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minus-squareinsurgentrat [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-24 days agoA 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.
minus-squareoctobob@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoThe AUR stands out as something that makes a big difference. I use a ton of software not available on the regular repositories
minus-squareinsurgentrat [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoYou can just build stuff from source you know. Or these days many projects ship app images or their computer
minus-squareoctobob@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoKeeping 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
minus-squareinsurgentrat [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoIt’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.
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.
The AUR stands out as something that makes a big difference. I use a ton of software not available on the regular repositories
You can just build stuff from source you know. Or these days many projects ship app images or their computer
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
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.
YOLO