archweb VS Windows Terminal

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. [LOG] Destroyed keyboard 5564501934d0 [LOG] Callback 55644fd2f938 -> 55644fd2f930, Keyboard removed. [LOG] Callback 55644fd2f800 -> 55644fd2f7f8, Keyboard removed. [LOG] Callback 55644fd2f868 -> 55644fd2f860, Keyboard removed. [LOG] Callback 55644fd2f8d0 -> 55644fd2f8c8, Keyboard removed. [LOG] Destroyed keyboard 55644fd2f7d0 [LOG] Callback 556450074a38 -> 556450074a30, Keyboard removed. [LOG] Callback 556450074900 -> 5564500748f8, Keyboard removed. [LOG] Callback 556450074968 -> 556450074960, Keyboard removed. [LOG] Callback 5564500749d0 -> 5564500749c8, Keyboard removed. [LOG] Destroyed keyboard 5564500748d0 [LOG] Callback 5564500874f8 -> 5564500874f0, Mouse removed. [LOG] Callback 5564501cc9d8 -> 5564501cc9d0, Keyboard removed. [LOG] Callback 5564501cc8a0 -> 5564501cc898, Keyboard removed. [LOG] Callback 5564501cc908 -> 5564501cc900, Keyboard removed. [LOG] Callback 5564501cc970 -> 5564501cc968, 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.

> convince management of the value

This presupposes that such convincing is even possible. Many, many companies have leadership that are simply terrible at identifying value. If you've never been part of a majority of developers advocating for, if not outright begging for, some huge ROI initiative to get the green light, you are very fortunate.

There are great counterexamples, like Valve, which is known for giving developers an extreme degree of autonomy, and they benefit greatly from that approach. For each Valve, though, there are dozens of companies that manage to succeed despite themselves.

Take Microsoft, for example. One tiny, yet representative, example: the way the Windows Terminal team handled a suggestion from Casey Muratori to take their software from abysmally slow to lightning fast:

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362

A quote from one of the Terminal developers, dismissing the suggestion:

> I believe what you’re doing is describing something that might be considered an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation as “extremely simple” somewhat combatively…

Just how difficult was such an endeavor in actuality? Well, given that Casey implemented his own terminal emulator from scratch and incorporated the functionality he was proposing in a mere weekend... not a whole lot. Relatively minor effort for a huge return on investment. It took Casey explaining the concepts, then providing a working proof of concept, and finally a bunch of backlash online towards the Terminal team to get them to do the right thing for themselves and their users.

At this point ConHost.exe is open source [0] so it is maybe not a stretch to expect Microsoft to open source CMD.EXE at some point.

Though with PowerShell being cross-platform and already open source, I personally don't think there's enough to gain in some sort of better open source CMD.EXE fork. I'd be interested in being proved wrong on that, but I'm also happy enough with PowerShell these days I'm not in a hurry to return to CMD.EXE.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/tree/main/src/host

"Users of Linux and macOS may well be familiar with the sudo command, used regularly in the terminal, and it looks like Windows may finally be getting its own version."

More Linux tools are coming to Windows, especially Windows Server because the tools are good and they make it easier to administer a Windows Server.

They are looking at adding a default TUI text editor (https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/discussions/16440) and now they are adding sudo.

I would not be surprised if systemd or something like it gets ported or reinvented for Windows simply because it makes managing services so nice.

GitHub

>We are allowed to view and consume it, to be influenced by it, and under many circumstances even outright copy it.

People keep saying this but it's actually much more complicated, and in many cases you can't view copyrighted content.

An example, MicroSoft employees are not permitted to view or learn from an open source (GPL-2) terminal emulator:

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10462#issuecomm...

Another example is proprietary software that may have it's source available, either intentionally or not. If you view this and then work on something related to it, like WINE for example, you are definitely at risk of being successfully sued.

If you worked at MicroSoft and worked on Windows, you would not be able to participate in WINE development at all without violating copyright.

If you viewed leaked Windows source code you also would not be able to participate in WINE development.

An interesting question that I have, is whether training on proprietary, non-trade-secret sources would be allowed. Something like unreal engine, where you can view the source but it's still proprietary.

Windows Terminal is pretty good and a new terminal emulator written in the last few years. No smooth scrolling, here's the GitHub issue requesting it: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1400

Assume its related to this:

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362

It's nothing serious just microsoft engineers writing slow as shit code and reacting poorly to someone trying to help.

"There are plenty of offline scenarios where this would be incredibly useful. For disconnected environments, etc. There are some environments that will never connect to winget."

Source: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/discussions/16440#disc...