This is an excellent answer and I wish I knew all of this when starting to use archlinux. “Arch does not support partial upgrades” is something you can read everywhere, but it’s rare to find such a good explanation of what exactly a partial upgrade is, and which commands lead to it.

I only learned about all of this when I got into some broken state by randomly running pacman commands.

Everyone, be like this guy. This guy explains stuff well. Newbies need stuff explained.

I remember liking weechat but if you prefer GUI, quassel is also good.

Now I wonder if I dual boot linux / windows, why is there no software that can basically use my existing windows installation from another partition to run windows software (like, maybe load it into VM or something)?

Thank god we have people like you. Please never stop telling people it’s ok to use this word.

I comment the commands that I want and then use vim to remove ones without comments.

For example, I run:

longandannoyingcommand -f1 -f2 -f3 # keep, does something useful

Usually comment explains what the command does so I can find it by description using fzf history search. And then you can easily find all lines that contain (or do not contain “# keep”) in your history to remove or keep.

Arch users switching back to Arch after 10 minutes of using Ubuntu:

Yes. You choose the compose key in your DE settings (usually right alt key), then you can press it and type compose sequences to insert unusual symbols or strings.

Thank you very much!

Looks like the site is down or blocked in my country.

Could anyone please be so nice and copy paste those commands here?

Can you press “custom” and enter 0?

No, and I miss it. Space sniffer was so good.

I may also want to type out someone’s email NOT in an email client, while in terminal, for example in bash shell or in vim.

Is there Google and/or Outlook integration into a terminal (Konsole) I’m not aware of?

Because email clients are not the only place where I enter emails. And not every program supports address book integration.

I might be filling out online forms and enter someone’s email or phone number or any other long string such as full name I can’t remember how to properly spell.

Well you can have 1 letter sequences which is almost what you want. For example have a sequence that consists of single “u” key that composes into “ü” or something similar.

I don’t know if it’s the same in every DE/Distro, but in KDE I’m pretty sure I can both hold the Compose key and type sequences, or press Compose key once and then type a sequence.

But can’t check right now.

Could you please ELI5 what are spill ranges?

Tbh I don’t have an answer and this isn’t what you’re looking for, but have you heard of Compose key? I don’t know what is kmomad, but I’m pretty happy with my custom compose sequences.

For some reason benchmarks won’t load on my device.

Could anyone please upload the images somewhere else?

Could you please explain how is ricing racist?

JXL.