Comments by "HalfSourLizard" (@halfsourlizard9319) on "DistroTube" channel.

  1. What if everybody just stfu about politics ... and got back to arguing about wholesome topics like Emacs vs Vim? 🤦‍♀
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  2. This is the way. Be warned: After you learn Vim, it will be truly painful to watch non-Vimmers flailing around trying to move their cursor by pressing the arrow key 47 times to do what `f(` would have done ... or ... worse ... using the mouse.
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  3. On Debian-based systems, looks like `sh` symlinks to `dash` (Tested on Debian, Mint, and Raspbian.).
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  4. Can confirm: `fzf` is awesome and life-changing.
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  5. Yup. They're invoking Linux code -- not GNU or GNU/Linux code -- by doing, ultimately, a `syscall` or `svc` opcode which transfers control to the kernel and runs whatever kernel sys-call code `rax` or `r7` specifies ... and yes, probably via C wrappers from `sys/syscall.h`.
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  6. You will not regret it. But, it will become increasingly horrifying to watch non-Vim people faffing around trying to edit text.
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  7. It's way better than Ubuntu. Packages actually get updated. You don't need to f around with PPA nonsense to install packages. And it doesn't install heaps of bloatware. Also, who tf cares about what's 'cool'? How passé.
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  8. 100% Also, there's zero reason to 'choose', just use all the editors, nerd snipe everyone and get them arguing about editor superiority, and get back to doing useful things.
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  9. Having a single, centralised package manager (e.g., pacman ... I use Arch btw) is what makes Linux so much easier than Windows or Mac ... It means that setting up a system from nothing can be entirely scripted, which makes doing experiments that might/will f up everything lower cost. Computer configurations should be livestock, not pets.
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  10. It's the amount of information/entropy in the password that matters, not the length. `aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa` isn't any more secure that `aaaa`.
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  11. Just to make a pedantic distinction: Y'all are talking about terminal emulators 😉
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  12. Oof, I hope I never get those Ubuntu side effects: I don't want my system plagued by ancient packages that approx never get updated!
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  13. What are you disagreeing with? You seem to be agreeing that there's an utter lack of consistency in flags for GNU tooling.
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  14. 'don't really explore / tinker unless I HAVE to' fits my priors of RPM-Linux users
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  15. A really useful thing to do with `sed` is something like `/{pattern}/ s/{pattern}/{template}/g` which restricts the replacement to lines matching the first pattern ... In Ed/Vi/Vim this would be `g/{pattern}/s/{pattern}/{template}/g`.
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  16. Congrats on your new life as Derk! ;P
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  17.  @smoteytothemax  And, you replied with (inaccurate) claims about Emacs ... why, then?
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  18. lolwut? I just re-installed an Arch box yesterday; took about 5min to install and half hour to install packages and configure ... I suspect you're trying to do it through clicky-draggy GUI crap rather than with config files which are transferable and can be versioned.
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  19. Things that are sus include: '3 is my favourite number for Christian reasons'.
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  20. The algorithm is listening!!!!!
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  21. That's awesome! Learn about English and Linux at the same time!
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  22. I mean, both are completely legit things to do. I use Arch, BTW🤷‍♀️🐧♥️
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  23.  @RiPStF  Pretty much ... And we have a tendency to install Vim keys for everything (readline, Vimium ff, etc.) ...
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  24.  @smoteytothemax  Hard disagree -- they're clunkier (since Emacs isn't modal) and they're far less compositional (e.g., yank the next 5 words, paste a line 4 times, select up to and including the next 'f').
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  25.  @smoteytothemax  Wow, great counter-argument. Also: I'm not a 'guy'.
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  26.  @smoteytothemax  Cheers for contributing absolutely nothing of value.
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  27. 'Kindly' lol ... krtfm
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  28.  @RiPStF Ha! Just saw that you'd said roughly the same ... Guess amphibians and reptiles think similarly ;P
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  29. Well, I think it's a matter of either: 1) Minimising the number of OS re-installs -- to reduce aggregate annoyance of the whole process -- or 2) dramatically INCREASING the number of re-installs -- in which case you'd get annoyed enough to automate / script up rolling out your installation.
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  30. It's better ta have features that you don't need than to need features that you don't have. You might like Ed if you want an even-more-minimal editor.
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  31. legit q
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  32.  @terrydaktyllus1320  Yep! And, as someone who previously had a YT channel, I'll just say: It's annoying af when entitled, whinging KeyboardKarens pop into the comments to speak to the manager about how someone else's channel 'should' be run.
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  33. ‘It is impossible to tell for certain the difference between genuine stupidity and a parody of stupidity.’–Poe's Law
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  34. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
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  35. That doesn't even make sense. Windows and macOS both ship with term emulators ootb ... normies can safely ignore them.
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  36. The past is an illusion.
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  37.  @MrHurricaneFloyd  TIL: Ventoy ... Never used before; holy crap, that's great / easy ... 10/10 would recommend to anyone who's not yet tried it!
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  38. So, this isn't a Linux problem -- my TTY never has crap in any systray -- it's a DE prob ... and Windows/Mac have at least as much crap in their systrays.
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  39.  @DistroTube  Ah, interesting! I was actually surprised to see that it wasn't Bash ... I've a ridiculously long .bashrc and basically have vendor lockin 😬
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  40.  @smoteytothemax  Also: Rational discussion where people provide receipts for their claims != fight ...
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  41. around 7:15 that's quite a few E&Es
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  42. seriously*
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  43.  @theodorealenas3171  I don't do it for my physical boxes, but I have a VM where I run all of my tests ... and it's fully redeployed every week ... which at least gives some confidence in the setup scripts. I do like the idea quite a lot of: Run backup; offload backup to another machine + cloud; autoreformat / blow away state; reprovision bare-metal OS install; copy backup back; run setup scripts. What could go wrong!?
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  44. Like just f glibc generally?! It breaks everything on all kinda systems (I've seen it on Arch, Ubuntu, and even the horrible proprietary Mac) We have enough memory these days to just statically link our binaries?!?
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  45. Zoom 2.0 is too much!? I thought our boy DT could handle like zoom 27.0!
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  46. I had a similar experience years ago ... It's slightly magical watching someone actually using Vim (in the sense of: it's unclear what they're doing, but edits are happening), but learning Vim is nothing short of life-changing.
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  47. I'd be much less huffy about these derpy package formats if they could just install aliases for the executables by-default in some way that let the tools be used from the commandline in any semblance of a normal way.
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  48. WSL2 ... you can very easily run either the GUI (X11) or terminal Emacs on Windows.
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  49. @@darthvader1191 Right ... and ... ?
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  50.  @Lewdiculous  Horses for courses. I'm glad that Windows exists for the sort of people who like that ... and I've never understood the weird inclination that many GNU/Linux users have towards converting others. And I'm glad that Linux exists so that I don't have to run bloated graphical nonsense and can use a beautiful TTY keyboard-only🤷‍♀️
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