• LTS Linux distros are not good for desktop usage and terrible for beginners. (And for servers too but a bit less ig).
• The current distribution model of Linux apps is garbage. The concept of package maintainers, in most cases, is just redundant, duplicated work.
• Bash is horrible and relying on it for anything else than personal scripts gets messy really fast.
• Having a standard “platform” in Linux is key.
• SystemD is actually good, not perfect but very powerful.
• Apps not using Portals are a crime.

Obviously written by NixOS sectarian.

Surprised to see Java that high tho. I have been using it for uni stuff and it’s not bad.

Feels overly complex on some areas (gradle??) and I am not a fan of OOP but still relatively good.

I literally almost failed a uni course bc how shitty python packaging is. And well, maybe I am lazy, but the horrors of daring to get fucking deps were too much.

Just use Julia ffs. 😭😭

Genuine question from a non native English speaker here: what’s wrong?

Depends on the season. Winter is 1 but long sleeve (w/o socks or underwear, that’s terrorism) and my weighted blanket.

Summer is more 2 or 17.

Now I am sad because it just got to hoot to use the weighted blanket. :(

And do not forget about impermanence everywhere.

I would argue that’s the cool part. You also have the average hyper racist neo-reactionary Suckless fossid user who thinks daring to write in anything other than C is “gay” or smth.

And also it let’s you do crazy things that would be impossible in other imperative distros tho.

I am thinking about root-on-tmpfs, conditional configuration and doing all sorts of crazy things with packages while remaining manageable.

It is simply another whole tier.

Flatpak and SystemD Portable services are actually pretty good.

That’s the direction I see Linux going. I personally use NixOS because I am sad.

Last time I read something from the main dev I almost ran stright into the woods.

Also idk about how it is the management situation, portals integration, etc…

Insisting in the GNU/Linux thing gets cringier as time passes and GNU continues to fall into irrelevance.

It has always been a terrible take, but bro, I don’t see GNU being used in mainstream distros by the end of the next decade.

I could also name like a shit ton of programs way more relevant than the coreutils.

Uhhh, there are no alternatives to SystemD right now.

While different inits exists and they work just as well as SystemD, there is no replacement for the whole suite of programs.

See PostmarketOS, they ended up adding SystemD because it ends up being either thar or reinventing the wheel.

Imho SystemD gets a lot of hate for no reason at all. (Not saying it is perfect at all).

Literally tons of distros could be some lib.mkDefault nixos configs. And they would get a package manager improvement.

We already have NixOS, why anything else?

(Guix is cool too).

When the pluggings system drops it’s going to be wild.

Why recommend Telegram when, arguably, it’s no better than WhatsApp?

Tbh :) has a different vibe than 🙂.

This. (I actually use the orange ones but the same applies).

The orange ones are basically the same but better. I use theese on a daily basis because they are military grade:

• Cheap af.
• Found everywhere.
• Would survive a nuclear holocaust.
• It’s going to last longer than I.

Full metall you say? Damnn.

I didn’t know about this brand and now I have been pushed into extensive research of their whole lineup of mechanical pens.

The 800 looks amazing but I’ve heard some people complaining about the nib being a bit wobbly, is that true in your experience?