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Repeat after me:

“You do not support a project or its dev in any way by just using the software you got for free.”

In fact, unless you donate, advertize or contribute to the project, you’re a net drain on its resources.

Mark my words, X11 will still be around as an option 10 years from now.
Linux Mint, probably the most popular distro, doesn’t even support Wayland in its default configuration, yet.

Yeah, nowadays it’s just every other year around June. Linux has become so boring ;)

Yeah, you don’t want to have to explain that production went down cause you migrated it to the “Testing” branch.

I upgraded to Trixie last week.
It already worked as flawlessly as I’d expect it when the release is official.
It installed a bunch of new packages, removed the same number of obsolete ones, and upgraded everything else.
On the next apt update, it asks to reformat sources.list and that’s it.

If you didn’t mess with your sources.list it won’t switch to the new release automatically.

You can use options in the package manager to show orphaned packages and then decide if you want to remove them.
Removing packages automatically could be argued to be a bad idea in general.

That’s just the thing, though. There is no equivalent on Arch.

apt autoremove does nothing on Arch.

Just leave it. Either they do something in the background. Then you’ll get issues when they’re missing, and you’ll never know which package is missing for what.
Or they don’t do anything, then they just take up a few MB of disk space.

“Cleaning up” is the most sure-fire way to destroy your OS, and absolutely not worth anyone’s time. Trust me, I’ve made that mistake multiple times.

Realistically, I’d contact police and hope they’ll be nice enough to eventually contact my country’s embassy. There, I’d be able to identify myself via biometrics. When I get access to a phone, I could call my mom whose number I have memorized.
She has plenty of accessible funds to get me home.

There I can open the door with a hidden key, get new ID using my birth certificate, and with that, I can get back into my bank account, have new house keys made, order a new SIM card for my phone number, and that gets me back into half my accounts.

Electronically, I’d be fucked.

My password manager sends a code to my email address as 2FA, the password to the email account is only in the password manager, all other accounts are tied to that email address, and the email hoster asks for info you put in during account creation for recovery, but I put in random bullshit.

took me a moment to understand what you mean but that’s a neat idea for the time while you’re migrating away from WhatsApp.

Damn, we have a celebrity here!

It’s a bike with only one gear with a freewheel. Lets you coast without pedaling.
They’re more popular than fixed gear where I live, cause you can ride them like a normal bicycle.
The reason is less maintenance and fewer things to break. I guess they work well for utility cycling in flat areas, but some people are crazy enough to compete in Mountainbike races with them.

One can also have endless arguments about the color turquoise. Is it rather green, or rather blue?

The answer to that question is “no”.
It’s turquoise. You wouldn’t argue about whether orange is yellow or red, either.

Look, just don’t, OK?

Fixed Gear advantages:

• can slow down by pushing back on pedals -> almost no brake pad wear
• almost no maintenance
• can do trackstands and ride backwards
• unique, fun riding style
• completely quiet drivetrain
• less interesting to thieves

Drawback:

• can’t switch gears

Geared Bike advantage:

• can switch gears

Drawbacks:

• basically the inverse of everything above

Single-Speed bikes can do none of the things fixed gear bikes can do, and also can’t switch gears.

When your entire desktop environment freezes, on Windows you’d have to do a hard shutdown, risking data loss or corruption.
On Linux you switch to another TTY, kill the process that’s locking up everything, and go back to work.