I thought Arch Linux was for “serious” people, the way Slackware was in the 1990s, the way Debian was and still is, the way Gentoo was and maybe still is (which doesn’t really have a raison d’être, but nonetheless), and, why not, the way the BSD family is. Inevitably, even if he starts with “Recently, I dive into Linux the third time” (I suppose he dived, or he dove), he then learns more about Arch Linux, i3, Alacritty, and generally with the “Arch ricing” ecosystem. Here’s a random guy writing about The Fascinating Arch Linux RICE. Now, the big disappointment is that the n☁ distro seems to be Arch. And a good deal of them are quite nice, actually. But they seem a minority.Īnyway, there seem to be countless customizations, thankfully hosted on GitHub, usually. Yes, there are who use GNOME, KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, and Manjaro, Mint, *buntu, Fedora, etc. A tiling window manager (i3, i3-gaps, Awesome, bspwm, dwm, xmonad, etc.).But they don’t use words like “customizations” and “themes” they talk of “rice” and “ricing”!Īs for the “rice” desktops, most of them (but not all!) are using: The thing with r/unixporn and some similar “communities” is that they show desktops. Some projects that don’t have a proper website, nor a forum, but only Git or Sourceforge, are announcing news and are hosting the interactions with their users and fans on Reddit, Discord, or both.But maybe they are seeking the attention of stupid individuals. Some people who don’t seem stupid and who don’t target the morons are organizing AMA (Ask Me Anything) sessions on Reddit.This is why I can’t understand two aspects of Reddit: There isn’t a single social network that’s not dumb, and for dumb people, except for StackExchange, which is technically a sort of forum. Sorting by Best, Hot, New, Top, and Rising is imbecile, because Hot and New have the same meaning, semantically (except when Hot means Sexy), so what’s the difference? Is “Hot” supposed to mean “New and Rising”? Then, Best and Top should be the same, except that Top can be fine-tuned to time intervals: Now (meaning what?! Hot?!), Today, This Week, This Month, This Year, All Time other than that, what’s the difference between them? This makes Reddit a hodgepodge, and the algorithm of what you see is dumb. Generally, on Reddit there are three types of contributions: images, links, questions. Because most posts on Reddit are as valuable as those on 9GAG.Because moderation on Reddit is a joke, most insults being tolerated by moderators.Because people who are on Reddit are such cowards that, instead of commenting about a blog post on the respective blog, so that the writer of the post could know about their opinions, could answer their questions, and could defend themselves, they post links to blog posts or articles on Reddit, only to comment on Reddit, à la “look how idiot that guy is.” (They also do the same on Hacker News.).Really professional answers can NEVER be found on Reddit. On Reddit, the search is bad, the overall structure is poor, the upvoting is as stupid as liking on Facebook. Because people who are on Reddit ask questions that should have been asked on specialized forums (of a software project, of a Linux distro, etc.), on StackExchange, or on Quora.I should have trusted my initial feeling, the one who said “ Reddit = retards“: Sure thing, not r/conspiracy, but maybe r/unixporn, r/mate, r/UbuntuMATE, r/matedesktop, r/desktops, r/SerenityOS, r/MechanicalKeyboards, r/Watches. I had to make an account on Reddit, to see whether there’s something of value out there. What are some decent people doing on Reddit?! Why are so many hipsters using Arch?!
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