Memes should be entertaining and/or funny. This one is neither :(

Yup, the other side is pretty counterproductive with saying the project is dehumanizing etc. They’re absurdly exaggerating.

It wasn’t just a report tho, it’s a PR that could’ve been merged with a single click

Open mindedness is a key factor for success (especially in open source). Inclusivity demonstrates open mindedness. The fact that the lead dev goes out of his way to prevent such a minor change (it’s not even like people demanded a strict CoC or something) is a bad signal

Open mindedness is a key factor for success (especially in open source). Inclusivity demonstrates open mindedness. The fact that the lead dev goes out of his way to prevent such a minor change (it’s not even like people demanded a strict CoC or something) is a bad signal

As per my other comment:

Do your latex work inside a distrobox and you’re fine.

I’m not sure if you can layer another window manager on top. You may have to create a custom image for that

Basically installing packages. You’re fine if you default to using

• flatpaks for gui apps
• brew for cli programs
• distrobox when building from source or when you need good control over the package environment (e.g. when installing a latex editor and only the latex packages you want)
• layer packages on host with “rpm-ostree install” when the program needs tight integration with the host (e.g. VPN software)

Also, you shouldn’t edit files in /usr, but I’ve never run into that limitation. You can still edit other top-level directorys like /etc .

That’s about it.

There is no sh shell. /bin/sh is just a symlink to bash or dash or zsh etc.

But yes, the question is valid why it compiles specifically to bash and not something posix-compliant

Yes, the first flatpak is big cause you have to download the runtime (most common dependencies you will probably need anyways in the future). The majority of other flatpaks you will download will use the runtime you’ve already downloaded so those flatpaks will be lighter than the appimage variant

Didn’t appimage bundle all the dependencies inside it? That leads to way more taken disk space cuz of duplicate libs

As if Debian has changed fundamentally since then…

You should definetely check out Bazzite, it’s based on Fedora Atomic and has Steam on the base image. Image and Flatpak updates are applied automatically in the background, no need to wait for the update on next boot. Media codecs and necessary drivers are installed by default.

The Bazzite image also directly consists of the upstream Fedora Atomic image, just with quality of life changes added and optimized for gaming

If that is a good tradeoff for you, old/broken packages but more trusted, then that’s okay. Btw, the xz backdoor was found so quickly it didn’t even ship to most distros in use, except for Debian Sid and Arch I think

Noob question?

Should I’ve made a new post instead?

You do seem confused though… Debian is both a distribution and a packaging system…

Yes, Debian is a popular distro depending on Debian packages. My concern is about the update policy of the distro

But the whole reason debian-based distros exist is because some people think they can strike a better balance between newness and stability.

Debian is pure stability, not the balance between stability and newness. If you mean debian-BASED in particular, trying to introduce more newness with custom repos, I don’t think that is a good strategy to get balance. The custom additional repos quickly become too outdated as well. Also, the custom repos can’t account for the outdatedness of every single Debian package.

you seem to be throwing the baby out with the bathwater… the debian packaging system is very robust and is not intrinsically unlikely to be updated.

Yes, I don’t understand/approve the philosophy around the update policy of Debian. It doesn’t make sense to me for desktop usage. The technology of the package system however is great and apt is very fast

Okay, I get that it’s annoying when updates break custom configs. But I assume most newbs don’t want to make custom dotfiles anyways. For those people, having the newest features would be more beneficial, right?

Linux Mint is advertised to people who generally aren’t willing to customize their system

Doesn’t that mean that you have a lot of duplicate libraries when using Rust programs, even ones with the same version? That seems very inefficient

Why are debian-based systems still so popular for desktop usage? The lack of package updates creates a lot of unnecessary issues which were already fixed by the devs.

Newer (not bleeding edge) packages have verifiably less issues, e.g. when comparing the packages of a Debian and Fedora distro.

That’s why I don’t recommend Mint

Oh youre right I was completely wrong

What are you talking about? Your comment isn’t relevant at all. Next time read more carefully

Jami is broken

It’s really not. Requires phone number and is centralized