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5. [[./bsd_make.html][Using BSD make as build system]]
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6. [[./modern_perl.html][Perl in CURRENT_YEAR]]
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7. [[./raku.html][The Raku programming language]]
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8. [[./picking_a_linux_distro.html][Picking a Linux distro]]
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* Picking a Linux distro
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** Introduction
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It's kinda ironic how Mr. Stallman want us to use this operating
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system when [[https://gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html][even them can't pick one distro]] (don't take anything that
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gnu.org says seriously). Picking a Linux distro has been hard since
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the beginning of times. Back in the times I was younger, you could
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only pick Ubuntu or Debian, this is because Arch wasn't a meme yet so
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noboby could think they're cooler than a cooler because they use
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Arch. In this post I intend to review all the Linux distros I know so
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maybe a reader can get a conclusion on what distro to use. Never
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forget that, at the core, all distros all the same, but they do not
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want you to know that.
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** Debian
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Debian is a distribution that has never failed anybody, it has been in
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this irony layer since 1993, created by this dude Ian Murdock who
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sadly "killed himself" after posting anti-cop shit in twitter and
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expressing his reject for systemd.
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Debian is a distro that was planed to run on anything and give the
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less ammounts of problem as possible. For this reason, it is also
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popular as a server operating system. It uses the =apt= package
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manager. Everyobody knows about apt, maybe because they already used
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debain or used Ubuntu 10.04 and have a vague memory of the "advanced
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packaging tool". Now to be honest, i've tried a lot of package
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managers and =apt= is simply apoteosically slow. There are also
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alternative frontends to =apt= like =aptitude= and =synapse=.
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In the [[https://debian.org/distrib][Debian Distribution]] page you can download many version of the
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ISO, so you can get the best according to your needs. You can download
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a minimal netinstall iso that will ask you whether you want to install
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a graphical interface or not, you can also download a prebuilt iso
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with the desktop environment you like the most. The thing is that
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Debian took "freedom" too seriously so the normal isos do not ship
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with non-free firmware, you can download [[https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/][images that include non-free
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firmware]].
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Surely a recommended distro if you don't mind =apt=.
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** Ubuntu
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Let's be honest, who uses this besides old men that do not want to use
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Windows and have no time for learning Linux. This distribution is
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garbage, a whole encyclopedia could be written on why Ubuntu sucks so
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much but I've got better stuff to do.
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** Arch
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I remember that, 5 years ago, I used to be an Arch user, I also
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remember how much problems it gave to me. To stop calling yourself an
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"Arch user" is part of growing up. Arch main features are the "AUR"
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and the rolling release model. "AUR" stands for "Arch User
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Repository", this is a place in which users can write their own
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[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_Linux#PKGBUILD][PKGBUILD scripts]] which will at the end produce a pacman-compatible
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package to be installed. The AUR is good to install godforsaken
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software no one has ever heard of before.
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It's quite comedic, because to install software from AUR, you have to
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pick one of the following: either you clone a git repo and run a weird
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command I do not want to remember because I'm not an Arch user or you
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install an AUR helper, the most popular nowadays is yay, i think. Back
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in my day it was yaourt. The AUR helpers are not available on any of
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the official Arch Linux repositories.
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Arch claims to be a lightweight linux distro because it doesn't ship
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with anything, it doesn't ship with a desktop environment or
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anything. Insanely smart people whose parents would be proud of them
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said that this claim is untrue because Arch Linux uses systemd.
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** Gentoo
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I'm not sure why anyone would use Gentoo over FreeBSD or OpenBSD, the
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BSD ports system is literally Portage but not written in python and
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with a friendly interface anyone could use. The main features are the
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USE flags which is basically global compilations options or something,
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you can do something similar with FreeBSD and OpenBSD without being a
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horrible pain. I do not have many experiences with Gentoo and I think
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every Gentoo user is just coping with the fact that /g/ doesn't think
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that his rice is elite enough.
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** Void
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Void is the Linux distribution that I use. It is garbage as well. It
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uses the "X Binary Package System" (xbps). It began as a try of Linux
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to mimic OpenBSD, as Void Linux has a preference for =doas=, and it
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used to use LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL but they [[https://voidlinux.org/news/2021/02/OpenSSL.html][regret this choice]]
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and switched back to OpenSSL in Feb 2021. This choice made users mad
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and some of them (no one) switched to Gentoo to continue using
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LibreSSL.
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xbps is the fastest package manager that i've seen in a Linux system,
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installing packages is something that will be completed in no time
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under this operating system. Void Linux also uses =runit= instead of
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=systemd=. runit can be a pain in the ass to manage but I've written a
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[[https://git.suragu.net/dudemanweed/rnt][runit wrapper in perl]] so you can control it just like you would
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use =systemctl=.
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Void can also be installed using musl but you gotta be a coping
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teenager to use musl instead of glibc, in my opinion, if you install
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an operating system is because you want it to work, not because you
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want to be fixing stuff all the time.
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Despite claiming to be a rolling release distro, the gcc version in
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the void repos was 10 for the last 2 years. [[https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/commit/eb82e2578b1f189e33618ea909e0349d8c48332c][It was updated 3 days ago
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to version 14]]. clang is still in version 12 and don't seem to be
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updated. On the other hand, Arch has up to date packages.
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** Artix Linux
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[[https://suragu.net/blog/20221108][I already wasted keystrokes talking about this one]]
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** Conclusion
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Computers were a mistake.
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