CarrotsHaveEars

1/10 Do not recommend

Want to learn? Buy a current computer (secondhand to save money) that has a blazing fast CPU, shit loads of RAM, and any AMD graphics card. Running into trouble is no fun for beginners. You’ll quickly feel depressed and lose interest.

For the learning part, follow any distro’s official installation guide and do it step by step. Learn which part of the systems does what, and how to set it up, how to debug.

And stick to Ethernet connection before you get comfortable. (Shitty) Wi-fi ICs more often than not have driver issues.

For the old laptop, sell it for parts if you’re not feeling nostalgic.

For the last time, buy a new computer, please.

Back in the day when embedded devices are running Linux kernel 2.6, the kernel is gzipped and saved to an SPI flash, then extracted to RAM and run from there.

Does that sound immutable enough to you?

The decision on this design wasn’t for an immutable system, but just that flash chips were expensive. Immutability was an accidental achievement.

Actually we developers dreamed every day we can directly modify the operating system ad hoc, not needing to go through the compile-flash-boot agonising process just to debug a config file.

You see, my point is, when a system is in good hands, it just does not break. End of story.

Maybe the next time before you guys press Enter after pacman -Syyu (not exclusively saying your distro is bad, Arch pals, sorry), think about the risk and recovery plan. If you are just an end user expecting 100% uptime and rarely contributing (reporting bugs at least), consider switch to a more stable distro (I heard Debian is good), and ask yourself if you want an immutable distro, or do you just want a super stable system.

You could have booted the old kernel in Grub.

I think “atomic” means “a bunch of actions grouped together as one action”, so that the system won’t end up in a state where some required actions are missing and becomes unusable. But it doesn’t mean it’s unto itself making a system unbreakable: If your system starts in a state of malfunctioning, then it also takes a series of actions to fix it, be it atomic or not.

Most Linux distributions start in the state of functioning after installation.

Tried multiple attempts to make myself understand CMake with no success. With GNU Make it just explains itself.

Wrong community, dude.

I don’t recall doing any regular updates

You needed to buy a modem to get online

If you stay offline, you don’t need upgrading to prevent virus or hacking. That’s the norm in the good old days.

Is there a filter to block all these EU OS posts, please?

As I see it, it’s hardly an open source project but just some malicious start up attempting to get funded by EU then flee off.

Show me your production ready OS, not your POC boot screens.

And perhaps properly name your product. Naming it after ‘EU’ is self-righteous. What comes next? Earth OS?

You know what they say: (⁠☞⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)⁠☞Fight executive’s bullshit with executive’s bullshit.

Personally I would happily let my AI bot attend the stupid scrum meetings for me. Let it tell my scrum master and stakeholders whatever the progress of my day of work and in the sprint. Don’t bother me in my coding time.

Well, with root enabled, the SSH server at least need to verify the key, no? It’s wasting CPU power albeit tiny amount.

Decapitation Day.

Do you just want to see the text content of a HTML file? - a text editor

Do you want most, if not all, HTML tags to be rendered as pretty graphical shapes?

Do you want the text have proper fonts?

Styles? You need something to parse CSS files.

What about dynamically generated content like ten smiley faces? You need a JavaScript engine.

Do you also want to see iframes? You need it to be capable of sending XHR requests.

What if it references to a piece of WebAssembly?

It’s way more complicated than you anticipated.

Since your computer is running Windows 11 already, I would recommend you look for a Linux distro without considering if it’s gaming-friendly. Linux is great for certain productivity tasks.

For dualbooting, most official Linux installation guides offer detailed steps for that. Grub (the boot management program) is well tested and widely used.

All you guys said is true. You could get hacked blah blah blah. But to a gamer, a machine exclusively for gaming doesn’t take any of that as a concern. Want to hack my machine? Go ahead! As long as you don’t delete my games, be my guest. I don’t save credit card information on it anyway.

But none of that happens in my case. I don’t game on or run Windows. I’m just here to provide a point of view.

Or, you know, run it in a chroot.

What’s wrong with http://makemkv.com/? I’ve used it for years for lossless backup DVD/BD and no issue.

Only 6 people died in a country with 350 million people and you think it’s fine? How does 0 people die of this sound?

There are so many posts about made in EU software recently. What happened?

What you described as the weakness, is actually what is strong of an open source system. If you compile a binary for a certain system, say Debian 10, and distribute the binary to someone who is also running a Debian 10 system, it is going to work flawlessly, and without overhead because the target system could get the dependency on their own.

The lack of ability to run a binary which is for a different system, say Alpine, is as bad as those situations when you say you can’t run a Windows 10 binary on Windows 98. Alpine to Debian, is on the same level of that 10 to 98, they are practically different systems, only marked behind the same flag.