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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Arch Linux has by far the best community, the support wiki is the most useful wiki to Linux there is, it basically covers everything. Mad props to the arch Linux community.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

This law isn't catered to you personally, don't you think there are bosses or work places that call their employees after hours - it's pretty common. I don't mind, but I get mails and messages after hours and just answer them.

It does effect me without me knowing in some ways, but I personally feel it's more important to help someone, that also might be stressed and decide to contact me, for some help or questions.

If the person or boss isn't an asshole I don't mind, but not everyone has that luxury, of having a boss that cares. Often they don't want to contact you after hours.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think you're giving it to much thought, a nullable type is also a optional.

But using orNull() to unwrap the option kinda defeats it's purpose, you're just making it into another optional type, If that is the case then I would stop using Option and use the nullable operator "?".

When I've worked with arrow I usually wrap types with Either so I can failfast and only have happy path in my code.

https://arrow-kt.io/learn/typed-errors/either-and-ior/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't think Linux caters to the casual crowd, maybe in the distant future, because it takes a lot of effort to create a good user experience, those resources are not available to distro makers.

In the PC world you have some different setups of devices, apple has it a bit easier they explicitly choose the hardware that they want to Support.

Also casual people have a hard time connecting a printer to their computer or fixing the wireless wifi.

I can't imagine them fixing anything via the terminal. My SOs runs Manjaro and she is like that, but I usually fix her laptop when she has issued.

I love Linux for what it is, this toy for a developer that can automate and customize stuff relatively simple, with a large opinionated community.

I would instead rather focus on those thing, than seeing Linux trying to compete with windows/Mac.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Mostly first Linux users will download Ubuntu, latest release, and I've not used a more bug ridden OS in my life. Everyday there was a new bug that made me have to hard reset my computer (mind you this is 24.0.4 noble). Display was grey after login, didn't want to login, laptop screen doesn't wake up, Wayland crashes and doesn't start backup. And that is the bugs that forced me to hard reset my laptop, then we have a whole slew of other bugs.

I mean some new getting recommend Ubuntu will have a horrible experience, and most of them do

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Stop putting words in my mouth then, you are just trying to force me into a corner, where you feel comfortable arguing from. The world isn't a binary place

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Are you born this way or are you chosing to be this way?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

No I want the OS that I use and my server to be less prone to security flaws. If you want to call that write rust or gtfo, so be it. But that is your words not mine, I'm more concerned with security

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

There's is no other way, C is a security issue - do you understand?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago

What is so hard to understand, C Is a fucking security issues?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dude what are you on about, there is no rust programmer that want to teach fucking rust to anyone who doesn't want learn...

This has nothing to do with C vs Rust, this has to do with security and enabling more people to develop stuff for Linux.

These so called kernel maintainers you see in the conference are only mainting the parts that they use for their filesystem, they are mainting the API, they are paid by companies who have sold support for ext4, xfs or brtfs etc.. . Of course they don't want to make their jobs any harder by learning a new language.

And of course they obfuscate the API with random naming and undocumented usage, because they want to make it hard for anyone else using trying to use the APIs.

If they don't want to be part of the improvement, then go do something else. Yes rust is better than C for this, because guess what - there are still CVEs being made, because it's impossible to catch everything with you eyes.

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