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Listen to this guy, OP. $5 says you will not be allowed to use brew.sh and have to install a limited selection of software from the companies repository.

And it was one of the few distros who supports running without systemd. I do need the freedom to use whichever init system I prefer. Some let me do it with just a few lines of configs, some leave their system open enough to work with other init systems, and some are so hard-coded to allow only systemd, and fuck those, BTW.

Do you consider Postman (and such) a programming language?

What’s the most basic principle of IT?

Agreed. I was fully aware that forking Linux is more of a joke than anything.

Spot on on the hobby point. If I am writing code while not being paid, I need to enjoy every moment of it. In addition to coding, project managing and ensuring backlash make me nope the fuck out of it.

The talent has nothing to do with Rust AFAIK. Only the GPU driver is written in Rust. There are however efforts put into other drivers written in Rust.

The developers could have written those drivers in C instead, or to hell with those close-minded Linux developers, fork Linux and keep writing in Rust.

Sell it. Put your money earned to buy a general computer to tinker with instead.

If you have the skills you’ve already been tearing it down, soldering some pins, and compiling your modified uboot/EFI firmware and flashing it. The hack above has only like twenty people in the whole world who know how to do.

If it was a TV box and still functioning, there are people out there genuinely have a valid use case for it, to watch TV of course. Don’t ruin it.

I haven’t used Arch in a decade, but as unstable as Arch is, I don’t think Arch doesn’t have dependencies poorly defined like that.

Say, firefox-1 does not depend on libssl-1, but now you upgrade it to firefox-2, you won’t succeed if you successfully downloaded firefox-2, but failed to download libssl-1, because pacman shall fail, while saying the reason being failed to download all of its dependencies.

If you start with a system with both firefox-1 and libssl-1 installed, upgrading firefox-1 to firefox-2 sure would have no problem, because its dependencies are already fulfilled.

If your system is breaking, it’s probably due to some other issue, but it could not be pacman’s.

If you fork, you’re gonna have children. Those children will slowly eat up your memory. It’s time to hang them up. Shut their pipes. Sometimes they refuse to die, like cats. Control Cat won’t work. That’s where you want to kill them 9 times.

Pfft. Ever bought an Xbox One X box for Xbox One X because your Xbox One X doesn’t come in a box?

Dude, they feature a main bug to kill off all those other bugs.

I dug up this link from June, which tells us why they made such a design choice of strong depressing on systemd.

https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2025/06/10/gnome-systemd-dependencies/

Funny thing is every open source developer strives to support as many systems and platforms as possible, by following best practices and open standards, GNOME goes backwards.

Why not cat then? I don’t care of his reasons either.

You can fork, but I don’t think you can put a license on it because you are not the author.

Once a RISC-V phone comes out running some relatively normal Linux distro is out, I’ll buy it as a tinker with phone. At least it’ll be a portable battery powered device to run full desktop Linux when docked the boot sequence in five minutes.

But seriously, right now RISC-V’s performance sucks, to the point of daily driving Linux is a suffering.

Until the new Temporal API comes along, there are some libraries we can use.

• luxon
• dayjs
• or compile chrono (Rust) to WebAssembly