Drito

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Drito,

This is unrealistic. Read everything represents too much work.

Drito,

If you want stability you can choose Xfce. You’ll don’t need extensions because of easy configurability.

Drito,

Is Guix a cleaner base for a NixOS alternative ?

Drito,

Maybe MX attracts people who just want to use their computer easily. They are not interested in talking about their OS on the web.

Drito,

I installed Arch on a disk without erasing the /home partition that cames from a previous distro. It saves me some config work, and a bit of disk life expectancy I guess.

Drito,

I don’t use KDE but I suppose the click is detected on button release, not during the press. It should adress all these questions.

Drito,

4 month ago is not that bad for such a small project. Eww looks more active, but I don’t have the patience to learn how to create a menu. Its way too DIY for me.

Drito,

There is a pacman command that prints the list of all packages installed by users. I don’t remenber the command sorry but you’ll find that here:

wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks

Its probably “pacman -Qe”.

Then it should be easy to create a script that install all that automaticcally. If your are cautious you should have a backup of your home anyway on some storage device .

Drito,

These tentacular megacorporations are a problem. Amazon is OK as a merchant, MS as an OS developer, Google as a search engine… If they do vertical integration the market is corrupted.

Drito,

This is useful for proprietary software.

What's the difference between package manager and why are there so many?

Are they so different that it’s justified to have so many different distributions? So far I guess that different package manager are the reason that divides the linux community. One may be on KDE and one on GNOME but they can use each other’s packages but usually you are bound to one manager

Drito,

Some differences can be explained. Pacman was created after the Debian package manager (I guess that because Debian is older than Arch) . It is justified because Pacman is faster than Apt. But its too much work to replace Apt by Pacman comparing to the benefits.

But in some cases I don’t know why. As instance I wonder why a distro, such as Void, created its own package manager instead of using the Alpine one. If Alpine is younger than Void, invert the sentence of course.

[Question] Which shell prompt do you use and why?

Hi. I’ve been using powerlevel10k for a long time, but a few days ago, I decided I wanted to customize it a bit. I opened the .p10k.zsh file, and I was shocked. It’s really massive, with TONS of options. I’ve been digging through for a few hours already, and it’s absolutely amazing how much you can customize it without...

Drito,

I customize the shell prompt in the PS1 variable. Its unpleasant to work with that unreadable language, but I do that once for years and I reuse it across distros.

Drito,

The logo is cool. Also it is not driven by Google which is a web company and a browser developer at the same, thats dangerous.

Drito, (edited )

We need another display system. Something more dev friendly and more desktop agnostic.

I seems Wlroots is designed to be server agnostic (despite the name), if it is bound to a new display server many apps should be available.

Drito,

The PS3 is not crazy, but has an exotic hardware that optionnally runs Linux.

Drito,

Xfce is the Linux I appreciate. Its not made heavy for some opinionated features addition and setups are exposed to users.

There is also a place for DEs that are more opinionated and polished out of the box, its fine. But I’m glad composable things such as Xfce still exists.

Drito, (edited )

For a desktop user I don’t see any significant benefits to replace systemd. But also no-systemd distros works fine. I was impressed during my try on Alpine Linux, that uses openrc instead. The text printing during OS startup is so short that the terminal didn’t scroll. The bluetooth worked flawlessly. But it is a small community distro, and Alpine is limited by other things than the init system. The init system is a problem for people that have to deal with services.

On political aspects, IMO FOSS works easier with small and focused components that can survive with spare time developers. I can’t make critisicms on technical aspect, I’m not a good programmer, I just notice systemd seems to works fine. Red hat has man-power and capable of large contributions to Linux distros so they leads the innovations. All big distros switched to systemd, now its hard to avoid.

I would like to support smaller FOSS-friendly systems but I use Arch because I need recent versions and the anti-systemd arch-forks are harder to use. I’m a weak guy.

In short, as an user you should be fine by keeping normal Debian. If for political reasons you want a no systemd distro, the easiest is to use MX Linux with the default init.

Drito,

Mint works and you can recommend it, but it is a mess with its two versions. The “normal” version is based on Ubuntu, but Ubuntu is already an user friendly distro. Mint also has LMDE version, it makes more sense because directly based on a “rough” Debian, but it seems less popular.

Why do people still recommend Thinkpads for Linux when there are Linux-oriented manufacturers now?

I’ve noticed in the Linux community whenever someone asks for a recommendation on a laptop that runs Linux the answer is always “Get a Thinkpad” yet Lenovo doesn’t seem to be a big Linux contributor or ally. There’s also at least six Linux/FOSS-oriented computer manufacturers now:...

Drito,

15 years ago I would have been surprised to hear that Thinkpads are cheap laptops !

Drito,

Xfce reminds me how bad are modern softwares.

Xfce keeps an old design and the result is more flexible and fast than modern DEs. Whats wrong with nowadays developers ?

Drito,

“Linux” is owned by Linus Torvalds. Can he ask this foundation to change its name ?

Drito, (edited )

Vivarium

Please don’t blame the lack of popularity, Vivarium works and its feature complete. The dev answers to the recent github issues.

i3-like WMs are underfeatured and Hyprland is less minimal than Vivarium.

Drito,

How the hell many people installs Void without problems. I tried two times and I always had wierds behaviours that makes me going back to arch.

Drito,

I tried Alpine for a desktop installation. The package manager has surprisingly decent package set. And the performance is the best I found, for some reason applications starts faster. But I had to stop the experience because websites thats includes widevine didn’t work. Its sad to say, but many softwares relies on non-standard glibc shit. With glibc instead of musl Alpine can be simply the best distro. If musl is not faster that glibc I don’t think glibc will make Alpine slower.

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