Nat (she/they)

What? Nova is a rewrite of Nouveau from scratch by Redhat devs to better support newer cards.

Specifically in the Linux kernel, the 2 big reasons to use it are memory safety (huuuuggee benefit) and that a lot of younger devs like it and thus it will attract their contributions.

The only reasons I can think of to not use it are that some people want their own toolchain and having multiple languages in the kernel adds complication. But tbh, none of that justifies banning Rust stuff that realistically wouldn’t have been written at all if C were the only option.

And then there’s the people who show up in Phoronix, HN, Reddit, and YouTube comments saying Rust is over-hyped without showing why it’s unfit for purpose and also trying to dictate what someone does with their own project. Perhaps it’s something to do with the representation of queer people and other minorities in the Rust community, because otherwise I do not understand why people would be sooo passionate in hating the Rust community like the group I described above is.

It matters to potential contributors. It’s also a floating signifier for a lot of things.

cargo cult

Yeah, you wouldn’t. My point is that’s because it’s preinstalled, not because of any GUI/CLI advantage.

man genfstab gave an error? Neither CLI nor GUI is gonna help with simply not having something installed that the guide assumed.

I can’t even mount my Android storage to my computer without some unreliable MTP FUSE program.

Worked on my machine last I checked, and I don’t have a useragent spoofer

It’s the Nazi bar effect

With a library like Wlroots you almost get that, it’s just in-process rather than out of process. The real problem there is doing some fancier things requires nonstandard Wayland extensions with low support across the ecosystem.

Also whoever decided to do strings in WTF-16

I have 2 monitors at different refresh rates

Source? I doubt they could do that so quickly, plus I haven’t heard of it.

I believe zsh catches this and makes you confirm.

Well, that or one of my plugins, I’m not sure.

Linux has that issue too. A process in an uninterruptible blocking syscall stays until that syscall finishes, which can be never if something weird’s going on.

KDE can murder windows instantly (you have to set a shortcut), or you can also just send SIGKILL to the process

Parts of it seem to be inherently more secure, but there are some pretty glaring holes. At least software distribution is much more secure than the Windows approach.

Arch Linux is a good vision and a tab for the meds

Immutable partitions are amazing for reliability, then you can just OverlayFS your mutable state on top of it

If it was on something like BTRFS it’d probably be fine, though I imagine there’s still a small window where the FS could flush while the file is being written. renameat2 has the EXCHANGE flag to atomically switch 2 files, so if arch maintainers want to fix it they could do

1. Write to temporary file
2. Fsync temporary file
3. Renameat2 EXCHANGE temporary and target
4. Fsync directory (optional, since a background flush would still be atomic, just might take some time)