I don’t want to fault people for avoiding Arch’s instability in general but this is a very minor issue.

VLC is not a system critical package. I absolutely understand the mods choice to not put it in the RSS. At most they could put a notice in the pacman logs when it updates.

Interesting read. It sounds like that issue came upstream from Debian not Ubuntu though.

deprecating ffmpeg for half a year

wut

*btw

Not them but for me its LUKS on LVM for desktops. For laptops, archinstall with LVM on LUKS is sufficient.

SNAP BAD

About 10 years ago it was The Distro for first time linux users to prove they were a True Linux Enjoyer. Think a bunch of channers bragging about how they are the true linux master race because they edited a grub config.

Before Arch that role belonged to Gentoo. Since then that role has transitioned to NixOS who aren’t nearly as toxic but still culty. “Way of the future” etc.

All three of have high bars of entry so everyone has to take pride in the effort they put in to learn how to install their distro. Like getting hazed into a frat except you actually learn something.

The Ubuntu hatred is completely unrelated. That has to do with them being a corporate distro that keep making bad design decisions. And their ubiquity means everyone has to deal with their bad decisions. (snap bad)

How about you just read up on Cloudflare Turnstile instead of acting like you know anything? Here are some notable methods:

• Residential IP requirements
• TLS Fingerprinting
• Canvas Fingerprinting

It’s still possible to get around these but it’s not easy. You either must have as good network engineers on staff as Cloudflare or pay some third party service to unlock it for you. All Cloudflare needs to do is keep their prices lower than the third party services.

I doing the same thing but someone told me about HBA cards and that’s what I’d do next time I upgrade. Way more affordable flexible and efficient then trying to find a mobo with 8 data ports.