The update was supposed to improve dark mode in Windows 11
  • alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    3 hours ago

    i used to be a windows guy. discovered arch linux and it’s not enough. i wanna do hardcore shit so i’m going kali

    • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 hour ago

      Kali is not for actual every day use.

      You can install all of its included tools on whatever distro you want.

        • cole@lemdro.idEnglish
          3·
          1 hour ago

          distro barely matters beyond how you get the packages.

          there’s a reason arch is popular, it can be whatever you want it to be.

          tbh, it sounds like you don’t have a great understanding of Linux (not an attack!) so I would definitely stay away from Kali, and other distros like that.

          stick with Arch if you’re confident you can maintain it, or if you want to have a system which you don’t have to poke at Fedora is a great option

        • merci3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          Hmm, I personally place Nix at the same level as Arch, because I see both distros being hard to get into because of how different they do stuff when compared to the average OS.

          Maybe the real level up is trying to run BSD on unsupported hardware?

          • Laser@feddit.orgEnglish
            2·
            1 hour ago

            Arch is easier in my opinion, at least if you want to leverage the power NixOS can offer. A simple /etc/nixos/configuration.nix maybe not, but once you enter custom options / submodule territory and use stuff like lib.mapAttrs, I’d say NixOS is quite harder. Or just a more complex overrideAttrs. But then again, Arch doesn’t have an equivalent to that…

              • TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                2 hours ago

                Let’s skip all intermediate quotes and directly jump to the xkcd reference: I only program with butterflies. Of course, there is an Emacs command for that: good ol’ C-x M-c M-butterfly

      • alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        i’m new to this shit (started arch yesterday) so i dunno

        i use my macOS terminal all fucking day so i know my way around a linux interface, it’s more or less the same shit (macOS uses zsh and linux uses bash…the syntaxes are almost identical, if you know one, you know the other)

          • alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 hours ago

            i’m autistic and schizophrenic

            people seriously have compared me to the guy who made it (why tf can’t i remember his name)

              • alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                1 hour ago

                terry davis! i had it right on the tip of my tongue. they only thing i know about terry is that he’s schizophrenic and he made templeos. i have the paranoid variety…well, not quite, i was diagnosed schizoaffective in 2019, in other words roughly half schizophrenic and half bipolar

                i don’t know how people feel about the use of the word “schizo” around here…trust me, it’s totally fine, we call ourselves schizos all the fucking time, lmao

                • TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  1 hour ago

                  And he’s also the best fucking programmer of all time.

                  That sounds like quite the combo, hope you’re doing alright. I’ll probably pass on calling you schizo though if that’s ok. I had just assumed you were shitposting tbh, but whatever floats your boat. Hope you enjoy the community and the Linux experience

        • merci3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          Nice to know you’re enjoying Linux :P

          I think that later on in your adventure, you’ll notice that you don’t actually need a distro that’s hard to maintain in order to do the hardcore stuff.

          Going back to more tame distros (Mint, Debian, Fedora, Solus) may actually suit you better, even for said tasks.

          • alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 hours ago

            what would you recommend for cybersecurity? i’m interested in a few things (shell scripting, web dev, nlp), but i’d also really liek to know how to stop hackers

            • merci3@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              7 minutes ago

              Cybersecurity and “stopping hackers” are very extensive and complex topics. It’s kinda like a mix of many areas of knowledge (software, hardware, coding, internet of things, etc…)

              So one advice I think I can give you is that there is a “tool” of hacking that is often overlooked: Social Engineering.

              • alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                4 minutes ago

                i know a little bit about that, haven’t done it much tbh. do you do any social engineering? is that like how you network with people at meetups and shit?

  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    53 minutes ago

    The corrupt oligopolists have completely given up on QA; why would they bother when they don’t feel any real competitive pressure.

    AFAIK, this has been happening as far back as Windows 8. I believe they had a giant pool of physical PCs (laptops, pre-builts and various popular component combinations for desktop) that they physically tested updates on, but they scrapped all of it because they know they don’t need to worry about competition.