Ubuntu pro provides support after 5 years of standard LTS support. Linux Mint does not provide any support (paid nor free) after the first 5 years so the comparison does not really make sense.
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People want to switch from baguettes to bread. So they get flour, water, yeast and salt and are asked to bake their own bread. "I never saw what was so hard about baking bread, the seller says." Well the issue is not the difficulty of baking bread. They simply don't want to spend time baking bread. They are used to going to the store to buy an already baked baguette.
I'd argue the demographic that writes posts about switching their OS is more likely to be happy switching to Arch than most of the people who switch. The way I imagine the average Linux noob is a university student who installed Ubuntu for their coding class.
For novices Void is worse because it does not have the Arch wiki. The Void Docs are brief and you will inevitably end up reading the Arch wiki anyways, except you will run into Runit specific bs.
It makes sense because if you are a veteran, you probably already have your workflow streamlined, so you don't need new software in the repositories.
Cool but I'm still waiting for Plasma to have actual tiling built in. Dragging windows with your fingers is just extremely clunky. Also having a "note taking mode" where your note taking app becomes transparent and stacks on top of some other app (YT, pdf viewer) would be nice but that should probably be a feature of the note taking app, not Plasma.
Android uses the Linux kernel. The issue is that these Android devices use kernels forked from old Linux version. So most PostmarketOS devices use these old kernels to get best hardware support. My question is what version the devices use. I don't actually have any device currently, I would like to know which one to get, if any.
Actually I think I found the solution (see edit)
The only way to send characters that are not part of the current layout is to use a compose key sequence. Which you would have to ask about in one of their communication circles. (reddit, etc.) Alternatively you could use command buttons which allow you to execute a command on key press. That way you could use ydotool (https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool) to send a sequence to type the umlaut as described on ubuntu wiki (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ComposeKey#Typing_Macrons.2C_Umlauts.2C_Accents.2C_...) That probably would not need Kmonad when I think about it though. You could just use keybindings of your window manager / desktop environment.
What do you mean you don't know where to start? How about starting by going to their website (github repo). If you did that you would find out about the tutorial. The thing takes like 30 minutes to read. Link: https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad?tab=readme-ov-file#configuration
KMonad does support compose keys but I don't know how to use it. It's described in the tutorial though. You can also just rebind a key or key combination to the keys that would write "ü" on your keyboard. KMonad really just changes what keys are pressed, so if you use a German layout, you will get German characters.
I am not conflating communism with being "a mass murderer fan club". I am simply stating that that post was upvoted by mass murderer fans. The post made sarcastic statement about Stalin not being a brutal dictator, so there are your "mass murderer fans". I said nothing about communism.
In terms of Kenny being an anarchist. That's not "my definition". At some point he posted snakes in political context so it's really his definition, whatever he means with it.
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Not talking about the quality of the software. I mean that some guide on Arch wiki will not work because some software expects systemd or the guide is just more difficult to follow with a system using runit. My point is that a new user does not have "the context", so for a new user Void is a worse way to learn linux quickly than Arch or honestly even Gentoo. Even Gentoo has its own wiki so it's likely that if an Arch wiki guide does not work for you, you will likely find the Gentoo specific detail on their wiki. You don't have such luxury with Void.