Victor

Not what I was saying, no, but it is true, that I don’t own one. 😄

Perfectly valid. 👌

I moved from Ubuntu for the same reasons I moved from Windows, to be honest. I felt like I was losing control of what my system was doing. All this bullshit being forced on me that I didn’t like. I wanted to be able to pick my own DE without uninstalling something else first. Major upgrades would fail sometimes, etc.

Installing Arch was a challenge I was willing to take on. Learned a lot.

I don’t share the trope about Arch Linux users being annoying per se, but the joke about “Arch btw” is just fun to participate in lol. But I don’t think Arch users preach that much. I see way more preaching about Fedora and NixOS, e.g. And like, Mint. 😆 Meanwhile Arch users are just silently enjoying themselves. 🤷‍♂️

Exactly, it just reads like a smug rant.

Oh, it’s just a list of pro Linux items but in reverse psychology… Kay.

I’m already a Linux user, I was kinda curious about a listing of actual reasons Linux might not be for someone.

I think the best way is just take the leap, and try it out for real. 😉

I used Tig before lazygit actually. It’s great for getting an overview of history. But lazygit I think is more focused on the current state, and workflow-oriented. It is very easy to drop commits, rebase, edit commits, etc.

I’m not sure what virtual branches are or why I would need them but sounds interesting. 😅

I just felt increasingly like I didn’t have control over my system. And Gnome 2 was looking sick to me at the time, I loved the look. 👌

Started with Ubuntu for a few years and now I’ve been on Arch for over a decade I believe.

Web dev, Linux at home and work. Works fine for my scenario.

That makes sense! I think I’d be running Nushell for this if the scripts didn’t need to be very portable, sounds like a good use case for that.

two keystrokes

For me I’d be saving one keystroke. Status for me would be g s, g c for commit, and so on. Single letter aliases for the most common commands, two letters for less common in a conflict. 😁

But these days since a few years back I just use lazygit (aliased to lg btw, lol).

Everything in lazygit is basically just single keystrokes also. c for commit, etc. Very handy.

Fugitive

Cool beans, sounds like a good tool! I’m on team Helix since a few years, after being a vim/nvim user for about a decade, and emacs a couple years before that. Helix’s paradigm just makes so much sense. 🎯👌 Jumping around symbols intra-file and inter-file, and LSP support built-in, no fussing. Worth a try for a few weeks if you ask me.

I think cut is a little bit finicky because two consecutive occurrences of the cell delimiter counts, and gives an empty cell when selecting the index between them.

choose is a bit better at this from what I remember, which is like the modern cut, I believe, of course written in Rust.

Otherwise Nushell excels at this sort of thing, although I don’t really use it.

What do y’all use awk for really? 20 of using Linux, I’ve never had to use awk. And I’ve done a looot of scripting in my days. Anything from building my own clone of polybar using eww (with loads of scripts underneath), to automated systems for bulk handling of student assignments back at uni when I used to help out with grading and such.

What’s awk good for that other standard utilities can’t do?

What I do with all git related aliases is I alias git to just g in the shell. Then for any alias I want that uses git I just put that alias in the global git config under the alias section.

This avoids polluting the shell with a bunch of git-specific aliases. Just the one, g.

Just like half of YouTube these days. God I hate those AI narrators.

🎯😂

They can’t understand each other. Because of their language.

But in reverse!

I don’t like green ones. They taste unripe. No go!

Yellow, meh, better but a bit bitter still. Hol-up!

Red: lessgooo!

Those people purple ones are amazing looking.

[Leaving that autocorrection in, because it was great lol]

Yup, can confirm, have a convicted offender colleague.

I don’t understand why you keep going about the exact part I’m telling you I’m not interested in?

I don’t want to know why everyone does this particular thing. I just want people stop using the argumentative fallacy of “everyone does X, so X is fine/good”.

Everyone here is continuing to fixate on the X part, but I’m only commenting on the argumentative fallacy itself, which is separate from the instance of X in this case.

Please, no more? Alright?