• insurgentrat [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    A distro is just some default options on a bash script and a community of package maintainers anyway.

    People put too much stock in them. Very few distros do much more than just ship a DE with a few tweaks from the average user’s perspective.

    • octobob@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      8 hours ago

      The AUR stands out as something that makes a big difference. I use a ton of software not available on the regular repositories

        • octobob@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          Keeping everything updated and not having any problems with dependencies sounds like hell if everything is built from source. I’m probably up to around 100 different packages from the AUR alone. Compared to just typing yay into a terminal

          • insurgentrat [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
            1·
            51 minutes ago

            It’s not that serious. You can go look at the contents of an AUR script (you do right?) for an idea of what’s involved in building a package.

            100 different aur packages seems a bit extreme tbh. I would find that a security nightmare.

  • awrf [pup/pup's]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    1 day ago

    Another neat thing that works very similarly to Sober is https://github.com/minecraft-linux/mcpelauncher-manifest. It allows you to play the Android version of Minecraft (Bedrock Edition) on Linux by patching the game at runtime and “emulating” an Android environment to get it all running essentially natively. Which would also make this probably one of the cheapest ways to get an “official” copy of the game since you can buy the Android version on the Google Play store for like $5.