Subj : Re: one hand
To   : esc
From : apam
Date : Sat Oct 08 2022 15:31:26

 > Sounds like a happy life!

It is when he's sleeping :) He can get rather grumpy at times.. but yeah
it's a happy life :)

 > Curious, what in particular do you like? I've used bsd in the past but
 > have always come back to linux. Are you using it for general desktop
 > purposes, development, both..?

Yeah, both. I'm not sure if I can really put my finger on what I
particularly like about it. Linux is ok, I suppose there's just the
little things about distros that turn me off. It seems that they're
either too bleeding edge - eg arch or tumbleweed, or too out of date, eg
debian. I really don't like snap packages due to the way it uses loopback
devices, so that puts ubuntu out, I like LXQT, which puts mint out (I
also like KDE) openSUSE leap comes close, but again, a bit out of date.
AlmaLinux doesn't have certain packages I need - I could probably find
them in some other repo, but it's also a bit out of date. Void Linux
comes very close, but it's default kernel doesn't include the minix file
system, fedora and opensuse use a grub 2 package instead of plain grub.

Yeah a lot of those things are a bit picky, minix filesystem and grub
package are particular for my OS I like to work on from time to time, and
I haven't got that sorted out on freebsd yet.

Perhaps I'm more forgiving of freebsd as I also just like the idea of it
- ZFS, I really like, no systemd is cool, I don't feel like I'm forced to
adopt wayland (though, perhaps that will happen eventually) I like that
it's not crazy about licenses and pure free software etc - of course they
respect them, but it's not like GNU firmware blobs are evil kind of thing.

Perhaps also it's less things work on FreeBSD.. I don't have steam, so I
am not wasting money on games I'll never end up playing.

I guess I am just very picky about what I want, and short of making my
own linux distribution (which I have done, but it's way too much work
practically) they all seem to be just off.

 > best of it. Honestly without any philosophical opinion on the matter,
 > systemd meets my needs pretty well at this point. But I have heard
 > cool things about Artix.

Systemd is one of those things, it seems to work fine for most things, I
got a little turned off when there was talk about them managing home
directories. As far as an init system it works, but I don't think it's a
silver bullet or anything, other init systems work too. I do like how
units are easy to write, it's much easier than manifests on solaris
that's for sure.

Artix I liked not having to mess about with installing it (I have
installed arch, it's not hard, just a little tedious) and it had an LXQT
image i think that was set up nicely.

 > Thanks for kicking off a convo!

:) 

Andrew

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