React OS is awesome, and I need it to run stable on some metal.

And also play WoW, because I don’t trust linux to run whatever copy-protection crap is on there and not brick my account through no fault of its own.

I feel like most everyone

Beware the false consensus. Not all birds are seagulls, but get a plate of chips and that’s all you’ll see.

The meme equates ‘popular’ with ‘better’. There’s a very good reason we didn’t try to make an ubuntu back in 2002, and that reason - weak/bad validation of deployed package payload - is still true today.

If you care about build/release, precise validation is important to you. It’s one of the holy trinity of build/release.

Sell-out is the noun form. The verb form needs a space. It’s like the difference between ‘fuck up’ and ‘fuck-up’.

I’d look over the server install if the process had docs.

I looked at matrix but the server setup was janky – enamoured of the current mayfly shine tools, and when I saw mumble install cleanly on my tiny arm box it was a sea change. No longer have the tiny arm box but I still run mumble.

I’d be super happy if it and its polite codecs were brought into the fed but I haven’t been paying attention.

Yay mumble!

And I agree: it’s better. I think it’s faster and that, IMHO, is where the power is. It can look boring like a hammer as long as it’s intuitive … like a hammer.

If it’s only GNU Linux - and not regular Linux - then we know it’s not the Linux where the issue occurs. ;-)

(Just analyzing what’s said. It’s probably all linuxes if it’s not a glibc issue)

“I hate systemd, it’s bloated and overengineered”

And built poorly by people who don’t work well with others and then payola’ed onto the world.

people stay, perched precariously on their huge tower of shell scripts and cron jobs.

Fucking UNIX is shell scripts and cron jobs, skippy. Add xinetd and you’re done.

The systemd debate is basically dead.

Not until it isn’t shite.

ZFS > BTRFS

https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/ZFSin/releases

Snap is bad. I only say this as someone who did a lot of OS security work for Linux and Unix, so take that with a grain of salt.

MicroEmacs

In testing, to settle a bet by a rabid cult-of-vi peer, I opened a given set of files in each editor, each a day apart because I couldn’t be arsed to clear caches. This guy, otherwise a prince, was railing about emacs, but otherwise suffered days of waiting.

10/10 the memory usage by his precious vi was same-or-more than emacs.

There’s so many shared libs pulled in by the shell that all the fuddy doomsaying about bloat is now just noise.

I avoid vi because even in 1992 it was crusty and wrong-headed. 30 years on the hard-headed cult and the app haven’t changed.

I don’t see how microEmacs can improve on what we have by default, and I worry that the more niche the product is the harder it will be to find answers online. But I’m willing to be swayed if anyone can pitch its virtues.

vi versus emacs

You write “vi versus the world” funny.

The existing maintainers won’t live forever, having Rust in the Kernel is a bet on the future.

You’re drastically reducing your talent base by requiring membership in two groups of experts. Well done.

The comma splice gives it away, but you’re new at organizing groups and practicing set theory, aren’t you?

yum history undo last

There’s a colossal amount of work that goes into making that command usable and reliable, and I’m glad to say the yum-adjacent distros are still putting in the effort. That may change, but so far it’s been there to save my bacon when I need it.

systemctl is trying to do the right thing

I love how this comment suggests every fucking alternative doesn’t or wouldn’t. That’s just bloody arrogance.

Systemd’s entire existence is against best coding practice. Famously, when called out just on the ability to work with others, the systemd team represented trends ably.

Never have I raged at a machine and demanded it tell me what the flying flaming fuck it was actually doing now than when systemd was trying to do what I’m charitably deciding is the right thing.

Why would be doing the right thing now? It honestly only does a thing through luck and race conditions anyway.

This screens fade so fast.

Call them up and say it’s already looking dimmer. Repeat monthly. You could gaslight them into thinking it’s dying fast. And those things aren’t cheap.