Indeed. I joke that I can type 100 words per minute but that 32 of them are backspace.

I bought a 2013 MacBook Air for $60 a year ago to take with me on a backpacking trip.

It is running the very latest release of EndeavourOS and runs it well. It can do video calls. Honestly, there is little it cannot do.

You can use it to learn to program C, C++, Rust, Python, Go, Java, C#, and F#. It runs Distrobox and Docker so you can learn about containers. I guess after using QEMU/KVM to learn about VMs. You can use it to run K3S. You can run Postman, RestAssured, and Selenium to learn about Web APIs and testing. It runs WASM. You can orchestrate AWS or Azure from it as it runs both Terraform and OpenTofu great. It can run a host of cybersecurity tools including BurpSuite. You can run both SQL and Document databases. You can use it to package your own software and contribute to Linux distro development. You can emulate older machines and even run digital design tools and PCB layout. Obviously it runs all the major modern web browsers and a couple different Office suites. It can even do basic video editing and run smaller LLMs. It can run Steam if you are happy with older games. I know it can do all these things because I have.

Without going on and on, I think you could use it to rotate a PDF.

It comes with keyboard, trackpad, screen, and networking built in. It takes up hardly any space. And it is considerably less expensive than most phones and tablets. Of course, there are many less expensive computers that would also do the trick if you cannot afford $60 and just want to learn.

I don’t think you can argue that basic computer skills are elitist. We are not talking F1 racing here.

Seems pretty clear that we are heading into an alliance between the Liberals and the Bloc. They align pretty well on issues outside of Quebec.

If the Liberals allow their Quebec ridings to support Quebec issues that the Bloc cares about, the Bloc will probably continue to support the Liberals more generally.

Unless the Bloc joins a non-confidence against the Liberals, the Liberals can effectively govern as if they had a majority.

And it will take 3 parties to gang up on the libs to force non-confidence. That means BOTH the NDP and the Bloc joining with the Conservatives. How likely does that seem? Even the Conservatives and Bloc together do not have the votes. The NDP sure doesn’t.

As of now, the Liberals only need 3 votes from outside the party on any given issue. On most issues, they should have little trouble overcoming the Conservative opposition.

The NDP cannot force anything. They are not even an official party.

Even if the NDP and Conservatives Team up, they cannot force non-confidence without support from the Bloc.

The liberals and the Bloc are the two parties with power right now. What the liberals have to do is act like the liberals in Quebec are pseudo Bloc MPs. That will keep the Bloc on their side and effectively allow them to act like they have a majority otherwise.

Obviously not re-elected. However, he was the Prime Minister before and still is. That is clearly what they are trying to say.

Pollivre won his riding 7 times in a row. Then Trump endorsed him.

They are talking about the economy, not Transit.

It has certainly done so to me

Old habits

The kernel part of the NVIDIA driver is Open Source now.

The NVIDIA problems are almost entirely legacy at this point. Unless you are using something that ships ancient packages (looking at you Debian Stable), you should be fine.

Interesting to see the Clang stuff on there

Interesting to see the Clang attributes on there

Interesting to see the Clang attributes on there

Started with Soft Landing Systems (SLS). Pre-Slackware. Many hours downloading floppy disk images at school.

Moved to Red Hat (pre-Fedora and pre-RHEL) until I think 7.3 or so and then Mandrake. I did trial runs with many distros over time but none of them really stuck. Fedora for a release or two. Spent a few years on Manjaro for desktop and CentOS for server. Have been on Arch for many years now (or EndeavourOS). Never used Ubuntu really.

Moved to Proxmox for server. Although I never used Debian historically, quite a few of the containers I have on Proxmox now are Debian based as is Proxmox itself.

Lately, I have been using Chimera Linux for desktop though I have an Arch Distrobox on it so I guess I am a bit of a hybrid at this point.

Glad you are enjoying Arch. I agree, it is no longer hard to install.

Do you have an example of something in the Arch wiki that does not apply to EOS?

I mean, I guess most people self-installing Arch are not choosing Dracut (though you could and the Arch wiki covers it). I cannot really think of anything else though.

I use KDE with Chimera Linux which is only in beta. Rock solid.

There is a difference. vi vs emacs is about preference as is GNOME vs KDE. All can exist side by side and the fans can duke it out.

Wayland is replacing Xorg. It is not a choice between the two. It is a choice between the future or the past. That is a more bitter pill for those that choose the past.

X11 the protocol will be around for quite a while. Xwayland has no end date in sight. But the Xorg display server is going to be parked on the history shelf next to SystemV UNIX. You can still run UnixWare today but UnixWare vs Fedora (or RHEL) is not a real fight.

Wayland vs Xorg is not a fight either. Wayland is not just winning. It has already won.

Outside of Xwayland, nobody is going to invest in Xorg going forward. Most Linux desktop users have already moved to Wayland. It will be almost 100% by the end of the year. BSD and other POSIX operating systems will follow.

The BSD folks say that they will maintain Xorg themselves into the future. We will see. My guess is that it will increasingly be an option for legacy hardware only.

Arch users do not consider EOS as Arch but it absolutely is.

EndeavourOS uses the vanilla Arch kernels, the vanilla Arch repos, and the AUR. There are only a handful of packages in the EOS repos and the majority of them are theming or utils that are what you would use on Arch as well (like yay and paru). There are a few quality of life utils that are totally optional and most EOS users are probably not even aware of. Plus, I suppose, the EOS keyring and a couple of packages so that the distro identifies as EOS instead of Arch. Distro identification is the only thing that “overrrides” anything in the Arch repos.

I describe EOS as an opinionated Arch installer with sensible defaults. Once installed, it is just Arch.

It is trivial to revert EOS to vanilla Arch if you want to. I don’t think it even requires a reboot.

I have never had anything in Arch take months to fix. One tip I would have is to use both the latest kernel and an LTS. If something “breaks” with a kernel module, just boot into LTS and it is probably fine there. I also had an issue with WiFi for about a week but a quick reboot into LTS and I was good to go immediately. When I tried the latest kernel two weeks later, it had been fixed there. Something similar happened with my FaceTimeHD camera. Same solution.