Programmer by day, burnt out by night.

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  • My first was Ubuntu in a VM because everyone recommended it, I distro hopped in VMs until I just ended up using Mint in a VM almost exclusively. It was when I complained to someone about the issues with the VM when locking the laptop and they asked me “Why not just run that system as-is?” that I installed it for real.

    I’ve also used Manjaro for half a year, a very minimal Arch+i3 install (without the install script because I wanted the “real experience”) for about 1.5 year, and dual booted Bazzite and Mint on my gaming PC for a year (it’s just Mint now), all the while trying out other distros big and small on older hardware or in VMs.

    I don’t feel I’ve found “the one”, but somehow I keep coming back to Mint… Although, perhaps NixOS is it… Who knows?












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    5 days ago

    Shame they didn’t mention that homebrew is a security nightmare and will happily download maliciously modified code

    That’s so true, I was missing this part! With homebrew you’re at the mercy of whoever put the package out there, much like with installers (and nix to be fair)

    Edit: omg then the author claims flatpak is better for security?!? It has the same nightmare security issues.

    LMAO no‽ Flatpaks can be verified, and you can choose not to install unverified flatpaks (which you should!) They are also containerised pretty well by default, in case they’re malicious!






  • To add to @ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today

    The uutils are MIT licensed, simply put it means “do whatever you want with it, as long as you credit us”.
    The coreutils are GPL, simply put “do whatever you want with it but only in other GPL works, also credit us”.

    The coreutils make sure forks will also be open source.
    While the uutils aren’t closed source, they do allow you to make closed source forks.

    The uutils’ license is too permissive.