That’s still rather recently, and there’s rather a large stock of ‘before people’ hanging around. But I agree inasmuch as it’ll change as time goes by and one day you’ll be right.

In that case, stil reckon a higher proportion ofl Rust devs contribute to Linux than C devs

What’s a rust programmer? Someone who’s ever written anything in it? If the same holds true for C, probably a higher percentage than of ‘C programmers’ given how long that’s been a teaching language lol

You can’t just ship a binary to a random location without knowing architecture, which is very relevant. Not everything is x86 any more. But you can do shell, and since aur is shell that should be good enough given the context of the article.

The downvotes are probably because of the annoying thorn usage. It’s disruptive to reading and a gratuitous irritant to discover in what’s otherwise a perfectly cromulent post

I had issues yesterday getting an aur package of scratchjr as a desktop electron app from 2021 running on my daughter’s laptop. Worked fine when I tested it on mine, so not sure what the issue is there. Means she can only use it on the website with an internet connection for now, which is not the ideal flow from my perspective.

Other than that, pretty great, no notes.

Edit: I was missing the libxss dependency. A fact that was immediately obvious from journalctl. Working now.

testregex is an absolutely wild suffix

I took this in the spirit that there isn’t a single MIT license, so you’re correct, but more gooder would’ve been to mention the specific variant that was in use by the project

I remember being able to play fairly old games with 'run in compatibility mode for ‘98’ or something (a right-click menu item maybe?), so guess we have different recollections there

Microsoft windows has historically had pretty great backwards compatibility compared to macos, android or iOS; and pretty great device compatibility compared to basically everything.

Eh…Homm2 was better.

Once your computer’s working to your satisfaction, pretty much all you’ll need to do is alias sudo packman -Syu and try to remember to run that every so often. The arch Linux wiki is second to none, and if you stick with the distro you should find it all feels very familiar in no time.

Sounds like something an Emacs user would say

For the ‘I use … BTW’ meme to say something else.

No, actually, I can’t think of anything. I’m pretty comfortable with it at this point. Been running it since 2013…

They’re not though are they. Remember the pain of the last time you tried to write a portable sed then just gave up and used a `perl -pe’? That’s real. We’ve all been there.

Why is fzf, the best utility, relegated to the end? And why is ripgrep - a huge improvement over grep, especially if you want to search only on committed files in a git directory - not even mentioned? This list is outrageous. Even more so because I can’t pretend to have known about all of these before, and annoyingly now have to face the fact that some of these actually look pretty handy.

But he was the one I was looking for

Yeah that’s clearly Prince

Alas, doesn’t fit my purpose since it requires action by the script user. I usually just use perl in those situations

I can never get grep to work consistently on Mac and Linux. Now, ripgrep OTOH…