The one editor that pulled me away from Vim. Didn’t think that was possible.

It’s Lua, not LUA. It’s Portuguese for moon, not an initialism.

I wonder why people do this. Happens a lot with Java too.

If you’re new I suggest not using flakes. You can always switch to them when you learn how to maintain NixOS.

Isn’t the MIT license independent of the choice of Rust?

Stock GNOME. No extensions.

Swing was by far my favorite.

Nice. My team constantly gripes about it but I’m all, “…it’s a well designed UI toolkit…?” I can make it do anything. It took me weeks (as a newbie) to try to lay out UI components just so with the new hotness and at the end I had to give up and move on. It would’ve taken me five minutes to do it with Swing.

As an engineer, Swing is great! Granted, I wouldn’t use it to deliver a polished UI to users.

I distro hopped from NixOS, to Arch Linux, and back. I really liked Arch but pacman never grew on me.

I’ve toyed with building my own programming language. And, yeah, it uses annotations and no modifiers.

Distinct lower case connections

I stopped reading right there 🙂

Yep. NixOS inspired me to write my very first package manager package. I distro hopped to Arch Linux and wrote a PKGBUILD for that.

I’m back on NixOS

For anything more complicated than an alias, I tend to suck it up and write a program. I used to keep launcher scripts in ~/bin but I’ve recently taken to creating package manager packages for them. I’ve learned how to do that with NixOS and Arch Linux and I peeked at the Debian documentation.

Why don’t you like Debian?

man man

Why in the world is -S used for install?

The only reason I’m hanging onto Windows at the moment is Apple Music

I’ve been using Linux for years and years. I get the subjective sense it is a system built by engineers for engineers. I can examine, poke, prod, and break every aspect of the system. I consider that a bonus and it’s how I learn about computers.

I can fly through the system with my terminal

Etc

Edit: Centralized software package and dependency management is awesome

That was scary. I had the bad version on my computer for a bit.

I installed Arch for the very first time this past weekend. I am a software engineer with almost 30 years experience and some time less with Linux. I did my research beforehand: I watched a manual installation on YouTube and I went over the wiki.

And the manual installation was hard. I would not recommend it to a beginner.

he is still completely new to this so I want things to work out perfectly for his first experience.

This isn’t Arch, sorry. My own Arch didn’t boot the first time (but yes I was able to fix it quickly).

Debian.