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Not a fork, and not a response to Linus’ comments, but fuck, why let that get in the way of a headline?

Full of hate and crypto spam, so no, no love from me

I wanted a rolling release distro, but not a bare bones distro that I have to build from scratch myself.

Differences are inconsequential aside from image manipulation

Well, that’s the one I care about, so that works out well :)

I don’t like Flatpak, so that makes it an easy choice for me. Flatpak apps never quite integrate properly

I like having Flatpaks as a fallback option, but if something is available in the arch repos, aur or chaotic-aur, I’ll always go there first

That’s exactly why I used them!

I’m running a rolling distro on my main desktop, when I first moved over to linux (a couple of years ago now), I kept breaking things without having the knowledge to fix them. And then I discovered snapshots!

The one thing I would say to be aware of, is to make sure you have a bootloader hook as well, that will let you actually boot in to the previous snapshots from the boot menu.

I use CachyOS and it has this stuff as out of the box options during the installer.

I like not using government and mega-corporation mandated systems designed for privacy invasion and control of what people can access.

I could care less about apps, because I can just avoid them. My concern is the OS level stuff, and currently, all of the legislation is around requirements that the OS itself capture birthdate data.

The moment that becomes mandatory at the OS level, is the moment I drop whatever it is that is forcing that issue. Systemd was the first to pre-emptively comply with facilitating the change at scale, so chances are, they will keep doing the same going forward.

It’s most likely where I’ll be hopping if unavoidable age gating comes to systemd

The only shift now is Microsoft shitting the bed so hard that people don’t want to deal with them.

That’s a pretty important difference…

CachyOS is currently deleting threads of people asking about this topic, and is refusing to comment on their plans either way.

So don’t get too excited about Cachy, they’re clearly willing to consider this age gating options

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Oof, Epoch 3 for HDR. They were hoping to have it soon after their first stable release :/

AKA racist arch

I use cachyos on my homelab/media server, but that’s mostly because I’ve got more familiarity with it, which makes troubleshooting easier

I think it was two years or so for me now, but honestly, it’s going great. I’ve got alternatives for the windows only apps I used to use, and my games run smoothly.

Every time I have to use a windows computer for some reason, I’m reminded of why I stopped using that OS…

It’s also created by a racist, bigoted piece of shit

Whatever you use, so when he asks for support, you’re in a position to help

It’s not so much that people are focused on gaming distros, it’s more that gaming distros historically haven’t been much of a thing, and gamers generally had to use windows for their gaming, because the linux experience was limited and sub-optimal. Even dedicated linux users would keep a windows partition/machine that they used for gaming.

That’s not true anymore, as basically anything without kernel level anti cheat works on linux, which means that a huge amount of folk that would have moved to linux earlier, but couldn’t, are now coming over.

Which is to say, it’s not so much that there is “so many of them”, it’s more that, they’re coming over in a big wave, because they’ve been there for years, but haven’t been able to move until recently, and now, they know that there are distros out there that look and feel like something they’re familiar with.

A hierarchical tag structure would let you mimic a folder structure, but free you from many of its constraints