Certain things? Fucking luddite idiots don’t package 99.9% of software.

AIX Unix from the 1980s is literally more useful than that heap of garbage

SLiTaz

It’s an obscure originally live usage oriented distro that you could also install. It was the first *Nix I ever used.

I fucking love skeuomorphism !

If there is ONE project that needs a rewrite in modern C++ OR Rust (or some other ‘safe’ language) it’s FUCKING CUPS

Please, Rust fanatics, do ONE good instead of rewriting GPL programs into a corpo-rat license

They only invest in the fancy marketable new age shit, and well, corporate rejects (Tizen, MeeGo, etc)

So, you could say everyone is copying Elon Musk

Decent cheap brand. They’re actually centered in Nigeria and as such they have a big market there

Avis/Bridei/Artem has been active as a super troll on that forum for years and absolutely nothing had been done

Oh what’s that? Some rational thought in my ramblings? Nah we can’t have that in this sublemmy champ

X11 has exactly one developer who’s a vaccine denying turbocunt German, everyone else has dropped it and it’s codebase is practically unknown territory with security risks.

Look man, it’s dead already

You have a gross misunderstanding of what a display fucking system should do. X11 nowadays provides the same thing to apps as Wayland, except some bad design hacks that have become fundamental to writing Linux apps that are essentially workarounds for X11 sucking badly.

NOBODY uses X11’s font system or widget system or vector system nowadays. X11 provides you with a render plane and some other bullshit and the toolkit does the rest.

Which is the same as Wayland. Except Wayland actually has a properly designed and standardized way of doing things through the extension system, as in X11 everything is cobbled together from hacks.

A good example is absolute window positioning. Wayland doesn’t have it because it’s been found that it wasn’t actually really needed, people did things that way because something that’s essentially a clever hack had become the de facto standard on X11. Same thing with how X11 apps do window captures.

Generally, Wayland is a great leap in Linux desktop system. We’re catching up to what MacOS and Windows did 20 fucking years ago.

PSP! Bought when I was a literal child. Works like a fucking charm, even the ORIGINAL BATTERY!

Programs not designed for Linux somehow manage to run on a completely different operating system through something I can only explain as fucking technological black magic, and you’re wondering that it doesn’t work quite like it’s native environment? The fact that this is even possible is incredible

Go make the game devs release a proper Linux version and we won’t have those issues anymore

A cheap shit MSI Interceptor mouse that I used for 10 fucking years and bought for chum change could remember it’s settings because it had persistent memory on device

And Logitech is still scamming the fuck out of people

Servo wasn’t going anywhere and even today the absolute best they are trying to do is to be a tiny embedded engine. They took parts of projects that were worth shit and added it into their core ecosystem and stopped the vanity dream of making a whole new browser core.

So, servo is dead long live servo

Debian is the lightest derivative of Debian

The installer outright gives you the option out of many different desktop environments and use cases and if you don’t like to install a desktop you can install base system debian that’s literally just a terminal environment and nothing else

Stupidest motherfuckers I have seen in my life could operate computers back when the only “command line” was an actual programming language in the 1980s and also during the MS-DOS boom

This CLI fear is something completely unfounded

Basically tasks have a tight window of execution latency guarantee (although they can exceed that as Linux is not a deterministic hard realtime kernel)

This means potentially lower performance and other losses but it provides very low latency, which is useful for some tasks that need low latency due to their nature like high quality professional audio

There is nothing preventing you from BSDs , tho

Use Debian.

Manjaro has had major package policy issues in the past. Trying to bash arch into a stable release cadence doesn’t fucking work. Don’t know how true this is today, but it was a pain a couple years ago when I rolled it.

My best luck with proper Linux development was on Debian and it’s derivatives. If you don’t need bleeding edge shite, it’s great.

If you want something more up to date, debian based stuff like Ubuntu and Mint work well