I thought you could still go Centos Stream 9?
Anyway, I’m pretty sure almalinux-deploy allows migration from Centos Stream 8… it’s your second chance to be done with fickle management decisions from RedHat/IBM: don’t miss it this time :)
I thought you could still go Centos Stream 9?
Anyway, I’m pretty sure almalinux-deploy allows migration from Centos Stream 8… it’s your second chance to be done with fickle management decisions from RedHat/IBM: don’t miss it this time :)
Isn’t the purpose getting views on youtube?
Today will be another productive day!
Never used powershell (thanks heavens, I’ve not touched windows since windows 7). Is it similar to nushell?
Well, it’s not like by learning fish you’ll automatically forget bash :) but I do agree that you should learn bash first, then plain sh and only after those go explore other shells.
I love how “radical shells” sounds! :)
Powershell does this on Windows. May also work on Linux?
Yes: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/installing-powershell-on-linux
Should you choose to install it, it will bring the total of people running powershell on linux to one :)
(I’m kidding, of course, more or less)
beware fish shell syntax works drastically differently from other POSIX shells
Come on, that’s scaremongering :)
On interactive, day-to-day use, fish syntax is basically the same as bash or any other shell: you type your commands, hit enter and the command is run. Only when it comes to scripting (or writing complex one-liners, or copy-pasting stuff from the web) are there appreciable differences. In those cases, until one is accustomed to fish, running the command/script in bash is still an option.
Let me be 100% clear: yes, fish will complain if a wildcard doesn’t expand to anything, and there are other minor things that may impact typical interactive use. I’m just saying there is basically zero learning curve if you want to try fish and that you can just fire up bash if you hit a wall in a moment when you can’t afford to investigate because you need stuff done.
If I had to say, the most hassle with fish is that people assume you are running POSIX shell and so you have to know how to adapt instructions to your shell. For example, someone may say “add expor SOME_VAR=some_value to your .bashrc” and you need to be able to translate that to fish. Also, there is very specific software (in my system, it’s just sdkman, an utility that manages which java development tools are installed/available in a shell session) that only works in POSIX shells and needs some adapter for fish.
I bet that doesn’t exist: nobody would put work in a program that lets just restricts what you can do with zero usability advantages (ok someone might)
If you fear you might run unsafe commands just save whatever you are comfortable running in scripts and restrict yourself to run those instead of manually typing commands you don’t fully remember/understand.
BTW: topgrade will detect what needs updating in your system (your distro’s package manager, flatpak, python stuff, … whatever) and update all the things
BTW: “terminal emulator” is the program that shows you text in a window, the program that runs inside it and validates/interprets your commands is a “shell” (the one you are using is most probably bash)
Here’s what I get in fish when I start writing a rsync
command and hit tab to ask for completions:
❱ rsync --append-verify --progress -avz -
-0 --from0 (All *from/filter files are delimited by 0s) --delete (Delete files that don’t exist on sender)
-4 --ipv4 (Prefer IPv4) --delete-after (Receiver deletes after transfer, not before)
-6 --ipv6 (Prefer IPv6) --delete-before (Receiver deletes before transfer (default))
-8 --8-bit-output (Leave high-bit chars unescaped in output) --delete-delay (Find deletions during, delete after)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Microarchitecture_levels
TLDR: extra x86 instructions supported by modern chips
It may not be a scam per se, but it certainly is a misnomer at this point… it’s one of those words (like “enterprise” or “pro”) that have been appropriated by marketing and devoided of any meaning. AI as a word will gradually die while people gradually realize it doesn’t mean anything. Marketing consumes words (and people too).
The problem is that rm -rf
shouldn’t scare you?
What are the chances something like
~/projects/some-project $ cd ..
~/projects $ rm -fr some-project
may delete unexpected stuff? (especially if you get into the habit of tab-completing the directory argument)
Nice, but the name should be AS Roma :)
Honestly, IMO the end-user benefit is mostly that it sounds cool.
All the benefits I’ve heard (including the ones in this discussion) don’t actually derive from “immutability” but from releases that stay the same for longer (which is what “more stable” used to mean), or the ability to roll back your system to some “known” working state (which you can do with snapshots and in a plethora of other ways).
What immutability means is that users are unable to alter their system, or at least not expected to… basically, it means what in corporate lingo would sound “altering your system is not supported” and that the distro actively makes it hard for you to do so.
This means users will not break their system because they followed badly some instructions they found on some badly written forum post anymore and blame the distro for it, but it also means that users who actually have a reason to alter their system and know what they are doing will have a hard time doing it (or be unable to), which is precisely why I left macos and went back to linux for my work computer some ten years ago (I spent half a day doing something I could have be done with in five minutes and said to myself “never again”).
For the team/company that builds it, an immutable distro will likely be easier to test and maintain than a “regular” one, which should then indirectly benefit the users (well… as long as the team/company interests are aligned with the users’ of course: shall windows get easier for microsoft to maintain, how much benefit would trickle down to its end users?).
Users who switch to an immutable distro should see a decrease in bugs short-term. In the longer run, I’d expect distros (especially the “commercial” ones) to reduce the effort they spend in QA until quality drops again to whatever level is deemed appropriate (if bread costs less I’m still not gonna buy more bread than I need… same goes for quality).
Basically, it all boils down to “immutable distros cost less to maintain” (which, don’t get me wrong, is a net positive).
I must say I find it slightly concerning to have heard several “veteran” linux users say that immutable distros are so great that they will install one on their parent/child/SO/friend’s PC but on their own.
It’s also a bit unnerving to notice that most of the push for immutability seems to come from companies (the likes of debian/arch/gentoo/etc. are not pushing for immutability AFAIK, and they certainly don’t have the initiative in this field).
I’m not sure how much immutable distros will benefit the community at large, and… I’m not even sure they will end up being very successful (windows/macos follow in whatever makes is more profitable for microsoft/apple, linux users have choice).
I hope that immutable distros will prove both successful and good for the user community at large.
edit: Forgot to explain the positives I hope for: since immutable distros should require less effort, I hope this will lead to more/better “niche” distros from small teams, and to distros with bigger teams doing more cool stuff with the extra manpower
I actually found the tone of the article (which is in tune with the title) quite refreshing, to the point that I read it all despite the fact I couldn’t care less about cars :)
IDK about the US press (I live elsewhere) but sometimes I feel the news could benefit from more candidly opinionated articles like this one and less professional-sounding pieces crafted to influence the readers’ opinions instead of informing them of the writer’s.
No: there is no krunner widget I can add to the panel and AFAIK no way to hide/show the panel via a keyboard shortcut
AFAIK there is no krunner widget I can add to a panel… but regardless: can I have the panel show/hide via some keyboard shortcut?
(If they can’t be together, I could live with alt+space => toggle krunner and, for example, alt+shift+space => toggle panel)
To put an even finer point on it, Musk’s tweet today announcing that “all core systems are now on X.com” featured the logo of the company he founded 25 years ago.
That’s the news… is it newsworthy?
I can’t wait for chatGPT to learn it should answer every disjunctive question with “por que no los dos?”
I think I can sense your love/hate relationship with nixos from here :) you are not alone