To save people the time of not having to read it all to know how to do something so simple as to install it when it could just be made to install itself?

I can insult you, but you can’t call me out because I’ll insult you again. lulz!!

The code is open and there for you to read. What you’re actually saying is you’re too lazy to read and understand it because the world owes you something. amirite?

Arch users don’t value their time.

Having a “great” understanding of how a Linux system is tied together is fine for the now, but in five years time, will be useless as things change so why not spend your time being productive in the now.

You’re going to be horrified to discover the software versions the military use.

Debian SID?

mentioning pointers, time sharing, endianess, word size, registers

You’re making me hard! Don’t stop!

It actually leads to a fantastic product and more free time because you’re not having to babysit kids who think the world owes them something because they can code ‘hello world’ in python.

Oh the irony. What’s gatekeeping about not what rubbish code in your repository? Lack of knowledge is self-gatekeeping.

The ‘wah wah…boomer’ cries are…cringe. Either step up with the knowledge and action, or don’t bother and cry “gatekeeping”.

less hard than running debian or redhat back in the 90s

Zoomers will never know the pain… and the joy and actually getting it installed!

Stable means not updated.

Oh no! I haven’t got the latest push from 30 seconds ago. My operating system is so out of date and I’m so uncool!!11

nvidia GPU

No flavour of Linux works well with them. That’s the joke or something.

If someone is accepting the fact that shit might go sideways, is willing to learn through experiencing issues first-hand or simply likes to spend time fiddling with their OS to find the perfect setup for them - that should be the Arch- and Arch-derivatives audience.

But once you leave the comfort of your parents house, time is money and no one has a spare twelve hours to get a functional OS together when another distro would do it in minutes.

Although Ive been using linux for 2 years now, and i still want an installation manager with sane defaults.

Have you heard about our Lord and Saviour, Debian?

I remember installing Debian before Ubuntu was born using an ncurses type interface and spending five minutes selecting the packages I want to install, (only for it to tell me that one package was incompatible with another and the installation couldn’t proceed!) but being able to do it somewhat graphically made it so much easier than simply by text.

An OS stays out of your way and lets you do what you need to do. Having to essentially create the basics is unproductive and a waste of the user’s time.

I’m pretty sure “Power users” don’t use Ubuntu.

Not to hijack, but what are the well-known cheap companies that will take a standard PCB output format, create the board and place the components and then pop it in the post. Assuming sensible MOQs

And this is how I see Linux quickly unravelling and planned insecurities creeping in over the next decade or so.

If the internet is gone I have no need for a Linux box.

Linux isn’t dependent on the internet FYI. It doesn’t send telemetrics data to Microsoft for example.

If you’re going to print something, just buy a book. It’s much cheaper and you don’t have to deal with the carcinogenic effects from the printing.

Online guides are often poorly written.