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Cyclohexane

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  • Samba vs NFS vs SSHFS ?

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  • Wouldn't you be able to do the same with NFS?

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  • I do not have a lot of knowledge on this, but I suspect that nvidia does not support the GTX1070 that well on Linux.

    AND supports Linux better. As for nvidia, newer cards have a bit better support but I bet there's still some disparity.

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  • What do you mean by other roots? Isn't root only one?

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  • To summarize: the major difference is that Arch Linux gives you the latest versions of all programs and packages. You can update anytime, and you'll get the latest versions every time for all programs

    Debian follows a stable release model. Suppose you install debian 12 (bookworm). The software versions there are locked, and they're usually not the latest versions. For example, the Linux kernel there is version 6.1, whereas the latest is like 6,9 or something. Neovim is version 0.7, whereas the latest is 0.9. Those versions will remain this way, unless you update to, say, debian 13 whenever it comes out. But if you do your regular system updates, it will only do security updates (which do not change the behavior of a program).

    You might wonder, why is the debian approach good? Stability. Software updates = changes. Changes could mean your setup that was previously working, suddenly isn't, because now the program changed behavior. Debian tries to avoid that by locking all versions, and making sure they are fully compatible. It also ensures that by doing this, you don't miss out on security updates.

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  • wine is not a distribution. It is a program that allows running windows applications on Linux, and is available on most distributions.

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  • Are you able to demonstrate with supporting evidence?

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  • Debian is not bad. It is just not suitable for newcomers using it for desktop. I think my arguments hold this stance.

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  • I unfortunately don't recall them by name, but there are distributions that are specific to Macbook and run better.

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  • Running something at start-up can be done multiple ways:

    • look into /etc/rc.d/rc.local
    • systemd (or whatever init system you use)
    • cron job

  • Goodbye EndeavourOS ARM

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  • Unpopular opinion, but Gentoo is perfect for ARM. Availability of pre built binaries for ARM can sometimes be an issue. Gentoo gives you the option to compile from source, so that if a package is available for x86, it will still most likely work with ARM

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  • Please feel free to make me a mod too. I am not crazy active, but I think my modest contributions will help.

    And I can make this kind of post on a biweekly or monthly basis :) I think weekly might be too often since the post frequency here isn't crazy high

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  • Thank you 😄

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  • Not sure what that is. Plesse explain more.

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  • Lots of eyes is not enough. As I mentioned earlier, there are many popular programs found on most machines, and some actually user facing (unlike xz) where vulnerabilities were caught months, years, and sometimes decades later. xz is an exception, not a rule.

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  • I disagree. Stable, yes. But stable as in unchanging (including bug-for-bug compatibility), which imo is not what most users want. It is what server admins want though. Most newbie desktop users don't realize this about debian based systems, and is one of the sources of trouble they experience.

    Debian tries to be secure by back porting security fixes, but they just cannot feasibly do this for all software, and last I checked, there were unaddressed vulnerabilities in debian's version of software that they had not yet backported (and they had been known for a while). I'm happy to look up the source for you if you're interested.

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  • Unlike other commenters, I agree with you. Debian based systems are less suitable for desktop use, and imo is one of the reasons newcomers have frequent issues.

    When installing common applications, newcomers tend to follow the windows ways of downloading an installer or a standalone executable from the Internet. They often do not stick with the package manager. This can cause breakage, as debian might expect you to have certain version of programs that are different from what the installer from the Internet expects. A rolling release distro is more likely to have versions that Internet installers expect.

    To answer your question, I believe debian based distros are popular for desktop because they were already popular for server use before Linux desktop were significant.

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  • This is not a good argument imo. It was a miracle that xz vulnerability was found so fast, and should not be assumed as standard. The developer had been contributing to the codebase for 2 years, and their code already landed in debian stable iirc. There's still no certainty that that code had no vulnerabilities. Some vulnerabilities in the past were caught decades after their introduction.