I’d just like to interject for a moment…
Yeah admittedly when i was still using Arch at the time i never read the PKGBUILD. For one i was still more of a newb who didn’t understand the PKGBUILD files yet, but it also didn’t seem to be as much of a problem back then (this was like 5 years ago or something). I don’t use Arch or the AUR anymore now though.
You run the same risks downloading torrents of games or porn on whatever OS you use. This isn’t really linux related, it’s related to downloading unverified files uploaded by random people online, which is what the aur basically is.
Linux took off around the same time that BSD was involved in a lawsuit, which halted the project while linux kept going with its development, atleast that’s what i’ve seen in youtube videos about it. I’ve looked at the BSD systems a while back out of curiousity, and while i haven’t actually tried installing it on hardware to make sure, from my research none of my devices is actually supported in terms of hardware. Meanwhile Linux worked fine for everything. Both are also opensource, so there’s not much of a reason for me to try and wrestle with BSD when Linux does the job. BSD might be worth it for some server usecases (because like you said, security), or if you feel really strongly about it idealogically one way or the other (maybe you prefer more permissive licenses, or the fact that BSD is one unified system with it’s kernel and coreutils being part of the same project).
Edit: something else i didn’t mention is that Linux has some specific cool things going for it, like Nix and Guix/declarative systems. I don’t think BSD really has a declarative approach like that available, and i’m a big fan of it.
I think what he’s saying is that there might be more options coming for stacking compositors (if they haven’t been created already) since the new River framework makes it easier to create them
Instead of downvoting me, maybe you could be more clear about what you want, and not take it out on the messenger if it turns out the exact thing you want doesn’t exist lol. Build it yourself i guess.
If i have to pick one i’d say River. I have a bunch of tiling compositors configured but find myself coming back to River the most. It feels stable, it’s minimal, but still supports the wayland protocols you’d want to be there, and is fairly simple to configure with its shell script config file.
That must be it then, in that case i was talking out of my ass lol. From what i remember Void linux doesn’t mention selinux at all in the handbook. Now i’m using Guix and decided to check the documentation, they do support it but it has limitations it seems. Never bothered to look into selinux when i was still on systemd distros, so i mistakenly assumed it had something to do with that.
So it does work fully on distros without systemd? The distros i’ve tried so far either have no support or limited support, so i assumed it to have something to do with lack of systemd. They usually rely on apparmor instead.
Never used it, but i think that’s also because it doesn’t work on distros without systemd. So i guess that’s a reason to dislike it?
Might have to look into that! As i was looking up capitaine again i found out that there’s a fork with some cool colorschemes like gruvbox, which i really like the look of as well.
That’s interesting, i guess i’m the old fashioned type then cause i’m the reverse of that. Cursors without a tail always look off to me. It’s why i never liked things like bibata eventhough it seems to be pretty popular.
Phinger Cursors, was using Capitaine Cursors before that but i didn’t like that the pre-built binaries were hosted on pling, or atleast i couldn’t figure out how to get the actual download url from there for the sake of packaging, and building from source takes so long, so i ended up looking for something that had pre-builts hosted elsewhere.
Awesome, i was actually looking at the releases like a week ago or something cause i was interested in seeing other tiling compositors except hyprland that have hdr support. Sway was the only one i could find but you had to use a git build since it wasn’t part of a release yet.
I hate to break it to you, but pretty much every distro does this, except maybe a manual chroot install like arch
I actually didn’t know this was a thing. I doubt i’d be interested in using it though. I wouldn’t be surprised if this kinda goes the way of snap where pretty much only deepin is going to be using this on their distro. I’m personally sold on the nix/guix way of doing things, but i understand that’s not for everyone. In the rare instance that i can’t get something to work through guix or nix i like using flatpaks mainly because they work on these distros without fhs-related issues. With appimages for example they often won’t run because, eventhough they claim to be portable, they do actually rely on some things being installed on your system.
I started out with evil mode, but got kinda frustrated with it at times because i was coming from helix, which does some things differently from vim. There is a helix-mode package but it’s pretty new and could use some polish. So now i’m actually using the native emacs binds. It’s not so bad when you use the inside of your pinky knuckle to press control, that way your fingers don’t leave the home row.
I started using emacs a while back. Before that i was using helix. If i need to make a quick edit in the tty i still find myself going back to nano. I’ve never been in a situation where i could only use vim. If i ever am though, i would know my way around.
This was to be expected i guess
I like it because even when i was still using windows i would always snap two windows next to each other, the tiling window manager takes care of that for me so the only thing i have to do now is just open my apps. That’s what got me into it initially, but now i also really like the keyboard driven workflow, and try to get as many parts of my system controllable with the keyboard as possible.
How is finding vulnerabilities and patching them enshittification?
I’m not sure how much of a difference it would make in terms of resource usages to ditch systemd, but what i can say is that Void is a great distro. Runit boots blazingly fast, xbps is probably no joke the fastest package manager i’ve ever used, but also very robust and can handle very outdated systems just fine. I’ve never tried Devuan so i don’t have an opinion on it.