What should I do?

#silverblue #fedora #fedoraatomic #nixos #arch #archBTW #linux #poll

Controversial #Opinion: Archinstall makes #archlinux harder to use.

If you do your install by hand, you know what was installed, you know how jankily it was done, and you know (presumably) what to look at when you screw something up in 3 years because it's been so stable you forgot you're supposed to read the news before updating.

If you use archinstall, you don't necessarily know exactly what packages were installed unless you're a particularly diligent admin. If you're using archinstall I can only assume you're not a particularly diligent admin. So when it breaks in 8 months because library Xyz.69420.so requires a manual adjustment that alpm can't handle you're SOL because you don't even know you have Xyz.69420.so on your system.

#dllhell #controversialopinion #linux #archbtw #badmins #foss #floss

It occurs to me that Unix and other sorts of computer elitists have more in common with Mac users than they would admit (or at least, their stereotype of them).
They both treat computers as a status symbol. The only difference is whether the computer itself is the status symbol or if it's how they use it.

#ArchBTW

Unsolicited update regarding today's experiences with pro audio/VSTs on Linux:
'yabridge', a nifty server doing the translation between Windows VSTs and my Linux-native DAW, has been abandoned since late 2024 and is critically broken with recent Wine versions.

I'm afraid this means going full-Wine on Reaper, or just sticking to my dual-boot setup. Which realistically means I'll mostly be on Windows as daily driver again.

Hoping this isn't the be-all, end-all, but for now, my Linux partition will be relegated to gaming/office work.

#proaudio #archbtw #linux #endof10