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Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update improves and breaks dark mode (www.theverge.com)
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[+] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (36 children)
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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    Kali is not for actual every day use.

    You can install all of its included tools on whatever distro you want.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    distro barely matters beyond how you get the packages.

    there's a reason arch is popular, it can be whatever you want it to be.

    tbh, it sounds like you don't have a great understanding of Linux (not an attack!) so I would definitely stay away from Kali, and other distros like that.

    stick with Arch if you're confident you can maintain it, or if you want to have a system which you don't have to poke at Fedora is a great option

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Is it possible to create a shim to make keyboard shortcuts act like macOS? I don’t think I can live with ctrl+shift+c when command/super is right there.

    Actually I kinda want to throw almost all the desktop/gui conventions for Linux out and do my own thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I think you can change your keybinds in Gnome and KDE to do it like you want without any tinkering. I've changed some common shortcuts to superkey ones on Gnome. Not sure about other DEs.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Arch is a pretty good one if you want to control and tinker. I have personally found it to be very reliable over the years, and the AUR is exceptionally powerful (although you NEED to review your PKGBUILDs, there's nothing stopping someone from putting malware on the AUR again). The packaging format is so simple and easy that I actually build a few performance-critical packages locally so I can tweak compiler flags (gimmie that -march native).

    Nix is cool and kinda crazy, but honestly? I'd hold off until you're comfortable with Arch. Same with Gentoo.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (23 children)

    I thought the "hardcorer" alternative to Arch was LFS

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    LFS is for memes. I guess Nix is a level up from Arch.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (9 children)

    Hmm, I personally place Nix at the same level as Arch, because I see both distros being hard to get into because of how different they do stuff when compared to the average OS.

    Maybe the real level up is trying to run BSD on unsupported hardware?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    The real level up is bare-metal Emacs.

    Shame this OS does not come with a solid text editor.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Arch is easier in my opinion, at least if you want to leverage the power NixOS can offer. A simple /etc/nixos/configuration.nix maybe not, but once you enter custom options / submodule territory and use stuff like lib.mapAttrs, I'd say NixOS is quite harder. Or just a more complex overrideAttrs. But then again, Arch doesn't have an equivalent to that...

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I didn't need to learn a programming language to install Arch btw. I'd definitely agree Nix is an unnecessary complication for very little gain for the average user.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    Well, you don't need to learn nix as a programming language for a simple installation, you can use it like a slightly different json, which the configuration.nix part was about. You can get the reproducibility aspect from just that, so I wouldn't say you get no benefits at all without learning the language.

    There are more disadvantages (like time required to rebuild because you added a single package), so Arch is the better choice depending on preferences. Arch is a very good traditional distribution in my opinion, can't go wrong with it

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    No no, there isn't "no benefit". There's just very little gain, compared to the effort. The average Linux user definitely will not care about reproducibility. 😅 So the effort required to either add Nix stuff to an existing distro or install NixOS itself will just be wasted effort for most people, I imagine. Myself included.

    As a power user, I'm still not interested. Chezmoi serves me more than well to sync between my work laptop and my main desktop PC, because I'm running Arch on both systems and I still haven't had the need to reproduce a system in over a decade with Arch. 🥰 So stable.

    But yeah if you reinstall frequently or manage a lot of machines daily then it might be worth looking into. 👌

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    The average Linux user definitely will not care about reproducibility.

    I think a lot of people do care about it, just not under that name. But I think a lot of users asked themselves at least once "what did I do back then to achieve X". Not in that the whole system is reproduced 1:1, but certain aspects. That's something much easier to answer with nix.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I think the average user only cares about that if they have to do it again. Or to help a friend perhaps. But then the answer would be "use nix" and that's not super helpful if you're offering support. 😆

    I've had to go back to investigate certain things when installing a new system but it's all in the Arch wiki for me, and sometimes there's even newer and better ways of doing stuff after a while so just keeping my system set once and for all might not be what I really want anyway.

    Change is life. 😌

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Nice to know you're enjoying Linux :P

    I think that later on in your adventure, you'll notice that you don't actually need a distro that's hard to maintain in order to do the hardcore stuff.

    Going back to more tame distros (Mint, Debian, Fedora, Solus) may actually suit you better, even for said tasks.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Cybersecurity and "stopping hackers" are very extensive and complex topics. It's kinda like a mix of many areas of knowledge (software, hardware, coding, internet of things, etc...)

    So one advice I think I can give you is that there is a "tool" of hacking that is often overlooked: Social Engineering.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    You're going to feel right at home with TempleOS.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    Terry Davis.

    Welp, here's sincerely hoping this is not a bad omen.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    And he's also the best fucking programmer of all time.

    That sounds like quite the combo, hope you're doing alright. I'll probably pass on calling you schizo though if that's ok. I had just assumed you were shitposting tbh, but whatever floats your boat. Hope you enjoy the community and the Linux experience

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    What kind of "hardcore shit" are you planning to do with your computer? 😅

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