I would say that Arch is not the best distro to learn the ins and outs of Linux. Arch is comparable to Void in that both are rolling-release distributions and require comfort with the command line.
Gentoo goes a step further by allowing you to tweak CPU-specific and software compile-time options before building packages from source. Then you have PLD Linux, whose installation process demands a strong understanding of the system and its internals.
A step further down is CRUX, which leaves you with the bare essentials - essentially just the kernel. You need to manage repositories yourself to a significant extent.
Finally, we arrive at Linux From Scratch (LFS), which is somewhat similar to CRUX, but with an even more hands-on approach. With LFS, you must manually install virtually everything, including the toolchain, libraries, and basic utilities.
So, from Arch to LFS, there's still a huge gap in terms of how deeply you engage with the system.
Finally, what does it really mean to “learn Linux”? You can learn Linux with any distro, but when you are using a distro, you are mostly just learning that particular distro.
Politische Entscheidungen rein auf Ideologie zu treffen, sei es rechts oder links, ist in meinen Augen ein Ausdruck unter anderem dessen, dass man die Vielfältigkeit an Problemen nicht sieht oder sehen möchte. Man ist überfordert mit dem Mittelweg, der mehr Kompromisse und Alternativen verlangt, ja, die Angelegenheit aus anderen Standpunkten heraus anzugehen. Wie gesagt, dies sehe ich weder bei links noch bei rechts, weil ideologische Betrachtungen diesen Ansatz grundweg ausschliessen. Deswegen sehe ich in beiden Strömungen nichts Gutes, was man an Russland (rechts), Venezuela (links) gut sehen kann.
Volksvertreter findest du auf beiden Seiten. Linke und Rechte eint, dass sie meinen, die Welt zu verstehen, nur etwas auf die Reihe gebracht, haben es häufig weder die einen noch die anderen.
Genau, solange du nicht heulend zu den Cops läufst, nachdem dir einige die Fresse poliert haben. Dann sind die Cops plötzlich ganz ok. Has’mal beim Psycho gefragt, ob‘se Pippi Langstrumpf Syndrom hast?
So funktioniert “Polarisation” und davon gibt es reichlich. Brauchen tut man es aber nicht. Vielleicht fehlen paar Lebensjährchen, um das zu verstehen.
EMacs: ultimative workhorse which can do many more - especially with org-mode (however, time intensive to configure which is why I used also ChatGPT to get it done)
VSCodium: easy to manage almost anything due to its huge number of extensions
Vim: don’t know, sometimes I feel the need to work with Vim and it’s many shortcuts
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you wrote on Reddit, but from what I read, there was nothing even remotely offensive. You simply provided information. Downvoting you for that is just silly.
The downvotes you're getting here on Lemmy for your comment are equally baseless (current status: 0). It just shows that some people have enough energy to downvote, but not enough to engage in a discussion. Maybe they should save that energy for something more constructive.
Some newspaper forums require identity verification (through paid subscriptions, social media accounts, etc.). These forums are generally much more civil - and we all know why.
I find the concept of downvoting very toxic and discouraging. It can potentially prevent people to express different views, something a discussion and our personal development is thriving on. It can be well seen on Reddit and even on Lemmy, where people with different views get sometimes heavily downvoted. It is something I consider to be close to “cancel culture” - a majority decides not to like your opinion, so it tries to silence you by voting you “out”. I would really love to see that Lemmy removes this feature and just allows to upvote - so you can upvote a comment or not, but you cannot downvote a comment.
Proton is in IMHO blowing a lot of hot air. Where do they want to go? BTW, do you have any articles showing that the EU wants to acquire Signal or WhatsApp (???) to end end-to-end encryption and replace it with a backdoors one - just to prove that you are not spreading FUD?
VPNs - and even Tor - can be compromised, especially by government cybersecurity agencies, although attacking Tor may require more resources. Some VPN providers, even those that charge for their services, have experienced significant security breaches (just search for terms like “VPN loopholes” or “VPN hack” on Google). Free VPNs are generally even less reliable, and there are rumors that some may function as honeypots. Tor, while offering stronger anonymity, tends to be slower - routing traffic through multiple nodes adds considerable latency.
I would say that Arch is not the best distro to learn the ins and outs of Linux. Arch is comparable to Void in that both are rolling-release distributions and require comfort with the command line.
Gentoo goes a step further by allowing you to tweak CPU-specific and software compile-time options before building packages from source. Then you have PLD Linux, whose installation process demands a strong understanding of the system and its internals.
A step further down is CRUX, which leaves you with the bare essentials - essentially just the kernel. You need to manage repositories yourself to a significant extent.
Finally, we arrive at Linux From Scratch (LFS), which is somewhat similar to CRUX, but with an even more hands-on approach. With LFS, you must manually install virtually everything, including the toolchain, libraries, and basic utilities.
So, from Arch to LFS, there's still a huge gap in terms of how deeply you engage with the system.
Finally, what does it really mean to “learn Linux”? You can learn Linux with any distro, but when you are using a distro, you are mostly just learning that particular distro.