I’d suggest to have the occasional look at the “most popular repos” ranking. It’s about 50% Chinese.

Super-interesting sometimes as it shows completely different tech trends.

I’m a backend dev. I needed basically a single js function for my personal website that called out to some NPM package. I thought: I’ll do this the proper modern way, typescript and everything. Result: under 10 lines of code, but 12 config files (and 1.5h of fiddling with ES Modules vs CommonJS).

a.unwrap_or(b)

Oh it hurts how many of these are recognizable.

I’m wowed.

I am very conflicted about Arch. I similarly disliked it for actual use, because it’s so unstable. On the other hand, the arch docs are a goldmine.

I think it just depends on what you want to do with your system. Do you like to tinker? Arch (and similar distros) are great. Do you just want things to work mostly out of the box? Use an Ubuntu flavor or an Ubuntu derivative.

Portrait rights - i.e. the right the own one’s image - is a thing in some European jurisdictions. But of course this doesn’t exist in the US.