New York as Linux

Description

A stylized Twitter screenshot on a teal gradient background shows a post by Max Goodhart, @chromakode, with the Twitter bird icon in the top right. The visible tweet reads: "New York City is like Linux: - Spend the first year re-learning how to perform basic tasks - Spend the rest of your lifetime claiming how much better it is - Bad drivers". The footer shows "10:31 PM · 12 May, 2022" and engagement counts of "55 replies", "892 shares", and "5.5K likes". The humor maps the Linux desktop experience onto living in New York: steep acclimation curve, proud evangelism after surviving it, and the classic pain of unreliable or missing hardware drivers.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Linux and New York both make you alias basic navigation commands, then somehow convince you that everyone else is doing life wrong.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Linux and New York both make you alias basic navigation commands, then somehow convince you that everyone else is doing life wrong.
@sylfn 4y

my cpu's arch is x64 am i using the right arch?
1. @kitbot256 4y
  
  possibly. Depends on if this arch of yours is running arch or not.
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  possibly not
  
  Deleted Account 4y
  
  why not artix?
  
  @rglrd 4y
  
  Why not FreeBDSM?
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  BD OSM
  
  @rglrd 4y
  
  bondageOSX
  
  @kitbot256 4y
  
  but manjaro is an Arch's derivative
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  well yes but actually yes
2. @SamsonovAnton 4y
  
  No, x86 is not right - because this arch is flawed. You should immediately migrate to Elbrus. There is no Arch port there yet, but that should not stop true Arch fan from creating such a port.
  
  @feedable 4y
  
  e2k arch is fake and gay, why would anyone think that using caches in a vliw would be a good idea
  
  @SamsonovAnton 4y
  
  Did you use it yourself, or rely on someone else's opinion? Caches are... well, caches. They help buffering memory access, even sequential.
  
  @feedable 4y
  
  they could have used scratchpads and then they wouldn't have to deal with non-deterministic memory access, which is certainly really bad for vliws As for experience, i don't have access to the chip itself, everything i know is from exploring what vliws are on the market currently (none of them are good)