ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace

The DS was better than the GBA IMO because it plays GBA games lol. And it had pretty innovative games, too.

The SNES. Hands down.

Has anyone used it? What was your experience?

An init system should be easy to understand and maintain. SystemD is anything but.

With SysVinit I could write my own startup scripts and have total control over them.

Yeah. Considering Devuan over Debian for the same reason.

runit ftw

It would be awesome if it came with a KDE desktop environment.

If ZorinOS shipped without the Snaps, it might become my go-to, even though it’s Gnome. They did a wonderful job of customizing it with extensions to make it more like a classic desktop experience.

Yeah, as an Arch-based distro it’s pretty nice. Probably the best Arch-based distro imo. Even though I’m not a big Arch fan.

As it should.

Debian (stable)

Stable, secure, it just works, has one of the, if not THE largest software package repo of all Linux distros, has lots of third party support for proprietary software and drivers that are available as .deb files or through official PPAs. It also is not backed by any corporation, but is a community developed distro. You can install it on pretty much everything.

The only downside I would say is their shift into using Systemd. They shouldn’t have done that. It was forced through undemocratically and I think that was a big mistake, even though they are trying to limit software dependencies to it. There’s a fork called Devuan that I’ve been considering where you can pick your init system. (SysVinit/runit, etc) I honestly miss SysVinit. It was simple, easy to understand and easy to maintain.

Isn’t Doom open source now? Does that count?

@jpv2390@discuss.tchncs.de just below your comment, quoted the Arch wiki on the original purpose of the AUR.

The AUR was created to organize and share new packages from the community and to help expedite popular packages’ inclusion into the extra repository.

Source

Thanks @jpv2390@discuss.tchncs.de

Thank you for explaining the differences. I’ve had several heated arguments with several users on this community where they tried to compare the AUR with these other solutions you mentioned. There’s a big difference between them. Namely regarding who controls the user repos. You explained the differences very well and I hope others understand better now just how AUR is dangerous and how this is negatively affecting the reputation of Arch and Linux in general with the wider public.

It really should be shut down for Arch’s sake. If people want to provide a package with certain modifications, just let users get it off your git repo and build it themselves with the proper instructions. It’s not that much safer, but just enough that it should prevent this kind of widespread problem.

This is /c/selfhosted, not /c/opensourceselfhosted so why not?

The latest I can think of is Gwyneth Paltrow’s ad for a luxury condo project on stolen Palestinian land by Israel.

They should straight up take it down. This is affecting their distro’s, and Linux’s reputation.

The only reason I was ever mad I never owned a PS.

I loved that game so much. And yeah the soundtrack defined me tastes as well.