eos is as close to vanilla arch as you can get while still being plug-and-play, basically. they have a remote for all their own stuff and if you remove that from pacman, you're running normal arch. the main thing that's different is they ship with common-sense configs and a graphical installer. no manjaro-like "kernel update service".
it's honestly perfectly stable. if you're worried about things breaking when the kernel updates, run a LTS kernel.
telling people how much money i make. i want everyone at my job to be aware of any inconsistent salary payments so they can use it to ask for adjustments.
i'm saying i don't understand the reply in the context of what i wrote. it may be a difference in terminology, but when i said "balance reactions" i was talking purely about on paper. we got a bunch of formulas and were to fill in the result like a multiplication table. i don't know if i've ever had to do that in practice. labs were always just "n moles of chemical a, n moles of chemical b, observe the precipitation" over and over again. it was only years after school that i realized that precipitation occurs when a solution is saturated.
my first chemistry lab (like actual chemistry, rather than as part of the "sciences" subject) involved us mixing three components we were not given the names of in a test tube, then we would go out to the school yard and while we were holding the test tubes with tongs the teacher shoved a match into each of them to show the efficacy of the black powder we had just unknowingly made. there was so much glass everywhere.
like, it was cool, but i don't think anybody learned anything from that other than how to make black powder, which i imagine most people with a dad learn at one point or another.
it's a deep pull, but it has to go to Eric the Half a Bee. it's just permanently lodged in my mind.