What is the best linux distribution/subdistribution to use if i dont want spyware (fuck off ubuntu shills) but im not autistic enough to compile gentoo for half a year?
What is the best linux distribution/subdistribution to use if i dont want spyware (fuck off ubuntu shills) but im not...
Gavin Flores
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Cameron Barnes
Unironically Arch
Justin Wright
Probably debian
Zachary Long
How long did it take for you to build your own hardware?
Kayden Adams
>Unironically Arch
i sure can trust the neet-verified packages with 0 real world enterprise deployments
Eli Lopez
Lmao, someone should spread some malware in AUR because th Ach retards never check their binaries.
Dylan Parker
>0 real world enterprise deployments
not an argument
Aiden Lewis
right, people who would get fired or even sued for letting malware inside a corporate network arent a valueable source of package review
and if it fails the code review all the network inspections going behind their firewalls doesnt mean anything
b-but on arch we have a community of neets doing their best, and if you use the aur you can review the pkgbuild dont worry user
Easton Bell
Maybe five years ago I switched to NixOS and never looked back. It had a bit of a learning curve but there is enough material online to solve any problem. It is a mature enough system that they even have niche things like realtime audio production are pretty well covered.
It makes it very easy to customize your system to be whatever you want. Some of the things I use it for are hosting web services like gitlab and matrix/riot, building my own router (hostapd, dhcpd, nat, firewall and all that good stuff), software development, and producing and recording music.
I can get any machine to do any of the above just by moving my configuration files to it and running `nixos-rebuild switch`. So my setup has survived for years with only minimal work when a system upgrade deprecates or renames something. I've never had upgrades go well with other distros, and setting up a machine to host apps is a pain, usually requiring something like chef or puppet or docker.
I recommend reading up on it and giving it a shot, it's really a unique approach.
Jace Ross
fedora, and ubuntu isn't spyware you sheep
Dylan Lewis
Void because no systemd
Michael Brown
>people who would get fired or even sued for letting malware inside a corporate network
you mean the upstream packages where arch gets literally all its packages from, and has made a strict point not to tamper with any of it?
David Harris
>implying Archtards stick to that strict subset of AUR.
Nicholas Baker
When did i mention fedora? Begone, systemDicksucker.
Eli Hill
Not him but what matters is the last endpoint you get your packages from. It doesn't matter if debian reviews the package if you get it from Ubuntu your trust is put somewhere else. Also there's no reproducible builds, not yet at least.
Joseph Fisher
if you install packages from AUR without looking at the PKGBUILD, your system deserves to be bricked
Easton Jackson
I don't install garbage distros, and having your system bricked is better than having it compromised.
Kayden Richardson
that wasnt me replying, i couldnt care less about the aur and i would trust it more than binary packages after reviewing it
but do you trust the build system tho lel
Henry Carter
Just installed fedora a couple days ago for 3D modelling and game engine programming, it is really stable and has up to date packages. I would recommend using fedora, it seems to be far more stable than Ubuntu.
Blender 2.8, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, and Vulkan API are running flawlessly.
Lincoln Torres
>no reproducible builds
wiki.archlinux.org
Just be sure to configure your mirrorlists on install
>do you trust the build system
If you're going to be that particular, you might as well just install Gentoo
Jack Nguyen
you didn't. you asked. his suggestion was fedora
Henry Phillips
Is compiling software the same thing as wriitng it?
Oliver Flores
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
Chase Williams
>having your system bricked is better than having it compromised
this is incorrect
Isaac Ortiz
>systemd
Christian Butler
Devuan, Artix