Bending the question a little but my second “first impression” of Arch’s “simplicity” surprised me the most.
I was running Gentoo for a while before deciding to move back, and I was surprised that somehow I had
Granted, I had jumped on Gentoo because of misconceptions (speed, ricing, the idea that I needed USE flags), but going back, I saw things more clearly:
systemctl status
and journalctl
, or managing systemd-logind
instead of using seatd
and friends).Not bashing on Gentoo or anything, but it’s when I realized why Arch was “simple.” Even me sorely missing /etc/portage/patches
was quelled by paru -S <pkg> --fm vim --savechanges
.
And Arch traveling at the speed of simplicity even quantifiably helped: Had to download aur/teams
the other day with nine-minute warning.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Successful GitHub pulls are rare; more often, patches live like this. You’re better off contacting the maintainer of the subsystem you’re editing. See the official submission guide.
Not to be dejecting!
Fun investigations (tac
and factor
), things I never bothered to check the existence of until now (install -s
), and fundamentals I glossed over ([
). Pretty fun read.
And of course,
And that’s why the ‘$cmd’ command is my favourite Linux command.
The “we have more than 5 senses” insistence, while interesting, misconstrues what is typically understood as a “sense” by the average person.
When children are taught what the 5 senses are, i.e. seeing, hearing, touch, taste and smell, these are more literary senses than scientific ones. (In another vein, it’s like disagreeing whether a tomato is a vegetable, fruit, or both – scientists and cooks have different definitions!)
Proprioception, the unconscious spatial perception of your body parts, falls under “feel.” Hunger and thirst do, too. I feel hungry, I feel that my leg is below me, I feel off-balance. These scientifically-defined senses fall under one literary sense or another.
Since this is just a mangling of definitions, it’s almost irresponsible to call the five-senses thing a misconception. That being said, it did interest me; did you know that endolymph fluid in our ears uses its inertia to tell us what’s going on when we turn our heads? ツ
Stunningly simple, solely a shift. I love MVPs… we can possibly even remove the -P
completion func switch :P
Yeah, it’s pretty funny how distros just passed each other by like that. Back then it was Debian that was regarded as the hyper-poweruser distro:
And then now there are plenty of people reading this thread who liked Windows 7. As time passed, their grade on the ease-of-use of A passed the don’t-get-in-my-way of B, and a load of Windows 10ers jumped ship to Linus & Friends, the last place their Windows 7 selves would have expected to go. Always a reminder that the end of history isn’t now.