I read a lot of advice online for distros, but my main needs are not really discussed.

You’re not special and Linux distros aren’t that specialized. They differ in packaging, upgrade philosophy, etc. There is no Linux distro that can’t do the things others do.

You dabbled with Ubuntu. Stick with it, you’ll be fine. Unless you really want mint, then go for it you’ll be fine.

This needs to be pinned to every single “looking for a distro” post.

As a proper “gray beard” myself the utility of systemd vs. sys-v init scripts has always been blindingly obvious. 🤷

They try this every 5 years or so. Microsoft gives them some short term discounts and they come running back back.

This! KDE’s settings are a mess to navigate. I completely understand why that person didn’t know there even was a configuration for this.

The Wayland security model is far more restrictive. Accessibility tools need to screen capture, create input events on your behalf, etc. Such things aren’t possible under Wayland (yet?).

It’s not my fault they make running apps from the cli so irritating. Broken by design. Even snaps work better.

So, containers do not get you reproducibility.

You absolutely do. If you build a container and publish it you will pull down that exact thing every time. How is that not “reproducibility”?

You no what though? Scratch that - who gives a fuck? Bit-for-bit reproducibility takes far more effort than it’s worth anyway. Even NixOS isn’t completely reproducible. It’s a false goal.

For dev environments, repeatable is okay.

It’s well more than good enough you mean.

If you want actually reproducible binaries that you can ship, Nix is better fit for that purpose.

Nobody really needs that.

docker build . -t docker.company.com/build-env:1.0 && docker push docker.company.com/build-env:1.0

But for like 99% of development teams “repeatable” is Good Enough™.

Containers also don’t give you reproducible environments, and Nix does.

Of course it does. 🙄

sigh, yes it is.

Meh. So is docker.

You couldn’t figure out how they make money? This took me like 1 minute to find.

https://www.zimaspace.com/

This is the way. Ansible is underrated by the self hosting community.

ctrl+a and ctrl+e are from Emacs.

I once ran ‘chown -R root:root /’ in a misguided attempt to solve some permissions issues I was having. 0/10, do not recommend. It turns out a lot of system things aren’t root owned…

Running a stupid command and learning from it is part of the learning process.

The trackpad is head and shoulders above anything I’ve ever used. For me, that’s worth the price of admission alone.

I always find this argument odd - I absolutely hate Mac touchpads. Maybe I’m just too used to non-apple hardware or something. Not arguing with you, just pointing out that this may not be a “bonus” for everyone.

It scanned a large amount of text and found something.

How hilariously reductionist.

AI did what it’s supposed to do. And it found a difficult to spot security bug.

“No big deal” though.

Jesus Christ, it would be fewer steps to install Debian and then rust + vscodium.

It’s not uncommon to have your Dockerfile curl https://host/file.tar.gz and then tar xvf file.tar.gz into the filesystem somewhere.