yianiris

yianiris , 3 months ago to linux in Arch is Easier to Use than Debian

One out of five pkgs in AUR are so unmaintained they don't even build anymore.

Clieaning up junk is more urgent than screening what comes on.
@constantokra

yianiris , 3 months ago to linux in Arch is Easier to Use than Debian

2 Do you honestly think one can just make a fake account up, register, and publish an AUR pkg with rogue code that easy? There are checks for code whether it is safe or not, whether it is asking for right elevation, altering the filesystem's rights, etc.
You are making it sound like registering for X and publishing a tweet.

3 The most dangerous software I see on AUR is browser bins by the BIG NAMES not the little script stuff.
People are afraid of people instead of large corps
@constantokra

yianiris , 3 months ago to linux in Arch is Easier to Use than Debian

1 If you take an average AUR pkg and read its content (PKGBUILD) the procedure of building an arch like pkg is not very much unlike the practice of building and installing from source as in the old days. The difference is that when a new revision or need for patch, or rebuild due to fresh libraries/dependencies is necessary through your AUR helper you will be notified.

@constantokra

yianiris , 3 months ago to linux in I feel like I'm taking crazy pills

Then what you consider automatic is a very unique perception of how things work.
In a car automatic transmission means it shifts on its own.
In a non automatic either you shift or it doesn't happen.

On most pkg managers YOU elect when to upgrade, the output is a list of "upgradable" pkgs, then you are asked whether to proceed or not. Nothing automatic about this.

Auto update would mean software has been updated on its own without you authorizing it.

@Nibodhika

yianiris , 3 months ago to linux in Arch is Easier to Use than Debian

In all the years I've used the AUR I only heard of one pkg violating security, it was recognized pretty fast and was removed within hours from going up. AUR pkgs have history/track/votes on them, with thousands using them it is just as likely an official pkg having rogue code as an aur pkg.

Also, aur pkg are not really software written for the aur, it is software packaged for the arch ecosystem, and several other distros are using them.

@constantokra @pineapplelover

yianiris , 3 months ago to linux in Fedora Silverblue Live USB?

You can use sshd/sshfs to transfer files from a vm to another system, or even another vm.

You can shrink the installations partition to 90-95% used space, unmount the target, use dd --> tar.xz/lz/gz then the reverse to a new slightly larger partition, check enlarge whatever, configure, even the UUID of the partition transfers, so even grub.cfg/limine.cfg/lilo/syslinux all work just install in MBR or efi and reboot.

@d3Xt3r @governorkeagan

yianiris , 3 months ago to linux in Arch is Easier to Use than Debian

Arch (arch based x86_64)
Download and install

https://sourceforge.net/projects/joborun/files/r/librewolf-122.0.1-03-x86_64.pkg.tar.lz/download

or cd /tmp
mkdir libw
cd libw
wget https://git.disroot.org/joborun-pkg/jobextra/raw/commit/3f78c1796cc471eed86f817cdffc7bcaa038d5b1/librewolf/PKGBUILD

makepkg

sudo pacman -U x86_64.pkg.tar.

librewolf
or
firejail librewolf

@pineapplelover @catloaf

yianiris , 3 months ago to linux in I feel like I'm taking crazy pills

I have used apt apt-get, apk, pacman, xbps, and I have never encountered an auto-update

Even dumb-gui like synaptics or pamac don't auto-update

@Nibodhika

yianiris , 3 months ago to linux in I feel like I'm taking crazy pills

I have never used such a system, I don't know of a single one, and I wouldn't use such a system.

@Nibodhika

yianiris , 3 months ago to linux in I feel like I'm taking crazy pills

Auto downloading and installing software is pretty much a violation of ethics in the unix ecosystem, pretty much anything that begins with Auto should be rejected.

But the general public wants the convenience and luxury of having things done by others without being bothered. Many distros competing with each other for lazy newcomers (ubuntu, mint, debian, manjaro, ...) they provide all those non-unix like utilities.

Lately it is getting worse, all sorts of telemtry is branded good

@Nibodhika

yianiris , 3 months ago to linux in I feel like I'm taking crazy pills

The greatest contribution of Nvidia to FOSS had been to keep many such thinking people hostage to proprietary solutions and out of our visibility.

You know, those that refuse to learn anything new, refuse to read documents, believe that by controlling input/output through terminal is inferior to gui-blindness.

@Nibodhika @Para_lyzed

yianiris , 3 months ago to linux in [SOLVED] I can't change my /home location, and it's driving me mad

The home directory of the user is defined in /etc/passwd

Make sure it is the same as the one you have.

% sudo grpck
will check your group shadow gshadow passwd files for conflicts, it will tell you what you need to fix or if it is simple it will fix it for you.
If you get no output everything is OK

@kbal @pixelscript @NateSwift @Doctor_Rex

yianiris , 3 months ago to linux in I feel like I'm taking crazy pills

Can containers boot on their own? Then they are hosts, if not they are guests.
Unless there is some kind of mutual 50/50 cohabitation of userspace with two different pid1s
pid 1 left pid 1 right

@cypherpunks @onlinepersona

yianiris , 4 months ago to linux in Pipewire vs PulseAudio: What's the Difference?

You have a very narrow perception of what a linux distribution/system should be, and that is a heavily commercial windows/macos alternative for people who deny reading.
That audience makes total crap popular!

Is that better now?

@Ullebe1

yianiris , 4 months ago to linux in Pipewire vs PulseAudio: What's the Difference?

> and why they’re playing an increasingly big role in modern distros.

My modern distros, are you implying if a distro adopts flatpak use it is modern, if not it is antiquated?

Those are dangerous doctrines when foss is meant to provide choice, and it can be a choice to reject certain groups of software.

@Ullebe1