Yeah screwing with the network interface of the machine you're SSHd into is something nearly every sysadmin have done at least once.
That or changing something, rebooting the server and subsequently being unable to contact it again due to said change. I'm always scared and feeling I'm taking a risk when upgrading a major OS version over SSH, yet Ubuntu never failed me in that, it's the silly things that got me, like messing with fstab.
I find it bloated if the system have things I don't need are noticeably using up RAM and CPU. I couldn't care less about extra unused packages on disk, they're dormant. I don't care about a few daemons or resident apps I don't use either if they're idle all the time and use minimal RAM. Bloat for me is something that noticeably affects my running system.
and suffer subpar virtualization
Meh I can get a Win11 guest that interacts well and conveniently with the host and its peripherals and if all I'm doing is running tax software, office365 or compile my Rust app to test it cross platform - vbox is perfectly fine. I'm not running anything demanding.
I'm not taking a stance against KVM it's great, but rather saying that for some of us it's not that big of an issue which solution to use, it just needs to be convenient.
I use stuff like Rustup, in a Distrobox dedicated to the work area.
There are other distros with the same points, they're not unique, save for the wiki. A lot of users of other distros refer to the Arch wiki. The AUR is much celebrated but I personally found it annoying having to carefully vet every package and having moved to another distro I don't miss it.
I think the main reason to choose Arch is it's for tinkerers/hobbyists. Its community is very enthusiastic which is always nice, though many can become a bit obnoxious on forums.
I don't use Arch at all but isn't EOS using Calamares? You click a few times, selecting language, timezone and click install, then go make a coffee while it installs. Difficult to be way faster than that. You can save maybe 30sec by not having any options.
I remember those days. On disk 22: Bzzz-bzzz Bzzz-bzzz Bzzz-bzzz Bzzz-bzzz Bzzz-bzzz Bzzz-bzzz CRC-ERROR
I can still hear it.
I used dd-wrt for a few years, but I realized I didn't need it as my new router have the functionality I want. I also realized my router had much better throughput with the stock firmware.
A year-ish, Plasma, Intel iGPU for Desktop and Nvidia offload for Steam. It's great.
Yeah, hybrid graphics is a blessing. I have an Intel iGPU for Wayland/VA-API and Nvidia offload for Steam and it's great.
What? Is there some new controversy going on ?