (either intentionally or not).

So your sync software has to actually be able to follow symlinks. I’m not familiar with how gdrive and similar solutions work, but I know this is possible with something like rsync

I didn’t look much into void, but when I did, gentoo’s repository is much larger and there are many packages that I’d call obscure that happen to be in the main repos.

The situations I’ve had to reach to guru are rare. I bet that gentoo has more obscure stuff in its main repo, though I don’t have the numbers to prove it.

GURU is source only

Is void different? Does it have a user repository that provides binaries directly?

My familiarity is with AUR, which does not provide the binaries directly. I suppose you can write a PKGBUILD that only installs a binary, but you could do the same with ebuild.

On binary support, I imagine you’re right. Binary support in gentoo is new. I imagine it will only get better.

You already said it, but even if you want mostly binaries, gentoo is becoming a distribution that can do that. So I don’t think this is something that sets them apart.

Plus, gentoo handles compilations so well, it is almost as simple as binary package managers.