Arch was just blue Gentoo

I don’t know if that ever was true but I definitely disagree with that nowadays because Arch is in my opinion significantly more approachable and easier to daily-drive than Gentoo.

Huh, why does it use the AUR for discord? In Arch it’s just part of the Extra repo.

I’ve been using Arch since October 2019 and I’ve stuck with it because it has been a really comfortable experience. I really love the package manager. The packages are usually new enough to not cause me any major problems but are tested enough to not break anything. Regarding the latter point, mileage might vary. I have never had anything break on me that I haven’t broken myself (and I don’t update very frequently) though I know not everybody is sharing that experience.

1 year ago I also started using NixOS on my desktop and it’s been a very interesting experience. Design wise it’s pretty good but there are a number of things that really annoy me. Some days I’m really considering putting NixOS on my laptop and some days I’m leaning more to putting Arch back on my desktop.

I mean the function syntax is pretty much just taken from Lambda Calculus.

I’m mainly using zsh but I have a backup bash prompt that closely mirrors it. It shows the return value of the previous command if it’s non-zero and gives some information about the current git repository if there is one.

retval() {
        if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
                printf ""
        else
                printf "\001\e[31m\002($?)\001\e[0m\002"
        fi
}

gitbranch() {
        if type git 2> /dev/null 1> /dev/null && git rev-parse 2> /dev/null 1> /dev/null ; then
                MODIFIED=""
                if [[ -n $(git status --short) ]]; then
                        MODIFIED=" M"
                fi
                BRANCH=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
                SHORTREF=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)
                printf "\001\e[31m\002%s\001\e[0m\002(%s)\001\e[31m\002%s\001\e[0m\002" $BRANCH $SHORTREF $MODIFIED
        else
                echo -n ""
        fi
}

export PROMPT_DIRTRIM=3

PS1='$(retval)[\001\e[1;95m\002\u\001\e[0m\002@\h : \w $(gitbranch)] \$ '
PS2='> '

I mean, from what I’ve heard there are other things but I haven’t looked deeper into that so far, so I can’t comment to that.

My 2 cents regarding that specific PR is that I find it very disappointing to shut down a PR pushing for neutral language in build instructions for supposedly “advertis[ing] […] personal politics” because in my opinion this sends a clear signal of non-inclusivity. Your mileage may vary on this I guess.

Is this a reason to boycott a project? Maybe, Maybe not. That’s your decision. I will definitely be on the lookout if this is “systematic” in the project but I didn’t have the time to look into it so far.

I’ve only tangentially picked up things about this but this is an example for it

(For some context, if you didn’t already know this, Ladybird originated from a SerenityOS component and the first reply is from the lead dev)

What do you mean by “become bullshit”?

They can be really stable. I think your milage severely varies on how much you know what you’re doing and how careful you are in respect to certain things.

Personally I’ve been using Arch for 5 years and I haven’t really had any problems with things breaking on updates.

Have you tried packaging zulujdk 17 and thinkorswim and installing them with rpm-ostree?

Sure, I’m happy to introduce you to our Lord and Savior BQN

Personally I use ledger for something like this. It’s a double-entry accounting system and from what I’ve heard similar to GnuCash though I haven’t used that one.

Parsing and Categorizing of bank statements would probably need to be done manually or with a self-developed script, though maybe there’s already something made for that. I haven’t looked so far.

Nah, it’s obviously Nyarch Linux

That’s optimistic