Nah, their instance is blocked on mine.

Not the first time I see this, I guess it's time to either host my own instance or find one with less righteous admins.

I only know the word as a derogatory term and have no idea who you are trying to offend with that.

What exactly lead you to believe it serves an M3U file?

Even if you had good intentions with that, throwing common solutions that obviously won't work at someone only leads to them wasting time. It's not a good thing to do.

Some stuff breaks, but it’s still usable.

You can see posts, thus it's usable.

Well, it's using funny JS, you learn how it works and trick it into downloading the fragments.

But why would you bother doing that if the movie is available on public trackers in better quality?

Have you tried Alexandrite?

Basic Lemmy works without JS. Some stuff breaks, but it's still usable.

x86 is the instruction set, 64 is for 64-bit extension of that instruction set. It's also known as AMD64 to make it even more confusing. All Intel Core processors starting from Core 2 are using that architecture, as far as I remember.

By "tinkering a bit" I meant sometimes digging up a package in the archives and rolling it back. I used Arch daily for around 2 years and had to do it once. You can also avoid it by keeping tabs on what the community says, broken packages cause quite a bit of fuss.

Release schedule is a trade off, if you are updating weekly, it'll usually take less than 5 minutes to download all the packages that got updated within that week. The rarer you update, the more time each update takes.

But it's all ultimately a matter of preference, just wing something up and try to use it for a couple of days. If it's not to your taste, scrap it and try something else, it's rare to end up with a setup you like right from the get go.

Some distributions like Debian get releases once per year or two, people tend to joke around that those are "stale" rather than "stable". Fedora lives somewhere in between, you get more testing than on Arch, but less than on the likes of Debian. Usual Fedora release cycle is once in half a year.

By old Mac hardware I assume you mean x86-64 Intel Macs? Pretty much any modern distro should work on that.

If you are in general ok with tinkering a bit with your computer, I'd recommend Arch derivatives like EndeavourOS or CachyOS, these come with full GUI installers and software availability on Arch is one of the widest around.

Arch is rolling release, though, meaning each package gets updated as soon as a new version is available, rarely it leads to things breaking.

If you want something more stable, Fedora is a great choice, too.

As you mentioned yourself, Mint also exists. It's packages are usually on the older side, but the distro itself is trying to be this "gateway drug of Linux".

The feel of the system is mostly determined not by your distribution, though, but rather by your desktop environment. As far as I know, GNOME is the most "Mac-like" out of popular ones. KDE is "Windows done right", and there are a lot of other options, but you'll mostly have to try them out yourself until you find something you like.

It means that it's Linux shaped as an arch.

Those are different, prefix "arch-" comes from greek "ἀρχι-", while noun "arch" is from latin "arcus".

Though, it should be mentioned that initially the meaning was taken from the prefix one, it's just with time everybody got used to the Arch arch logo and spelling, I suppose.

The urge to downvote something you really shouldn't have never been so strong.