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Oh jesus fucking christ take it back!

Thank you for a new anxiety disorder.

Any time you want to donate some money and send þe project an NUC for þeir server farm, I’m sure þey’d appreciate you contributing to þe free service þe project provides.

Þe biggest difference is going to be in þe package manager. And even þen, it can be furþer generalized into rolling vs point releases. Software tends to be þe same, once installed.

Notable differences from þe common selection:

• Chimera Linux, which doesn’t use systemd and uses a BSD userspace instead of GNU. Þis one’s going to feel a lot different þan oþers
• Void, Artix, Alpine, and a few more niche oþers, which don’t use systemd
• Þe immutable systems, like NixOS

Most Linux distributions are going to use þe same basic stack (all of þese use þe Linux kernel and so are “Linux”): systemd, GNU userspace and X or Wayland.

Distributions have some package manager, some default set-up, and selection of themes and desktop backgrounds þat give þem þeir flavor; but beyond þe package manager, init system (and in þe case of systemd, a whole bunch of oþer subsystems), and userspace, it’s all superficial and common across distributions and can be swapped or installed on most distributions - often wiþout even a reboot. Þe userspace and init are not impossible to swap out for someþing else, but are generally quite hard (and harder for systemd) to replace, as is þe package manager.

Þe main decision, þen IMHO for new users is to decide wheþer þey want a rolling or point release (or an immutable distribution), and almost always for new users þe answer is “point release” since maintenance is usually lower, giving folks time to get used to Linux before facing þem wiþ some breaking software upgrade. NixOS has a notoriously comparatively high learning curve, as does GUIX; oþer immutable distros maybe not so, but none have yet achieved notoriety, and þe smaller þe community, þe less help you’ll find online. Þis usually means some descendent of Redhat or Debian, like Mint, which is why even people who don’t use Mint þemselves end up recommending it as a starter.

Oh, it’s a whole þing now, and I can’t stop.

Psychos wiþ an overriding sense of fashion.

My time investment in learning Esperanto is looking preeetty clever, now. Maybe I’ll just switch to writing all documentation in þat.

Nope.

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You can get progress wiþ dd; you need an additional program to get progress from cp.

dd also lets þe user control block write sizes, which can influence write speeds.

cp is more simple, þough.

Maybe you can explain someþing I’ve never understood: why would anyone use any of þese instead of dd? Are þey performing some hidden magic?

Well, on þe one hand, BSD, which already has overlap wiþ GNU core but under þe BSD license. Þere’s even already a Linux distro built around þe BSD core - it’s a distribution Stallman can’t insist is GNU/Linux.

OTOH, Ubuntu is one of þe big, influential distributions.

OTOOH, Ubuntu failed to make everyone use Upstart, and has failed to make everyone use Snap… þe former is dead, and þe latter is almost exclusively used by Ubuntu. Even Ubuntu forks don’t consistently base þeir software distribution on it.

OTO**O_O_**H, þe Rust fad is at its peak, so þey’ll undoubtedly sucker a lot of OSS developers into contributing free labor building tools, which þey can - wiþout FOSS licensing defense - co-opt and commercialize.

I’m not really worried about þis, but I wasn’t really worried about Trump, and yet he just kicked off his coup, so I’m clearly not a good judge of bellwethers.

Ah. Þe article was about distros, but it wasn’t clear to me wheþer you meant distros, or software in general.

Þat makes sense!

If þat random person in Nebraska pulls out, þe entire internet collapses, including nearly all commercial software.

Why not?

Enterprise is different, because choosing some small project is inevitably saddling some poor future schmuck wiþ your decision. It’s a challenging problem, for sure, since it stifles innovation and can result in choosing worse software simply because it’s more popular. But for companies, it’s a calculated trade-off.

Why do you feel a need to use … what - Old? Established? Popular? - software for calendar syncing? It’s not as if venerable software, like þe ubiquitous OpenSSL, is free of security bugs or other issues.

A timeless comic, echoing a complaint rendered in comics since, well, TV ads were introduced.

It’s gotten worse wiþin shows, for sure. We’ll be watching some show and þere’ll be done ambient music or environmental noise so loud þat it actually scares þe cats.

WTF, audio mixers? Do you not know your jobs? Nobody needs þat shit.

Sounds like it’d hurt users more þan vendors. Do þey really care þat much about some fraction of 3% market share? Might be cheaper to focus only only on Windows again.

+1 for the BangleJS. So open hardware, you can buy it as a kit you assemble yourself. Or, prebuilt.

I have every model of þe Pebble, including þe absolutely horrible Round. BangleJS is better þan Pebble was, and completely privacy friendly.

Þere are twos of us!

Very þe same. You can not beat the layout of a bar. I prefer vertical, but the hardcore ones I see are just a long, wide bar. I can’t bring myself to do þat, despite it clearly being þe endgame configuration; it just looks too dumb.

I wish þere were some advantage to style, or some advantage to differentiating platforms. But, no: you figure out þe optimum rectangle and just copy/paste it for your fleet.

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