Exactly. archinstall is pretty nice, and if you want the frustration of dealing with random errors, it’s still there. But it’s straightforward (but keep the docs handy since you’ll likely need them).

I’m just surprised people still use it.

Yeah. My sister uses Linux, and I’ve taught her basic commands to just make things easier (apt install, cd, ls, that sorta thing). And she knows how to find a decent website for support and copy the commands, which are usually fine.

Oh no. That fits the bill perfectly lol.

Linux Mint with Cinnamon. Easiest transition. If you want customization, use KDE. If you want your desktop environment to make choices for you, GNOME.

Borked your bootloader already? You’re a true Linux user lol. You’ll eventually learn to not do that (and back up regularly).

Good choice with Fedora! I love dnf and the choices Fedora makes overall.

Curiosity, followed by realizing how good it is for development.

Interesting. Sounds like DevOps folks would love it. Maybe I’ll look into it more. Thanks!

Can someone tell me the recent hype about immutable distros? What exactly is the immutable part, and why is it attractive?

I’m a bit rusty on this, but I think you’d need to split your Sass/SCSS/etc before Webpack will perform tree-shaking or allow lazy-loading. I don’t think many devs wrote it that way: personally, I like my mobile rules beside my desktop ones, since my styling is component-wise.

Terminal fan here (though I’m on Mac). GUIs, in an attempt to contain all the features of a CLI program while being user friendly, make compromises on simplicity. It’s difficult to remember the combination of buttons to click to get what you want. For CLI programs, you have man and —help to figure it out. Of course there’s the pipes and automation aspects of it too.

True, but when done in jest I think distro wars are fine. The charm is that each distro has stuff you’ll like and dislike.

You started the voting thing. I merely said I was apolitical.

I’m not a citizen: I can’t vote.

I mean I was apolitical for most of my life, honestly. Barely followed news at all. It’s just depressing.

I see, I guess at that scale API requests add up. I suppose it is a solution, and if replies don’t count, the limits are rather reasonable.

Why would that affect these metrics?

It seems like Signal, Telegram, and Threema are the best for now. Signal provides the least information, but for the majority of people, the stuff from Telegram are things the government already know, and I’m not sure how useful the Threema information is.

Yes! At least on the browser I can just open in a new tab.

Yup. Memmy is improving quite rapidly though, so I’m sticking here for now.