It's fast, but you are only installing base, linux and grub.
base-devel should also be there, since it's assumed to be installed by any PKGBUILD you'd want to build with makepkg.
But yes. It does what it said it would do: Install a basic, minimal Arch system in just over a minute.
To be technical, it's not a drop if it's announced. Then it's just a "release". 😆
Android 14 has the option to present itself (the phone) to a computer as a USB webcam. Very handy and does not require any special software on the PC.
Schleswig-Holstein in Germany seems to be switching to Linux and LibreOffice.
If you worry about potential other backdoors in newer XZ versions, then you should also look into your kernel, systemd, dbus etc etc. All these things, can potentially contain backdoors that no one knows about yet.
As for currently known backdoors, the Arch versions are safe.
Likely because it's mainly written in PHP and the default database is SQLite, which is not great for large deployments.
But I use Nextcloud daily on a low end machine and I don't think it's that bad.
Not exactly the same.
Plasma 6 still installs the X11 session. This change will make it so the Gnome X11 session is not getting installed by deafult, so you need to install it yourself if you need it. In Plasma 6, you just change to the X11 session in your Display Manager.
Would be even better if colleges supported web standards in general, instead of just Chrome...
The problem, as I see it, is that the author of the original Gist does not really want wayland replacements for what he has, but rather what he has to also work on wayland.
Wayland didn't break everything. It broke what relied on X11 specific stuff, which turned out to be a lot of things. The vast majority of issues still present with Wayland are edge-cases that will only see the light of day when the people with those edge-cases start using wayland. And as long as distros default to X11, that won't happen. So that distros, like Fedora, started defaulting to Wayland "early" on (yes I put early in quotes, because it's only perceived as early) is actually a good thing. Makes the compositor developers aware of edge-cases they can't catch themselves.
I'vge been using Wayland exclusively for over a year and apart from a couple of small bugs, not even missing functions, I haven't experienced any issues relating to Wayland directly. But that's for my use case. YMMV as always.
Also, I'll just mention that it all means nothing as soon as you open a browser window. Then all your RAM is gonna be used up anyway.
I think he wrote that he had been contributing for about 7 or 8 years, and only the last one was as a volunteer.