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  • Have you ever been disappointed with Linux?

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  • I get it with Canonical and Red Hat, but why Linus? What is he doing recently?

  • Have you ever been disappointed with Linux?

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  • postmarketOS, LineageOS, GrapheneOS?

    I know they have limited hardware support but that's only a matter of involvement at the end of the day

  • Rust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds With Latest Incompatibility

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  • Eliminating some obscure bugs from C code is not worth intruducing a lot of new bugs. GNU coreutils have been used and polished for so long, that it would be far more effective just to fix the issues as they reveal right in the original code. If rewriting removes one kind of bugs while introducing another - then what's the whole point?

    I cannot imagine obviously buggy code from 2020s being more secure than code that has been around since previous century. Again, even if Rust for real is a better solution for security reasons, the way it is being developed and shipped is not how one makes software more secure. Disregarding the license, uutils look like something pursuing hype, not strategical benefits.

  • Rust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds With Latest Incompatibility

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  • Holy crap.

  • Rust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds With Latest Incompatibility

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  • He's talking about Bun being completely rewritten from Zig to Rust by Claude after the project was acquired by Anthropic

  • Void users, what do you especially like about your distro?

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  • Have you tried Artix?

  • Void users, what do you especially like about your distro?

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  • You're both right and not exactly. I use Fedora as my main OS and enjoy it, but I never even try installing it on a secondary cheap laptop. Same but vice versa with Debian. I love Alpine but I never touch it unless I need a container. I could continue forever. I'm still distrohopping, exploring, with the only "but" that I'm not changing my daily main platform.

  • Void users, what do you especially like about your distro?

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  • First of all, it wasn't rejected. Several noticeable distros included it to their repos or began testing. And the reason Void Linux yet hasn't, is that the team isn't sure about Xlibre's longevity.

    I see no reason in cancelling XLibre due to developer's political views. It's free and open source, that's it. Enrico Weigelt gets nothing for working on it. Furthermore, it is good that he's making XLibre. He's doing something safe and useful. He could've become a political bloger or activist and influence minds instead of coding. Now ask yourself, if this would be better than maintaining an obscure fork of a deprecated piece of software, which is hardly going to ever be adopted in security-sensitive environments (because they are on distros with Wayland already).

  • Rust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds With Latest Incompatibility

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  • This can't be legally done with a GNU project, since this is a direct derivation. I also don't know if bun is ok now and if it used to be before.

  • Void users, what do you especially like about your distro?

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  • Why? And what was the point about them rejecting XLibre?

  • Void users, what do you especially like about your distro?

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  • Any articles about this controversy? Just curious.

    I like void cuz its green and alpine is cyan

    Gigachad. /srs

  • Void users, what do you especially like about your distro?

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  • Why not Alpine after all?

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    pixeldaemon @sh.itjust.works

    Void users, what do you especially like about your distro?

  • Rust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds With Latest Incompatibility

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  • Rust-rewriting is a kind of madness. I like Rust, it's an amazing language. But why rewrite programs that existed for decades and have proven their stability and safety? Rewriting them to Rust won't make them safer, it will just introduce the kind of issues original versions have got fixed long ago.

    The MIT license also is a concern. I understand that many projects use it, and we can't just reject them because of the license. But here we don't see an innovation under MIT license - we see a copy of existing GNU tools, with hilarious issues and a corporation-friendly license.

    The fact uutils are being shipped despite being so raw shows that this is not about better software. The whole project is about abolishing GPL. And Rust is just an excuse.

    And the quality level of uutils being already shipped tells they either make free alpha testers for the corpos of the users, or there were no competent programmers to take part in the development.

    C will remain the core of the modern digital world for many years. It is impossible to rewrite everything to Rust in a couple of years. It needs a careful professional approach if we really want this to make software better. But in this case, no one does.

  • Distro Recommendations

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  • Atomic distros are not my cup of tea. They are perfect for certain cases, but, you know, I kind of feel irritated by how often I see people overpraising them. It's like, this is just an option, that is useful in some cases, and useless in other. Why am I sometimes seeing people making a holy grail out of atomics?

  • Ways to switch between DEs on Fedora?

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  • Thanks, how about removing KDE safely afterwards?

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    Ways to switch between DEs on Fedora?

  • Distro Recommendations

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  • Maybe some haters of atomic distros. Never imagined people hating them more than me. But what if not this...

  • Distro Recommendations

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  • Bazzite. Fedora based, "atomic", has nvidia drivers and windows compatibility utilities preinstalled. Atomic means easy rollback after update in case if something breaks, and it probably doesn't expect you to use command line much. It is expecting users to install apps with flatpak so make sure flathub has the software you need (I think it does).

    I have never personally used Bazzite, but atomic distros and namely Bazzite are known to be very user friendly and breakproof.

    Steam Link is available for Linux. I suppose that most Steam-things are.

  • Desktop environments: performance vs modern look

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  • Well, there still is a Cinnamon flavor of Fedora, maybe I'll try it

  • Desktop environments: performance vs modern look

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  • I use Fedora and KDE really sucks here. It is bearable only with minimal options and animations enabled. Only thing keeping me from ditching is that I'll have a long time picking something else that satisfies me, because I want a fancy desktop, but not a sluggish one. Have you seen a DE that features a couple of nice animations and effects and can mimic MacOS, but is lighter than KDE?

    Xfce is just probably better optimized for X11 currently. Most of lightweight DEs probably are, I guess?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    solved

    Backspace key broken when running as root

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Why are some Linux communities so toxic?

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    Desktop environments: performance vs modern look

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Disabling bloatware

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    A proprietary Linux distro

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Screensavers on Wayland

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Any tips on music production on Linux?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    How do I change boot screen and login screen background?

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    X11 vs Wayland

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Does Forgejo's UI customization offer Github-style UI

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Skills to install Gentoo

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Is there any use in learning an "easy" programming language?

  • Cybersecurity @sh.itjust.works
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    Why am I seeing this? How do I know if it is safe to accept?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    How do I get myself to actually do thing?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    To what extent is Vivaldi browser safe and private? Were there any privacy issues encountered?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Do you know any FOSS applications for anonymous chat roulette?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Do you use vim?