Eh. They’re actually pretty on top of security patches for pretty much any internet-exposed server software.

The OpenSSL incident was a long time ago at this point.

Always has been. It never made sense to layoff people because of AI, when there's too much work to do, and you can always use the increased productivity to get more work done.

Speak for yourself. I hate going back to old local Pis or servers I haven't updated in years and realize that I'm 2+ releases behind and the one I'm on is already end-of-life.

You're right, he was a jackass long before slop, and has always thought he was cooler than sliced bread

No, it doesn't. I am perfectly capable of maintaining python 2 myself.
Far less work than migrating the entire calibre codebase.

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I surfed a few distros before landing on Debian. It solved (almost) all the issues I had with Linux. Debian for life.

Not only with intervals but also with quite old software. Sometimes software versions are so old that they are no longer compatible with the upstream version. Although, to be honest, I haven't used Debian for so long that I can't even name the applications that lagged behind like that.

In general, Debian is indeed incredibly stable, but if you need to install it on the latest laptop (for example, Intel Core Ultra X9), it will be a real hell.

UPD: except perhaps for using sid. But then you lose the only advantage - stability.

I really need one of these shirts

Installed apps is hard cause they could be from the Play store or from F-Droid or Obtanium or raw APK installs.

Of those, Obtanium let's you export things and import. Some F-Droid clients will do that too, but the stock one will only export -- I don't see a mechanism for import. Play store is usually automatic with their migration feature.

So it sounds less like you want "dotfiles" and more you want a declarative Nix config for Android. Wildly different meanings. And neither really something Android does at all and isn't built around. It'd be like trying to turn an average Ubuntu install with some third-party DEBs sans sources into Nix, except half your apps store their info in Root somehow and you don't have root access.

This is why stuff like Titanium Backup exists. Fundamentally, this is an X-Y problem presented -- the assumption your stated method (Nixification and system settings) is the means to achieving an ends (backup you can transfer around, or to wipe of the same device).

Unless Nixification itself is the sole goal for the sake of "project", in which case, why be asking instead of making? X3 You might find something more like that in a Linux distro for a phone like Nura/postmarket or building one. But Android's architecture is too weird for cleanly doing that.

you luddites

Thanks for the complement.

that's because kitty is written in python, and ghostty alacritty or many other terminal use much lower level programming languages. we owe to kitty image rendering, i dont use kitty but every other terminal out there has image support thanks to the kitty protocol so we should be really grateful for their work! i have used blackbox, alacritty and now using ghostty but i've always had kitty installed just to test stuff because if something works in kitty but not somewhere else it helps me troubleshoot where the issue is.

Ive heard very good things about CachyOS, tho I have not personally tried it. Seems to be the gaming distro of choice when people want a more normal linux, aka not atomic.

do you know if there is a good open source MDM? i feel like it wouldn't work very well without root, though... :(

I do not have an Nivida card, but I udnerstand Nvidia on bazzite (and linux in general) is tougher than AMD to get things working nicely. As for the terminal, I have never once NEEDED to use to terminal in the last year. I have of course used it to do things, but it was rarely the Only way to do what I was trying to do.

Maybe what I am about to say is unpopular, but once I stopped trying to install programs that dont have a flapak from the bazzar store, my life got easier. Of course to counter that statement, I have several programs that are appimages that I control via Gearlevel, then a few windows apps running via faugus.

Also if anything tells you to use lutris, it is wrong, lutris imo is crap, and should not be sued ever; Lutris has not worked once for me.

i've never heard of anyone using dotfiles in any other way, even thought yeah a hidden file/directory is a dotfile, people discuss much more in the way i mention it because it implies a lot more stuff. i agree with the other comment that when you refer to the individual file people call them hidden files, nautilus and other file managers do this. i guess my reply wasn't the best but i thought they were being smug about it.

i guess i was rather vague because i know that it's essentially a mess and how much you can save depends largely on how the app decides to save its config and so on, on the manufacturer and hos the system settings are saved and so on. so i guess that my question was more like, has anyone managed to do android dotfiles in a meaningful way beyond termux? i agree i was sassy but i thought the previous comment was being smug. i have never heard of anyone mention dotfiles outside of this use, so i guess that's a bad on me.

i think the stuff i'd like to backup the most would be some sort of declarative list of installed apps, if possible some system wide settings althought with how messy phones are with settings i doubt it, and maybe a couple of special per app settings. do you know if this is easier of Oses like graphene o lineage?

What issues did your LCD deck have?

As far as I know Bazzite just needs to be on its own drive. It doesn't or didnt play nicely with any other OS on the same physical drive; I Know that is the case for windows. Bazzite should not be installed on the same drive as a windows install. I am making an assumption that holds or at least held true for other linux distros as well.

I personally dont have any other distros installed so I cannot be sure on the above.

From the peanut gallery- why not just a 'hiberfil.sys' for linux?

Haha yeah I came to this post thinking it was about KiTTY.

Killed by "Humanity towards others"

Can I ask about your experience with Cachy? I just finished my first pc build and went with bazzite for gaming, but have been toying with the idea of running Cachy instead

Ha, and that's a fork of PuTTY, a client I remember briefly using for telnet stuff 20+ years ago. Maybe one day we'll run out of terminal names ending in TTY.

Jumped on the Fedora ship with 36.

Updating to 43 or 44 broke my install so seized the occasion to try Silverblue instead of Workstation.

It’s even better although the immutable side has its limitation, so I’m happy to have another computer for these.