Quazatron

If you know what you’re doing, no. If you don’t know what you are doing, yes.

The difference is the knowledge you gain from traditional learning and experience.

I agree that books are much better resources to learn in a structured way. This builds a solid foundation where you can then use LLMs to fill the boring gaps.

You’re doing it right, using it as a tool to learn.

I’m doing the same to get a handle on Python. I question the steps, compare it with other sources, and try to get comfortable coding it myself. I then use it to review my code, and get further insights.

It’s a tool. Just another tool.

Please, do elaborate.

Also avoid handling black holes without appropriate protection.

I have not made any case for Manjaro. I simply said it works well enough for me.

I also said that I know the story and have used many different OSes and Linux distros, so I know full well their underlying philosophies.

You seem to want to get me to defend Manjaro to have someone to argue with. Sorry, I don’t have enough investment in Manjaro to argue with you. I’m just too lazy to distro hop.

the only people who like manjaro haven’t tried anything else and haven’t really thought about their distros philosophies at all, or just got really unlucky with other distros.

Look, I’ve used more different OSes than I can remember. I used everything from CP/M to Solaris. I’ve used Microsoft Xenix, HP-UX, OS/2, Haiku, BSDs, you name it. I’ve used Slackware, Knoppix, Tom’s RootBoot, Puppy Linux, Debian, RedHat Linux (not RHEL, the original), Corel Linux, Mandrake, Caldera.

I love weird OSes and their history. I think I have enough knowledge to jump ship when a distro is giving me a hard time. I use Debian on all servers, Xubuntu or Kubuntu (de-SNAPed, of course) on desktops. But my personal laptop is running Manjaro for years now because it works, stays fresh, and gets out of my way.

Maybe, I don’t know. I tend to stay on the .deb side of the fence.

Are you dual booting Ubuntu with Windows? Because Windows fast boot causes that behavior.

I got a little bored with the anxiety of point version upgrades that standard distributions follow every 6 months or so.

Rolling distros like Manjaro work much smoother for my use case (web browsing, some gaming, light coding).

Good.

As a long time Manjaro user is good to see something happening.

As to why I’m a Manjaro user: I installed it on my laptop years ago and it served me well, with only a couple of hiccups (the now famous SSL certificate issue and some repo keys that were broken), nothing too difficult to overcome but that points out some major organizational problems.

Other than that, it just works wonderfully and I’m too lazy to hop.

You have options, no need to advocate against them.

Think of it as the gaming subsystem for Linux.

Winamp.

Actually no, Audacious player can load old Winamp skins.

I did not imply “no option to show it”. You can see it, it’s just not out in the open like it used to be.

Nah, KDE also hides the path, you have to click to see it.

At some point Linux desktops bought into that whole ‘less is more’ religion that plagues Windows, and started to hide crucial things like file paths in the name of esthetics and to not confront the poor simple users with the ugliness of the Unix file system tree. This is the result.

The Linux onboard ramp is as shallow as it has ever been. Just pick up a usb stick, shove a Linux distro on it and boot it on your PC or on an older machine you don’t use anymore. Use it to do what you do usually. Things will be different. Resist the urge to shove random software from the net in it to solve problems. This is not windows. Don’t reinstall even if you fuck up your system (and you will, multiple times). Ask questions and fix it yourself. Learn. Level up. Use the huge software repositories that are built in the system. Use flatpaks for the other stuff. Persist. Things will eventually click. One day you will feel at home. Then you have won.

You try it and see if it fits you. This is not a religion. You use what works for you.

Customers don’t make good good communities.