The more I use and read about #VoidLinux the more I'm leaning towards waving goodbye to my bae #ArchLinux . I'm not 100% sure yet so I've decided to setup my old laptop exactly how I want for daily driving and see how it feels compared to my Arch daily driver. Oh yeah the meme below is just a little fun and you may well have other opinions but I'm starting to feel Void does seem better for me. 🤔
Hello everyone, so at my new job I'll get a MacBook snd until #AsahiLinux supports the security processor I will be a good girl and use #macOS. For someone coming from a setup mixing #ArchLinux, #Fedora#Silverblue / #CoreOS, even some #NixOS and does weird stuff with #podman sometimes: Are there some general recommendations from other #Linux exiles (I use vanilla #GNOME nowadays mostly, so maybe not too much lol?)
I currently plan to use the mac as mostly a shiny looking physical terminal + some vscode/vi, that should be mostly trivial. As such I'm mostly worried about things like a proper keyboard layout (I use us altgr-intl, caps mapped to ctrl, tab to esc).
Otherwise I'm thinking of grabbing #Firefox and activating Lockdown Mode. I've seen nix-home and will try setting that up for day-to-day tasks/tools.
Coming from Evolution, is Apple Mail decent? Any other "classic" GNOME tool I'd miss? Currently looking for trustworthy replacements for Nick's YT downloader, Warp (Wormhole GUI), Frog (OCR tool), Obfuscate (picture obfuscator/censoring tool), Characters (searching through Unicode symbols/emoji). Anything else I may take for granted but is different? ¹
¹ I already know the cli differences w.r.t. bsd based tools, but my personal scripts are mostly posix/ksh8x compliant anyway :D
The most annoying thing in pacman is that it does not prioritize archlinux-keyring (or manjaro-keyring) package! It sounds only logical, intuitive, and obvious that if you have all your keys stored in a keyring package and if the package you are upgrading before the keyring has a key change, the upgrade will fail!
Finally took some time to bust out the @PINE64#pinebookpro and have some fun! I'd planned on flashing #nixos onto it, but everything I'd book from the image on my NVMe, I'd go through the whole rebuild and switch but it continued failing to boot into the new build... 🤔
Next best option, fresh install an #archlinux based system with great development record for the PBP, #manjaro , and manage everything with #nix. Turns out option #2 is still pretty awesome! 😎🤘 :manjaro: :nixos: #linux
To scream into the void: Yes, PyPi, someone was using those signatures. Distro package maintainers secured user supply chains with it!
I'm not looking forward to asking dozens of upstreams to host their signatures elsewhere (just stumbled across one case). Meanwhile reproducibility is now broken for those packages.
Just installing a new Arch based system and as Arch keeps everything up to date and Noto Sans Symbols 2 got updated with the 🟙 Nine Pointed Star this means the #bahai star now works by default on any #ArchLinux system that has a proper Noto fallback chain.
Small annoyance about #archlinux : Pacman fails to download anything unless you do a full Syu sometimes. I never turn off my PC nor do I reboot regularly if I can help it, but this is kinda lame. I love Arch but argh.
Neue Erkenntnis für mich:
Arch Linux mag es nicht, wenn man monatelang keine Updates macht und anschließend versucht alles an Updates in einem großen Rutsch zu installieren.
Ich habe genau das nämlich versucht und seitdem zeigt mir mein Laptop nach der Anmeldemaske nur noch ein graues Bild🤷♂️
Schätze ich werde auf meinem Laptop Debian installieren.
Die Distro passt dort vermutlich besser.
Now that I got home after 2 years I was using my old computer witht he old OS on it, ArchLinux. I updated it, it was working fine and Arch is a fine platform... But I missed the NixOS setup I had moved to (and still had on my laptop)... Lastnight i moved back over to NixOS and I really couldnt be happier... this is the best linux distro I ever used! I love how every time you upgrade it produces a "clean" system of dependencies like a new install!
Another cool feature is stylix. Its something that is only really easy to do on NixOS. Its a module you load as part of the package configuration and it styles your whole system for you. Sets the same background in all your windows managers, and sets the same color scheme across all your apps, and even the boot loader and console... its pretty sweet!