β² 787 βΌ "They just have to read the documentation" (discuss.tchncs.de) submitted 1 year ago by Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 175 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[β] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 year ago (3 children) I use Alpine, tbh I dont see why I should learn an entire programming language just for a distro permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [β] lilith267@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago (3 children) Alpine just feels like everything on my system is there for a reason (and somehow makes arch feel "bloated") so I 100% understand wanting a full config file for everything on your system. But DAMN THE DOCS SUCK. Also NixOS locks you into systemd... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [β] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 child) I keep seeing this sentiment, what's wrong with systemd? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] scintilla@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) nothing. It's an ideological thing that says systemd bad because its not Unix enough usually. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago Lmao gotcha. I won't worry about it then. Currently distro shopping. π permalink fedilink source parent [β] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago I have an old Laptop with a second gen i3 and 4gb of ram. Alpine runs very smoothly with Sway. permalink fedilink source parent [β] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago NixOS locks you into systemdβ¦ Okay! Nix is out until it fixes that. What a fucking mess systemd is. permalink fedilink source parent [β] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child) Why do you use Alpine? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 child) Very old computer permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago Alpine actually isn't more lightweight than something like Debian. You can use whatever you want of course. I think Alpine is best used in a container. permalink fedilink source parent [β] iopq@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* Because whenever I use apt or a similar standard package manager there is always some issue. For example, I start up an Ubuntu VPS and try to run nginx just to find out that Ubuntu 24 only has 1.24 And to get a newer version you need to do a bunch of steps: https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/installing-nginx/installing-nginx-open-source/#stable_vs_mainline How are these sources.list incantations any different from editing a configuration.nix file? permalink fedilink source parent
[β] lilith267@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago (3 children) Alpine just feels like everything on my system is there for a reason (and somehow makes arch feel "bloated") so I 100% understand wanting a full config file for everything on your system. But DAMN THE DOCS SUCK. Also NixOS locks you into systemd... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [β] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 child) I keep seeing this sentiment, what's wrong with systemd? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] scintilla@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) nothing. It's an ideological thing that says systemd bad because its not Unix enough usually. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago Lmao gotcha. I won't worry about it then. Currently distro shopping. π permalink fedilink source parent [β] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago I have an old Laptop with a second gen i3 and 4gb of ram. Alpine runs very smoothly with Sway. permalink fedilink source parent [β] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago NixOS locks you into systemdβ¦ Okay! Nix is out until it fixes that. What a fucking mess systemd is. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 child) I keep seeing this sentiment, what's wrong with systemd? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] scintilla@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) nothing. It's an ideological thing that says systemd bad because its not Unix enough usually. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago Lmao gotcha. I won't worry about it then. Currently distro shopping. π permalink fedilink source parent
[β] scintilla@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) nothing. It's an ideological thing that says systemd bad because its not Unix enough usually. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago Lmao gotcha. I won't worry about it then. Currently distro shopping. π permalink fedilink source parent
[β] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago Lmao gotcha. I won't worry about it then. Currently distro shopping. π permalink fedilink source parent
[β] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago I have an old Laptop with a second gen i3 and 4gb of ram. Alpine runs very smoothly with Sway. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago NixOS locks you into systemdβ¦ Okay! Nix is out until it fixes that. What a fucking mess systemd is. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child) Why do you use Alpine? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 child) Very old computer permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago Alpine actually isn't more lightweight than something like Debian. You can use whatever you want of course. I think Alpine is best used in a container. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 child) Very old computer permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago Alpine actually isn't more lightweight than something like Debian. You can use whatever you want of course. I think Alpine is best used in a container. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago Alpine actually isn't more lightweight than something like Debian. You can use whatever you want of course. I think Alpine is best used in a container. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] iopq@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* Because whenever I use apt or a similar standard package manager there is always some issue. For example, I start up an Ubuntu VPS and try to run nginx just to find out that Ubuntu 24 only has 1.24 And to get a newer version you need to do a bunch of steps: https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/installing-nginx/installing-nginx-open-source/#stable_vs_mainline How are these sources.list incantations any different from editing a configuration.nix file? permalink fedilink source parent
