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  • I think so too actually if you’re looking to learn the basics.

    Arch has very little actual “distribution” in its system (mostly pacman and mkinitcpio) and the former is a glorified tar with a database, and while it can run scripts, you’re expected to configure and set up everyone yourself using the upstream tools, and these usually come vanilla

    I daily drove it for 15 years before I switched so it’s not like Arch is insured for that. But if you want to learn the basics of modern Linux it’s a good choice








  • Well, Mercator projection is most helpful for maps used in nautical navigation:

    The Mercator projection was designed for use in marine navigation because of its unique property of representing any course of constant bearing as a straight segment. Such a course, known as a rhumb (alternately called a rhumb line or loxodrome) is preferred in marine navigation because ships can sail in a constant compass direction. This reduces the difficult, error-prone course corrections that otherwise would be necessary when sailing a different course.

    That being said, is a bad projection for other purposes, and it’s probably better to use other projections in general education. That being said, any projection will have certain disadvantages under the right or wrong conditions.

    Probably a good call to switch, though I refuse to believe it was kept so long for other reasons than “this is how it’s always been”






  • Often times when there was a big new update for GNOME, I’d try it out, decide I still don’t like the concept and go back to plasma.

    I don’t get the appeal of that desktop. Even the tiniest changes need gnome-tweaks? Why isn’t that stuff part of the base settings? But ok. You can’t ungimp GNOME. The usage concept is baked into it. Fine. But why?

    I mean there must be people who want this and nothing else, otherwise people wouldn’t use it.