That’s the sad reality right now though. To reach the crazies you need people who can get to them. The way things are, they see every outside criticism as invalid and unimportant. You need someone who can cut across that.

They couldn’t be even bothered to do the decent thing at this point and train and arm the rebels! /s

I think it’s sort of a big problem to solve because there’s no corporate backing or down stream derivatives contributing a lot back, making a fully curated repo hard to achieve. I wouldn’t mind a fully vetted AUR either but I don’t think the community can get there with the current resources.

Nix honestly sounds really awesome. When I tried it long, it kept on running into edge cases for things that weren’t really working well like properitery drivers or old ass packages that needed a lot of workarounds. It sounds like it would be amazing on a server/vm.

You want little bit of the ability to customize everything without having to compile from scratch every time? You want a well documented system that has excellent documentation and a community that digs into most edge cases? You want upstream fixes ASAP because your team of volunteers are struggling to backport fixes?

It has its place. I’m saying this as someone who uses Debian and red hat derivatives extensively.

To me slow roll, tumbleweed and fedora were good contenders for the same slot but none of them let you completely fuck around with the design like Arch does.

Tiber and Xinjiag too

It’s kind of funny how Adam Smith saw the need for moral philosophy to constrain greed in the economics of capitalism yet for most modern capitalists, capitalism is their moral philosophy 🤣

I would push back and say that he’s trying to implement the mandate he got elected on using the levers he has. In an ideal system the legislature should set the boundaries but that isn’t the US right now.

Good point. The difference between wisdom and intelligence. You don’t need high IQ to be wise.

I’m already feeling like 30 is the new 60 🤣 Worrying about everything going tits up and white knuckling the wheel.