I always read Brazzite and keep getting disappointed that it isn't a Brazzers themed distro

Cachyos has snap shots after every update you can roll back to if something doesn't work.

9 times out of 10 it's a Nvidia driver problem or hardware problem. Occasionally someone might get a update which is only partly on the server they update from due to timing, but again normally corrected by updating again.

I commit the cardinal sin of using an AUR helper when I use EndeavourOS

I don't think it's a sin to use an AUR helper such as yay at all (me too BTW). The sin is, not to read the AUR scripts or to trust random sources in the script.

As for your main question, I am not aware of a user repository in the style of AUR for Debian. Maybe you could use NIX package system, that you can install on any OS that is not read only. Or as others suggested, maybe Distrobox and then use AUR directly. But these are only workarounds, not a clean solution.

The people who are keeping up with this controversy and end up with this conclusion are wildely illiterate, or, extremely biased and making up fictions.

Wait, is Cachy immutable as well, or how do you roll back on it?

My favorite thing about CachyOS/Arch is how it stops me from footgunning myself.

Okay, I need to make some weird manual tweak… oh look, they’ve already done it and are maintaining it for me.

Package issue? Oh, they’ve already updated it; that was easy.

AUR can of worms? Nope. They’ve already added what I wanted in the main repos. Same with Flatpak stuff.

And my brief adventures with an immutable and “slow” OSes led to further breakage when I needed to fix something esoteric, but Arch is configured to make applying fixes quite easy, and well documented.

My info on other distros is a bit dated though.

I do agree with the articles assessment. I’d probably recommend Bazzite over CachyOS to someone who won’t do any maintenance.

That sounds right, though both distros are quite preconfigured.

I’ve been on the same CachyOS partition/install for years now.

That’s never happened to me in any distro.

Yeah, it's clear that partial update is not something you want, and sometimes it stops working until restart, indeed

I guess, you can argue that repository maintainers and distro maintainers are different people, but I feel like it still counts as you can't go on without updates

But I'm fine with that, it didn't break for me yet :)

Ah, OK. There's no marketplace for self-made Debian packages that I know of, but of course it's still possible to make them, even create your own repositories and add them to your apt. And in good old Debian fashion it's going to be way more low-level, and confusing to find definite documentation. One thing I'm seeing again and again is dpkg-deb and other dpkg-* commands.

https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/debian-packaging.html
https://dario.griffo.io/posts/ultimate-guide-debian-packaging/
https://www.baeldung.com/linux/create-debian-package

Pity makedeb is unmaintained. But maybe still usable?

This is pretty coo1.

What do you want?

I want an AUR, but for Debian. Same thing, PKGBUILDS included, but targeting apt instead of pacman, and Debian's packages instead of Arch's. I feel like it would work well since Debian has a stable base, so it'd be easy to build packages against it.

Yeah, a Linux console is cool but I'd take a dumb one any day of the week.

Definitely, I have run into that many times, indeed. I guess most(?) package mirrors will only keep the current version available for download, or at most two or something?

At that point, it is good to upgrade the system. Installing a new package in that way, without syncing the rest of the system, I suppose essentially and technically counts as a "partial upgrade" which is not supported.

That's a separate thing from "maintenance" though, and an intrinsic behavior of the combined package manager and mirror systems. And also something you can have mixed feelings about. 😅

yooooo

actually wait no, i still dont want this.

You can run without updates, but sometimes you will not be able to install a new package because dependencies will return Not Found

I think, it's by design, to not maintain a ton of stale dependencies, but maybe I'm doing it wrong, don't know

Yeah, it doesn't look like they ever donated directly to Omarchy. Not to say their association with DHH (the racist bigot at the helm of Omarchy) has never involved money though, as they listed a sizable sponsorship with Rails World, which platforms DHH. That said, it doesn't look like they've done any other sponsorships with Rails World since.

I went to check on whether they were still sponsoring Hyprland, a project which fosters a notoriously hateful community, and it looks like they've stopped their €600/month commitment and now instead report a lump sum of €7200, which could indicate that they stopped sponsoring them after 12 months. Too long IMO, but maybe there was some sort of contract involved that made it difficult for them to pull out. In any case, it's good to see they appear to have cancelled those gross affiliations.

I still hold reservations, as I'm not familiar with who is behind many of the other projects they're sponsoring. Given their failure to identify how problematic associations with DHH and Hyprland were, it leaves questions about whether they'll ensure their due diligence on sponsorships going forwards, (or worse, that they knew and didn't care until the community's uproar). I'm hopeful, but wary.

Maybe by the time I'm looking for a new laptop, I can consider framework.

Ah yea from the original: 2024 Kia EV6, stock head unit

Looks like a Kia EV6 https://www.kia.com/us/en/ev6

https://frame.work/de/en/blog/framework-sponsorships

should've posted a lmgtfy tbh

Rad, what's it running on? Is there a blog post or something to read?

Sauce?

Does @frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org still simp for DHH?

Interesting and related talk from Akademy 2026:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fI_pYIv2zY8

Markus Feilner: How we hacked the Bavarian State with an Open Source Open Letter