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got a degree in cs (is my biggest regret)

i play a lot of ffxiv

read my fair share of manga

p2p file sharing enjoyer with data hoarding tendencies

i use arch linux btw

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Cake day: July 1st, 2023
  • ganoo_slash_linux@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•What in your opinion is the worst Linux Distribution ever made?
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    8 months ago

    Manjaro’s packages being separate from the main arch linux repository is really the kicker. It’s a completely preventable source of dependency issues especially when it comes to the aur. Instructions on the arch linux wiki won’t quite line up with what you need to do on Manjaro sometimes, and eventually you’ll be SOL if you only follow the arch wiki. You won’t understand the components of your system as well if you install Manjaro so a first-time user will have a harder experience fixing their machine.

    It’s a classic case of “if it aint broke don’t fix it”. Manjaro fixes a problem that never existed. Arch linux works perfectly as a daily driver. The installation process continues to get easier, and really there is no experience required, if you can follow instructions, the wiki goes into great detail on everything you need to do to get to a working system and keep it that way.

  • ganoo_slash_linux@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.world•Wisdom of Nym: Illuminating Final Fantasy XIV’s 6.51 patchEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Fall Guys event is stupid, but good, because the rewards from it are worthwhile. They put a whole lot of effort into making the emote, mount, and glamour. The hoodie dyes well and has some cool particle/glow effects, you can get a cute hat, etc. I’m not sure what they were going for with the 100 wins achievement title though, that just seems miserable. If it was 25 or something I would go for it.

    Aloalo variant is a good experience the first time through, but it does get a little repetitive having to fight the same mid boss 12 times and each other boss at least 3 times to get your mount. Mount again is really good though it will work better with some character models than others.

    I haven’t done the criterion but I’ve heard people like it. The trash isn’t as involved but from what i’ve seen the first boss is very difficult. And the savage upgrade item is a joke, everyone doing crit savage has bis anyway so it’s basically equivalent to an ultimate weapon glamour. I’m glad it at least gives a glow. Really it should be a complete weapon drop however, or trade in totem for weapon.

    Good patch overall especially for x.x1 content wise

  • ganoo_slash_linux@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•building rule
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    8 months ago

    Not everything needs to be built from source, true, but certain software that isn’t in wide distribution may have source as the only option.

    Or maybe some tool hasn’t been properly updated and errors on your computer, maybe you can debug it and change a small amount of source code to fix it. Maybe the source release is far ahead of the stable binary release and you want to test or use new features.

    If you download the source for something like linux or ffmpeg or your favorite emulator, you will learn a whole lot by doing a deep dive.

    However. Gentoo. Have you ever built firefox from source? That shit contributes to global warming. It takes so much time and CPU power to build such a heavyweight application from source and the tangible productivity benefit that you get from compiling on your own machine rather than downloading a binary is far outweighed by waste from the sheer active CPU and real time spent building. Maybe if you had a threadripper distcc setup, and only a dial-up connection to update source, it would be faster to compile everything than to get new binaries all the time. But for everyone else, if all you want to do is use the software, downloading binaries for the most popular applications is the way to go.