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The Netherlands, despite being tiny, has 4 official languages (Dutch, Frisian, Dutch Low-Saxon, and Limburgs). We also used to have a different dialect for each city, so you could hear something else every 10 minutes driving! But only a handfull of dialects are left nowadays.

Everyone in the whole country speaks Dutch (al be it with slightly different accents), so that’s one common everyone has. In the areas with local languages it depends. In Frysia, Frysian is spoken a lot and used in by the local goverment as well. Dutch Low Saxon and Limburgs are in an kinda odd situation. They where dying and only got officially recognised not that long ago, but thr native speakers left are proud and like to preserve. However, it has a weird status where the local goverment isn’t allowed to use it despite being recognised. While it’s spoken in many people in more rural areas, there are also people from those areas who can’t (especially in cities) or who mix the local language and Dutch. What is spoken together depends on whatever both people speak: if it’s the local language they use that, if it’s half/half they use that, else they use Dutch. People who mix or speak a local language might end up teaching their partner some mixed speech too.

Then we also have a lot foreigners who don’t speak Dutch, especially in the bigger cities (like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Den Haag) and villages around them. About half our population is foreign. Due to that, it’s not uncommon for people to switch to use exclusively English despite it not being an official language. However, older Dutch natives don’t always speak English very well, and the more rural the less common English becomes.

We’re quite international oriented here. On top of previous languages listed, almost all Dutch people will learn at least 2 more foreign languages in high school; often French and German. However, those are rarely used unless we need it to talk to a native speaker. Similarily, we learn foreign languages if we’re interested or it’s useful to us. I for example have had some formal education in Japanese and Mandarin during my time in university, and want to learn more Cantonese and maybe Vietnamese as well.

What parents speak to their kids also depends on the combination of languages the parrents speak.

An example of how that works in reality (our first kid is due to be born late November):

I’m Dutch from the area we speak Dutch Low-Saxon, and natively I speak the local language and Dutch (outside of learning both, my dad’s side of the family speaks the local language while my mom’s side speaks Dutch). My partner is Chinese-Vietnamese (his grandma left China for Vietnam) with a Dutch passpoort (1st generation). He speaks some Dutch but it’s limited. We usually speak English, but try to use Dutch as well so he can practice. However, I also use Dutch Low-Saxon words with him (for example “skotteldoekie” instead of the Dutch “vaatddoek”, “siepeltie” instead of “ui”, etc etc).

My partner speaks Vietnamese and Cantonese originally, but while he mixes them with his family he rarely mixes it with Dutch or English. We do use some words, mainly when they’re more specific than their common translation or have none at all. Think a “chi gold” (chi is a measurement unit; 1 chi is roughly 3,75mg) or “lap cheong” (a type of chinese sausage, often translated to simply “Chinese sausage”).

We plan to both speak our local language (Dutch Low-Saxon and Cantonese) to our kid. Since Dutch is used all around they’ll hear that from us too when speaking indirectly, and since we speak English regularily that will be heard as well.

Even the official charging hub goes into a wall socket. It all depends on the adapter used. Oddly enough, even 2 adapters with supposedly the same output can differ, so the difference isn’t that simple. It probably also has to do with the continuity of the output and other such things (the listed output is generally a max, but not always reached continously. That’s why some adapters will charge laptops better than others despite being marketed as the same output). I find Sony products rather picky anyways, my headphones also refuse certain adapters (and I tested 3 different ones).

We don’t have gamestop where I live. Nedgame or Used Products has them somewhat regularily. There are also some smaller lokal retrogaming stores througout the country, which are generally the nicests.

But I don’t think any of them check this thorough to see if they’re real or fake. They filter out the obvious B-brands but the better fakes generally fall trough. It’s always best to go in person and check it yourself. And like said, even then it can be hard to determine at times as even official ones can be rather inconsistent.

If I learned anything, it’s that these things are inconsistent as fuck. I have a few legit ones that wouldn’t pass all these tests either 🫠. For example, they do charge from wall sockets depending on the adapter used to plug them in. The spacing/location of the printed texts are also off sometimes. And I also got them in both 5V/500A and 3.7V/300A (both EU ones).

But they where bought new from reremovedble stores by me or people I knew back in the day, some even came with the console. Definitly legit controllers.

Most of mine are European versions, which also come in many varierities. Half of them I haven’t found documented on sites like VGCollect. One is an American one.

Either way, it makes it hard to judge realness for sure. Other than obvious fakes, I haven’t found a perfect way to tell for sure without tracing back the specific controllers origin. I never opened them up tho, so that might be more clear.

I didn’t mean to say the translation might have said “Kursive”, just that the translators might have mixed that up due to the word existing (al be it rarely used) and being similar. Which as I said, is still horrible translating.

It was just meant as an explanation what might have happened to make them translate it to that, especially if the translators aren’t native speakers. My partner is now learning Dutch and I noticed some study books are full of these kind of bad translations, both in using rarely used words and using simply the wrong words. And to add to that, Americans trying to do Dutch is even worse, especially on TV shows 🥲. Most of the time they feature “Dutch” it’s impossible to know what they’re trying yo say, and if you do understand it still makes no sense in grammar, the words used (and made up), nor the pronounciation. Might be a bit better for German as the language is more popular worldwide and at least you don’t have our “G” sound, but I wonder by how much. So I can totally see even a profesional non-native translator wrongly translating the english “cursive” to “kursiv”.

“Kursive” (with an “e”) technically means the same as “Schreibschrift” (aka handwriting developed for quick penning, generally attached). “Kursiv” (without “e”) in turn means “italic”. But despite being technically correct German it isn’t commonly used.

