Linux @lemmy.ml tet @lemm.ee 9 mo. ago

What would you change about your favorite Linux distribution?

Examples could be things like specific configuration defaults or general decision-making in leadership.

What would you change?

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For Arch Linux:

support a different process supervisor

dinit, or

s6 with some high level sugar

don't use Bash anywhere

port down to POSIX, and

port up to Zsh

port minimal launchers to execline

replace PKGBUILD format, maybe with

nearly identical but Zsh

NestedText containing Zsh snippets

use this to render Zsh based on templates

my favorite template engine: wheezy.template

build packages with more optimizations, like the CachyOS repos

include or endorse something like aconfmgr

port conf files to NestedText
- zsh
  
  Weird way to spell fish
- I couldn’t agree more with this, projects like artix are undermined by all the hard dependencies on systemd and Bash.
  
  Void attracted me because of the support for posix, runit and musl (plus good zfs support). It’s unfortunate that Arch doesn’t have that greater portability.
- But why zsh? I thought it's basically just bash?
  Why not fish, oil shell or whatever is up with ddevault's shell?
  
  There are many advantages relative to bash, especially much better array handling, and comprehensive globbing and expansion expressions. You can reduce your reliance on external tools, which may have multiple alternative implementations (a source of unpredictability).
  
  Some defenses are written up at
  
  https://www.arp242.net/why-zsh.html
  
  (not my post)
  
  For me, fish's differences from older shells count against it without offering any compelling benefits.
  
  Newer shells like nushell and oils/ysh are exciting and have a lot going on, but are not mature or familiar.

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