archweb VS i3

Arch is a popular Linux distribution(basically an os). Him saying that he uses arch is basically a joke that arch Linux users will always mention that they use the distro. (Also a penguin is also the Linux mascot)

Arch sends distribution news every week or so, usually in one or two paragraphs.

https://archlinux.org/

I've followed the gitlab migration and every package and distribution change that warranted community notification for more than a decade.

It's such an empowering feeling to have tracked all the changes to the distribution over a decade. The Arch maintainer culture has managed to provide consistent high quality communication and documentation.

Most of the news doesn't require action on my part regarding a subsystem or package I don't use. But they use the news channel sparingly and the distribution is minimal and clean. So news arrives only every other week or so and is succinctly written in one or two paragraphs.

It's a distribution for those who love precision and professionalism.

When searching for something just add Arch Linux to the and follow official archlinux.org and use duckduckgo.com for better results. You will get amazed how good arch wiki explained everything and how aur has very large apps.

I wonder how many people got frustrated with the solution posted on the front page of https://archlinux.org/, as it seems to not have been fixed for 5 days already.

when i visit the archlinux.org website i can't find the archlinux 2023.10.x update,

Since you want to use Linux in your job function, I would suggest you start with Arch Linux OS. https://archlinux.org/ Arch linux and arch based linux's like Manjaro, start you off in teaching you linux by making you install it and do everything from the command line. Nothing gets installed unless you want to install it. They have an extensive Arch Wiki that will walk you through anything you might need to learn.

-------------------------------------------- Hyprland Crash Report -------------------------------------------- I tried so hard, and got so far... Hyprland received signal 11 (Segmentation fault) Version: 0a78f6031c8fcc6773f136fccde3d560aaac239d Tag: v0.29.0 System info: System name: Linux Node name: nah Release: 6.4.12-arch1-1 Version: #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu, 24 Aug 2023 00:38:14 +0000 GPU: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation WhiskeyLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics 620] [8086:3ea0] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) os-release: NAME="Arch Linux" PRETTY_NAME="Arch Linux" ID=arch BUILD_ID=rolling ANSI_COLOR="38;2;23;147;209" HOME_URL="https://archlinux.org/" DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://wiki.archlinux.org/" SUPPORT_URL="https://bbs.archlinux.org/" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.archlinux.org/" PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://terms.archlinux.org/docs/privacy-policy/" LOGO=archlinux-logo Backtrace: #0 | Hyprland(_Z12getBacktracev+0x62) [0x55644d617522] ?? ??:0 #1 | Hyprland(_ZN13CrashReporter18createAndSaveCrashEi+0x42c) [0x55644d5f203c] ?? ??:0 #2 | Hyprland(_Z25handleUnrecoverableSignali+0x47) [0x55644d5893d7] ?? ??:0 #3 | /usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x3e710) [0x7f350243e710] ?? ??:0 #4 | /usr/lib/libwlroots.so.12032(+0x516a2) [0x7f35030676a2] ?? ??:0 #5 | /usr/lib/libwlroots.so.12032(+0x4f659) [0x7f3503065659] ?? ??:0 #6 | /usr/lib/libwlroots.so.12032(+0x54d55) [0x7f350306ad55] ?? ??:0 #7 | /usr/lib/libwlroots.so.12032(+0x5689e) [0x7f350306c89e] ?? ??:0 #8 | /usr/lib/libwayland-server.so.0(wl_signal_emit_mutable+0x7e) [0x7f3502fcd01e] ?? ??:0 #9 | /usr/lib/libseat.so.1(+0x30ca) [0x7f3502a870ca] ?? ??:0 #10 | /usr/lib/libsystemd.so.0(+0x2a675) [0x7f350315c675] ?? ??:0 #11 | /usr/lib/libsystemd.so.0(+0x2a59b) [0x7f350315c59b] ?? ??:0 #12 | /usr/lib/libsystemd.so.0(+0x2a56d) [0x7f350315c56d] ?? ??:0 #13 | /usr/lib/libsystemd.so.0(+0x2a59b) [0x7f350315c59b] ?? ??:0 #14 | /usr/lib/libsystemd.so.0(+0x2a56d) [0x7f350315c56d] ?? ??:0 #15 | /usr/lib/libsystemd.so.0(+0x2a59b) [0x7f350315c59b] ?? ??:0 #16 | /usr/lib/libsystemd.so.0(+0x2a56d) [0x7f350315c56d] ?? ??:0 #17 | /usr/lib/libsystemd.so.0(+0x2a59b) [0x7f350315c59b] ?? ??:0 #18 | /usr/lib/libsystemd.so.0(+0x2a56d) [0x7f350315c56d] ?? ??:0 #19 | /usr/lib/libsystemd.so.0(+0x2a59b) [0x7f350315c59b] ?? ??:0 #20 | /usr/lib/libsystemd.so.0(+0x2a50b) [0x7f350315c50b] ?? ??:0 #21 | /usr/lib/libsystemd.so.0(+0x2a70f) [0x7f350315c70f] ?? ??:0 #22 | /usr/lib/libsystemd.so.0(+0x48268) [0x7f350317a268] ?? ??:0 #23 | /usr/lib/libsystemd.so.0(+0x4fce7) [0x7f3503181ce7] ?? ??:0 #24 | /usr/lib/libseat.so.1(+0x36de) [0x7f3502a876de] ?? ??:0 #25 | /usr/lib/libwlroots.so.12032(+0x4d127) [0x7f3503063127] ?? ??:0 #26 | /usr/lib/libwayland-server.so.0(wl_event_loop_dispatch+0xa2) [0x7f3502fceae2] ?? ??:0 #27 | /usr/lib/libwayland-server.so.0(wl_display_run+0x27) [0x7f3502fcf2d7] ?? ??:0 #28 | Hyprland(main+0x8d9) [0x55644d577dd9] ?? ??:0 #29 | /usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x27cd0) [0x7f3502427cd0] ?? ??:0 #30 | /usr/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0x8a) [0x7f3502427d8a] ?? ??:0 #31 | Hyprland(_start+0x25) [0x55644d586735] ?? ??:0 Log tail: [LOG] Callback 5564501935d0 -> 5564501935c8, Keyboard removed. 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But if do ping archlinux.org -6 or just ping archlinux.org, i only get PING archlinux.org(archlinux.org (2a01:4f9:c010:6b1f::1)) 56 data bytes

