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Government thugs interrogating me in a Project 2027 concentration camp cell: "we know you gave someone named 'homeassistant', born on 1970-01-01, access to your server, now tell use where they are!"
Yikes, I better look at some alternatives to distros that use Systemd as that contributor really rubbed me the wrong way...He was way TOO eager to comply, much like the corporations like Distro and Microsoft are. KaOS looks like a cool option, but Garuda Linux for the time being has no interest in complying with any age verification laws that are happening overseas in places that don't have anything to do with their European home base. I'd really have to change from Fedora because...Yeah, they'd be jumping on that Age Verification train in all likelyhood. KaOS would be a fine diversion away from systemd because they plan on switching to dinit (as the devs are experimenting with it as we speak).
I have that site saved already, I was contemplating trying some of the distros on that list to be honest. Some of them scare me as the set-up is a bit more hands-on than I am currently comfortable with. It would require additional preparation to execute an install. Artix is probably one of the easiest to install, but some of the users say rancid shit all willy-nilly and I didn't want to be part of their community as a result. Since nobody batted an eye.
Personally, I liked MXLinux
I keep on looking at it...Remains to be seen if I make a decision on if I want to try it out.
Must be difficult if you judge an OS based on whether other users of it are nice online... how do you get anything done?
Sarcasm aside, I used to mod ad artix community back when I was using it and it was 99% support requests that have already been answered somewhere else... so like most other linux communities. And I've seen my share of toxic people in most of them. I mean, maybe it changed for the worst from when I last experienced it, but then, just don't participate in the community?
The OS itself is alright. Pretty much same as arch, but you hage to tinker more... It gets somewhat annoying writing your own init/unit files for each app that needs systemd, thats why I switched back to plain old arch. I can see the tradeoff being worth it if you dislike the systemd direction/philosophy enough.
And I hate that artix puts it's flair on KDE, just give me the vanilla experience, I don't want to manually remove your ugly theme.
LOL If I want to form community or interact with people within said community, them being decent is a requirement...I didn't judge the distro as bad. As Artix itself is pretty solid if you look at it in a vacuum, a basic base that could be customized to one's content. There was the weird choice that they decided to go with Xlibre instead of just Xorg, if you had to go with a depreciated display manager (like wayland is right there, why ignore the diva of the hour). I honestly used a lot of flatpaks, so init/unit script weren't a huge deal. I only needed to write one and it wasn't terrible in my personal experience before I switched away. As runit was quite straightforward, uncomplicated, it just did what it said on the tin and nothing extra. It was weird that a goose on the loose like me could do it. ROFL
The trade-off is worth it given that I think systemd is just doing a little TOO much in my opinion, becoming a lynch pin and critical in too many parts of distros. To the point that certain programs won't work without it installed, I just feel something is wrong with that. Technically it works for now, but, it could go to shit if systemd decides to pull a mini-Google maneuver.
I mean, it's basically an optional gecos field. That feels a bit like writing off *nix as a whole because /etc/passwd has a place to put your phone number.
It always starts off as optional as a form of normalization...Then gradually the boundaries are pushed until we get in a worse situation. So, I won't accept any form of age verification, optional or otherwise.
Yeah, with GECOS introducing the GECOS field, they normalized name verification, phone number verification, email address verification as well as location verification. So soon we should see those becoming mandatory and controlled.
Oh wait, that was 64 years ago, so by now we should already be in literally 1984, actually?! Or is it that no one actually gives a fuck about a handful of programs trying to read user data that no one set, and if they set it, set it to a nonsencial/false value without any component verifying anything?
The problem isn't libraries adding more optional field to their capabilites, but management systems (such as a distros installer) making them mandatory against user will. That is what users should actually object to. No installer or component I know actually sets the location field. However, some are already planing to require the birth of date field, which is the actual start to pushing any boundaries. So start protesting there.
Or, if you actually think that simple standards for how user data is stored is already malicious verification, your only option is probably, unironically, TempleOS, as even DOS stores user information, Country + TZ, available for other programs to fetch.
i would agree if this isn't open source. what you said is nearly impossible for open source software
Too true. And good on you.
laughs in runit