They will probably get to there. It’s just not that important for the developers rn. They are working on a pacman rust rewrite and hopefully we can see more contributions to the project. I already considered contributing but C deterred me.
You can see the milestones here: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/alpm/alpm/-/milestones
Was it even a thing? I remember I had to choose MBR for legacy BOOT, GPT for UEFI.
Buy good hardware next time
you can remap keys with any keyboards
I use Ctrl, Alt for applications, Super for the os/windowing. I hated MacOS which mixed these things. Luckily X.org let’s you do whatever you like, sometimes it’s just harder to configure. But I like it as it is.
urxvt, bspwm, sxhkd, and many small utilities that I built my desktop with. It’s hard to reproduce the same setup.
You listed malwares. Nvidia works tho.
I agree that flatpak is not there yet. The API is limited, and it is also hard to package an app. But I really want to see it succeed
I don’t use any of these, but I’m curious. Could you please write some examples?
I’ve never understood putting arbitrary limits on a company laptop. I had always been seeking for ways to hijack them. Once I ended up using a VM, without limit…
I’m running Arch for a very long time. I agree this is not a distro for general audience. I disagree, however, that it is not stable. When I’m doing work I don’t update my system. I enjoy my stable configuration and when I have time, I do update, I curiously watch which amazing foss software had an update. And I try them. I check my new firefox. I check gimp’s new features. etc… or if I have to do something I easily fix it, like in no time because I know my OS. Then I enjoy my stable system again.
Do you want to know what’s unstable? When I had my new AMD GPU that I built my own kernel for, because the driver wasn’t in mainline. And it randomly crashed the system. That’s unstable.
Or when I installed my 3rd DE in ubuntu and apt couldn’t deal with it, it somehow removed X.org. And I couldn’t fix it. That’s also something I don’t want. Arch updates are much better than this.