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  I love how they censored the title on the orange site, to have no price in it.

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  I guess that depends on a server, but all my non-Arm servers are on Arch, and it’s been rock solid so far. (Years, close to a decade.) What I like is that I don’t need to upgrade it (meaning across versions), I just update it here and there, non-regularly. Never had a single issue. Perhaps I’m lucky and asking for trouble. One machine runs root on an encrypted RAID-0, so I’d test my backup strategy. Another one runs root on RAID-1. Another one runs root on USB drive.

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  Being with Arch for like seven years or so, it’s only recently I’ve learned one neat trick, upon reinstalling the system I have on various Windows tablets. I start sshd, do passwd and connect from my main machine. Then I just quickly format disks, and pacstrap system by copy-pasting commands from my blog, where I have the instructions for my devices. It’s not the very techy way, I guess, but I was able to reinstall my system within like 10 minutes, most of which was booting off the USB drive wit...

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  Well, I do understand the difference between the UI and UX, but I have no idea what they are implying. I asked that question precisely because I have no idea what to search for. The difference between UI and UX is simple. The UI is just the interface: it’s how the app, service, anything, interacts with its user. The experience is … well, the experience of it. E.g. Gimp is awful at UI, but the UX is not that bad, because if you’d get some basic ideas, it’s quite useful, even despite its ugly UI....