Llituro [he/him, they/them]

no, i’m saying that i think there’s got to be an archlinux that is similar to manjaro in terms of what is offered but differs in not having systemd. i have not done the research to determine what distros (if any) this describes.

for me, i’ll find the closest arch to manjaro that simply does not rely on systemd

what you should do: delete that file and then listen to onlooker’s advice about using apt to install software when you can

what is happening: an arbitrary file you create to hold the contents of some data you streamed off the internet, for very good reason, is not automatically treated as an executable, partly because for all wget knows, it’s just a photograph or some text. to mark a file as executable, you need to run chmod +x /path/to/script/file to add to the file’s permissions. to learn more, and you should, please learn about file permissions and how those work on linux systems.

the shortest simplest explanation is that X11 was designed around the idea that multiple user terminals would connect to one large mainframe computer, not everyone just having their own machine like actually became commonplace.

pop is a pretty similar distro that should be compatible with what you want to do, but i’m not sure how much it hits for a more unified package management system. it’s really hard to beat the AUR and a AUR helper like paru for that.

dmenu is iconic for a reason, although manually patching it to meet your preferences is a bit too much of a project for people who just want something to work. not wanting to learn C is valid.

i’ve transferred 10’s of ~300 GB files via manual rsyncs. it was a lot of binary astrophysical data, most of which was noise. eventually this was replaced by an automated service that bypassed local firewalls with internet-based transfers and aws stuff.

using google’s office tools is going to be pretty generally acceptable for most people. depending on your studies, you might be expected to use windows software at some point. i would recommend dual booting. depending on your computing hardware, buying a relatively cheap 1 TB SSD from any retailer and installing windows on it is usually the best option. should simply be a matter of selecting the correct boot device from your system bios. for psychologists, my supposition would be that any proprietary software used, if any, would be windows exclusive.

could always give antix linux a shot

well in a cosmic sort of sense, it already is. (android is based on a modified linux kernel). seriously though, check out https://antixlinux.com/ it’s a distro to put on any computer, even ones that old.

Jesus Christ, what a fucking asshole. Calls the very valid complaints “trolling” before locking the fucking thread

Honestly just do Debian again. It’s one of the most stable distros for a reason. If anything, it’d make more sense to use Debian for a backup computer.

Fun related fact: both Hades and Hades II are also mostly Lua scripts. And they ship the source code with both games so you can just go look at things like how fishing probabilities are implemented directly in the script.