Tootfinder

I need another laptop just to play around with systems and distros that I've never used or haven't used in many years. Gentoo, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Slackware, FreeBSD...

@… Mint is great. I've tested a bunch of distros, and Mint is always the one I come back to.

Systemd ate everything because they have developers working on it and addressing issues. And they do it all under a single flag, the project called systemd.
I don't understand the hate.
It's just software, that is pretty useful. It's useful for distros, because it's well supported and works well.
It's useful for developers because it provides quite a lot of useful and stable tools to create logging and services, that are much more flexible and stable than …

I love how, on most Linux distros, you can just do an update and upgrade despite not having touched them for a long time, and you just wait for a little bit, potentially optionally reboot, and there are no nags or new things someone wants to sell you or settings that have changed back to vendor defaults. You just get on with what you wanted to do with shiny, freshly-updated software.
Arch-based distros have been the exception from the experience above for me, but I guess that’s the co…

The arch wiki, https://wiki.archlinux.org has got to be one of the best open source documentation resources; detailed with examples on most admin commands, and mostly applicable to all distros not just to arch (with minor tweaking). And I don't even use Arch!

""[…] There is only one correct metric that should be counted when dealing with software, and that is the user's cognitive load. […] If my Windows/Python/Notepad setup is more ubiquitous, understandable, intuitive and replicable than your obscure Arch/Hyprland build with its hundred painstakingly typed-out customizations for every single software in it, then my setup is better and more minimalist than yours. Full stop. […]""

Anyone know of good lightweight Linux distros for #RaspberryPi?
Was trying to repurpose one of my Pies today...
The official Raspberry Pi OS runs some "cloud" services and has Raspberry Pi Connect installed by default.
Not enthusiastic to wait and see the next level of enshitiffication, so looked for an alternative.
Tried

So i've installed #CachyOS on my main PC and must say that it feels really great. After over a decade on #Ubuntu and/or #Debian based distros,

@… Sure it is. Just set up a dual boot. Don't know about LUKS, but if you have two (or more) partitions you should be able to partition each of them. I've got two Linux distros on one of my laptops.

Cleaning those YT channels gives great satisfaction. The takeout was imported into NewPipe and will be into Freetube. Only the ones that consistently add value are left. If you apply that rule onto Linux vids hardly any are left. If you apply that rule also to the OS's, distros, spins what have you, you'll also be left with hardly any. Good thing.

»FreeBSD kurz vor 15.0 — Vertrauen ist gut, Reproduzierbarkeit ist besser:
Für das im Dezember kommende FreeBSD 15 haben die Entwickler Zero-Trust Builds und Reproducible Builds implementiert.«
Spannend und gut davon zu wissen und ich hoffe, dass die anderen *BSD's so wie Linux Distros dies nun auch umsetzen werden (wenn die es nicht schon tun).
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FreeBSD kurz vor 15.0: Vertrauen ist gut, Reproduzierbarkeit ist besser
Für das im Dezember kommende FreeBSD 15 haben die Entwickler Zero-Trust Builds und Reproducible Builds implementiert.

'debootstrap' is one of my favourite parts of debian - and you can use it from other distros as well! It lets you setup a debian install in a directory for use with a container/chroot/etc .
My most recent two uses are 1) Building up a new debian install on an existing machine running a different distro in an LVM LV on the running system and configoring it, ready to go on reboot 2) Installing a very old debian chroot for some testing.

I find it fascinating that the many different Linux distros (generally distributed for free) have resulted in the "survival of the fittest"-mechanism that capitalism was supposed to provide while Windows and macOS have stagnated or deteriorated. The top tier distros make it almost impossible to choose just one and stick with it because they are awesome in different ways.
Sure, you can always find edge cases where people run into problems, but that's also the case for the …

@… Mint Cinnamon. It just works and it is relatively light on resources. It also can configured in a variety of ways, perhaps not as much as some distros, but enough for me.

@… Zorin is good. I've tried a bunch of distros, but I always come back to Mint.

#Meme #Memes #Debian #Ubuntu

@… I haven't used FydeOS, but I've got a Surface Pro 3 that has run a few Linux distros. Right now I'm using Mint. Works quite well. If you do a search using your favorite search engine, you'll find lots of stories as to how to do this. Fyde looks too limited to me.