Nice! Good luck!

How do you like Manjaro? I am on normal arch with kde and I love it. Manjaro’s own repos scare me.

I disagree that the UI/DE/WM is a good way to evaluate a distro. One could make any distro look and feel like any other.

In my opinion one should look primarily at three factors:

1. Package manager
2. Release type
3. Stability

From there just choose either Debian or Arch and install the UI you want with the DE/WM

Pieces of shit devices

(Point of Sale, jokes aside. But they often are POS as well.)

What do you mean by “apt/pacman”? Which one are you using?

The other day I was reading some GitHub issues involving an issue I was also having and the maintainer of the project was directing people to their discord server to talk about and hopefully resolve the issue. On top of that, they came back to the GitHub issue and just posted that after some discussion (on Discord) the issue had been resolved. Totally useless to me and anybody else who might be searching for that thing.

Does cd + work to go forward after using cd - ?

I just finished reading it! One grammatical thing I noticed: “system de jour” should be “system du jour”. System made of day vs. system of the day

CUPS? Use the localhost webpage to configure

What’s complex about pacman? I’ve found pacman to be more reliable and easier to manage than apt, so I’m just curious about your experience

Also Queen here. Staying up late sitting on the floor next to the cassette player with the headphones on listening to News of the World.

If you were 10 when it came out, it’s time

One random thing that really annoys me is that the site http://shakespeare.mit.edu does not properly forward http requests to https although they have an https version of the site.

Personally I’m not opposed to standardization, but having alternatives would be nice in case something ever happened to the standard

This is why I like window transparency for certain apps. That way I can set the desktop background to something fairly neutral, then set window transparent and blur it so I can always sort of see what’s behind. Idk, it makes everything feel a bit lighter

I don’t smoke anymore either, but when I did I bought pure cotton filters that were biodegradable in case they left the bin somehow.

Do not go near those pool drains, no matter how good you think they feel on your butt. Those things will suck the intestines right out of you.

Just don’t use flatpak or snap. I’ll bet anything that switching off flatpak/snap will solve all your issues. Just check the downloads page on the OpenRA site and find whatever works on your system.

This might work for me. I’ll take a look at everything you’ve laid out when I have some down time. Thank you.

I’ll have to take a look at these packages and see if I can make it work for me. How do you handle exporting to PDF or other workable formats (e.g. Word) for use by other faculty or students? Further, how does your formatting within emacs hold up for publishers? Thanks for the response here, it is the most helpful.