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MischievousTomato @ MischievousTomato @lemdro.id
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Why don't more distributions have something like the AUR when it's the main reason why so many people use Arch Linux?

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  • nix.dev, the nix manual, the nixpkgs manual, https://ianthehenry.com/posts/how-to-learn-nix/

    You'll also learn from reading nixpkgs code and other people's nix setups.

    • Why don't more distributions have something like the AUR when it's the main reason why so many people use Arch Linux?

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  • Same. Exactly. Packaging can be a bit more complex, but once you get it, it's great. There's even the NUR, but I havent used it.

    • Why don't more distributions have something like the AUR when it's the main reason why so many people use Arch Linux?

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  • It's so kino. Incredibly hard to learn and much more to master, but much more powerful. Nothing beats easily modifying a derivation's source, or adding patches or build options or whatever you want.

    • Why don't more distributions have something like the AUR when it's the main reason why so many people use Arch Linux?

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  • Things are getting better as snaps and flatpaks gain popularity, but both of those systems have lots of issues of their own, and arguably aren’t anywhere near as good as a proper native package for your distro. Flatpaks don’t really work for CLI tools. Snaps are stupidly slow. Both snaps and flatpaks still struggle with theming. Applications installed with either take up way more space than their natively-packaged equivalents.

    Flatpaks would beat native packages if they didn't have a trillion papercuts and issues. I'm on NixOS because I want to avoid using flatpak.

    • Why don't more distributions have something like the AUR when it's the main reason why so many people use Arch Linux?

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  • Fedora has COPR, Opensuse has the OBS (which also works for other distros), NixOS (my beloved) has overlays...

    • this is cirno (plural)

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  • she's so cute.

    • Mastodon for Android update (July 1, 2023)

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  • it's mostly focused on adding pleroma/akkoma support. It can show and add custom reactions (only when someone else has already added one on a post), and some other stuff. But it's not a good app. Images take ages to load!

    • this is cirno

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  • i wanna turn that cirno into a mom

    • Mastodon for Android update (July 1, 2023)

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  • That's so nice. Husky for Android (pleroma/akkoma/soapbox) app works nicely, but is broken in some places and aesthetically outdated.

    • Unpopular opinion : Bing is a better search engine than Google when it comes to piracy

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  • Thanks, I used to use Bing as my default search engine for a while and it sucked for anything if you needed more than the 1st page of results

    • NixOs why?

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  • Lets you do a lot of things...

    • define your own system config, down to configuration for each program or service
    • lets you modify package (derivations) easily. Need to enable a compilation option, change source, add a patch, etc? You can do it.
    • Can revert between system generations in case of bugs or whatever reason

    • this is cirno and reimu

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  • cute cirno

    • Hu Tao sexy cop outfit

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  • fuck, thats good