Man, I remember watching this guy about ten years ago. Great channel!

Yeah, but in my experience it isn’t great. Salix is a lot nicer.

Of course, your mileage may vary. There are definitely still a lot of true slackers out there!

Since the XNU kernel is part Mach, part OSFMK, and part FreeBSD, all NeXT machines and all Macs made since the 2000s run BSD.

KDE Liquid is also a thing.

Well, it started out as a basic windowing system for DOS, so…

No, that bit’s funny. I mean the running joke about Linux audio being bad.

You know, I don’t get this joke. I have been using Linux and BSD since 2019, and the only incident I ever had was with sndio(7), and that was because I decided to switch to the -current branch of OpenBSD without heeding the warnings.

Apart from that, whether I was using ALSA, PulseAudio, PipeWire, JACK, or OSS (on FreeBSD), I always had a perfect experience.

Tox is interesting, though potentially less secure than Briar as they rolled their own encryption and have not been audited (afaik).

GuixSD wasn’t an option on Tiermaker, but I have used it. I personally found it hardier than NixOS, but the libre-only package selection was quite restrictive and the lack of the non-free iwlwifi driver prevented me from installing it on any of my boxes other than my 2007 MacBook. I know this is the point, but it’s still annoying.

Like 9front and Haiku, I hope to daily-drive it someday; but at the moment it is sadly quite unsuitable for my hardware, workflow, and use-case.

For me, it’s the combination of its American base, its lack of disk encryption in the installer, the fact that I’ve never managed to get a usable installation, and the fact that Mageia (another Mandriva derivative) and Salix (a Slackware-based distro with a similar UX) are objectively better.

If you are happy with PCLOS, however, godspeed.

I used to run it on my Raspberry Pi 5 without complaint.

Some stuff did take a while to compile, but the trick is to do other things — like make some tea, go for a walk, or watch TV — instead of staring at the terminal the whole time (I am 100% serious; this is not sarcasm).

Idk, autism?

I want to like NixOS. I love the idea of declarative system configuration, but I always found NixOS quite easy to break. It also didn’t seem to like Eduroam much.

Well, I began in 2019, but I distrohopped a lot.

Here’s mine:

• Note 1: This tierlist only includes distros I’ve tried.
• Note 2: Slackware would rank higher now; I made this about month ago.
• Note 3: The “noob” tier doesn’t mean the distro is bad. If it weren’t there, Mint would rank higher.

Here it is in greentext form:

>"error on line 42"
>look inside
>no code on line 42

mfw python throws errors about other peoples code

That happens all the time with Python. It often shows me errors in the imported modules, which are easily confused with my own code if I’m tired and don’t read the message properly.

Even better!

Torrent is fully decentralised and therefore accessible in practically all jurisdictions, regardless of the server status.

In many cases, I have also found Torrents to be considerably faster than direct downloads — however, your mileage may vary.

It has completion reminiscent of fish, the syntax of bash, the weight of ksh, and the POSIX compliance of sh.

suckless.org quite like it, too.