Yeah. Same energy as ‘why are you making me hit you?’

I think it’s sort of a big problem to solve because there’s no corporate backing or down stream derivatives contributing a lot back, making a fully curated repo hard to achieve. I wouldn’t mind a fully vetted AUR either but I don’t think the community can get there with the current resources.

Nix honestly sounds really awesome. When I tried it long, it kept on running into edge cases for things that weren’t really working well like properitery drivers or old ass packages that needed a lot of workarounds. It sounds like it would be amazing on a server/vm.

You want little bit of the ability to customize everything without having to compile from scratch every time? You want a well documented system that has excellent documentation and a community that digs into most edge cases? You want upstream fixes ASAP because your team of volunteers are struggling to backport fixes?

It has its place. I’m saying this as someone who uses Debian and red hat derivatives extensively.

To me slow roll, tumbleweed and fedora were good contenders for the same slot but none of them let you completely fuck around with the design like Arch does.

Tiber and Xinjiag too

It’s kind of funny how Adam Smith saw the need for moral philosophy to constrain greed in the economics of capitalism yet for most modern capitalists, capitalism is their moral philosophy 🤣

Thank you. Honestly that had not really crossed my mind. I’m on the spectrum so I take people literally sometimes. That seems like a very real possibility.

Thank you! I’ll try this out. I’ve been mostly using it while playing around with new things rather than to expand scaffolding on existing stuff.

However what I find frustrating is that it so confidently gives you garbage sometimes. I was trying to configure some stuff in docker that needed a very extensive yaml config. It confidently gave me flags and keys to accomplish what I wanted that looked logical and fit in with rest of the style but simply did not exist.

Thank you! That’s been my experience as well. It just gives you insidious junk that you have to be vigilant to catch. That is so much more stressful for me than having to deal with repetitive stuff.

I can’t fathom how people are claiming it generated whole projects for them.

I’ve found it okay to get a general feel for stuff but I’ve been given insidiously bad code. Functions and data structures that look similar enough to real stuff but are deeply wrong or non+existent.