The Chat/Spam Thread

[anon]

I ,myself, this year, broke CentOS, Ubuntu ( first two at work, one was a server and the other was my main laptop ) and OpenSuse Tumbleweed instances because of quirks in their packaging like ungodly dependency trees, having to link against the right C libraries and generally no way of approaching some issues except finding some forum post from 7 years ago.

I don't see this sort of horror stories ever disappearing without something equivalent to WinSxS. Microsoft learned that lesson early on, Linux still hasn't (although the sheer amount of distro/library/version/architecture combinations perhaps makes it impossible to solve the problem that way).

Haven't tried NixOS, making a note to do so when I have some time.

anon, the OG Arch user. I'm jelly, you probably got into Arch before me.

You praise me too much. All I did was install it, check it out and then delete that VM within the same afternoon

[buttnudge]

You praise me too much. All I did was install it, check it out and then delete that VM within the same afternoon

anon, I...

[Sazzy]

Well, I will agree that if everything you do on there can be fully handled by a package manager, most of my Linux dislikes disappear and it's fine.
I should probably have another look at a recent distro/version, as most of my experience was years ago and half of the things I was installing required manual compilation and installation instead of just doing an apt-get call.

[anon]

anon, I...

You what I used to install and test operating systems for fun and learning. Think I did Microsoft's entire catalog as of 2010, except for Xenix and OS/2 (which were very hard to virtualize reliably at the time). Here's that screenshot again.



(VMware Workstation is now free, what a great time to be alive!)