Still useful just in case some client is weird

Always knew xkcd is a bro

Fair!

But still, an installation process that doesn’t involve a package manager is a bit of a pain, comparatively. Flatpaks may certainly be very helpful, though.

But that’s an entirely different story

Because normally it is about “living happy ever after”

We may not really know what to do afterwards.

I can absolutely imagine Amazon itself getting to sell those

Maybe an infrared heater somewhere? They can look like a painting or whatnot, while actually serving as a heater first and foremost.

Actually yes, because “warm air” and “warm solid surface” are at two different temperatures to us due to unequal heat transfer.

The walls just have to be slightly above the air temperature to heat it up, and they may feel a bit cold anyway.

I can absolutely expect Slackware to be solid; my concern is about user-friendliness :D

Not the easiest distro out there.

On the topic of immutable distros, I more or less understood them and kind of managed to work fine with them, but, honestly, I feel all they do is enforce a certain way to interact with the system that makes screwing it up very hard - but on the other hand, introduces a slew of non-standard and sometimes complicated solutions newbies won’t understand (even for veterans it takes a while to get a grasp on them). If you follow the same pipeline on a mutable distro, you get the same stability plus the ability to do a lot of things without jumping through the hoops.

Right now I ended up on classical non-atomic Fedora for this reason. It features a lot of safe practices from immutable distros - system snapshots before updating, prioritizing flatpaks, container-oriented terminal able to work with Distrobox among all other things - but at the same time it’s a mutable distro able to work with everything else.

Ah, I have mistaken it for genuine statement. I have well intentions, too :)

It won’t evaporate, there are plenty of IT folks among youth.

It doesn’t make sense to characterize users by age brackets - it’s not that millenials are predominantly well-versed.

About 0,5L per day, yes

I like milk

It also goes into some of the food

It adds to the creamy taste

Yeah, Gentoo puts serious emphasis on that, I have to give them a credit. I liked it.

But yeah, I’d rather not have breaking changes in the first place.

Some functionality (menus, networking) working not as expected, random glitches, bugs, instabilities…also, now coming from the experiences of others (wasn’t there at the time), one time even GRUB had an update that broke it on all systems with Arch, forcing many to halt updates. In my eyes, from personal experience and experiences of others, it got a reputation as a quite messy system.

Debian and Arch are both the most important community-driven distributions for the entirety of Linux ecosystem.

However, I feel like they are both reasonably funded already, and supported by big names.

In my opinion, it is important to support the smaller distributions that many people overlook.

That very setup is why I do not recommend it to newbies who don’t have someone experienced around. Debian, even Debian 12, is not holding your hand and directing you. You’ll have to figure a lot out by yourself, and this adds to the steep learning curve.

Also, a very slow update cycle means the newbie will be stuck with outdated packages (sure, flatpaks are there, but the base system will be old, like, very old). And new hardware might face issues.

To me, the perfect pipeline is something like Linux Mint, then Fedora, then either Arch derivatives or Debian, depending on what serves you best. Alternatively, if you don’t mind some challenge after an easy entry, start out with Manjaro and then get another Arch. But that one’s more controversial.

Honestly, as someone who ran Arch and its derivatives, no one should be running upstream Arch but the testers.

No amount of experience or expertise will save you from breaking it. It WILL break, and you’ll be mocked for that as well by “Arch elitists” who will then face the same issue.

That’s why Linux veterans are rarely using Arch. It’s good for its purpose, it’s very important both for downstream Arch and for the entire Linux community, but it is NOT the distro you should run on your PC.

Go Fedora. Go Debian. Go to the downstream distros if you’re strongly into Arch, take Garuda for example. Make your machine actually work.

To me, every distro that seriously requires you to read through all changelogs before updating is BS, and it doesn’t solve a basic problem. No one in their sane mind will do this, and the system will break.

That’s why, while I respect the upstream Arch, I’d say you should be insane for running it and trying to make things stable, and mocking people for not reading the changelogs is missing the point entirely. Even the best of us failed.

Arch is entirely about “move fast and break stuff”.

There are two types of thinking about it:

1. There is no point in living. We are doomed to get into the grave, and eventually be forgotten forever.
2. There is no point in living. No higher order, no higher purpose, no higher authority. We are free to live our lives, to explore, to insert any meaning whatsoever into it. We are forging our own destiny.