Sure! My point is that hosting doesn’t really matter, though. Malware and vulnerabilities are introduced at all points of supply chains.

• PyPi
• npm
• Maven Central
• Docker Hub
• Artifact Hub
• PPA
• AUR

The problem isn’t specific to anything. It’s also not specific to malware. Vulnerabilities are just as dangerous, if not more so.

Do you think she believes her own bullshit? I’m honestly not sure. This claim is so insane, but all of MAGA seem to have a vested interest that Trump is a Christian prophet or messiah.

Ever heard of xdg?

I think that there are more than ample options for non technical people, like Mint. I also don’t think that those users are coming to Lemmy to stir shit, so it really doesn’t make sense to me who makes these posts.

Like, are you unaware of the distribution model of FLOSS projects like Linux? Because of the lack of profit motive from selling licenses, development is funded and done by donation. Some is corporate sponsored, but not much.

When people piss and moan about the state of things, it just makes them look really foolish, because they don’t know what has gone into getting it this far.

If you don’t like the tool sets available, feel free to roll your sleeves up and organize a design team to change that.

It may seem hard at first, it’s just that people are scared of the terminal. It’s not as if widely used programs with fancy UIs aren’t also complex.

I’m understanding of people who are just using their computer for web browsing and email, but I’m directing ire towards Windows power users who just expect certain tool sets to materialize for them.

Dude the only people expecting shit are the ones who get mad when they migrate to Linux and won’t just learn a few simple tools to make their life easier.

Your package manager commands and options and some basic tools to troubleshoot local networking are really not that fucking hard.

Copy-pasting commands from search results instead of learning how the applications installed on their machine work. It’s a lot deeper than skill issue…

Yup. People under the age of 25 don’t even understand files or directories.

iPhones and Chromebooks have abstracted everything away.

Lol thanks for clarifying your sarcasm. 😂 I can be an airhead at times.

I was actually interested in trying NixOS on a laptop that is gathering dust. I did see a few months ago that there was some drama surrounding the project owner, though. I never investigated enough to understand what that was all about, but I’m less excited about digging into something if it may suddenly end.

Thanks for the suggestion. I am interested in nix, but haven’t explored it yet.

Thanks for the detailed answer. I think I have a clearer picture of the problems it’s trying to solve and the solutions it’s delivering.

It also now seems connected to immutable distros I’ve heard about recently. So I guess the idea there is that the OS is just a tiny core set of libraries that never have to change, then the applications have their dependencies bundled, instead of requiring them as system dependencies.

I’m not convinced it’s something I want as a user, but more importantly not something I need.

From a development perspective, it seems downright seductive, allowing almost total freedom of opinion.

The AUR is a different kettle of fish entirely, though. I do see your point, but the AUR is solving a problem common to all distros; hosting a repository for applications that there isn’t willingness or capacity to host in the official binary repos.

Installation, removal, dependency management, etc are all still handled by pacman. As others have pointed out there are great tools available to aid in AUR usability. My favorite is aurutils.

Some kinda wise guy over here 🤣

The sway man pages are really helpful. I prefer waybar and bemenu to round out my core environment tools.

Manjaro actually made me lol.

I’m reaching here because I don’t know the first thing about Mullvad, but it probably has some script that takes care of it’s own DNS needs. I remember the before times, when you had to write up and down scripts that would update resolve.conf directly, then configured OpenVPN to run them on connecting/disconnecting.

It’s possible it could be a box checked or config option in Mullvad that broke it by not fixing DNS on it’s way down?

OP also said they don’t fully remember what was done, so they may have disabled systemd-resolved or installed openresolv or who knows what else.

Fortunately, in this case, they should be able to follow the systemd-resolved docs from the beginning to end up with it working.

127.0.0.53 is the local stub used by systemd-resolved, so OP should pull this thread and comb the docs. If systemd-resolved is installed and not being used, it will cause conflicts with openresolv (most likely alternative).

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