Cool! I do ride a custom ebike and always wanted a lie-down version for the aerodynamic advantage, but I honestly don’t trust cars to notice such a low profile vehicle

Are you some kind of source-posting diety? I submit myself for worship

Electrical engineering and embedded programming is quite far from what I do, so that makes sense! One of my friends graduated EE 10+ years ago and his pace is much slower, but he’s much smarter than me lol.

I can get up to a pretty high apm when I get in the zone, and admittedly I enjoy the feeling of being a hackerman zipping through terminals…

Software development too, but also lots of sysadmin-like stuff so I spend lots of time in terminals/SSH. And I’m a vim fanatic.

Of course I also spend a lot of time in the browser, but also man pages/local docs in a pager

If you actually do work, getting used to a tiling WM is like a drug. I can’t live without it now.

(that’s a lie, I do at work cus I’m forced to use Windows, so WSL with tmux is an acceptable alternative)

I’m happy the Cygwin and Mingw days are over. WSL2 works very well.

My company only allows us to use the company-provided Windows image, so I do all my work inside a WSL2 tmux session.

JetBrains IDEs and VSCode also have WSL connectors so it works acceptably well.

It also handily dodges all the Windows security policies (like installing software). You can even run Xorg apps from it.

I’m still forced to use MS Teams and Outlook, though…

Careful, there are Americans around

Back when I switched to Linux, Nvidia worked much better than AMD cards, but everyone hates them for not providing open source drivers, understandably

In my experience, Nvidia drivers work just fine. They’re just proprietary, and once in a while they release a faulty driver (which you can just roll back ofc). Happened to me a couple of times over the past… 14 years, fuck

You can always check ProtonDB

My ego isn’t that big…

I chose Arch (in 2011) because

1. Terminals make me look like hackerman
2. I wanted to nerd out and learn the Linux ecosystem
3. My engineer friends were Arch evangelists

I do catch myself saying “just read the manual”, but not in a hostile way I think. When you’re already in a terminal, once you get used to manuals, it’s very accessible and it’s quick to get what you need.

However, that usually requires you to know what you’re looking for quite specifically, and that is something you can only learn through experience and study.

I’m very happy with my choice and the whole “you can easily fuck up your system” thing also works in reverse - you can just as easily fix your system. I’ve made a few mistakes over the years but nothing that I couldn’t reverse. Just make sure you’re not fiddling with partitions and boot loaders during work hours…