[–] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I've got nothing against AppImages, but strong disagree there. Flatpaks (and also snaps, I guess) are easy to search for and easy to upgrade. Just add the repo and you're done.

In AppImages there is no built-in repository management or update machanism(?). At least I remember having to use some third-party tool to do all this, like "Gear" or whatever it's name is, but they all felt very janky.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Used Tumbleweed as my main OS for years and this was always a pain point. Why do you need root privileges to connect to a network on a fresh install?? I can't be bothered to find a link, but Linus Torvalds himself complained about this and said it was the reason he didn't want his kids to use SUSE/openSUSE on their computers, since he didn't want them to have root privileges, lol.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    "Upassende"? Jag kan tycka att reklam för "semester i Danmark" är opassande, men det är inget jag kommer klaga på i nyheterna.

    Tänkt om vi skulle förbjuda all reklam i offentliga rum! Då skulle vi slippa alla såna här "debatter". Vilken sinnesro.

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

    If you mean Nix, the package manager, then no packages are actually installed as root. Every package is installed in the Nix store, but programs that need root privileges can't be run by any user.

    One of the (many) great things about Nix is that users don't need root privileges to install packages.

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

    Yeah, "unfortunately" since Guix is a GNU project, they don't package the upstream Linux kernel, just linux-libre, which removes a lot of binary blobs. Great if you want a fully free OS, not so great if you need drivers only available in the mainline kernel.

    The practical solution to this is to use the channel nonguix, which packages mainline Linux for Guix. You can follow the instructions for nonguix to create a guix ISO with the regular Linux kernel, then make sure your installed system uses that same kernel.

    It's not hard to do, but if one doesn't have the inclination I'd just recommended using NixOS. :-)

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