I hate how installing or removing (or even updating) a flatpak causes the whole software center to completely refresh, and it doesn’t keep its state so if you were in the middle of a search or scrolled down through a category… say goodbye to it.

Oh wow, I didn’t know about Kandalf and KDE valley, that’s awesome!

Yep, and it’s opt-in so if you’ve never turned it on explicitly, then it’s off.

Seriously though, KDE’s slider that lets you adjust how much / how little data to send (if any) is probably the best implementation of opt-in telemetry that I’ve seen in a while.

I miss those things so much, along with Etch-A-Sketches…

They’re not hating on Arch, they’re “hating” on the small (but loud) group of people who have a superiority complex for just running Arch and doing it the manual way (and tends to see those who installed with archinstall as a cop-out).

Just like the people who shit on those for using Windows.

In that case, couldn’t you just use something like btrfs snapshots + Timeshift to pull this off?

Sure, but at the end of the day, for better or for worse, there are going to be tons of people who simply don’t care about whose fault it is - they’re going to want their system to work.

I was lucky enough that I was finally able to make enough money to swap out my 2080 with a 6700 XT this week (and wow what a significant difference in how the Linux desktop works with AMD cards), but I have plenty of friends who do have Nvidia cards and if they asked me whether they should give Linux a try I’d have to warn them that they’re going to get a subpar experience due to it - and all they’re going to hear despite me saying that it’s Nvidia’s fault is that Linux isn’t good enough.

So when it comes to Wayland + Nvidia, hopefully Nvidia gets with the program, but otherwise we’re (the Linux community) going to be at a crossroads of whether we want to get more adoption on Linux - Nvidia is not a small market by any means.

I don’t go and try to proselytize people into coming over to Linux, but there are absolutely plenty of people who do and the mindset of “It’s not Linux’s fault, its X (ha)” isn’t exactly going to work there.

I get it, you get it, but plenty of people won’t.

That green that you’ve got there is very easy on the eyes, nice!

I guess it depends on if you’re the type of person who sees VSCode as an IDE or just a text editor.

Vim is effectively the same way.

Oh this looks fantastic! I will be deploying this to all of my systems immediately haha!

Honestly now I am curious if there is a CLI equivalent. I always end up using tar’s t flag or opening a zip in vim to see if it has a subfolder as my current workaround…

That’s perfectly fair! I always seem to have a 50/50 coin toss of whether there will be a folder inside the archive or not.

I think if things were more consistent for what I end up having, I wouldn’t mind it if archives didn’t have a folder or if they always had a folder, rather than the current state.

I suppose in your case, it would be cool if there were a config option to make this do the reverse, unpack the files within the subdirectory of the archive to your current directory.

It would be nice if it were at least configurable to set as the default extract option. If I had to take a guess, it’d be that it’s not the default option because the amount of single files before needing a subfolder could vary between different people. Some folks may want only one, and others may be fine if it goes up to say 3. However, I suppose that could also just be a configurable option.

That being said, I’ve at the very least developed the muscle memory to always click that option no matter what. I can’t tell by your comment if you weren’t aware of the feature, but if not then hopefully it can be of use to you moving forward as well!

Absolutely, yep! I curse myself every time I just click “extract” forgetting that other file managers don’t do this, and end up with files all over the place

Also another important one is :q! if you want to quit without saving changes, though vim will remind you if you leave off the ! in case you forget.