Looking forward to all my mods breaking. /s (probably real though)

I looked at the supposed additions on this version’s wiki page and there are some really nice QOL improvements made. I think the main feature I’m looking forward to is:

A bagel and some fruit.

This post is funnier if you read it right-to-left (in my opinion)

Material Files for me. It feels like KDE’s Dolphin if it had an android port.

1984 /j

But actually it is probably “Tuesdays with Morrie” by Mitch Albom.

Its about someone who learns important life lessions from an old man who is dying from ALS.

This is/was a thing with the Grapple. NileRed made a video on it on their NileBlue channel.

I would say it was alright. I may not have had many friends, but that extra time I had allowed me to get into programming with JavaScript and Python.

That’s pretty cool. I wonder if some devs will use this in conjunction to the “Betas” system and have separate versions there that support mods for older versions.

I definitely did not accidentally break my ArchLinux (BTW) install for some time because I failed to read the wiki entry for grub when switching from systemd-boot.

Totally didn’t happen.

How can a programmer explain how a sausage is made? They’re not chefs!

/j

TLDR: Distro hopping

The thing I am proud I achieved last year (2025) is distro hopping from a Arco/ArchLinux bloated mess of an install to EndeavourOS.

Prior to it, I had files from all kinds of installs: Manjaro, ArcoLinux #1, Arco #2, then Arch after Arco went EOL. It was a mess, and a lot of bloat eating up disk space.

So, I took some time to backup everything, install EndeavourOS, then over the course of a few days, restore the essentials. I only copied over the data I knew I would use. Additionally, while I copied my documents, pictures, etc, I left my downloads folder empty so I can have a fresh start.

This method allowed me to cut a lot of fat from my system, and now my drive is only 2/3 as full now, and it boots way faster.

Setting up a fresh install is always the most fun and most painful part of Linux for me. It was fun as I had a clean slate to work with, and even changed up my desktop layout this time around. The pain arose from having to reinstall all the software I needed, setting them up (some configs I couldn’t copy over), setting up servers again, SSH, firewall, etc. The sheer amount of stuff to do was daunting to say the least.

Overall, though, I did enjoy this transition I made and it allowed me to tidy up my computer.

Edit: grammar

Probably would have, but a few scripts of mine broke after distro hopping, so I had to fix those.

Then I found out about Pomodoro timers, so I wanted to test them out. So, I fixed up some scripts with it.

I haven’t started any new projects yet, though.

I would love to see a stream of someone starting from a pc without an OS then installing Linux on it, then customizing it to look really good.

The closest thing I can think of is a livestream from Veronica Explains that does something similar, but not quite what I’m looking for.

I’m open to talk about computer stuff (mainly Arch Linux BTW), video games, and a few miscellaneous stuff, but aside from that, not really open.

Pacman is great until you forget to delete your lock file because you interrupted an update and wonder why it isn’t working.

APT is user-friendly, but a pain to automate in scripts.

the real winner is compiling from source. 😎

For ZSH, I have a script that automatically installs oh-my-zsh and a bunch of zsh plugins, and changes my default shell to ZSH.

For everything else, some files will just get copied over, others left behind. I only “manage” them when I need to view/edit them.

Saving doesn’t really inconvenience me as I dont want anything. I need to pay bills and other expenses, but there’s nothing that I want that I dont already have.

Go in the room, smash the lightbulb. There, now it’s none of the switches.

I think I’ll pass this interview no problem.

Edit: Damn, someone beat me to it. I posted without reading the comments as instructed.

Do you know what version you updated from?

I like it because it is pretty much the Lemmy successor to Apollo for Reddit.