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It was the D: drive, maybe they have write permission on that drive.

But for real, why would the agent be given the ability to run system commands in the first place? That sounds like a gargantuan security risk.

I think the average user only cares about that if they have to do it again. Or to help a friend perhaps. But then the answer would be “use nix” and that’s not super helpful if you’re offering support. 😆

I’ve had to go back to investigate certain things when installing a new system but it’s all in the Arch wiki for me, and sometimes there’s even newer and better ways of doing stuff after a while so just keeping my system set once and for all might not be what I really want anyway.

Change is life. 😌

even if I were to just upgrade my whole system tomorrow, it wouldn’t be for using W11.

Right, but if you did, you’d pick W11, I assume, if you’re a Windows user? No reason to choose an abandoned version.

In which way is it weird? It’s different, but how is it weird?

No need to apologize, you’re allowed your opinions and feelings.

I would suggest reading the manual page for argparse thoroughly from top to bottom of you haven’t already. I struggled with argparse at first too, but it’s because I skimmed the manual instead of reading it.

I would also read through all of the manual, and you’ll find useful idiomatic fish things like not setting PATH directly, but using fish_add_path, among other things. 👍

I just installed fish shell a few years ago. Best scripting language I’ve come across. No need to remember all this weird bash syntax you have to look up every time you want to use it. All of fish shell fits in your working memory, seriously. It’s tiny.

Something that actually activates the brain again, for example.

I like gofile.io. 🤷‍♂️ Not self-hosted but hey.

No no, there isn’t “no benefit”. There’s just very little gain, compared to the effort. The average Linux user definitely will not care about reproducibility. 😅 So the effort required to either add Nix stuff to an existing distro or install NixOS itself will just be wasted effort for most people, I imagine. Myself included.

As a power user, I’m still not interested. Chezmoi serves me more than well to sync between my work laptop and my main desktop PC, because I’m running Arch on both systems and I still haven’t had the need to reproduce a system in over a decade with Arch. 🥰 So stable.

But yeah if you reinstall frequently or manage a lot of machines daily then it might be worth looking into. 👌

I understood the exaggeration part, just not the specifics 😁 Alright, cool

What kind of “hardcore shit” are you planning to do with your computer? 😅

I didn’t need to learn a programming language to install Arch btw. I’d definitely agree Nix is an unnecessary complication for very little gain for the average user.

Maybe they didn’t need to worry about competition because they tested so vigorously. 🤷‍♂️

Good old Flash of Unstyled Content.

Actually one of the cleaner ones I’ve seen, ngl.

Especially when that extra step is something that doesn’t make sense in their mental model of what a service is or how it works. Like, I want an account. I go to site. Sign up, right? Nope, you have to select where to sign up. What? It’s a huge hurdle.

🤷‍♂️ I bought my old PC in 2020, got Windows 10 for it. 11 was a free upgrade via Windows Update, so I just updated. I’m here wondering how old everyone’s PC is who are gamers. Bought a new PC this year, left my Windows M.2 stick in the old PC, did a new installation of Arch in the new PC, and left the old Arch install as a media server.

Are people daily driving and gaming on like 10-year old systems? When did those TPM modules become common in CPUs?

Same boat, ~20-year user, really happy to see so much development around Linux. Great apps, environments, gaming, system light/dark mode, etc etc. Just enjoying the ride of it growing into a modern desktop.

My latest venture is Niri, which I think I’ll stay with for a long while if everything progresses in the right direction (or stays unchanged, it’s already great).

I’m not tipping. I refuse to adopt that culture as well. I’ll literally die on that hill. Workers deserve a wage, not to depend on people’s good graces like beggars wiping car windows.

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