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  • Like many have said, the main disadvantages are:

    • Any software installed outside of your package manager is difficult to uninstall or maintain.
    • Compilation time can be an annoyance.

    The main advantages are:

    • Removal of unused features.
    • CPU specific optimizations.

    If you’re interested in compiling your own software maybe consider using a distro whose package manager allows to compile stuff, Gentoo is the obvious choice, but Debian based distros can also do that.





  • I think that, as long as the framerate doesn’t dip below 30, a regular human won’t notice fluctuating FPS.

    This is complete bullshit, 30 fps is playable for most games, and I have in the past bumper graphics until fps dip to 30/45 because depending on the game 30 fps on high is a better experience than 60 on low for me. But to say that a regular human won’t notice it is bullshit. There’s a game I play on my deck, for some reason it’s very sensitive to disk usage, so if I’m downloading stuff it dips to 30, and I always have to go and stop the download, because if you’ve been playing at 60, 30 feels very sluggish.



  • It is for pull requests. A user makes a change to the documentation, they want to be able to see the changes on a web page.

    So? What that has to do with SSL certificates? Do you think GitHub loses SSL when viewing PRs?

    If you don’t have them on the open web, developers and pull request authors can’t see the previews.

    You can have them in the open, but without SSL you can’t be sure what you’re accessing, i.e. it’s trivial to make a malicious site to take it’s place an MitM whoever tries to access the real one.

    The issue they had was being marked as phishing, not the SSL certificate warning page.

    Yes, a website without SSL is very likely a phishing attack, it means someone might be impersonating the real website and so it shouldn’t be trusted. Even if by a fluke of chance you hit the right site, all of your communication with it is unencrypted, so anyone in the path can see it clearly.



  • I used it for a couple of years, it’s great if you love customizability and want to run a very clean system. However, the last straw for me was when I needed to edit an image, realized I didn’t had Gimp, so I installed it (which took a long time since I needed to compile it), opened it and it wouldn’t open the image because it was a PNG (I think, or jpg, the specific format doesn’t matter) and that format requires a compilation flag to be enabled, I added that flag globally because why the hell would I not want to have support for it, and recompiled my entire system. By the time I had GIMP able to edit the image I didn’t even remember what I was going to do. I went back to arch not long after that, but always missed defining the packages I want in files to keep the system organized and lean.


  • I worked for almost 2 years at a company with my Linux PC, until one day I requested a laptop for travel and they were shocked that I didn’t had one, I asked for one with Linux but was told that that’s not possible, that they only had windows laptops. I thought, okays this is temporary, as soon as I’m back from traveling I’ll return the laptop and things will be back to normal… when I came back and wanted to return the laptop they said that that was my work computer that I should use for everything, I was like, “you do realize our work runs on a Linux server, right?”. But nope, I had to use the Windows laptop until I quit a few months later. I knew of at least a couple other devs who were running Linux, but didn’t say anything because then they would be forced to switch too, but at my exit interview I remarked that forcing me to use Windows was part of the reason I had left.

    I guess my point is maybe don’t make a big fuss and don’t try to convince HR people about it, they just don’t understand.



  • Let me guess, you might have tried Linux on n the past but only really started using Linux full time around 2021/2022, because every time I see someone saying “Linux only became user friendly around year X” is always around a 1 year mark after they started using it daily, because it’s a lot more a matter of being used to than actual usability. I have been using KDE since 2004, and while things have changed it wasn’t all that much, I don’t remember any big usability refactor or anything of the sort happening, I’m fairly confident that if I were to put you to use a KDE 3.5 UI you would feel right at home.


  • This AI trend trying to replace coders with LLMS is very stupid. A coder is already writing in human friendly terms what they want from the machine, if you communicate it with less clarity there are edge cases you’re not covering, so either the LLM is allowed to add edge cases scenarios on its own (so it can decide to filter all entries that contain the letter A just because) or it isn’t and won’t cover any of them (so it can for example crash and burn when retrieving something empty from the db and happily allow it to be put there). What I think most AI pushers don’t understand is that we’re already writing as close to English as possible while still being very structured about what we’re saying.