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I’m not sure what GNU is going to do. A while back they announced that they wanted to make sure free software phones were going to be a thing, but i don’t think they’re forking android to do it.

Oh yeah don’t get me wrong i 100% agree.

From an ideological point of view i respect the fact that people want software to stay free of AI, but realistically how feasible is it going to be to have something be completely free of it? If someone for example contributes to this project and they used AI assistance to write the code, but never disclose it, how would you know? When that happens this “minus-ai” fork will also have AI code in it and there’s nothing you can do about that it seems.

I’m sure this post isn’t going to be controversial at all lol

I’m confused on why you think ubuntu and omarchy can’t also be part of that “culture” you describe. It’s also a bit different for omarchy. Part of it is that it’s just another arch flavor that isn’t all that special, but everyone started talking about it all of a sudden, which made people grow tired of hearing about it pretty quickly (kinda reminds me of what happened to ghostty tbh). The other part of it is its creator being a conspiracy weirdo, which puts people off.

You can choose between things like flatpak or aur packages, but you’re gonna have to use pacman either way, since your core packages are still managed by pacman even if you decide to install most things through flatpak. Just wanted to point that out in case you were thinking of not using it at all anymore, cause it’s definitely not good to have your system get extremely out of date overtime. Having said that, it’s a matter of preference. The aur has more packages available, but flatpak has verified packages available, so assuming you stick to those, it could be safer. It also offers things like sandboxing. When i was on arch i only used the aur. I usually go with whatever has the most packages available or whatever is most convenient.

I don’t think elogind hooks into other inits directly, but it it is a fork of the logind part of systemd that has been altered so that it can work without systemd, if that’s what you mean.

You have become systemd-free

I had similar thoughts, but at the same time i honestly think that wouldn’t be an issue because of the nature of linux and it being free and open source. There’s bound to be distros out there that won’t conform to whatever bs the corpos come up with.

Luckily i barely use discord, but i have one small usecase for it where it is pretty much irreplacable, which is that i use it to voice chat with a friend when playing games with crossplay support, since he is on ps5, and discord now having ps5 support makes that the go-to app.

Not sure if i agree with you on the performance part. There’s definitely people out there that try to find the “fastest” init and some inits out there definitely boot faster. I personally don’t care about it that much since it’s usually a matter of a few seconds, but it is a thing.

Well maybe it’s a hot take on my end, but i feel like if you can’t invest some time in learning a new OS then maybe it’s just not a good idea to switch, and that’s ok. Having said that, i’m obviously not opposed to trying to make linux easier to get into.

Gruvbox is probably my favorite theme. I configured a handfull of themes for my rice but gruvbox and tokyonight are the ones i use the most. I’m a dark user though >:)

I’m using shepherd right now and i’ve used runit in the past. Shepherd is definitely a beast of its own since it’s configured in guile scheme, but in the case of runit it just runs schell scripts and the commands are for the most part just as simple as systemd. I’ve seen people claim that some programs won’t work without systemd but i’ve never come across something that didn’t work.

I can’t help but wonder how those people you speak of use a computer at all tbh, when windows requires troublehooting as well, especially with how much of a buggy mess windows 11 is.

Well they have xbps-src, which is often compared to the aur but it’s not really the same thing. It doesn’t provide any extra packages on top of the default repos, but it’s their package build system that you can use to create package templates (so like pkgbuild files in arch) and build your own packages with them. If you look hard enough you can probably find other peoples templates out there though if they’ve put them on github or something.

I think both Artix and Void have also said that they do not plan to implement age attestation. I haven’t used Artix all that much aside from playing around with it in a vm, but i have daily driven Void for about 2 years total probably. Artix is probably the easiest to install if you choose the gui installer. Void has a guided ncurses installer and it isn’t super difficult, but it does help if you have some experience with manually installing arch. In particular they’ll ask you to format your drive using a cli tool. Void does offer an xfce image though, so once you get it installed you’ve got a gui ready to go. Runit is pretty simple to use. It uses shell scripts so that’s something to keep in mind if you want to create a custom service, but other than that you basically just use ln -s commands to enable services, sv down to stop, and sv up to start a service.

There’s always Guix for a declarative system without systemd :)

I just watched the video about what’s going on with River from Brodie Robertson, cause i was very confused on why it became “river-classic” all of a sudden, but this new development looks really cool! River was already my favorite compositor so far, but i’ll definitely want to experiment with this new implementation and the window managers that exist for it.

I bought a Womier RD75 pro last year, after getting scared away from keychron because of the many horror stories. Been really happy with it so far. The only thing it’s missing from your list is a wrist rest, but you could always find one separately. It does have rgb backlighting but i will say it is pretty dim. I decided to turn it off on mine since the keycaps don’t let any light pass through anyway. Also has wireless support, both bluetooth and 2.4ghz. The keys should be programmable with VIA.

I just noticed after typing this that you use your keyboard on the couch? Is that correct? In that case i don’t think i’d recommend the Womier to you because it’s a fucking brick, weighs like 2kg or something lol. It’s nice on a desk, but probably not desirable when you have it on your lap and you keep moving it around.