Should be pointing at the monitor. Xkill only stops showing the process, it doesn’t kill it.

Depends what your goals are.

I meant it in a philosophical sense.

Let’s say the gist of Debian is stability. How can you understand it? If you install now and use it for a week, you’ll just see packages that are 2 years out of date, and call it crap without going into the reasoning behind it, or finding your solutions to outdated packages. If you install it after a new release and use it for a week, you’ll think it’s fedora with apt, and call it a day.

What is the gist of a distro?

A distro is essentially the package manager, defaults, and release schedule. Sure, some have new ideas (like the immutable ones), but that’s the only difference for most of them.

You need to learn Linux properly, then it won’t matter what distro you’re using.

If your goal is to learn about Linux, a single manual arch install will teach you more than going through a 100 near identical wizards. And that’s before going into actually useful resources like those that prepare you for Linux cert exams.

If your goal is to compare distros, a week is not nearly enough time.

So hop between headless Debian and headless Ubuntu, while waving at passing Alpine and RHEL variants?

I once saw something about how if you are trying to build it yourself instead of using a pre-existing library you come off arrogant.

Js ?

What’s the total without the second grep?

It needs to mount virtual directories for each snap. If I remember correctly it does a part of the job on boot and part on login.

Removed by mod

Let’s ignore all the anti-consumer bs (like selling user data to Amazon) and just focus on snaps.

• each snap installed slows down your boot time
• snaps get installed even when you don’t expect them to (apt get install firefox for example)
• snap store is closed source

But Debian doesn’t sell enterprise support while trying to screw its users

stable is called stable because of stability

stability
noun [ U ]
uk
/stəˈbɪl.ə.ti/ us
/stəˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
C1
a situation in which something is not likely to move or change:
a period of political stability

The point of a stable distro is that it’s unchanging. That way you have predictable issues that you can solve in the same way for the lifetime of that version.

Reliability is a side benefit of maintainers choosing the best available version to freeze.

Ackshyually stable only relates to the release schedule. Stability is not reliability.

Plenty wrong with Ubuntu.

But he is the type to ban Russian contributors less than a month after DoD signed a new contract with RH. Can you guess what stocks he owns?

I mean, they almost certainly have built in backdoors like IME. When you can force hardware manufacturers to add shit, you don’t have to think up convoluted solutions like that.

Emacs

For my wm+Emacs work, I unified the shortcuts by calling a separate go bin that checks if the active window is Emacs or not. If it is, it sends the command to the Emacs Daemon. If it’s not it sends the command to i3. For directional commands like move focus, first check it there’s an Emacs window to that side, if not send the command to i3.