Tfw I’m using highly customised i3wm, with no desktop, no gui, and everything is done via cli.

/s

Nah mate, that’s what happens for me… I bet you could understand my surprise when I had the bright idea of calling the number, when I was bored one evening.

My phone has this rainbow animation and it vibrates like crazy.

Noooo! Don’t say that! My eyes! My head!

Call it on an android phone.

I usually find it best to stop, look at my phone to increase distance, just slow right down in general. In most cases though, the best thing I find is just simply crossing to the other side of the road, especially as jaywalking isn’t illegal where I’m from.

Now I’m just picturing a big guy stomping towards a girl whistling a creepy nursery rhyme increasingly loud. 🤣

/s

Opposite for me. I hate exams.

From my experience, it’s something that only came with time spent diagnosing things, and then building up instincts for things like that, or just poking around with things and understanding how things work under the hood. Even then, there are usually things I have to look up every now and then.

Though I must admit, my knowledge basically tripled since installing arch and figuring things out myself with only the help of man pages, and trying to correct the behaviour of just looking things up and blindly applying fixes. Each time I need to fix something complicated, I fight the urge to just “look it up” and stop, take a breath, and think. It seems obvious but sometimes I forget to do that. I try to fix it myself, and then occasionally when shit hits the fan, I look it up, but try to understand why the fix works. But as I said, you will likely only reach that level of experience with time, or alternatively throwing yourself into the deep end of a difficult distro with no hand holding to understand not only how something is done, but why.

Not sure if any of that made sense, or I’m just rambling… Eh…

Hell yeah!

Could you not have switched tty and edited there?

I’d consider that setting a perfect example there! Totally agree with all your points. 🏅

What exactly does this comment achieve? Dude was just asking a question. People would never learn anything if they didn’t ask questions. Judging from this comment, clearly the money spent on your education was a waste.

Yeah I feel like people vastly overestimate how difficult it is.

Weird ass thrash track that might just fit the bill: Demoniac - Extraviado

That’s disgusting.

Crushed… Erm… Crushes! 🤘

I agree

That’s a fair take. If they are someone who just simply has no interest in computers and just want something that “just works” then yeah, they definitely shouldn’t be told to get arch. I wasn’t saying noobs should be talked into arch first time round by any means, more so that if they wanna start with arch, there’s nothing wrong with that, and we should do our best to help them learn, instead of calling them noobs and dampening their interest/spirits.

Nothing wrong with that, best way to learn the ropes is being chucked into the deep-end imho. Provided of course they are patient and willing to learn.