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And let’s not forget Cortana.

I believe that rclone already has Proton Drive support.

The community has been making Winamp clones for as long as Winamp has existed. XMMS appeared the same year as Winamp, in 1997. Audacious is still around and still has a mode where it uses Winamp skins.

The thing about Winamp is that it had its time in the spotlight for a few years and then everybody moved on to the new types of media libraries like foobar2000. Today it’s just a museum piece.

This was predicted back when they first announced it… what do you know, it was correct.

Jesus gets crucified.

I mean, the process is not dying in either gif, so…

Endeavour differs very little from Arch once you’re past the installer. To the point I’ve never understood why it’s a standalone distro instead of an optional Arch installer, as an alternative to/part of archinstall.

Oh definitely, Manjaro is all about “mommy knows best”. It’s why people who say “you should use Arch instead of Manjaro” are completely missing the point.

Technically, Manjaro used Arch exactly as intended, leveraging its flexibility, but it’s very ironic that it used it to remove said flexibility. I’m guessing it’s why some Arch fans feel betrayed and hate Manjaro.

Yeah you don’t want your computer to be stable for 5 years going, that’s very un-Arch.

Hilarious.

I like to call it Arch for the lazy.

And what do you do when Firefox deprecates v2 too?

DNS at any company tends to be a mess. Multiply that by a thousand for a large multinational corporation. Case in point, here’s Microsoft (and these are never going to stop, due to the sheer complexity):

• https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/28/microsoft_security_certificate_expires/
• https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/08/microsoft_swiftkeys_cert_expires/
• https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/24/microsoft_surface_pro_x_cameras/
• https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/10/microsoft_insider_certificate/

Even when you use an automated service things can go wrong. For example I use Let’s Encrypt but it needs to verify my DNS ownership so I use an API token to let the certbot make the modifications to prove that. At some point I wanted to restrict the token rights so it only has access to certain TXT records (to increase security in case the token every gets compromised). Long story short I forgot to include one wildcard and that particular certificate couldn’t get renewed so it was out for the day until I fixed it.

Manjaro’s website is made for presentation purposes and whether it’s up or not has no impact on how the distro runs or whether you can download packages. Furthermore it’s a completely different team from the distro developers so this has no bearing on the package quality. I’ve been a Manjaro user when some of the manjaro.org certificates expired but I never knew about it because it didn’t affect me in any way.

manjaro.org uses Let’s Encrypt now and it’s been recently redesigned.

First day at work for junior software engineer, he is super excited and stays late getting familiar with the project.

Finally he gets up to leave and in the hallway he runs into the CEO himself, looking lost, standing with a piece of paper in his hand in front of a shredder.

“Oh, thank God,” says the CEO, “I thought everybody has left. Look, my secretary has gone and I only have two minutes until I have to be back in the conference call. Do you know how to work this thing?”

The junior looks at the shredder, notices it’s not plugged in, connects it, the thing turns on and he shows the CEO how to put in the paper and press the button. They watch the paper as it starts going in with a sigh of relief.

“Thank you so much,” says the CEO, “you’re a life-saver. I only need one copy.”

I don’t know, rats are pretty smart.

That sounds a bit suspicious.

Wait until you need to validate the installed state of files on the machine.

I don’t think I’ve ever had to do that in all my years of using Debian. What does it even mean?

Oh and another point: on Debian every package you get is Debian. On Arch the stuff in AUR is not Arch and is not supported by Arch, it’s unstable experimental stuff and you take your chances with it.

In practice, generally, the AUR stuff trends to mostly work fine but it’s never guaranteed. It can and it does break spontaneously from time to time.

This applies to ALL Arch-based distros. So if you plan on counting on AUR to supplement your app needs, please reconsider.

Debian stable has ~100k stable packages included. Arch has ~15k bleeding edge packages included and ~80k “varies wildly” in the AUR. It will not be the same experience.

Debian with Steam and other popular desktop apps (like LibreOffice and Firefox) installed from Flatpak will be a much more reliable experience.

Yeah, they like forgot to reupload a new cert 3 times.

It happens to everybody, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon etc.

That thing hasn’t been “valid” in half a decade.