Is anyone else afraid that distro you use will be dead one day?

If Arch died I really don't know what I would move on to

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I'm using stali and bare - those will be around for ages!

Gentoo is older than 90% of this board.

This but not all are equally usable.

Does anyone here remember Mandriva?

Meh as long as its not Ubuntu shit it's totally fine for day to day use, so pretty much anything based on Debian is gold

void looks good

Not really, I would just move on

I do, was based. Mageia is good, openmandriva is good, Rosa is great.

I really loved Mageia 5.

Happened to me with Antergos. Just moved over to Manjaro.

Any reason to use Void over Arch or is it just a meme?

I would probably just move to Manjaro

There will always be at least one autist keeping GNU Guix alive.

Windows doesn't have this problem.

No I'll just switch to another if so

Still using Antergos. It's far superior to Manjaro in my opinion. Will probably use some Arch installer or properly install Arch if Antergos doesn't work anymore someday.

I've used a few dead distros and it's not a big deal. the only annoying part is finding out that the distro is dead or that it isn't being maintained very well anymore. often I'll go a year or two without really reading about the distro and will just hear from some random place that it's dead.

Void is more minimal and uses runit instead of systemd

So basically it's Autistic, ok

The day Debian dies is the day the world ends

Fedora IBM/systemd will never die, so no worries.

pretty much
and to answer the OP, I don't think gentoo will die any time soon.

One of the reasons why i don't use it

I wish Microsoft would die. I would not be afraid. I'd be very excited.

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Ubuntu senpai. Brad Pitt uses it

everything will be dead one day, including the entire universe itself

this message was brought to you by the letter D for dead

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And it barely works. Shameful!

What if it does? Just use another.
It's fairly more likely Linux will be replaced in practice by a proper OS with a microkernel multiserver architecture, such as Genode with seL4.

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It's the users fault if they haven't made it work.

I certainly hope void doesn't die, though if it does i'll just switch to Plan9/Minix/Hurd/Redox/some other autistic microkernel OSdev project just for the sake of it

Void looks good if Arch ever dies

>I wish a trillion dollar company to simply die
kek

I hope void doesnt die again

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The install process is an abomination and the documentation sucks, Guix is a much newer project yet is much easier

Debian and Redhat will be alive for long.

I doubt Fedora will die, but no there will always be something else i can use.

i'm using my comfy lfs based thingy so as long as i'm alive, it should be alive and maintained as well, theoretically.

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That's why I dont use meme distros

>Gentoo
Not happening anytime soon.

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>install process:
>partition disk
>write config file or generate it
>type nixos-install
if you can't do this you're a brainlet

Not really. I'll just switch distros if it becomes a problem (which it won't)

Already happened with Antergos, but that was a good thing because it spawned a new distro, EndeavourOS, which uses a non-dogshit installer which pretty much was the #1 complaint about Antergos.

the first linux distro I ever used died, so yeah. it's a distinct possibility.

Arch will die.
Antegros will die.
Debian will die.

Slackware will live as it always has.

No, and it doesn't even matter if linux dies to me. I can switch to any POSIX OS with no issues.

My distro is already dead.
t.debianuser

antergos is already dead

What are you using for package management?

If ubuntu dies or drops desktop support I'll go back to debian. If that distro can survive its creator killing himself, it can survive any other turmoil.

Why do you say that? Isn't 10 coming out soon?

RIP in pease frien
My first server was a Mandrake Linux mysql box that I ran in middle school. Many memories

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It happened with Mandrake/Mandriva. Mageia is just not the same.

Well.. I am on Solus. It seemed to have lost Steam because the transition to QT is out of the window now.

I am thinking of just going Opensuse Leap. At the next big sign of major trouble.

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I distro hop constantly, so I can't say that I'm loyal to any brand.
My worst nightmare is Redhat slowly killing off everything outside their ecosystem.

Why did I write steam with a capital letter? This is what happens if you use something for about 15 years..

Im on the OpenSUSE boat as well. OpenSUSE with KDE is g's current flavor of the month.

Just use debian and modify it to your needs, that way you won't have to use a meme distro which will die in 4 years like Nix, Trisquel, and Manjaro

Arch is already autistic as is. Void makes a lot more practical decisions (imagine using systemd on a "minimalist" distro). Plus void doesn't pretend to be elitist, they have a fast graphical installer.

no, i use my own gnu/linux "distribution", compiled from source of course. Read linux from scratch noobs, arch is for noobs.

True. But at least it is a corporate backed one from Europe. No hipster nonsense and no Chinese botware.

So is qt. The approaches they take compared to the bay area devs are refreshing.
Its like a completely different sense of values.