And just wait till you discover Arch Linux, Gentoo, Guix, or NixOS.

While I believe Memory Saver was a great improvement, it only works if the tab is hidden or the window minimized. I recently learned the required state is not triggered if the tab is open but on another virtual desktop. At least this is the case with many of not all Linux window managers. Some of the many discussion threads on the topic:

https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/4353

> This is very true, and unfortunately there are very few people working on linux accessibility (including not me! I am part of the problem!).

Accessibility work itself ironically suffers from an accessibility problem. I brought up i3wm above, the issue for that is pretty illuminating: https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/3393

It's not that the devs are saying "this doesn't matter", the devs behind one of the most popular tiling window managers in the X11 ecosystem are saying, "this does matter, but we don't know how to fix it. We don't know what changes we'd need to make to get Orca working."

It's a really fundamental breakdown that's kind of a tragedy because I honestly believe that if accessibility communities were more heavily baked into testing and development in Linux and if this wasn't treated like two separate worlds, it would be better for everyone -- fixing accessibility concerns very often improves interfaces across the board and makes them more powerful.

But... how do you bridge that gap? I don't really know, I tried looking into Orca to see what would need to happen here and bounced off of it pretty hard, it's not a very approachable tech stack and there aren't tutorials or getting started guides. And on the other side of the issue I can preach about needing accessibility input during interface design, but I'm not in a position to give specific advice because I don't use screenreaders or alternate control schemes and I don't know what the biggest problems are.

The people who need to be involved in that process can't get involved because there's a tech barrier in place even for technically inclined people, and because the underlying software locks them out from the start. i3wm isn't ever going to get someone who's intimately familiar with Orca to jump into the conversation because the people who need to use Orca can't use i3wm. So that leaves the people who can address that tech barrier, but they don't know what to do or how to approach the problem because of the lack of involvement and because the communities are isolated from each other. So it's a chicken-and-egg problem and I don't know how to solve it.

This is partially why i use tools like i3 (/ sway). i like the tool; it works extremely well for me; the design has stayed the same for 20 years; there's no profit motive to come along and fuck everything up. it just works. it is boring in the best way possible.

I use MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid-2014) with Manjaro as OS using i3 as a window manager. It isn't perfect, but I'm thrilled with it. I have been a Mac OS user for the last 15 years and wouldn't change what I have now for a Mac OS because I don't need more than what I'm using for development.

Even though, we have moved the official i3 support channel to GitHub discussions, i3's biggest community is still on reddit and if things continue like that there is going to be a lot of helpful content on an increasingly closed platform.

for example, take i3. https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/4478

For daily usage I really like kubuntu with i3wm, but it takes some configuration and getting used to the shortcuts, but it's well worth it