Speed Dating (media.piefed.world)
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[–] 142 points 3 months ago (26 children)

Both. desktop is arch based, server is Debian.

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  • [–] 39 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Are you waiting for an invitation?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    That's all it takes to be a distro slut!?

    What the heck am I then?

    %brl list -v
    artix
    bedrock
    ceres -> devuan-ceres
    devuan -> devuan-ceres
    devuan-ceres
    devuan-ceres-new
    devuan-chimaera
    devuan-testing -> devuan-chimaera
    devuan-unstable -> devuan-ceres
    exherbo
    fartix
    fentoo
    fexherbo
    garyos
    gentoo
    gentoostudio
    goblin
    gs -> gentoostudio
    hijacked -> gentoo
    init -> gentoo
    jentoo
    kentoo
    kentwo
    local -> gentoostudio
    marklar
    oasis
    pclinuxos
    space
    suckless
    tentoo
    tudio -> gentoostudio
    ubuntu
    void
    void-kde
    

    And that's just one of my computers.

    [... it's starting to make sense, thinking about one thing I made, I called wminizer]

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Actually, looking at that list again, I see I've neglected upgrading on that computer for longer than I realised... chimaera as testing? *checks site*, yeah that's "Chimaera 4.0 has moved to oldoldstable status.". That's like 4 versions old. XD

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    This is the way! Everything is based on Arch, Debian or Fedora anyway so you might as well stick to what is well known and supported.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    angry Gentoo and NixOS noises

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    well known and supported πŸ€ͺ

    From my understanding NixOS and Gentoo is "support it yourself". I haven't tried either of them so I could be completely wrong about that.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    It's pretty much the same thing as everywhere, you have a bunch of lovely people who package and test things, nothing too weird. What you are describing is LFS.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    I was under the impression that you had to compile everything yourself on Gentoo and in Nix that you have to mess with a config to do everything and anything.

    Maybe I should try them both to see what the fuzz is about.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Speaking about Gentoo, you don't "have to" compile everything, but let's just say it's strongly encouraged. Most of the compilation is automated though, think AUR on steroids. If you don't want to touch anything, you can go with defaults for all the software and you'll get basically what you get on any other distro.

    The thing is, though, if you are not being a little funny with your software, why the hell are you running Gentoo? So, it's entirely optional, but it's the main reason one would use Gentoo, otherwise you get a stock standard system with stupidly long updates.

    I can't speak for Nix, though, I haven't touched it myself, but from what I know from those around me running it, it's pretty much the same thing, unless you want something cool, you don't have to suffer.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Okey thank you so much for the information! I can see the appeal. More freedom and customization. I am all for it.

    But for my use cases I think Arch is enough. It strikes a nice balance with official packages and the AUR and I love that you get to choose all of the packages you want to have installed.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    How is Nix with software support these days?

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