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If stability is a spectrum, you've got to admit that Arch is on one end and Debian on the other.

I ran it on multiple devices for like 3 years. It breaks. Updates are stressful, especially if you have horrible internet in a foreign country.

Arch has many benefits, but it's dishonest to call it stable. No amount of relativism will change that.

If you don't do anything crazy, it will be stable, exactly like any other distro

Tell me you haven't used a stable distro without telling me you haven't used a stable distro.

Do you know why Debian, a stable distro, releases noncritical updates every ~2 years? Because they test their packages and make sure grub doesn't release a faulty update and leave your machine in an unbootable state.

Slapping an installation wizard on top of arch doesn't make it a different distro...

Check out if KDE connect works for you. You can launch any scripts you make, and control the input from your phone.

If it does, any stable distro like Debian should work fine for that purpose.

Auto launch depends on the DE

OP posts about how they're annoyed with low effort "I deleted windows" posts, makes a low effort "recommend me a wm" post. You can't make this shit up...

Try them out, find out what you like, ask specific questions when you get stuck on something.

Ever heard of Mojang?

The first time I installed Fedora after like a decade I updated to new minor version -> sudo reboot because I was already in the terminal -> reinstalled because it wouldn't boot anymore

Regarding Vivaldi: Why isn’t Vivaldi browser open-source?

To save anyone else from losing time on this bullshit:

They're scared of their FOSS fork being forked. The rest of the article is just an attempt to make them sympathetic, and muddy the waters. That's why GPL > BSD

A new project based on our code might implement features that are fundamentally in opposition to our ethics (e.g., damaging to privacy, human rights or to the environment). Even though we would not be associated with the project in any way, it can deeply affect how people see Vivaldi (and how we see ourselves), damaging a reputation we have taken pains to earn.

Fuck off

stable

without issues

Arch

Copilot gets trained on Dessalines' essays and becomes a Marxist

Also, can't you just delete posts and comments like on Reddit?

Not really AFAIK. Your comment is spread across many instances, and they're not required to follow your deletion request.

Suse would get more hate if they stopped working with opensuse.

And that doesn't extend to Fedora and free RHEL licences? Or all of the FOSS projects redhat is funding and contributing to? No demerits for Suse helping MS pressure the entire Linux community for over a decade?

Canonical provides their stuff publicly, except for long term support after five years, but that decision does get hate.

You can still get the redhat source code with the free licence, GPL ensures that. You just can't act like Oracle, reskin RHEL, and sell enterprise support for it.

Meanwhile there are businesses that literally don't release any of their improvements to FOSS software because it's running on their servers and so they don't have to. Now that really goes against the core ideology of GPL 2 which is: "I give you my code, you give me your changes".

Publicly traded companies almost always make shitty capitalist decisions. Now, remember that canonical sold user data to Amazon, played ads in the terminal, and that their IPO is still in the works.

No hate for canonical or suse, just redhat?

Don't forget that Ubuntu was the first distro to both sell user data to Amazon, and show you ads in the terminal. But it seems like everyone forgets about it as soon as canonical goes "whoops, our bad, we didn't think you'd mind, it's opt in/out now".

On top of that I've seen allegations that they're illegally collecting data from Azure Ubuntu users to send them spam about Ubuntu enterprise.

sysadmin

Bossmang, I know that we're paying more for RHEL licences than for the entire IT department, but if we switch to Arch we'll cut down the costs significantly.

Gets fired immediately

devops/sre

FROM: ubuntu:24.04

FROM: debian:12.4

Such distro, much hopping

Wait for Arch to slowly grind away at your sanity. One day you will realise that stability is pretty damn important, and the hopping will start once again.

Refer to the xkcd. There's never going to be a single universal standard to unite them all and in light bind them. The best you're going to get is improved support and integration.

That's a far cry from installing everything from one or two places, which I feel like used for be one of the selling points for Linux (years ago).

That's because years ago you had a choice between using the repo or compiling the package yourself.

Now before I install software, I check the website, then I check whether they offer an official flatpak or an rpm package if it's not in the official Fedora repositories, and if they don't, I check if there's an unofficial one on Flathub, which sometimes has implications.

Imagine if Fedora came with software specifically made to install and update software from all of those different sources through a simple and unified gui. That would really streamline that whole ordeal. It could even include a snap backend for masochists.

PS

Wait till you learn about nix and guix

Having options is great and one of the great things about OSS, but I feel like when it comes to "standards" like these, more collaboration instead of reinventing the wheel over and over again would be better.

obligatory xkcd

I don’t understand your second point.

If it's dismissed on one device, it should also be dismissed on the other. Besides that, answering 5 calls shouldn't leave you with 5 "Incoming call" notifications, especially so if you answered them from the watch.

Apparently it does keep track of HR intervals

No, it's either measuring or not, it can't do intervals nor save the data. The gaps you're seeing is just data not getting synced because the screen needs to be active for it to maybe decide to sync at some point when it feels like it.

I think it’s reliable though.

The Osama Casio costs 23$, is also water resistant, the battery lasts ~7 years and can be easily replaced when it runs out, it has a working stopwatch, and a timer that can go for over 24h. Meanwhile with the pinetime you have to chose between risking it dying when you wash your hands, or throwing it away in a few years when the battery dies and you can't replace it. What reliability are you talking about?

I don’t know if there’s other smart watches that do more or cost less that are also open source and similarly usable?

Lilygo ones have a really crappy battery life but the models have a combination of WIFI, IR, LORA, GPS, and mic + speaker. So, they're much better as programmer toys, but even worse as watches.

Banglejs 2 costs about as much as the EU version, but the device is so much better it's not even funny. I'm pretty sure a lot of programmable Aliexpress watches are also running espruino, and it's got community ports for other watches.

TLDR

It's crap, and I'm still salty because the person ordering it for me (of course the EU store won't ship to non-EU European countries) got scammed without checking in with me whether there's something off about paying 3 times as much as what's shown in the link that I sent them...

1. Endeavour is just Arch with an installation wizard and a pretty theme.
2. Definitely don't use nix or guix as an OS if you're making posts like this. They're great as a supplementary package manager, but extremely difficult and convoluted as an OS.
3. I've recently switched from Arch to Nobara after running it for a few years. It's really nice being able to update without the fear of something breaking. I'm just using flatpak and guix for the few packages that are missing from the repos, no AUR needed.
4. Install i3 on top of whatever DE you want, don't look for a specific spin. It's really useful to have tools for stuff like power management. Also, when you break something, you've got a backup.