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@wilbowma Might I Recommend tiptoe-ing into the Lands of the SourceBaseds? I used to run #Exherbo, but #Gentoo nowadays. There are many out there, of many Kernels and Operating Systems. And I Pray you're not still flogging yourself with Arch.

I might’ve already posted about this, but someone just reminded me of my achieving Linux enlightenment moment. Many years ago I was fascinated with more and more “advanced” distros and as one does at some point installed Arch Linux and I was talking to my father (IT-saur) about how it doesn’t do anything by default unless you tell it to and it’s so cool to set up my system exactly how I want relatively from scratch even if it sometimes takes some time and effort.

He responded that it seems kinda backwards, and that he remembers when some version of bash installer came out and if ran normally it would automatically detect everything and set up with sane defaults without any need for further tinkering. You run the installer, you get functional bash. And I suddenly realised he’s right; that was the future and I believe it’s still the way now, I’m all for customising my system as much as I want, but I’d like my software to install with sane defaults and presumptions and not require me to understand its inner workings and connections to other parts of the system just to be able to use it. Software should work for me and save me time and effort if I so desire.

This is something that Gentoo, Exherbo and especially NixOS do much better.

#linux #arch #gentoo #exherbo #nixos

@TheFake_VIP I’d like to have my #Exherbo and something like Ubuntu or Mint alongside each other so that for everyday use and geek stuff I can use Exherbo, and when I want to play Steam games or am struggling with something on Exherbo I can just switch to the “just works” system that every linux software supports. The problem is that using the same homedir introduces a bunch of problems with synchronising user IDs etc. Homed solves that.

Now if only btrfs driver for windows was production ready, I’d have all three systems for dealing with stubborn applications able to use the same filesystem to store shared stuff. Sadly, after it massacred my main data storage partition about a year ago I’m not ready to trust it.

Diverse Linux, a spin of Exherbo

https://gitlab.exherbo.org/diverse/diverse-design

#exherbo #distribution #linux

@turion

Packaging is not always bad, even if it is not #nixos :P
Think about #void and #exherbo packages.

@codesections @matt

#exherbo

Well, I always suggest the same distro lately, because I'm contributing to it and it keeps improving daily. We have just added #s6 support, which can easily be the best init and rc service manager around.

Gentoo is nice but definitely over engineered. Also overlay concept is inferior to paludis repositories.

@kev

#linux #exherbo #sysadmin #PCgames #anime #rock #metal #scifi #fantasy #bass

@codesections @h4ck3r9

http://www.skarnet.org/software/s6/why.html

These developers have created something that works, is modular, simple and it's a perfectly crafted piece of software.

However this doesn't have a lot of support currently, there are only 2 distro which implements the s6 suite:

#obarun distro is an arch-based distro which uses this init and supervision suite.

There are also efforts to support this on #exherbo.

I didn't expect initializing the system to take all this time; 2 weeks and I have still so many things to do.

Maybe it is because i choosed to use a source based distro with almost no support.
Or because i choosed to have full encryption using luks.
Or to change init and service supervisor.

All under exam session.

#exherbo #s6 #encryption #linux