The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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I'm convinced IE only lasted so long because Firefox users were absolutely insufferable at first. To the point of having messages and pop-ups on sites saying things like "I see you're using Internet Explorer. Perhaps you'd like to try a modern browser?" or words to that effect.
 
The NixOS Community recently had a troon exodus.
Wasn't NixOS pretty troon-friendly already? I can already see this project failing like Ayo.js, Glimpse and so on. Forking a project because you have beef with the original maintainers just perpetuates the problem of fragmentation in the open-source development sphere. I hate that people fork projects because of ideological motives instead of purely technical ones and how certain people want everything to be political. Dude, fuck off with that noise and let me do my work goddamnit.
 
The NixOS Community recently had a troon exodus. After a brief dilation break, they're back with a spite-fork of the Nix package manager called Lix. Their community standards are basically synonymous with those of a subreddit: be nice to troons and no right wing ideology because it's le bad. I don't see it lasting very long, especially if 43% of their dev team is prone to git commit -m "ACK!".
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As someone whose been meaning to try nix at some point, troons leaving seems like a golden opportunity.
 
Are there any non-Linux distros (not counting macOS or Windows) worth considering as a daily driver?
 
Are there any non-Linux distros (not counting macOS or Windows) worth considering as a daily driver?
Maybe BSD based? if you're asking about alternate operating systems (I'm assuming for desktop purposes) outside of those options, they tend to be not suitable for everyday use.
 
Are there any non-Linux distros (not counting macOS or Windows) worth considering as a daily driver?
If you're really interested in using something like BSD I'd look at the server side of things more than desktop. There isn't much use in the desktop space and you'll largely just be getting a worse experience than Linux. There are actual good use cases for using BSD in servers. Pfsense and TrueNAS are 2 good BSD based projects that you could implement and get real use out of.
 
I actually yearn for a more seamless OS experience, simpler computers that are well documented and graspable and programs that do their one thing well. Modern computing platforms certainly aren't it, and Linux is not quite it but the closest I can realistically get while still using a modern computer.
Best bet is buying that Chinese Longsoon (MIPS derived) processor lol. Have fun with MSS/JSCIB backdoors instead of NSA/FBI/CIA ones.
"Yes your merge request fixes 32 security vulnerabilities and has a 200% efficiency improvement but you are a transphobe so it is rejected"
Ideologically driven? Say it ain't so. I can't wait for a private company to kill off these projects then jack the price up 1000% as a pseudo monopoly when the open source alternative is so bad that it isn't worth considering. I almost believe this to be deliberate.
 
This is probably the closest thing to a starting point for those wanting a desktop based on FreeBSD.

Otherwise I'd dedicate some time building your own FreeBSD from the ground up.
I always thought it was odd using FreeBSD and its variants as a desktop daily driver. I also have built systems specifically for FreeBSD, generally not as desktop systems but as things like routers, mostly before specialized routers and custom firmware were a big thing. I'd generally run these headless with no GUI (other than maybe an X server) or even a monitor.

This was also in the late '90s when most consumer-grade routers pretty much sucked.
 
I always dream of FreeBSD to be my point to retreat to when Linux gets eaten by corpos and rust trannies. Then I see the list of supported hardware and weep.

Also, have this unrelated video.

What's the best os to use as a hypervisor for server VMs?
Are you using the tech forum as your human driven google at this point?
 
What's the best os to use as a hypervisor for server VMs?
Rancher? Proxmox? Plain old Debian with a minimal install and learn to use the virsh or qemu-kvm CLI?

Are you using the tech forum as your human driven google at this point?
It's sad when the worst hate forum on the Internet is more useful than Google.
 
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