who even uses arrow keys these days?

oh that’s cool, how do you do home row modifiers like that?

do you use that for normal typing as well or is it just for symbols?

bro how do you comfortably use $, ^ and 0 for navigation??

!! helix mentioned !!

desktop computer

All the thinkpads I’ve tried so far work flawlessly with sleep on Linux (both S3 and s0ix, many generations old and new)

if you’re looking for a new laptop have a look at the arch wiki pages for them example, they usually have a lot of info about this stuff

EDIT: oh also remember to buy used/old new stock (by 1-2 years) because new hardware won’t have good software support. should probably run a distro with an up to date kernel as well (e.g. arch, tumbleweed, endeavour)

classic

don’t credit the manager, credit the engineer

if you want to customise everything you can do that with .inputrc configuration in bash

security you don’t understand is security you don’t have

2012-2013 laptops can be faster than 2014 because that’s the time when Intel was introducing the slower U series cpus

that’s completely fine :)

I think the biggest part of learning Linux is learning where to get help. Most programs have a help dialog with --help or -h, or man pages you can find somewhere. Even the terminal has a help dialog if you just type “help”, most things are more user friendly than they seem!

If man pages are difficult to read, I recommend installing tealdeer (tldr). it shows a short summary of example command usages and it’s great (e.g. tldr ls shows the different ways you can use ls)

i found sway to be more performant than i3 on my core 2 duo machine, though tbf i prefer the default config of i3

depends a lot on your actual hardware. some 2014 computers can run kde just fine, some will struggle with it. what actual components do you have?

I have arch + kde plasma running on a i5 3320m among other things and it’s completely fine. Your 4gb ram is not an issue.

The biggest issue around this generation would be if you have a spinning hard drive, you’d want to replace that even with the cheapest used ssd you can find anywhere asap.

Arch is fun and you should try it at some point but it’s not “faster” than Debian or mint or whatever, it mostly just comes down to your desktop environment and web browser.

or firefox --help

does China not have uranium? if this is non enriched I don’t really get the point

pretty sure it’s a joke

did you see much artificial stuff in the night sky?

it’s crazy that the most reliable laptop I own is more than 10 years old

Just host your own fucking instance then nerd