I built my first PC in a Bitfenix Prodigy. The blue LEDs they used for the power and HDD activity lights were brighter than a thousand suns. I ended up disconnecting them.
DigDoug
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While I admit that the timing with Red Hat's closed-sourcing is really bad, and I'm also going to start avoiding Fedora for the same reason, saying that opt-in telemetry (that one can literally read the source code of) is "putting dollars first" is really dumb. Do you think the same about Debian's popularity-contest, which has existed since 2004?
This really depends on your definition of "stability".
The technical definition is "software packages don't change very often". This is what makes Debian a "stable" distro, and Arch an "unstable" one.
The more colloquial definition of "stability" is "doesn't break very often", which is what people usually mean when they ask for "stable" distributions. The main problem with recommending a distro like this, is that it's going to depend on you as a user, and also on your hardware.
I, personally, have used Arch for about 5 years now, and it's only ever broken because I've done something stupid. I stopped doing stupid things, and Arch hasn't broken since. However, I've also spoken to a few people who have had Arch break on them, but 9 times out of 10, they point to the Nvidia driver as the culprit, so it seems you'll have a better time if you have an AMD GPU, for example.
such as the GUI installer pamac allowing unsuspecting users to trivially install unvetted packages from the AUR without even a clear indication they may be dangerous
Unless something has changed since the last time I used Manjaro, this isn't actually true. You have to go relatively deep into Pamac's settings menu to enable AUR packages, and when you do, a popup comes up telling you what the AUR is and why it might be dangerous (although iirc, it neglects to tell you that an extra reason is Manjaro packages being out of date).
Not that I'm pro-Manjaro, for all the other reasons you've given.
They don't exclusively do retro stuff, but Digital Foundry's DFRetro series is brilliant.
Exactly. There's a reason that people keep talking about putting site:reddit.com at the end of Google searches. It's because it's one of the best ways to filter out the chaff and get to content that is actually likely to be helpful. If enough of the helpful/knowledgeable people who write those comments leave Reddit that people stop thinking of it as a one-stop-shop for good information, that's when Reddit will start dying.
The main thing I got from reading Huffman's comments about all of this is that, despite helping create Reddit, he doesn't actually know what Reddit is.
Reddit links to other websites, and hosts user-made posts/comments. That's it. And that's exactly why pissing off the mods who've spent years preventing Reddit from becoming a cesspool (see 4/8chan for what an unmoderated Reddit would look like) is a really bad idea.
Despite what Huffman seems to think - Reddit doesn't actually make any content of its own. But he seems to think that Reddit owns all of the content on the site. Well, it sure as shit doesn't own the other websites which are constantly linked to, which only leaves the user-created content, which the users are proving that Reddit doesn't own either.
The "Arch breaks all the time" people have obviously never used Arch.
I've run Arch as a daily driver for the last 4 and a half years and haven't had any issues. I've tried Pop_OS twice in that time and had install-breaking issues within a week in both cases.
In case you haven't already, I've found that adding the same fingerprint multiple times makes it a lot more reliable.
They're trying to buy clout. It's the reason they bought Grealish, and the same reason they wanted to buy Kane. If England's best and most well-known players play for City, then maybe people will start respecting their achievements.
I think this needs an NSFW tag.
This really feels like another one of those bandwagon pet peeves, like Comic Sans, pineapple on pizza, or toilet paper orientation. Like, if it pisses you off so much, then don't reward the creator by watching their video. In fact, the addon kind of defeats its own purpose by making you more likely to do just that.