• ramble81@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      I made the joke that we’ll have SystemD/Linux replacing GNU/Linux and the number of “well asckuallys…” that popped up was simultaneously humorous and saddening.

      • Wilzax@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Eventually the proper name for the operating system will just be the full configuration.nix file, and we’ll all rename our backups to "FullLegalName"OS

        In this future, NixOS replaces all other distros as the defacto standard way to manage packages

    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      systemd

      and a giant “fuck you” to Lennart Poettering for that. Not for creating an init system option - but for lobbying it into major distributions, instead of letting the users decide what they prefer. May he forever stub his toes on furniture.

  • BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    What’s the deal with Alpine not using GNU? Is it a technical or ideological thing? Or is it another “because we can” type distro?

    • IsoSpandy@lemm.ee
      1·
      10 months ago

      It’s because we can to an extreme. Extremely lightweight distro. Very nice in containers and vms. One of the most loved ones out there.

    • recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 months ago

      I don’t know if people use it on desktop but with its minimal size it’s convenient as hell for docker images that don’t need a lot of dependencies installed

      • AllOutOfBubbleGum@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I used it on a laptop for a while. Pretty impressive just how lightweight it is, but a bit of a grind to initially get everything working as expected. Overall, I’m a big fan.