Post #4625091 · Elektrine

2026-09-05 17:00 UTC

Seconding that. I’ve just read through the website. Got interested. Then my eyes went to the top panel again finally, I’ve read “GitHub”, and my thoughts are “Huh? But this mismatches the rest of the page, especially with the AI stance and some push for simplicity combined with competence.”. Wend back here to write about it. /me a ~10 year old ArchLinux user (using Arch for this long, my Earth age nobody cares about including me anyway). I’m thinking if I wanna actually try this for real. I currently have manually written packages that define the OS dependencies and configuration, and I don’t like the mutability of everything, the default update handling of no-longer-dependencies, the .pacnew… I still like and appreciate Arch obviously, but the pain points connect.

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@vas@lemmy.ml 2026-09-05 17:10

Ah, and please add the stock -Suy process to the pain points. It alters the local database even when downloads haven’t fully finished (if you work with it as it is out-of-the-box), so if downloads fail mid-ways you have to remember to not dare installing any particular package before a full upgrade still. If you forget, you’re toast.

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@yxc999@lemmy.ml 2026-09-06 17:49

I took your suggestion to heart and decided to say fuck it and move my whole GitHub over to Codeberg. The non-profit nature, being hosted in Germany where I’m also from and ditching the last Microslop service I have make this something I should have done sooner. The only thing left is the repo for the website itself, I’m gonna set up the actions to automatically sync it with Hetzner tomorrow, I’m done for today!

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