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Q: Which distro support more packages? Arch or Debain based?

7:13 AM

Or everywhere?

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8:12 AM

Since there is no apt in arch Linux I m hesitant to use it. Because most package is in either rpm or Deb extension. Is packages of arch Linux lot more than of Debian based distro like Ubuntu?

8:28 AM

@Thijser I'm here and in a few other rooms

Ah so you are everywhere, and I see you are a mod now. Nice!

I've been constantly hungry since I was elected

How's the mod life treating you?

Is this a bug or a feature?

I think it's a feature, mods are supposed to be more likely to help people right?

8:30 AM

I meant the constant hunger

Mods eat questions right?

@Thijser it's really awesome, only slightly disturbing how whatever I touch just blows up

@Thijser I think we eat flag

Flags

Or maybe just flag

I thought the flags served to get the attention of the mods who then eat the question?

@Zanna But I know the feeling of everything blowing up, Monday I blew up the cryptsetup and I still haven't recovered it (and I haven't got the faintest idea how to fix it)

What did you blow up?

@Thijser Oh no. Bad. :(

@Thijser posts, comments...

(if you have any idea how to fix this (or blow it up, your choice: askubuntu.com/questions/1254772/… )

8:44 AM

Whoever starred this is clueless :P

:( at least you edited out my spelling mistakes which is always nice

Thanks for looking

9:03 AM

Hope I correctly discerned which parts should be formatted as code

Good luck with it

I think you did. Thanks!

(I do wish I could just bounty the question already, I doubt it's going to be answered before I can get it a bounty)

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Benny

10:14 AM

@Zanna congratulations on your Moderator :)) it's beautiful and powerful. You deserve it

thanks @Benny :) it's certainly an honour

jokerdino

11:12 AM

@Thijser ) you missed it

@jokerdino thanks ) (sorry for keeping everyone on the edge of their seat waiting for the closing bracket :)

jokerdino

)

Please, think of the children

it's unclear whether a smiley mouth counts as a closing parenthesis

The IAU ban came after the 'redefinition of 'planet' to include the IAU president's mom' incident.

if only we could apply syntax highlighting to chat. That would immediately show whether we are in trouble or not

DankyNanky

12:03 PM

Guys - where do Fedora based questions go? Unix and Linux?

hatmakers?

DankyNanky

@Thijser JFC, no -.-

Anyway isn't Fedora a Linux distribution? So I would go with that

@DankyNanky yes, correct

@Thijser milliners!

does anyone else feel happy when an (admittedly poor) excuse arises to use a word you haven't met for so long you'd almost forgotten you knew it?

It just occurred to me that I don't know whether, when I want to make a parenthetical adjectival phrase that immediately follows an article "a(n)" like my last message, and the first word of my parenthetical adjectival phrase starts with a vowel sound, but the first word after the parenthetical remark does not, I should use "a" or "an"

I mean if I hadn't been rescued there by the convenience of "excuse" starting with a vowel sound, I would have been totally stuck

I see no terdon lurking in the userlist to opine on this urgent matter

12:35 PM

All I can say is whatever makes you happy makes you happy

haha quite

12:50 PM

@Zanna I think you use "an," if I understand what you're describing correctly.

Like, I would write:

> an (admittedly poor) reason

Not:

> a (admittedly poor) reason *

@EliahKagan yes, looks right

you've saved me

There's “A/An” preceding a parenthetical statement, though it's not obvious to me that the reasoning given is correct. (I don't hold the belief that it's incorrect either, I just don't know.)

that's sort of the opposite case, it seems at first glance

Well, in both cases one choses "a" or "an" depending on the phrase that immediately follows it even though that phrase is parenthesized.