The kernel does stuff like

• process and CPU task management
• hardware abstraction
• memory management (at the process level),
• file system managment
• and resource isolation (such as randomized memory addresses (ASLR))

The rest of the OS provides the actual software that users interact with, like

• file managers
• desktop rendering and window management
• settings menus
• sound mixing between applications
• graphics rendering

All distros are equivalent, as far as software is concerned. They all have access to the same open source software, and Flatpak; AppImage; and Snap can be used for extra portability.

Think of a distro like a pre-configured image of linux. You can always change the configuration later, if you desire. For example, the Desktop Environment. All you have to do is just install a different DE package (usually via command line)

The DE has a major impact on user experience. Use KDE plasma for a more windows-familiar experience, or Gnome for a more Mac-familiar experience. Or experiment with others

The Linux Experiment is a good resource

Linux is already at 4.5%

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/

How are you holding up?

Because I am a potato

Relevant video essay about facebook

My source is that I made it the fuck up

Use a towel

Just make sure it’s not damp, or the resulting steam will burn you

It’s not a permanent one and it works for the time being, can’t see the reason for the downvotes honestly.

It’s just a bad idea in general. A better option would be to patch the binary to use 15. They both have the issue of forcing paru to work with a library it wasn’t explicitly designed for, but symlinking (or copying) 15 to 14 forces the hack to be “system wide” instead of restricted to a single binary

as well, your solution is “temporary” only if you remember to fix it, vs patching which is (by default) overwritten the next time paru is updated

it “works”, but it’s not something i’d recommend someone else do

You can either patch the binary

sudo patchelf --replace-needed libalpm.so.14 libalpm.so.15 "$(which paru)"

Or install paru-git

sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru-git.git
cd paru-git
makepkg -si

Or do both, patch the binary, then use it to install paru-git (which is what i did)

I love arch, but I’m also a pedantic computer nut

It’s not for everyone

Oh, so that’s what all of you are talking about.

I still don’t really see what all the fuss is about

I’ve done this by accident a few times while reading a really good book

The following day sucks big time, especially if you have to go to work

I don’t understand spelling bee’s, never have

Just watching this is setting my spine on fire from social anxiety

You might be able to clear (or at least relieve) some of the pressure by doing a Eustachian Tube Massage

Apply pressure to the area below the ear and just behind the jaw bone, then follow the jawline down to the neck (I’m not sure if you go under the jaw or straight down the neck. I do both)

Obviously, if this causes pain, don’t continue

(I am not a doctor)

this looks very interesting

although, i wonder how they’re able to get full system metrics, running within flatpak

Same boat

I effing love arch and kde plasma, but nothing I’ve ever used has felt like a true replacement for Task Manager

It might be your phone getting a notification, and sending that to the BT speaker, which then takes precedent over the laptop

I usually just disable BT on my phone when stuff like that happens (on android, you can change the playback device without disconnecting, and that should also prevent the phone from stealing your headphones)

You got a purty mouth

For a while, I had to do this after every kernel update

Turns out, i accidentally had two /boot folders. One was is own partition, and the other was on the rootfs partition. When Arch booted, the separate partition was mounted over the rootfs /boot dir, “shadowing” it

Except, UEFI / GRUB was still pointing to the rootfs partition. So when pacman installed a kernel update, it wasn’t able to update the kernel that UEFI was booting, but it was able to update the kernel modules

Kernel no likey when kernel modules are newer than the kernel itself

This smells of bot/troll account

Maybe some reddit mod or admin taking the piss?