I don't really care for using obsolete distros I'm more worried distors go the way that the net is going

>Most webpages are centralized and rely on sponsorships
>There's few places to discussion without goverments interfering, censorship and hate speech
>There's a lot of corporations and political parties shilling everywhere
>Small webpages don't get new traffic
>File sharing is going into trash and only the most popular things get shared
>porn gets to the point of banning cartoons and needing licenses
>Patreon single handedly ruined hentai art
>The biggest distribuitors of webcontent push political agendas and corporate interest of legacy media
>Can't use the net anywere wthout getting tracked and labeled
>people posting from phones and anything from phones really

I'm more afraid of distros going the same way like ubuntu, If something I want distros to stay the way they are, pushing the average people away, and using old technology, to me there's not technological reason to update and follow new standards, they are getting worse if something. The only need for me for distros to keep going is because the hardwere will die

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After #! I gave up meme distros and installed Fedora so I'm fine.

It literally comes out tomorrow. Ignore the braindead tripfag

Same. Their transition plan will eventually remove all traces of antergos and leave behind stock Arch, so I see no reason to jump ship.

tfw antergos was my first distro and it died after 2 weeks of using it

nothing, it's all built by hand. the package counter basically does wc -l packages.txt | awk '{print $1}' which is a text file with all the software and dependencies listed without any formatting.

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Having a text file listing what you have is a package management of sort I guess.

slackware

It's already been dying for a while, friend. Main reason it's around is simply that other source-based distros already died, and there are now some corporate systems based on Gentoo. I fully expect something like NixOS or Guix to overtake gentoo in the long run though.

>Is anyone else afraid that distro you use will be dead one day?
Why would I be afraid of that? I would just switch to another distro - same as when crunchbang died I just made my own distro from a net install of debian and made it the same as crunchbang then Bunsenlabs linux took over from crunchbang and I used that for a few months and switched to manjaro

Wait, is Guix source based?

fuck off faggot, we're full up

i have an extremely detailed list of init, security and package/dependency management in markdown, that one is just bare packages without any order. i also have multiple automation scripts for complicated stuff, i also log the installation and removal details of each and every package so it's not just one dumb plain unformatted text file.

so why use lfs over *bsd or something like gentoo, nixos, guix, etc? Is it a hobby, or is there something else specific you gain out of it? I built an LFS system as a teenager, and even back then I simply didn't have the time to properly maintain it, LFS is quite similar to building Slackware yourself and even Patrick Volkerding has always taken ages to build a release.

#! #! #!

dear windows user, your troll failed

I'd go to gentoo but gentoo would die before arch

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you can't go extremely extremely autistic with gentoo, i'm not even going to address the binary based distributions you've mentioned. not all ebuilds are written well and pulls unnecessary dependencies. also their toolkit "bloats" the system as an extra. if i were to build this exact combination of software on gentoo, it'll take much more space in total and i will have things that i don't want eventually.

i personally like keeping things out if i don't need them due to being stupid enough to fall for the muh minimalism meme so this is the perfect solution that satisfies my tism. don't think that i'm crippling myself, i'm just in a mindset where i just remove stuff that i don't need where most people don't even know it exists in their system. having all of the stuff and not a bit more packed under 3096mb is something i can't simply achieve with any other way.

also, the idea of everything being there because you put them there makes the system feel more comfy but that could also be, like i said, my tism.

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# emerge benis

xdddddd

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.

There’s no distro I feel attached to, or even Linux in general. None of them are all that great that I couldn’t live wihout it, it’s simply the best we have.

Maybe Mint will someday, but now i use OpenSuse.

>Antergos
My distro is already dead
I still get updates tho since it’s basically just Arch

based

I'm terribly sorry for interjecting another moment, but what I just told you is GNU/Linux is, in fact, just Linux, or as I've just now taken to calling it, Just Linux. Linux apparently does happen to be a whole operating system unto itself and comprises a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Most computer users who run the entire Linux operating system every day already realize it. Through a peculiar turn of events, I was misled into calling the system "GNU/Linux", and until now, I was unaware that it is basically the Linux system, developed by the Linux project.

There really isn't a GNU/Linux, and I really wasn't using it; it is an extraneous misrepresentation of the system that's being used. Linux is the operating system: the entire system made useful by its included corelibs, shell utilities, and other vital system components. The kernel is already an integral part of the Linux operating system, never confined useless by itself; it functions coherently within the context of the complete Linux operating system. Linux is never used in combination with GNU accessories: the whole system is basically Linux without any GNU added, or Just Linux. All the so-called "GNU/Linux" distributions are really distributions of Linux.

This. It is Linux. Don't encourage stealing other people's credit kids. It's shitty and immature behavior.

what is gcc