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The community is incredible but also the fact that is a rolling release. You get to experience the latest and greatest of everything and don’t need a big migration from a version to another.

The AUR package repository (user contributed) is huge and most of the time you can find an obscure little open source project in there but also commercial software nicely packaged for the distrib.

The stability of arch is impressive too. Often being a rolling release you fix problem along the way but as the steps are small they are well identified and quickly resolved. On Ubuntu when you do a distupgrade you are up for so much pain at once sometimes it might be hard to upgrade.

I hope it helps!

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Can’t wait! I’ll buy it again!

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Anybody knows when HDR will land in Wayland?

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I have an hard time moving out of yay… TBH if AUR could be installable from pacman it would be awesome

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Fun to think that someday if USB C finishes to eradicate HDMI/DP they might become the sign that it is retro… Look at that! They had a dedicated plug for the video signal back then :)

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You should name it alias btw=… to fully embrace our stereotype ;).

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Interesting, git do support aliases too. “git st” etc What is .load.sh?

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Something to understand here, it is exactly the same with the automotive industry. It is almost never about the actual safety, let me explain.

If you work as a safety engineer in a company like Boeing the name of the game is to not be responsible for the safety of a component at all. You always hide behind some kind of certifications then always ask a contractor to do it. The contractor might be scared too so will ask for a subcontractor and so on until someone is in an obscure juridiction or brave enough to just develop the software like almost anyone else but just with someone rubber-stamping the paperwork.

The safety engineer will have the paperwork so for them, it is safe! If there is an issue this is not them.

So for them Linux is absolutely out of the question, who wants to sign a paper for it?

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Oh thank you for the tip, I forgot paru was written in rust and of course rustup is on ally machines (btw?) ;)

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Interesting, regexps are indeed made with a very dense and obscure syntax, I could see a kind of DSL being useful. What do you think?

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