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    Guess how I spent my morning... (startrek.website)
    submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I like to tinker, plus I can be absolutely assured that every problem with my system is 100% my fault, which actually makes it easier to track down any problems. But the main reasons people use Arch is probably the rolling release model and the AUR.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Yup, only reason I can't move on is because of the AUR and the rolling release, though, having said that I'm thinking of trying NixOS but not quite sure it's for me as it isn't posix. It seems some software doesn't really like that although I've heard it's pretty awesome as a server OS.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Yeah, I could see it being a good server OS, but otherwise NixOS seems like it's on the "immutable" thing that's popular right now. I've tried a few immutable distros, and they're not for me, I end up layering everything anyways lol

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

    Yhea, that's my though. I wanna keep up to date and quite frequently change my system. I like having the reproducibility but feel like the immutable might get in the way. My servers though stay pretty static.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    It isn't necessarily your fault as it is unstable software. It is going to break and fall apart. I feel like having a homelab is a much more productive way to tinker.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

    Arch isn't unstable, I just keep breaking things in my ignorance. The only thing in this scenario I could pin on Arch is that the "ca-certificates" package should have been marked as a dependency for pacman, but I guess it's not strictly a dependency, as you can use pacman to install stuff from a local repo. Definitely for Firefox, though, as you can not browse the internet without the certs.