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Another win for Gentoo users ig.
The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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One of the benefits of having to compile your own packages is that everyone gets pissy when someone pushes shitty code to the repository that needs to be patched multiple times.
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>Windows predictably undergoes death-by-jeet
>As soon as Linux finally gains traction and mainstream appeal, FOSS trannies and industry plants hit the "government compliance" button in response to governmental tyranny
>mfw when I switched to Mint a few months ago and realize I have hundreds of Gigs worth of personal projects to move over to a new distro if they cuck out too
I just want to game and program dumb shit in peace man. Am I right to anticipate that Artix/Arch-based OS will be a pain to set up properly, or am I just getting spooked over nothing?
>As soon as Linux finally gains traction and mainstream appeal, FOSS trannies and industry plants hit the "government compliance" button in response to governmental tyranny
>mfw when I switched to Mint a few months ago and realize I have hundreds of Gigs worth of personal projects to move over to a new distro if they cuck out too
I just want to game and program dumb shit in peace man. Am I right to anticipate that Artix/Arch-based OS will be a pain to set up properly, or am I just getting spooked over nothing?
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Artix has the community ISO images and the minimal graphical ones have GUI installers.
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Ask yourself the question "How many times do I make or manage systemd services" if the answer is not a lot, your going to be fine. Just about only issues i've had regarding systemd -> openrc was having to enable pipewire services.
Just check if a package your installing has a service file (they are kept separate for the multiple different init systems) and install it, pacman will tell you what you need to type in after the fact.
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Linux Mint has traditionally forked when things got really fucked up. They forked apt a while back and their Captain is actually quite nice. I'd wait and see, but it wouldn't hurt to set up a practice install of artix to see what it's like. I've tried a couple times but I'm not really as low level tech savvy as I pretend to be and had an immediate revulsion to artix, but a lot of people really like it.
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They got tired of waiting for the Year of Linux on the Desktop and decided to kickstart Year of Linux in the Cuckshed
jeanblunt
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Just as a note, it seems in order to deal with the issue of having several different types of operating systems under the Linux umbrella, they are implementing age verification into systemd.
Here is the pull request for SystemD. If your on a operating system with systemd, your fucked.
github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954
It seems efforts are also being taken to do the same to dbus and xdg-desktop-portal.
Here is a site with all the stuff on the bills and actions taken.
Ageless Linux will remove this.
Just make sure your system is compatible before you do anything. I use Arch and Endeavor. Endeavor is easy to setup and maintain. Arch is easy to maintain hard to setup unless you use like archinstall. Maintaining isn't bad either just make sure to update. I update at least once or twice a week. If something breaks and needs manual fixing, check the wiki; its most likely there.
Arch is not Gentoo or Slackware that are difficult to use and setup.
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Void is good, I’ve been using it for a while now and I have pretty much only good things to say. XBPS is mildly confusing at first, but once you get the hang of it I feel the extra features are pretty nice. While it is rolling release, it is less bleeding edge than Arch, although running Manjaro means you’re already going to be somewhat behind where Arch is at so there’s probably less of a difference there. Runit is really simple, it leans a lot on Unix features so adding/removing daemons is done via symlinks rather than some command line utility. This means you can only manage them as root, which is probably not a bad thing.
Personally, I use the musl variant which I don’t recommend unless you’re autistic. You won’t be able to easily run binaries from other distros or install some packages that glibc-void supports.
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This is the guys website that forked systemd to have the userdb in it
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Everyone in Washington except Rand Paul and Thomas Massie pretty much is in favor of age verification and dumb protectionist measures like this law against Chinese Wi-Fi routers.
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Is there even a way to make "I made this only to put it on my resume, I don't even own the server 'my' website runs on" sound any more gay?
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I will point out that he didn't fork systemd. This is entirely 100% consistent with the purpose of systemd (making Linux less useful). With full approval from Lennart Poettring, the Malevolent Child Brothel Overseer For Life of systemd, who doesn't just support your browser broadcasting age bands but even your full date of birth.
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Snaps are obviously Canonical canceraids (that recently had a privilege escalation vulnerability) but why are flatpaks that bad? I like the concept of them sandboxing programs to specific directories out of the box instead of having to config firejail and they are relatively easy to install. The only issues I have personally had are the PrismMC troons pushing PolyMC, an OSS Minecraft launcher off flathub for being a hecking *phobic chud and gtk/qt applications not always following my system icon/toolbar/etc themes.
50% of the time they work 100% of the time!
Crosspost from the 3D printing thread (Thanks MrJokerRager), every single gun control group in California has supported the bill to ban 3D printers with firmware that does not block gun printing on a hardware level. Enjoy your always online printer with hardware level encryption stalker child. This opens the door to blocking prints that infringe on brand copyright. Theoretically it starts with funkos and marvel shit being blocked on a hardware level, then it moves to printable repair components for appliances as "it could be dangerous" or "is not authorized in the EULA". Bambu has already agreed to remove any "labubu" models on their print sharing site makerworld after a lawsuit from "popmart". (Makerworld had 10m active monthly users in 2025)
Its actually fucking joever for anyone who uses anything outside of facebook, xitter and tiktok. The speed at which the evil coalition between technocrat troons happily enforcing CoC violations, lawmakers pushing Save the Kid laws and big tech wanting more Know Your Customer laws so they can better sell ads is insane.
Legitimately how do you actually beat these deeply embedded malevolent forces. Move to a cabin in the woods and write your own OS in Holy C? Prepare for a Chinese Century? Rise the ranks to become a Discord moderator and play nice with the Orwellian CoC enforcement team? None of these options sound fun.
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Require a root level daemon. Auto update(can be disabled).
I prefer appimage, I toss them on my file server and can just run ~/nfs/apps/kicad.appimage without any install on any system on my network.
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"FUSE everything" & "portal everything" and their consequences have been a disaster for the linux desktop. xdg-apps brought way, way too many absurdly convoluted paradigms that the folx at nu-freedesktop.turd aren't really up for the task of maintaining. I still use them when appropriate, but it's such a mess. And flatpak's own package manager has to be the only one I've ever interacted with that will produce contradictory output and get itself into an irreparable mess you need to wipe way too much of its inner workings to get working again.
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Yes. FUSE performance is so bad it's infuriating.