Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : Nightfox
From : Arelor
Date : Thu Apr 21 2022 07:46:59

  Re: Re: Windows vs Linux
  By: Nightfox to Arelor on Wed Apr 20 2022 04:43 pm

 >   Re: Re: Windows vs Linux
 >   By: Arelor to 2twisty on Wed Apr 20 2022 04:43 pm
 > 
 >  Ar> I am not a fan of Mint, but I installed it on my mother's laptop and so
 > 
 > What don't you like about Linux Mint?  And what distro do you prefer over Mi
 > 
 > Nightfox

It is not that I hate Mint or anything. I just prefer Operating Systems which
come with a framework for creating your own packages and integrating them in
the Operating System right away.

For example, Slackware comes with all the standard development tools out of the
box and then you may install the 3rd party packaging framework you prefer. You
may use something like sbotools to automatically package 3rd party programs
(sbotools works almost like a ports system). Since you are building everything
you can patch the software if need be, and upgrading individual components is
easy (in Debian, if you want to upgrade a package to a version that is not in
the repository, you may ned to upgrade the libraries it depends on, whereas in
Slackware you just compile the upgraded package against the libraries you
already have installed).

OpenBSD outright comes with the toolset necessary to deploy frigging building
_CLUSTERS_ so you can do mass rebuilds of your own packages. Not to mention you
can patch and rebuild the whole Operating System with a procedure which is not
much more involved than the traditional configure && make && make install.

Mint (and other binary-only distributions) are great if you are content with
what is included in their repositories. If you want a newer package or a
package compiled with different options, you can still go for it, but it is
more complex and more frustrating.


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