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jollyrogue @ jollyrogue @lemmy.ml
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Fuck it, give me your most OVERRATED Distros

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  • The kernel isn’t, but distros, as people think of Linux, kind of are package management projects.

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  • Gentoo installs are able to be maintained.

    LFS not so much.

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  • It’s everything after the install I don’t have time for. The install is the easy part. 😆

    There are distros which are semi-rolling (Fedora) or rolling (Tumbleweed) which make it easy to maintain the install without lots of configuration.

    • Hello, I’m going to be getting a new computer soon and have thought about linux. Questions inside

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  • Yeah, they’re installing software.

    Everything below / is the OS. There isn’t an analog to C:\Windows in *nix-like operating systems.

    The closest thing to a pure separation would be an immutable distro like Silverblue or MicroOS.

    • Fuck it, give me your most OVERRATED Distros

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  • My list overrated list additions:

    • Ubuntu: They break shit, it’s half baked, snaps, and Canonical is really into vendor lock in.
    • Arch: I really have better things to do then baby sit my install.
    • RHEL: Containers were created for reasons, and one of them was RHEL.
    • Any Linux without systemd or glibc: Mistakes were made, and then different mistakes were made trying to prove systemd made mistakes. Musl based Linux distros are going to have compatibility problems, so I might as well run a different OS. The BSDs are *nix-like systems without glibc with a history and larger communities.

    • Fuck it, give me your most OVERRATED Distros

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  • Gotta appreciate the pettiness of this. 😆

    • Who said mitch doesn't snort high quality blow of 2 Mexican hookers asscheeks on the hotel next to taco bell every tuesday afternoon?

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  • What did Taco Bell do to catch a stray like that?

    • Why does Linux run so well on ARM

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  • Since the OP specified server hardware, probably not. RH said RHEL wasn’t going to support anything which didn’t use UEFI to boot, and Arm specified UEFI in their ServerReady hardware certification.

    • Rare, flesh-eating bacteria has killed 5 in Tampa Bay area since January

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  • Go bacteria, go!

    • SUSE To Be Taken Private By Its Largest Shareholder

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  • That’s a good question, and who is the mysterious 3rd party SUSE is going to be merged with?

    Debian is looking better and better everyday.

    • Cool cool cool

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  • The socks he’s talking about are expensive too. Like $20 a pair.

    I’m buying 6 pairs for, maybe, $20, so yeah, wool socks are a luxury item.

    • A video by The Linux Cast on the debian website and how it needs to be more user friendly.

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  • Sometimes, yeah. There are a lot shit networks out there.

    With the full, I can at least get a functioning base system without needing a network connection. With the net, network no worky, no Debian.

    • Touch screens on linux?

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  • The touchscreen on my Thinkpad P1 gen4 with Fedora works well.

    I don’t particularly use it, but it worked out of the box when I was testing it after I got it.

    • A video by The Linux Cast on the debian website and how it needs to be more user friendly.

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  • And a working network connection. That’s not crap.

    That’s ALL you need. 😆

    • A video by The Linux Cast on the debian website and how it needs to be more user friendly.

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  • They’re spot on. I had this thought last week while trying to find an ISO. It’s like it’s a state secret or something. 😆

    Fedora, OpenSuse, Arch, Gentoo, Kali, and Armbian all make it easy to find an ISO or image to get started. The free RHEL downloads are the only thing more hidden then Debian downloads.

    • A video by The Linux Cast on the debian website and how it needs to be more user friendly.

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  • If they can find the ISO to download. 😆

    Every time I download the Debian ISO there is at least 1 “Why is this so hard?” thought.

    • Overpriced sauce, open recipe for sauce [Rule]

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  • No judgements here if it is for personal use. This is a safe space.

    • What is your preferred daily driver distribution?

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  • This is the best answer. It’s the most comparable to Fedora with it’s semi-rolling releases.

    • What exactly does systemd do?

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  • Why should you care? Tech diversity is good, and people can try out different approaches. Aside from that, there’s not a reason. Systemd is a really good desktop init.

    What is init freedom? It means the init system can be changed without other software breaking because there is a dependency on some functionality of the init. In this case, a dependency on systemd. Although it’s probably a dependency on a subproject under the systemd umbrella rather then systemd itself.

    Why systemd? It’s tailored to weirdnesses in the Linux kernel. The Linux kernel isn’t perfect, and it’s user land isn’t tied to the kernel. Systemd is a shim which papers over the oddities. I don’t remember which oddities, but they’re there and people ignore them.

    Were there dumb decisions made? Yes, especially for the server side. I should test out some other inits for servers, but it ultimately works fine.

    • What is the best file format for configuration file?

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  • UCL and HCL are interesting, but YAML is more widely supported.