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Linus does not fuck around
  • One does not simply break userspace. You'll receive more than just angry bug reports. There are restless maintainers who will not sleep. And the great corporations are ever watchful.

  • Japanese experimental nuclear fusion reactor inaugurated
  • I mean, if you could extract any tritium from the reactor cavity, but it's probably going to get burned up instantly.

    The reactions I showed add up to this overall reaction. Neutrons simply serve as a catalyst.

    [2]H + [6]Li -> 2 [4]He

    On the bright side, fusion reactors produce helium as a byproduct, which might make party balloons cheaper.

  • Japanese experimental nuclear fusion reactor inaugurated
  • The reaction used in fusion generators is:

    [2]H + [3]H -> [4]He + n

    Since tritium is usually produced from lithium in situ, you add:

    [6]Li + n -> [3]H + [4]He.

    The only radioactive thing here is tritium, and it's mostly confined to the reactor. Also, tritium isn't nearly as bad as fission waste.

  • A response to the "Boycott Wayland" article
  • From a developer's standpoint, one of the bigger pain points of Wayland is window embedding.

    If you want to embed from an external process, the only way to do this is to have your application expose its own Wayland compositor and then have the embedded process use that Wayland compositor. No one has made a library for this as of yet.

    If you want to embed from the same process, it shouldn't be too difficult; you just need a wl_subsurface. However, this doesn't work too well with most GUI toolkits.

    Wayland is just radically different from every other windowing API, and I'm hoping that the GUI toolkits can adapt.

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  • handling word documents

    This is the biggest pitfall of Linux: Microsoft doesn't make Office for Linux and the compatibility layers we do have don't work well enough.

    There are alternatives like LibreOffice, however, don't expect them to be perfectly compatible with Office.

    Everything else you listed is perfectly fine: Most browsers ship Linux versions, and those can be used for PDF viewing.

    I'd recommend familiarizing yourself with the Linux command line, as most advanced system configuration has to be done through the CLI.

    In addition, remember to do your research before asking for help. Good resources include the system manual pages, Arch Wiki, and of course, Google.

    As for choice of distro, I'll recommend Fedora, as it's reasonably up to date with software and has a nice GUI for dealing with updates.

  • Question about code blocks

    Why don't they display in a code font at the very least?

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