You’re talking to a 40 year old with no future working three minimum wage jobs who will be homeless if any of them let him go.

Well that’s a wild assumption.

Be kinder to fellow working class people. Hold the capitalists responsible for creating this situation in the first place.

I am kind, I promise. Voices often get raised at me when confirming my order, and I stay calm anyway. I’m not obligated to get yelled at for simply trying to place an order.

I’m a vegetarian. Ordering an impossible burger off the broiler from Burger King always seems to make the drive-thru person want to fight me, for some reason. They’re often too occupied to hear what I’m saying well, and they don’t always put it on the screen right away. When I ask to confirm it, ~80% of the time they give me lip service.

This is my metric. As long as Burger King keeps giving me shit, I’m in favor of AI replacing their jobs. If they were kinder, I would never think this. To be honest, this experience has kept me from going to Burger King most times. Try ordering this at 10 places that aren’t dead and you’ll see what I mean.

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It was trying to is, then it isn’ted. Help?

There is a GUI, but I prefer the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install steam

“Update” fetches the latest package information, and “install steam” does exactly what you think it does :)

Yup! Install Steam (with your package manager!) and play. Nothing to it.

Enjoy!

Some of these tips are dangerous. You generally don’t want cause insensitivity in your shell. Also, ls should never be used as a subshell to find files as a part of commands.

You mean the defaults that were against anti trust laws?

You can only teach someone Linux if they have a desire to learn it. If they don’t want to learn it, then they might learn that it’s “bad” or “weird” compared to mainstream OSes, which would be working backwards.

To be fair, forcing a bunch of software on the machine users own was never a good move, and in my opinion, not a new normal.

You don’t typically have permissions “become defective” or need them to be “repaired” in a Linux system. Nearly all system files, with their permissions, are included in packages. Everything else should be considered user data.

If you logged in as root and did something dumb, you could attempt to fix the permissions by reinstating packages.

Yup, this will pretty much destroy your system.

Imagine your “code” as English sentences. If it is hard to read, you might rephrase it. If something is getting long and drawn out, use paragraphs (methods and functions). At the end of the day, the easier it is to read, the better, unless there’s a performance cost that’s worthy of considering.

Like the top-level comment suggests, you should comment your methods. I would go one step further and use a standard comment format. I like Ruby, so immediately, I think YARDoc. With a YARDoc comment, you define what it does, the parameter types and descriptions, what it returns, possible exceptions that could be returned, etc.

Even better, by using standardized comments, not only does this make it easier to read by you and others, but most of the time, you get documentation rendered for free. For example, here is a library I wrote:

• https://github.com/synthead/timex_datalink_client

And here is the automatically-generated HTML documentation:

• https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/timex_datalink_client/0.12.3

More specifically, here’s some YARDoc for a method:

• https://github.com/synthead/timex_datalink_client/blob/263bffa8a71a0af792c46bea2ae69ab2a015f670/lib/timex_datalink_client/protocol_3/time.rb#L38-L46

And here is the generated documentation from this comment:

• https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/timex_datalink_client/0.12.3/TimexDatalinkClient/Protocol3/Time#initialize-instance_method

This style of auto-generated documentation is available for pretty much all mature languages, and I highly recommend that you hit the ground running with them 👍

Neat

JavaScript is an interpreted language, so no decompilation is necessary, although this is repeatable by using a Firefox user agent.

100%

Look up WebAssembly.

Yes, always.

• Maybe you want to migrate a PostgreSQL database to a newer version without starting PostgreSQL server.
• Maybe you installed OpenSSH but don’t want sshd to run yet, because you haven’t hardened the configs.
• Maybe you installed Nginx as a part of a migration from Apache httpd, but httpd is already running.

In addition, Arch hardly configures your system in a custom way, too. When you install a package, most of the time, it responds with “here are the files from the developer that you asked for.”

If you don’t like this philosophy, then your feelings are perfectly valid, and this is a textbook example of why different distributions exist 👍

It’s against the philosophy of Arch. You configure your system the way you want.

Ignore all votes on your comments and do what you want. Don’t let a bunch of anonymous folks on the Internet change the way you communicate.