jonathonf

KDE5 never seems to be the default choice of desktop environment

Apart from KDE Neon, and Garuda, and...

it's probably more efficient to reduce churn

That would be lovely. Unfortunately, many places would rather you move job than give you a raise. It's cheaper in their accounts, and that's what (ah) counts.

Was it 80%* or 96%?

Was Phacility paying for a dedicated IP or not?

If someone from a company is lying to you then is this really an overreaction?

(*Was 80% cherry-picked from a particular domain and so used in a purposefully misleading way? Should a sales rep have access to that sort of data anyway?)

I'm surprised by the other comments here that I'm in the minority thinking that the sales approach was pretty terrible. You're trying to sell something you don't understand to a company you don't understand. Why? If you actually want to "help" a company (by selling them your product... not really sure how that's "helping", but...) then at least do some research into the company and provide something that looks useful rather than some crappy "Hi, I like you, let's chat!"

In this specific case, someone somewhere is lying about services being provided. If that's sales then that's not great. If that's accounts/billing then that's probably worse. In any case it's a pretty terrible look for the company concerned, and understandably results in an erosion of trust.

I thought your point was that Manjaro isn't afraid to try to introduce commercial software into the default installs...

(The FreeOffice version included was essentially feature-limited shareware, also requiring registration after 30 days)

Although that edition is maintained by one of the Manjaro GmbH CEOs, and received not insignificant fanfare from Vivaldi as being "the default browser on Manjaro", https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-is-the-default-browser-on-m...

You've taken that sentence out of context. ;)

Using funds to pay for colo costs (and possibly staff) is not "skimming". The entire purpose of raising funds is to pay for things.

The front page of the project says:

Please do not share this website with others until we believe it's ready for broader distribution.

Sure, it's accessible, but it doesn't really seem to be in good faith to directly ignore someone's explicit wishes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26005872

Is there a writeup/summary somewhere that explains "the lessons learned"?

Not that I'm aware of, but I'm sure you could check the GitLab commits and/or ask on their forum if you're interested.

This is a young project (just under a year old) with developers who do this for fun. The developers are going to keep making changes that maintain the fun they have during development.

Mistakes will be made. Things will break. Lessons will be learned. This isn't a decades-old mature distro, so if you're expecting something absolutely bullet-proof then Garuda currently isn't it.

However, I will say that the pace of improvement is pretty stunning. Their direction and what they have achieved in a short space of time is pretty impressive - not just within the distro itself but the surrounding OOB features and infrastructure like ChaoticAUR (prebuilt AUR packages), secure password management (Bitwarden), dotfile sync (NextCloud), a pastebin service for log output (Privatebin), ...

Is it perfect? No. Is it for everyone? No. It is what it is, and doesn't try to be anything else, and I kind of like that approach.

I guess the Garuda Boot Options screenshot shows the options in operation:

https://garudalinux.org/images/garuda/ss/garuda-boot-options...

I'm not sure whether this is misleading or not given the nature of illustrative screenshots, e.g. the package management one shows VLC installed but not Firefox:

https://garudalinux.org/images/garuda/ss/pamac.png

These funds are parts of the community funds Phil (founder of Manjaro the Company, and project leader) had collected privately and forwarded to this collective

OpenCollective and CommunityBridge/LFX were set up after the surprise company announcement to collect community donations from that point (and intended to protect them as independent). The previous privately-collected donations were never forwarded.

You can switch to whatever theme you want. The defaults are opinionated. If you like them, great. If not, use another distro. That's fine.

It doesn't make the original bug less severe, but it was resolved under an hour after it was reported.

There is an _option_ to do this, it is _not_ the default.

From my limited understanding: it looks like a matrix coprocessor, and implies that hardware-accelerated matrix processing has been built into the M1.

Matrix processing comes in useful for AI/ML/CV-type applications. It's something GPUs are generally very good for.

10€ is given to the project edition.

Do you know where this payment goes to? e.g. is it to their OpenCollective or LFX donation accounts?

Possibly useful existing implementation:

https://github.com/unfs3/unfs3

This has the benefits of being tested and having a working read-write implementation (along with still being user-space).

Want to "skip" the compile step?

  //usr/bin/tcc -run $0; exit
  main() { printf("Hello\n"); return 0; }

That wasn't quite what I was trying to show with the snippet - I was intimating that you can use tcc to run C directly in something like a shell script.

If you want to make `tcc -w -run` etc. more convenient then:

  alias trun='tcc -w -run - <<<'
  trun 'main() { printf("Hello\n"); return 0; }'

I can't edit my parent comment now, but it can be improved with e.g.

  //usr/bin/tcc -run $0; exit
  main() { printf("Hello\n"); return 0; }

I was just about to reply about the same thing:

  #!/usr/bin/tcc -run
  
  #include <stdio.h>
  
  int main() {
    printf("Hello\n");
    return 0;
  }

You do realize that no version of Ubuntu was ever released with that feature?

Not sure that is true - I seem to remember that it was enabled by default in a couple of releases (I think somewhere around 12.04?).

you had to opt in It's easy to get upset about stuff people have made up

I raised this issue early in the Lens development phase. The response from the mailing list was (paraphrasing) "well, people can always uninstall the package if they don't want the feature" (at which point I then opted out entirely).

Opt-in came much, _much_ later.

You're shocked that they consider and plan for a worst-case/edge-case scenario?

That sort of attention to detail is what continues to impress me about the Arch methodology.

I wish those people who find they can easily find another job without any effort or worry would realise they are not normal.

For the majority of people finding a half-decent job takes a stupid amount of time (the number of jobs advertised which simply list a set of "technology words" and end in a black hole is not insignificant), and even if you do find a reasonable position being advertised then it's perfectly normal to never get any sort of response back.

Devuan [1] and MX Linux [2] (Debian-like), Artix (Arch-like) [3], and Void [4] are four other systemd-free distros off the top of my head. There will be others.

[1] https://devuan.org/ [2] https://mxlinux.org [3] https://artixlinux.org/ [4] https://voidlinux.org/

Slack is essentially IRC rebranded with a pretty UI, so I'd say yes.

Rebrand anything with a pretty UI and someone in an "office job" will want to use it...

Also advert- and DRM-free.

AVX-512: No, "only" AVX-256. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions#AVX...

Thunderbolt 3: Supposed to be added to the X570 chipset.

Zen2 has hardware mitigations so "the same".