A Slint fanboy from Berlin.

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  • Tobias Hunger@programming.devtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Are you using systemd or an alternative, what do you recommend?
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    1 day ago

    Filesystem enable age verification in pretty much the same way as systemd does: You can optionally store a user’s birthday. That is such a ridiculous statement.

    To be fair: None of the other inits cared for udev. None contributed or helped by providing features they wanted to improve udev. The systemd devs care for the lower level plumbing overall… and not just for the init system. So it is very natural for low level plumbing projects to land under the systemd umbrella today.

    Systemds track record wrt. security flaws is actually pretty good. Not many went through the cracks,maven though some were indeed pretty ghastly. Hardly any was in the core functionality, most were in new code not widely used yet.

    On the other hand, the service hardening that systemd enables has improved the overall security of a typical Linux system by quite a lot.

  • Tobias Hunger@programming.devtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Are you using systemd or an alternative, what do you recommend?
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    1 day ago

    What you can expect when switching from a system management tool written for Linux to an init tool targetting the least common denominator of general Unix functionality?

    Less functionality, less security, less information about the state the system is in, less reliable switching between states and a whole lot less of linux kernel features exposed to your use in convenient ways.

    It’s not as if systemd was started to be complicated, the world got complicated. E.g. we used to just create all the device nodes in /dev statically during system installation. Then USB became a thing and supported so many different kinds of devices with thousands of potential ports to connect them to. They would not fit into the device node namespace! So we needed to make device nodes dynamic, which is also convenient.You do not have lots of device nodes that do not exist on your system and you no longer need to change system configuration when you plug your mouse into another port of your system.

    Filesystems, security (often linux specific) features, everything is easy more complex (and more dynamic) today than it was when sysv init was a thing. That simple stuff was great when you had to power off your machine to change its available devices. It is less cool when you plug an USB-C cable into your laptop and want to use all the stuff that is now suddenly available.

  • Tobias Hunger@programming.devtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Facing problems using Bazzite for software development
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    5 months ago

    First off, you do not need to know most of that stuff. Tooling around container-based development is really nice nowadays. It just works almost all the time – and way more often than in mutable setups.

    As a beginner you can not really transfer docs from one distribution to another, so you look for docs on your distribution and ask in the official support channels. Those of bazzite are pretty responsive and will be able to help. The community is able to help way better than in a traditional system where every installation is almost but not exactly the same.

    Nothing is as bad as accidentally removing some important OS files and not knowing how to restore them. That will just not happen in an immutable setup.

    I have installed immutable distros on lots of computers and the users usually are happier than they were on traditional linux: Nothing breaks anymore, the setup is way more solid. Its great for me, too, as I need to support them less often.

    Seriously, you should give this a try: Immutable OSes are a huge step forward. Takes a few days to get used to, but I am pretty sure you will not want to go back afterwards.