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Wednesday, February 21, 2024

[08:16:05] aaabbb was what?

[09:37:01] aaabbb gentoo

[09:37:38] aaabbb it's fun

[09:38:10] aaabbb does your computer have bad fans?

[09:39:23] aaabbb any decent computer will easily handle that

[09:39:37] aaabbb unless you're compiling libreoffice every day (and you can use libreoffice-bin to avoid compiling)

[09:41:41] aaabbb yeah, it lets me enable experimental features on a per-package basis, and turn off features i don't like

[09:42:29] aaabbb i don't like how eog doesn't support webp on any major distribution, but all i have to do is USE=webp for the eog package and now it supports it

[09:45:27] aaabbb guix is also pretty extreme :p

[09:46:48] aaabbb ahh

[09:46:57] aaabbb it's a big change from how all other distros work

[09:49:36] aaabbb it's better than trisquel i'm sure

[09:50:08] aaabbb guix? just because trisquel is kinda meh

[09:50:36] aaabbb it's a generic foss extremist distro, it doesn't bring anything new to the table that debian without non-free sources and a linux-libre kernel wouldn't bring

[09:52:02] aaabbb but guix on the other hand has a very neat package manager that is a complete paradigm shift

[09:52:15] aaabbb which makes it worth using for reasons other than "it's super foss"

[09:53:58] aaabbb goodlings8: it's just that trisquel is *too* niche

[09:54:18] aaabbb so it's only for people who want something extremely foss

[09:54:47] aaabbb chromium-tester: enable developer mode i think

[09:56:12] aaabbb goodlings8: the problem is a lot of us have to be pragmatic

[09:56:26] aaabbb and even tho we'd rather everything be fully foss, sometimes we have to use something that isn't

[09:58:24] aaabbb goodlings8: with gentoo you can select LICENSES="@FSF -*" to only allow FSF-approved licenses

[09:58:41] aaabbb then you can make individual exceptions if you absolutely need to

[10:01:46] aaabbb i've never used arch

[10:03:09] aaabbb that's what i use gentoo for

[10:03:14] aaabbb it's like arch, but with even more customization

[10:03:43] aaabbb yep, called overlays

[10:04:58] aaabbb and packages are very well organized

[10:05:15] aaabbb like sys-utils/debugfs or www-clients/chromium

[10:05:28] aaabbb no you don't

[10:05:38] aaabbb why would you need to hex edit anything?

[10:06:16] aaabbb goodlings8: portage, gentoo's package manager, is based on freebsd's ports :p

[10:08:01] aaabbb kobayashi maru was NOT about cheating

[10:08:13] aaabbb it was about admitting that something is unsolvable but fighting to the death

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