• F04118F@feddit.nl
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    13 days ago

    In an ideal world.

    But in our world, newbies are being recommended:

    • Distros based on ArchLinux, that ship breaking changes and expect users to read .pacnew config files and update their own config accordingly (CachyOS)
    • A bunch of shell scripts and Hyprland config masquerading as a distro, made by a white supremacist and used to promote their brand (Omarchy 🤮)
    • NixOS. I don’t even known where to begin with this one.

    To be 100% clear, I use and like CachyOS and Nix (home manager). CachyOS and NixOS are great projects with good technical performance toward their respective goals (good defaults and performance on Arch, and declarative configuration, respectively), but they are not beginner friendly.

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      13 days ago

      Meanwhile my Fedora ass whos done nothing but run updates for like five years

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      Distros based on ArchLinux, that ship breaking changes and expect users to read .pacnew config files and update their own config accordingly (CachyOS)

      You’re absolutely right. The other day I ran into a guy using arch who didn’t know what a tarball was or how to compile software. I was like ‘the fuck?’.

      I should have thought of the newbies who just follow guides and might not know they’ve gotten in over their heads.

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      A bunch of shell scripts and Hyprland config masquerading as a distro, made by a white supremacist and used to promote their brand (Omarchy 🤮)

      AntiX, fast, lightweight, and proudly anti-fascist…

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        AntiX is nothing like Omarchy from my quick look at it. It’s Debian vs Arch (btw) and systemd-free.