😅 thank you!! Following ISO 8601 is always appreciated.

Another week, another incorrect weekday format.

It’s 2024-W39, you are welcome.

But Wayland is waaay better than X in basically everything? Performance and security are simply in another league entirely. And these 2 are the most important factors.

The rest of the “features” will be eventually there. In fact, mostly are there already. I’ve been using Wayland 2 years without issues. The important thing is that now the sofware is solid, the code is clean and the performance is amazing. Growing from there will be so much better than from X11.

I don’t think the author will see this but the proper way is 2024-W38.

Always follow the ISO8601.

Arch Linux. All the software at their latest version (which is usually the best one), within a couple of commands, either from the huge official repos or the AUR.

One of the reasons surely is that it’s getting banned from government software 😅

Or you can preinstall micro like you preinstall everything else 😅

And all the shortcuts are SANE, not the weird thing of nano

In every post of this kind I am amazed at so many people using nano instead of micro which is SO MUCH BETTER while being the same thing at the same time.

I am a fan of Python’s or Rust’s official conventions.

For package names, tho, I don’t get why this-is-used over this_clearly_better_system, as I would expect a double click to select_the_whole_thing, whereas it does-not-happen-here.

It is a project! All games are, 😅, just follow the instructions from the README. You’ll be solving Rust exercises on your preferred editor, and get some feedback from a terminal window. It’s great.

The thing is that, in C the API could be slightly different and you could get terrible crashes, for example because certain variables were freed at different times, etc.

In Rust that is literally impossible to happen unless you (very extremely rarely) need to do something unsafe, which is explicitly marked as such and will never surprise you with an unexpected crash.

Everything is so strongly typed that if it compiles… It will run without unexpected crashes. That’s the difference with C code, and that’s why Rust is said to be safe. Memory leaks, etc, are virtually impossible.

Everything is better in Rust. Faster, safer… And also the developer experience is amazing with cargo.

The problem here is not Rust, it’s the humans, it seems.

The dependencies are set manually, of course, and the dev was enforcing something too strict, it seems, and that is causing headaches.

But, as the debian dude has learned… Rust programs will 99.999 % work if they can be compiled.

I just wish every programmer completed the rustlings game/tutorial. Doesn’t take that long.

I didn’t even fully complete it, and it made me a way better programmer, because it forces you to think RIGHT.

It may sound weird for people who haven’t experienced it, but it’s amazing when you get angry at the compiler and you realise… It is right, and you were doing something that could f*ck you up 2 months in the future.

And after a bit of practise, it starts wiring your brain differently, and now my Python code looks so much better and it’s way more safe just because of those days playing around in rustlings.

So yeah, Rust is an amazing language for everything, but particularly for kernel development. Either Linux implements it, or it’ll probably die in 30 years and get replaced with a modern Rust kernel (Redox OS?).

So my mom shouldn’t use GNU/Linux because she can’t fix bugs?

ChameleonOS seems to be already taken… Maybe ReptileOS?

Capital i is same as non-capital L… So a horrible font for me.

The second one. Some apps were taking advantage of the fact that X allowed any program access to EVERYTHING on your screen, shortcuts, etc. Wayland ensures more control, which is excellent news, but definitely the change requires programs to adapt, and some have not (AnyDesk, for example).

That’s what I said.

It’s very easy to get a Gnome look and feel with Plasma nowadays.

I still don’t know why Gnome loves wasting 3 % of the screen on an empty black bar, tho.