I didn't realise there was a correct way to use Arch, or that there were people authorised to explain what it is. Is that an Arch-exclusive service, or is it available for other distros as well?
You say the whole point is ending up with a system configured the user's way instead of some celebrity's way, and then you go on to tell us what we are actually allowed to want. That's a bit rich.
Starting from someone else's config and then changing whatever annoys you is making the choice, it just skips the part where you spend a weekend reading about display managers to arrive at the same place. That is what dotfiles have been for since roughly forever.
By your standard, anyone who used archinstall from the official ISO isn't really using Arch either, and I suppose the truly enlightened path is Linux From Scratch, compiled this morning, on hardware you soldered yourself.
I don't see the issue. The beauty of OSS is that you can audit the code yourself and evaluate it according to your standards.
Do you trust all OSS repos coded before 2024? AI-generated code is no different than code written by a human with different levels of seniority, different levels of focus, or different levels of discipline. A human is perfectly capable of generating spaghetti code too.
It is about gradually, but constantly, creating the image of an "evil adversary".. Venome drop after venome drop..
China is not doing that as far as I know. Neither Russia did it before the war, though you were claiming the contrary (I know, since I live in the west and could compare news from both sides, being a native Russian speaker).
It doesn't work like that. I've been made aware thanks to this post, and tomorrow I'll be placing CO2 sensors in every meeting room in the company I work at, and mandating an open-windows or air-circulating policy above 800ppm.
You don't need to make everybody aware, you just need to make the right people aware.
As for the State... Mine mandates that nobody can use the laptop's keyboard, they must use an external keyboard so the laptops' screens can be risen to eye level.
We have the external keyboards and the risers, and nobody uses them.
The State usually finds the worst and most wasteful solution available. Only fools trust the State to solve their problems.
Just so everyone here has the full picture: the source linked — Assemblea Nacional Catalana — is not a human rights watchdog, an international observer, or a journalistic outlet. It is the main pro-independence criminal activist organization in Catalonia. Citing them as evidence of Spanish human rights abuses is a bit like citing the murderer's wife as an impartial witness.
For context, Spain is a full constitutional democracy, subject to the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights, with a free(ish) press, independent judiciary, and regular elections — none of which Assemblea itself disputes, because it participates in all of them. The events OP is referencing (the 2017 independence referendum aftermath) were reviewed by European courts, and the outcomes were, shall we say, not quite the narrative Assemblea sells on its website.
If there are genuine, documented human rights concerns, I'd welcome impartial sources from the Supreme Court or the ECHR.
What I'd push back on is treating a political lobby's own press releases as neutral reporting. You should do better than that here, OP.
Or to put it another way: Catalunya (Barcelona and surroundings) is one of 3 Spanish regions that want to break away from Spain, not counting overseas territories. And yes, the population really wants this: there was a referendum and the outcome was: 92% want out of Spain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Catalan_independence_refe...
(why? Let's be honest: Catalunya would benefit enormously from independence, but when the economy goes well, as it did from 2001-2007, they're fine. After that the situation worsened again. The situation is simple: Catalunya has a much better economy than Spain and could maintain government spending, whereas being part of Spain, they need to cut social spending)
The Spanish government has violently repressed this, attacked the people, arrested politicians, tried to threaten other EU nations with invasion (yes, seriously, the current government has a few "rough edges", even if I would agree if someone said that any other party would be worse) unless they arrest Catalunya politicians (then did nothing when they told them to go f themselves), and this mostly with the agreement of regular Spaniards.
Given what is happening in the EU (10+ years of slowly but unrelentingly worsening economy) the situation is slowly worsening again.
That referendum result is quite debatable, since the legal situation meant most people against it simply didn't vote. While in the past it was close, nowadays polls strongly suggest a comfortable majority against independence: https://www.democrata.es/politica/39-catalanes-apoya-indepen...
I agree the Rajoy government's handling of this was very problematic, but the rest of this isn't really accurate. And the morals of the economy argument is terrible - the rest of the country needs us, so we should cut them off? The same argument would apply for Barcelona cutting off the rest of Catalunya. It's not a good direction.
You forgot to mention that some of the people behind the catalonian independence movement met with Russians who even offered military support if they went ahead with a proclamation of independency. I think we should all move on from that bizarre situation.
... and the currently in power party in Spain, while they have publicly condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine, also argues passionately against EU sanctions against Russia, and has consistently increased LNG imports from Russia (meaning already years ago, it's not a reaction to the Hormuz situation)
Oh and both are pro-China too. I guess they're trying to open the next huge can of worms preemptively. Why wait?
So, yeah, I doubt Ukraine is happy with either side in this conflict, and Catalunya separatists are a somewhat more desperate than Madrid. Doesn't really change anything about the conflict.
You say the whole point is ending up with a system configured the user's way instead of some celebrity's way, and then you go on to tell us what we are actually allowed to want. That's a bit rich.
Starting from someone else's config and then changing whatever annoys you is making the choice, it just skips the part where you spend a weekend reading about display managers to arrive at the same place. That is what dotfiles have been for since roughly forever.
By your standard, anyone who used archinstall from the official ISO isn't really using Arch either, and I suppose the truly enlightened path is Linux From Scratch, compiled this morning, on hardware you soldered yourself.