You will go back to your “usual” linux setup when you realize that most packages you set up with LFS are now broken and you’ll need to redo the whole process again.

t. arch linux minimal installation only master race

I don’t mind a little “change” every now and then, but still – “Sway” on my “potatoes” (Orange pi zero 3 and Orange pi 5 max) and “Hyprland” on my x86_64 PC.

How to become a hacker

Average Linux user: Hack the white house

Your mom: Install pi-hole

Dietpi user here. I’ve got a orange pi zero 3 w/ 1GiB of ram serving me nextdns under docker + playing a live stream 24/7 (via yt-dlp/ffplay) and it does its job just nicely.

Nice cherry picking/moving the goalpost, but that is not how refuting works. A PC at NASA has a much higher “threat level” than my Orange pi zero 3, just chilling on the background. Which means, a potential “security hole” may prove harmful for these pcs… but it’ll definitely not hurt me in the slightest.

And before you parrot with other links and/or excuses… yes, I’m not negating their existence. I’m just saying they are there… but, well… “who cares”? If anything, its much faster to set up my distro back up “just like never happened before” than performing any “maintenance” whatsoever. Again, “Common sense antivirus” reigns supreme here – know what you are doing, and none of these things will matter.

Something in the line of https://gitlab.com/ananicy-cpp/ananicy-cpp ?

Well, procbal does not need any configuration whatsoever – just run it with the command you want, and its working. Just like that. Plus, dynamic adjustment trumps static rules—procbal reacts live to CPU/memory spikes while ananicy does not. Also, a proper, dynamic nice adjustment means more free resources for other commands running on the background. Which can also mean “free” performance depending of how “potato” is your pc.

All you have to do is to install “Common sense antivirus”, pretty much.

Comparing a PC maintenance to leaving the keys outside the front door is too dramatic, to not say the least…

…unless you work at NASA and/or your PC is holding something too valuable/sensitive/high-priority for others to want to hack it “that badly” – which I (highly) doubt it.

You simply don’t do any maintenance whatsoever.

t. Got a arch linux install that I (rarely) perform “sudo pacman -Syu --noconfirm” and it works like a champ.

I was about to say that you should learn the “ins and outs” of Linux first before choosing a distro until I’ve noticed these part(s) of your post.

I’ve been toying with Linux on and off for almost 20 years now.

I’m comfortable in the command line

20 years is more than enough time for a user to use Linux properly. And with that in mind, well… you are overthinking it – just go with whatever you want, really.

“The saying goes “if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” —unless open-source, I tend to add if I hear someone say it! Alas, Mozilla’s recent faux-pas suggests that even noble projects aren’t immune to the shiny glint of ick.”

…I don’t know if we should embrace proprietary like that just because “firefox did it”.

Just buy a minipc and use it solely for gaming on Windows if you really need to game.

Just updated the code so all new testament books are being fetched properly. (It wasn’t the case when I posted this at first glance.)

Been using sway on my orange pi’s and hyprland on my x86_64 PC for years and I never had any issues with em. And I suppose with openbox the experience will be exactly the same thing.

Right now.

I’m running Dietpi (Which is pretty much a “tweaked” debian) on my orange pi 5 max and arch linux on my x86_64 pc. Both are bare metal installations, so the “killer feature” is, er… whatever I want, pretty much. I also have a orange pi zero 3 running dietpi serving me nextdns under docker… and another orange pi zero 3 serving as my “Theres a blackout going on in town and all I have to do is to play retropie” pc.

A trickster that wants to make a fool of everyone out of pleasures and illusions of grandeur? Definitely Ubuntu. Promises a “easy to use” distro while installing unsolicited packages and fetching unauthorized info without your consent on the background.

I don’t make up stuff, but rely on facts and logic instead. :^)

“Typical” implies “standard”, so a low to mid end rig. Which also means (presumably) a "standard’ use case i.e what any “typical” user does – search for something on the internet, see funny videos and post on online communities such as facebook or similars. And before you say “define a typical user” – a user that has a very basic understanding on how to interact with a computer and use it properly. So… even “your mom” fits this criteria.

Can’t go wrong with lynx.

Honestly, I’d rather record command and flags instead of relying on aliases to do that for me. Unless if its something very “niche” (like automatically pulling the required third party software everytime the distro boots up on .bash_profile).