It’s just like how in Dutch we do also have the word “italiek” for italic fonts, but it’s rare to see it used and we generally use “cursief” (whereas what is called cursive in English is called “schrijfletters” in Dutch). Both are technically correct Dutch, but the first you will pretty much never see used by native speakers.

I guess American shows sometimes find these kind of rare-but-technically-correct words when translating and run with it without realising no one actually uses that word. Which is indeed bad translating.

It also works well for the “new to Linux but interested in it and tech-saffy enough to learn quickly” people. For those it’s an easier and fuller start-up than an install with the archinstall script that they can use right away while learning along the way. It makes it a good beginner distro for die-hard nerds, but I wouldn’t recommend it for those not interested or tech-saffy enough to handle such an approach.

But yeah, I agree the main users are those who like the Archiness but want something that “just works” most of the time. Not necesarrily because they can’t maintain it otherwise, but because they don’t want too. The first group I mentioned can transfer into this one over time, while at other times switching to Arch itself or more thinker-friendly Archbased distros.

That group is relatively big however, big enough to create some market at least. It’s why I still run it on many secundairy devices, less maintaining but keeps working. At the same time I know some who run it on their production machines for that, while thinkinger with Arch on secundary devices. Once they got a setup they like enough and figured it’s exact requirements, they alter Manjaro to it.

I guess something like SteamOS is better for Archi but for nontech-savvy people. I can give it to my niece and she can use it, but due to it being immutable (unless purposely turning that off) and getting updates from Valve she won’t break it easily. That is; OS-wise. While actually running the games tends to “just work” most of the time, the times it doesn’t are too often and the thinkering then needed too complex to make it suitable for that group of people.

I don’t work for Manjaro, so I don’t know more than the public info either. But I guess after all the legal stuff is settled? Last update they where in the final stages of setting up the non-profit. They need to finish that to be able to transfer ownership I’d suppose.

If you check the link I posted (which is the non-discussion thread that explained the situation) it has the updates. Most come from dennis1248. On Matrix he also confirmed those are the latest updates, altrough that was a while back already. I don’t check that Matrix chat that often. So while the owner (Phil) hasn’t replied publicly since, there are updates from the people who started the manifest about what’s happening behind the scenes since.

Last update I know of was the one late June, mentioning nearly finishing all the legal paperwork for setting up the non-profit entity (where they updated us before to take longer than expected due to the complexity of writing legal stuff taking longer than expected).

Outside of what Hamsda said (to which I’ve added some context), the thing with Manjaro is also that it’s target is easy usage which attracts beginners. Now that isn’t bad per se (it was my first distro too, and I still run it on some machines. I’m not a hater) but it does become a thing when those people go to Arch-related spaces (like the Arch forum or the AUR comment section) asking Arch-people for help.

For one, Manjaro isn’t Arch. It may be based on it, but it also has it’s differences. It’s better to ask on the Manjaro forums. Why some Manjaro users go bother the Arch forums I never understood. The Manjaro forum is very helpful, quick to react, and more appropiate. No reason to divert really…

And secondary, Arch is a distro aimed at more advanced users and has a “know the basics, read the documentation, understand it, and try stuff yourself. And if you thén still don’t know you can ask” expectation. Since Manjaro attracts beginners, the questions they ask are often not only about a different distro, but on the level Arch expects you to be able to figure it out yourself making it rather a nuicance (after all, they’re asking beginner questions in a space for advanced users). Manjaro users doing that somewhat regularily gave it a bad reremovedtion.

The “internal struggle” was actually related to the rest and (hopefully) sorted out the other issues.

The tl;dr is that Manjaro was setup as a company with one owner who often didn’t do what he was supposed to and no one else had access to do it. This caused issues like the SSL stuff but also other things. Obviously this made quite some volunteers leave over time, but as the distro itself is actually quite nice also a bunch didn’t want to give up that easily. Those pretty much gave that one person the choice to transfer the distro to a new to-be-made non-profit (leaving only the commercial activities in the company) or they would leave (and likely fork it or something). He agreed and they’re now in the legal process of setting up the non-profit, where important things will not be in the hands of a single person.

So all with all it was a bit messy, but it seems they got it sorted out now. That should also prevent issues like they’ve seen in the past. So with that I wouldn’t recommend against the distro. I still have it on some secundairy systems, where my main one (I need to say this naturally) got switched during the drama to run Arch (btw).

You can read more here: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-2-0-manifesto/186171

I never understood why not. Dressing up “nicely” doesn’t need to be uncomfortable at all. If the clothes fit well and are suitable for the occasion and location you can be comfortable and be dressed nicely.

What I never understood is people going out in pjama’s or sportwear while acting like those are the only comfy clothes in the world and the rest of the people are making themselves have a worse time. Be it at airports/planes or elsewhere. Putting on decent pants take 2 seconds and can be just as comfy, so time and comfort aren’t really much of an excuse. People should invest in good basics for day to day use, you’ll earn it back in daily comfort.

But also, some people simply enjoy looking a certain way. Even for less comfortable clothes, that enjoyment can be bigger than the discomfort making it worth it to them. It’s not always about having a reason.

It depends why I need to use it.

To help someone on their Windows computer with an otherwise unrelated issue? I just help them. Pushing Linux unasked all the time just pushes people away. Better keep it for when that is a relevant answer to their problem.

If my boss decides Linux is no longer an option? I would fiercly contest it, but if that’s to no avail I would seriously consider switching jobs. Even outside worries about loosing sovereignity I simply won’t be very happy working on Windows every day.

I see no reason of this happening at my personal devices. If something doesn’t run on Linux I just don’t use it, same for hardware that’s incompatible with it. Worked well for years now, never felt like I missed out much.