• danhab99@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    This is so lame for the arch community, like I use arch btws are supposed to be the most hardcore power users and they bugged a dev that badly! I don’t know how many tutorial I saw about compiling arch and building everything yourself into a minimal setup.

    You can’t give me shit for using Manjaro for as long as I did, GLAD I LEFT.

    can I say something a little stupid

    Thx!

    So I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with ignoring emails. Emails are a kinda public way for anyone to start a conversation with you. As developers, we include our emails in commits — but we don’t have to. I don’t think GitHub even checks whether the email addresses in commits are valid.

    So yeah, if you have a valid reason to reach out to a developer, go ahead. But if that developer disagrees or doesn’t want to respond, that’s just how it is — you can’t make someone email you back.

    I’m just being consistent with myself. I always tell my friends and family about the importance of the block button, and I’ll say the same thing here: just ignore it. And in this case someone would have eventually fixed the problem and submitted a PR.

    ~sry if I was condescending~

    • enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works
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      Most arch users are casuals that finally figured out how to read a manual. Then you have the 1% of arch users who are writing the manual…

      It’s the Gentoo and BSD users we should fear and respect, walking quietly with a big stick of competence.

      • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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        As a 10 year Arch user* I concur. Reports of danger are vastly exaggerated. Most software comes pre-compiled and tested. I never had any more (or less) problems than with Debian stable.

        Newcomers often underestimate the importance of its wiki, and some are perpetually unwilling to understand.

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          I’ve ever run arch, yet.

          I’m used to scanning forums and wikis to find fixes, would arch be a “walk in the park” for me?

          Thinking of switching from an oclp build on my old MacBook to Linux, as performance is lackluster on the latest build and I don’t even use the continuity features on my Mac

          Edit: barely any context from what I’ve searched fixes for, nice crap comment.

          I’ve run Ubuntu quite a lot years ago and ran popos recently. I also did quite a lot of android custom roms on a huge number of devices (saying this, only horror stories I have are android fuckery and hardware issues, guess I’ll be fine)

          • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            Arch probably has more documentation online than any other distro.

            Just check out the Arch wiki, it’s insane.

            So yeah, if you’re used to looking up solutions online, Arch might actually be the best distro for you.

            barely any context from what I’ve searched fixes for, nice crap comment.

            I don’t know what this means.

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              It meant that I didn’t give that much context in my comment and kindly flamed myself before a stranger got the chance to it haha

              Thanks for the kind comment.

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      I submitted a PR and bug report for something I was using recently to better help arch users install it in the future. I encourage other folks to do that. If you ever have trouble installing something, just submit a little PR with tweaks to the README that would’ve helped you. Oftentimes they’ll accept them. It benefits everyone.

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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      I don’t know how many tutorial I saw about compiling arch

      2 things wrong with that:

      • No end user compiles ArchLinux from source
      • One of the first things you’re told when using ArchLinux is to peruse the Wiki, not “many tutorial”

      You don’t know what you’re talking about.

    • kieron115@startrek.website
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      Manjaro was my first Arch distro and I enjoyed it until I found out about the issues with packages always being out of date. Switched over to EndeavourOS and have been loving it so far. It’s been “just working” for like two years now and even my 70 year old parents don’t notice a difference from Windoze when they borrow my laptop. In fact my dad is using it to do some Quicken work today (which was an adventure to get working. WineHQ community was super helpful though)