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.

Start with stable. You can migrate a stable installation to testing later if you’re so inclined.

I don’t think the private portions of passkeys are stored on servers

I certainly care about it

Mine doesn’t. I reboot when I get a new kernel.

I would call Visual Studio Code a success story for them