Linux setup was never a hazing ritual. The UNIX community (in the large) did not use humiliation and pain. It was tough, but that was mostly because the developers didn't invest as much energy into making it easy to install, because the target audience was quite savvy, and so most of the effort went into improving functionality, not ease of use.
You have obviously never asked a novice question to a group of linux neck beards. It could be quite humiliating. The point of this article is that it was painful, and could be long and painstaking journey just to get it to a usable state for daily work. That isn't a sentiment only held by me, and it is something that has held linux back for years and kept it as only a server OS or for specialized use cases.
I got my start asking UNIX users how to use LINUX. They were never humiliating. It was an encouraging environment. It sounds like you had a personal experience that was negative, and then generalized it to common behavior.
> The Omarchy installer tried to pull a version of aquamarine, the rendering library Hyprland depends on, that was too new to install.
> The fix was a downgrade to an older build from the pacman cache. I wrote that up in the M1 field report.
This is an Omarchy hazing ritual. The installer shouldn't break because it can't download an updated dependency. Distros have been including these packages in the base installation image for decades now, and Omarchy should too. Just another lesson learned the hard way, I guess.
The installer didn't break, this is an issue with how you have to install using Asahi linux for Mac hardware. So if you install with a bootable USB stick directly onto non-apple hardware it works fine, and after installing a number of times I have not had issues except for the first time I installed on mac hardware. So this was specifically an issue with Apple hardware and installing omarchy directly onto it, and yes it was its own form of hazing ritual. This time agents made that much easier to tackle, had the fix in under 30 mins where years ago I'd have been searching stack overflow for at least 30 mins to find the right obscure answer that might lead me to the fix.
Linux setup was never a hazing ritual. The UNIX community (in the large) did not use humiliation and pain. It was tough, but that was mostly because the developers didn't invest as much energy into making it easy to install, because the target audience was quite savvy, and so most of the effort went into improving functionality, not ease of use.
Also, this article reeks of AI writing.
You have obviously never asked a novice question to a group of linux neck beards. It could be quite humiliating. The point of this article is that it was painful, and could be long and painstaking journey just to get it to a usable state for daily work. That isn't a sentiment only held by me, and it is something that has held linux back for years and kept it as only a server OS or for specialized use cases.
I got my start asking UNIX users how to use LINUX. They were never humiliating. It was an encouraging environment. It sounds like you had a personal experience that was negative, and then generalized it to common behavior.
Linux runs on billions of phones in the world.
> The Omarchy installer tried to pull a version of aquamarine, the rendering library Hyprland depends on, that was too new to install.
> The fix was a downgrade to an older build from the pacman cache. I wrote that up in the M1 field report.
This is an Omarchy hazing ritual. The installer shouldn't break because it can't download an updated dependency. Distros have been including these packages in the base installation image for decades now, and Omarchy should too. Just another lesson learned the hard way, I guess.
The installer didn't break, this is an issue with how you have to install using Asahi linux for Mac hardware. So if you install with a bootable USB stick directly onto non-apple hardware it works fine, and after installing a number of times I have not had issues except for the first time I installed on mac hardware. So this was specifically an issue with Apple hardware and installing omarchy directly onto it, and yes it was its own form of hazing ritual. This time agents made that much easier to tackle, had the fix in under 30 mins where years ago I'd have been searching stack overflow for at least 30 mins to find the right obscure answer that might lead me to the fix.