I don’t like containerisation because it leads to bullshit like atomic distros. I don’t want a spicy Android.
Steam OS has some cool elements like the menu, the in-game side panels and the game mode/desktop dichotomy, but incremental rolling release is utterly deranged from my POV as an Arch user (btw).
If the borrow checker fails, the thing in their hand might throw some very effective error messages.
I’m not gonna fire up Windows (Update) for this, but shouldn’t the bootloader handle this?
Arch KDE and SteamOS.
Redox OS or React OS lol
Arch Linux doesn’t have a store AFAIK.
I don’t use APT-based distributions or store-based software aquisition, so I don’t know about that, but I see how that lessens my point. I was just using a steam installation as an example for context, you could replace it with anything with sketchy licenses.
I have no experience with DNF, but both APT and Pacman are not the best solutions for beginners, simply because their extensibility relies on weirdness like PPAs and the AUR or even just different repositories.
One example would be installing Steam:
APT sudo add-apt multiverse && sudo apt update && sudo apt install steam
Pacman sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf && sudo pacman -Syu steam [Enabling multilib by uncommenting two lines in package manager file]
This is just partially the fault of the Linux distributions, package managers or package repositories (licensing issues), but the ease of installing could be better even with the legal issues afoot.
Sure, to us experienced with changing configuration of package managers this seems a bit lazy or untrve, but for those who are new to Linux or software configuration in general, these instructions can look like crawling into the equivalent of Windows Registry simply to install Steam.
Did I misunderstand something or is that an c++InCel-joke?
Did I misunderstand something or is that an InCel-joke?
It’s one thing when they have legacy hardcode mountains preventing a standardisation, but I really dislike developers who just disagree with the standard and take away the choice as well and justify it with some made up problems with that standard.
https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/864
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735285
etc…
Archlinux Wiki even has an article about those.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory#Hardcoded
Say Plasma “breaks” - a wiki will not help fast enough.
I’m not trying to defend rolling release for a gaming console, but give me at least the option to decide for myself whether I’m ok with breakage or not. There is this kernelspace NT driver that I wanted to try, but I couldn’t because pacman is locked.