The thing is ... I kind of agree with both takes.

I have been using Arch since ~2013 back when I still had time to mess around with it and learn the ins and outs, these days I work as a sysadmin so I want my systems at home to mostly "just work", however Arch also is that Distro for me for the most part. Most of the times I actually encountered breaking changes it was because of my process not breeing quite refined. For example I didn't regularly update my config files, so when there were changes in the PAM config syntax my login was borked, so now I check for .pacnew files on every update and sometimes I have to move over some changes. I also don't update as often but just when I have a few minutes while I'm using my machines.

So in short I consider Arch to be a valid option for a Stable Desktop OS (if you take some precautions and don't mess with it too much).

However for servers etc. I do usually go with Debian because the packages are usually simply a bit more matured and I do major version updates as you described (explicitly setting aside some time to possibly fix arising issues).

I've had that Laptop and ran Arch (and other distros) on it with those working no issue. I've since passed it to a friend who also uses it with Debian and hasn't complained about issues. Are you certain this is a Software issue? Are the TrackPoint and buttons actually plugged in? Do they show up?

Adding to the others comments:

Given the body's vital requirement to maintain a core temperature of approximately 37 °C (99 °F), a sustained wet-bulb temperature exceeding 35 °C (95 °F)—equivalent to a heat index of 71 °C (160 °F)— is likely to be fatal even to fit and healthy people, semi-nude in the shade and next to a fan; at this temperature human bodies switch from shedding heat to the environment, to gaining heat from it.

- wikipedia

But AI is Public Infrastructure.

/s^just in case

Srsly wtf I saw that and immediately thought "Well that would be a great modern logo" its flat and sleek but still recognizable enough. Guess the marketing department didn't want to admit "we got it right the first time"

Like I said in my longer comment I think we should embrace questions in out communities.

While I agree on some level that it might be easier and quicker to find out by simply putting it into a search engine I don't want to deny the human aspect here. At the end of the day social media (and even reddit/lemmy ...) is not "knowledge transfer" its about the interaction between humans. So if someone is faced with something new, especially in a thread where it seems to be a given that people know what it is, it makes sense to use that space to ask what it is everyone is discussing. And while a search might yield a generic result (maybe even a better worded explanation) a good faithed commenter might, in the given exampl, enot just explain what Linux is, but also why is relevant to the bigger discussion and also the commenter that orignally asked would have a way to ask further questions that might lead to a deeper understanding of the topic eve it if isn't as efficient.

Tl;dr: Don't just RTFM or LMGTFY someone. Take a minute to explain and welcome people into the lucky 10000

Wann rufen die Gewerkschaften endlich zu Generalstreiks auf um auf diese Zerstörung aller hart erkämpften Errungenschaften zu verhindern?

... Ach ja das politische Streikrecht ist ja schon lange Opfer der Sozialpartnerschaft geworden...

I was on the fence when it was first announced (just because i had heard the reports about steam machines back in the day) but when I found out you could open it up and upgrade the storage yourself I decided to bite the bullet.

I have never regretted the purchase. I immediately stopped gaming on my (Linux) desktop and have been gaming on the Steamdeck now (almost) exclusively for the past like 3 years. I've upgraded the storage (64GB to 512GB) and replaced the thumbsticks when the old ones fell apart.

Tl;dr: Agree! Steam Deck no regrets!

The 13 (amd) can charge from either side not sure if the ports closer to the keyboard also charge at the same speed

Edit: Apparently they do. (negotiating 3A PD on a first come first serve basis)

It heavily depends in your usecase but if you want to use gpg to encrypt emails and dont want to do it all in the terminal i really recommend using Thunderbird it integrates gpg very well and makes it mostly seamless.

Other than that afaik Kleopatra is the only standalone GUI for gpg simply because most of the time gpg is integrated in workflows (simply using the cli interface vor gpg libraries) and plain gpg for simple tex/file encryption/signing is just not a usecase.many people have

... and what does it have to do with emulators? terminal emulator (wikipedia)