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I have broken and repaired many distros in the past and most package managers were able to handle it.

This is why I always keep the last 3 installed package versions around.

In Arch based distros you have to install downgrade. Idk why it doesn’t come with the base pacman tools, as it can seriously save your ass.

The most resilient package manager I found to be dnf. I once messed up an upgrade from Fedora 20 to 21 or something and many packages were 20, some were 21 and some were rawhide. Boy did I think I needed to fix this manually. I fixed the misconfiguration, made internet available in a root shell and dnf magically repaired every dependency hell I found myself in.

Fedora is now my work desktop and Arch with snapper runs on my personal devices.

Immutable distros or things like NixOS seem fine if idiots need to use them. However, I’m not an idiot and usually don’t give idiots root rights.

If you want your system simply to work and never customise it beyond what the maintainers thought out for you, NixOS and Silverblue etc. might be cool. But for me there always was a point where I had to do hours of work thinking “good Lord Linus the Creator, this would be so much easier with a regular distro”.

Went so far to ragequit NixOS three times now and everyone who uses it nowadays gets the same look as these weaboo Arch supremacists way back when. Maybe NixOS is good in 10 years but at the current rate, I’d just burn the project honestly. So wasteful, both for the environment and man hours.

Why would it be not the year of the Linux desktop?

For me the year of the Linux desktop has been every year since 2007.

There probably would to be a kernel API to check for anticheat measures. Even then, the OS being FOSS means that you can easily create rootkits, obviously. So secure boot etc will also be a requirement for Linux anticheat.

The real issue is devs not wanting to pay for hosting server side anticheat. I’d much rather have Valve convince them VAC is a good idea than to have them use intrusive anticheat measures or make Linux worse.

Have you seen comparisons between SteamOS and CachyOS? Since we established Bazzite is probably inferior on the Steam Deck when I only want to play games, I wonder if I’d gain anything with CachyOS, which seems to be more like the Arch I usually use.

Got it, thank you.

I don’t have any device, I specifically own a Steam deck and if that’s the main benefit, I probably don’t want it on my other devices (I use Arch, btw).

Should’ve added “on the Steam Deck” in the first place, sorry 😅

What does it do better than SteamOS on the Steam Deck itself?

Genuinely asking as I didn’t really see any need to switch even as the compulsive tinkerer that I am…

Weird way of spelling “Donald Trump”, was it autocorrect?

Ah, so lots of pedos started using Linux? That’ll bring some donation money, I guess.

I push them to Git, secrets are masked with Mozilla SOPS.

Vi is unintuitive and annoying to me. Others can use whatever they want but I can’t stand people who tell others they’re wrong for not preferring vi.

I use micro in my console, or rather terminal. Why wouldn’t it work over telnet when it works via SSH?

Every time I do not have to use vi as editor I’m glad there’s CUA editors like micro which I don’t need my three year computer science degree for.

Countless FOSS maintainers have lamented that millions of users use their software and nobody donates. (Lib)Curl for example is used in countless applications, basically all of them used by huge corporations, and they get flooded with bug reports for software they don’t even maintain, AI slop merge requests and pennies in donations (excuse the hyperbole).

The lead dev of curl has some funnysad stories to tell: @bagder@mastodon.social 💔🫶

Exactly! That would make all Linux users miserable and paradoxically more users would probably mean a worse experience for those additional users aswell.

I did not say I don’t want more Linux users. I just don’t want them all to switch at once and make it unbearable for “community support” to help each other and improve the ecosystem.

When everyone switches to desktop (!) Linux all of a sudden, it will make both the current users’ lives and the new users’ lives worse as the community can’t handle such a huge influx.

Organic growth is fine. You don’t need to market Linux to the masses, as that would only lead to enshittification.

I’d rather have Linux be imperfect and rough around the edges, but with sustainable, positive growth, than have everyone use Linux and flood bug trackers with so much work that maintainers give up and move to less demanding hobbies. Then the companies would take over and well, we know how it ends (see Windows 11).

The more people that use linux the more donations it gets from people

I don’t know if that’s true.

Also if you think linux is so awesome isn’t it nice to other people to share that awesomeness with them?

Sure, but I won’t force it onto them. They can choose to use it.

Do you know what consent is?

Good.

Why should I care? Linux has enough users as it is, development is sustainable. I don’t want all users to switch at once because that would flood forums with noobs asking silly questions.

It’s their loss if they don’t use Linux. Why should I encourage them to do so? Just to have some shitty Electron apps more which I don’t use?

It’s much more painful for me that the places I work at don’t use Linux. They won’t be swayed by such an article anyway.

Krita can do some vector stuff, but you’re right, it’s better suited for raster workflows. Inkscape would be the Illustrator equivalent.

Kate, Geany and Micro are already pretty good.

I’d argue that they’re even better than Notepad++. There’s certainly no shortage of editors on Linux…

You didn’t explain anything, this is not a Linux post and I don’t even remotely understand the question. Downvoted and reported, sorry.

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