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.

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

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.

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. I’m in the UK, so I guess it’d be China rather than UK / EU. Though there’d be lead solder issues I’m sure.

This looks awesome - thanks! What’s the all-in price?

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.

Also forgot to point out, you can buy keys with a transparent cover over the top on ali so you can shove a piece of paper underneath the transparent bit to use as labels.

https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/Sa64d09e1337e4dbe8ab64b7194aa790cF.jpg_220x220q75.jpg_.avif

Amateurs. I use butterflies.

https://xkcd.com/378/

I get this, but an IDE should be invisible and grow as you do and not require you to learn lots of janky things before it becomes a little bit useful for you.

Need the basics, great, here they are. Don’t understand some advanced feature? Well the IDE has it here, but it isn’t in your way, mess with it as and when you want. It’ll still be there.

I don’t think one IDE does everything for different languages and its ok to swap editors depending on your workflow, your project and your ever-changing skillset.

I’m using Mate and it allows me to easily define custom shortcuts to open apps and so on. I suppose autoIt / the linux variants / custom script can add additional functionality to the keypad as well!

‘~Esc$&:;()[]{}<>=+*

Other than it being your password, why?

You can do it in launch.json.

Exactly, what a god-for-saken horrid solution! I’m all for JSON configuration for really low-down dirty stuff, but for something as simple as this? Eugh, no! Refactoring in Pycharm is fine as far as I can tell, never had any issues with it.

VSCode/ium is fine for single-file python or other such simple stuff, but not for big projects and was an instant deal breaker for me. I hated pycharm when I first started using it, but as I get more used to it, it’s way more usable and has some nice little features, so I’ll stick with it for now.

I get VSCode from a product marketing point of view and understand why it was created, but I wish it wasn’t. One size fits all never works out in the long-term

What do you use Wayland for? Gaming?

I’m using ch57x-keyboard-tool to configure it

Great! I’ve bought similar without the dials (I wish I didn’t have to pay extra for the stupid LEDs) and was hoping there was something open sourcey to configure it with rather than their dodgy codebase for the same reasons you list!

Of course there are going to be passages to skip as with any technical reference.

Your opinions don’t align with mine, so I’m going to personally insult you.

It’s this toxic attitude that we reject. If you prefer to stare at screens all the time causing damage to your retinas, then I’m happy for you.

How do you comfortably set up different run targets with args for different scripts when developing a large project? I think the problem with one tool for all means you get basic support with plugins, not specialised support for one.

Amateurs. Mate > KDE.