The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Darkholme's Dungeon said:
Does anyone have a better source based distro non-gentoo?
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Meme answers that're still technically valid options... technically being the operative word here:

a) Source Mage. The Git tree still receives active commits, but the website hasn't been touched since 2021 and the forums are basically dead.
b) Crux was the inspiration for Arch Linux back in 2002. They're still alive and kicking, their handbook is seemingly adequate, but they're not 100% source based. I think it's like super tiny official binary packages, and then a community repo that's basically the "AUR" so to speak.
c) Slackware doesn't "really" count because it's basically an all-packages+dependencies-or-nothing distro, and everything comes on the install disc by default. Having said that, Slackbuilds exist as an analogue to the AUR, although far more modest in scope and heavily curated (re: volunteer project run by small team).

The honest answer that you don't wanna hear but I feel compelled to impart unto you:

Skip Linux altogether if you refuse to entertain Gentoo any longer, and run any given BSD project. FreeBSD is the most popular and the one most third-party software developers (FOSS or otherwise) will target, NetBSD can literally run on everything from your desktop PC to your fucking toaster, and OpenBSD is a paranoid "who wants know?!" type of guy's playground with excellent man pages (itself an inheritance of the NetBSD project in all fairness). All the BSDs share code with one another, and all the BSDs have ports trees where you can wuss out and use binary packages like weakling child... or grow hair on your chest and compile from source within the ports tree itself. Yeah, nowhere near as fun as Gentoo's Portage, but very much in line with Unix tradition. Using a BSD also means that your hatred of systemd grows stronger because POSIX is dead and systemd killed it.
 
Dread First said:
Skip Linux altogether if you refuse to entertain Gentoo any longer, and run any given BSD project.
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I already use the BSDs, unfortunately, I am forced to utilize AI and thus more or less stuck on linux in this regard.

To be honest, I'm kinda surprised gentoo relies so heavily on maintainers still and haven't been swept away en masse, given that ebuilds don't change that often, this seems like the perfect tool to shit out with AI automatically, it's not like CI testing isn't mostly automated now.
 
Darkholme's Dungeon said:
Does anyone have a better source based distro non-gentoo? I submitted a set of patches to gentoo for compile failures and got promptly told to fuck off since I told a maint to quit acting like a woman some time back because they got mad on irc for someone clowning on kent overstreet's AI delsuions.
Good job retards, now you get none of my patches. I guess it's finally time to release my own version of gentoo called necktoo and make it GPL + NIGGER

Also anyone have experience with libudev-zero? https://github.com/illiliti/libudev-zero
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my replacement for gentoo (i had the same problem as you) is t2sde. talk to rene, watch him on twitch get involved. its a source based distro that supports way more arches than even gentoo and hes a big time rust hater.
if you want gentoo but with people who actually give a shit check out maraconi os which is a continuation of funtoo. devs for macaroni OS were early adopters of xlibre so that tells you their position compared to gentoo devs which just say "um the code sucks" trying desperately not to say enrico is a nazi.
tbh i found gentoo's patches extremely lackluster especially when i switched to nvidia. i ended up going to artix and foregoing the entire source based stuff just so my computer could work again.
 
acid_ra1n said:
my replacement for gentoo (i had the same problem as you) is t2sde. talk to rene, watch him on twitch get involved. its a source based distro that supports way more arches than even gentoo and hes a big time rust hater.
if you want gentoo but with people who actually give a shit check out maraconi os which is a continuation of funtoo. devs for macaroni OS were early adopters of xlibre so that tells you their position compared to gentoo devs which just say "um the code sucks" trying desperately not to say enrico is a nazi.
tbh i found gentoo's patches extremely lackluster especially when i switched to nvidia. i ended up going to artix and foregoing the entire source based stuff just so my computer could work again.
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The last time I tried t2sde their iso didn't work.
 
Aljam said:
I had a troon set up flakes for me on nixos because it was too hard for me to grasp my head around it. Now they want doggy treats and headpats so I guess I can enable them for tech support. They're now my pet dog I guess.
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You gotta take your new pet dog out back and take care of him like Old Yeller.

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teriyakiburns said:
Once again I am asking you to install MX linux.
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I love me some MX Linux, but it really must be said: their XFCE variant is fucking hideous and retarded for having the taskbar on the left instead of down-centre where it makes the most sense. Oh and that weird Xbox One controller issue where my analogue sticks move my mouse cursor until I make some obscure modifications to a textfile somewhere in some place.
 
Dread First said:
their XFCE variant is fucking hideous and retarded for having the taskbar on the left instead of down-centre where it makes the most sense.
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Does no one understand that they the user can customize these things?
Not picking on you, but the number of "Oh, the colors are ugly" etc. is way too high.
 
DavidS877 said:
Does no one understand that they the user can customize these things?
Not picking on you, but the number of "Oh, the colors are ugly" etc. is way too high.
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Presentation is key. If the system is hideous, you can expect it to contain a lot of stupid configuration quirks that you’ll have to spend a lot of time finding and fixing.
 
DavidS877 said:
Does no one understand that they the user can customize these things?
Not picking on you, but the number of "Oh, the colors are ugly" etc. is way too high.
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The XFCE panel fix is easy enough to come by. The Xbox One controller analogue stick mouse pointer issue is wholly unique to MX; never once had it on Arch, Artix, Mint, antiX, let alone Fedora or mainline Ubuntu. MX Linux, for whatever reason, has an utterly retarded fucking default configuration that somehow requires me to create a 50-joystick.conf file (or something like that) and shove that into an obscure /etc/ subdirectory *just* to avoid unnecessary mouse cursor movement from a peripheral that should've never had access in the first place.
 
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