NireBryce

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with nix and homebrew your distro quirks are elided, things like the Awesome Lists are used more than package managers for a lot of things because being behind in features for months is much different in the age of collaboration.

I can't help but think maybe distro package maintainers might be better situated if they maintained packages themselves, or at least the parts with similar roles to their previous ones.

i don't know the depths of it and I'm sure I'm missing a lot, but the last decade past like, 2014 has felt like linux distros are largely duplicated work and what sets them apart from each other for most users is largely the package management schemes and piles of scripts.

but like, we already have package managers that can just fake the directory structure your distro expects. so it comes down to scripts and maybe security layer etc. but you can. just not. have those be platform specific right.

The Distribution, even new weird ones like void, feels like it's stuck in the era of when FOSS was fighting for it's life as large companies tried to encircle it so they decided to compete. but now live CDs in magazines are absurd because you're only going to use it once so you might as well just download the iso. we've already reduced installer size under the assumption you'll just have a broadband connection to pull down ancillary bits like the right drivers for your wifi card.

it feels like they haven't realized they won, or what the strength of linux or open source is. or maybe more charitably, they lost sight of that because now it's an Organization, and more than anything else, Organizations collect inertia at a startling rate if you don't plan for it from the start.

and yeah i know package maintenance can be fun for some of y'all and having to deal directly with devs is worse. but there will still be places for that, I think. projects just need way more acceptance of scripts and the like, but i think we're slowly moving to that the last few years, from what I've been seeing with places trying to reduce their "mean time before you can fuck around" to drive retention instead of making people do agonizing setup.

but, again, I'm probably missing at least four huge glaring issues, i only see it from the outside and the stories


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