Re:Chimera Linux
by devit on Saturday December 16, 2023 @07:46PM
(#38669304)
"that a simple system does not have to require endless setup and customization to be practical" and "alternative userland" don't go together since obviously any "alternative userland" is going to break lots of stuff and thus require extensive tweaking work.
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they do though, just not in the way you think; in general chimera is designed so that whatever you install from the repositories, it'll yield a working out of the box configuration
you want a desktop? you install it and it works; there is no (mandatory) tinkering with getting dbus, audio, wifi/bluetooth, or whatever else to work - most importantly things are set up in a way that installs are consistently deterministic and auditable (there is no reliance on complicated shell hooks or anything of the sort to do any kind of "fixups", most packages consist solely of extraction)
sure, when you involve third party shell scripts or whatever, there is a chance you'll run into compatibility troubles, but perhaps not as often as you think either
Re:Chimera Linux
by eternityforest on Sunday December 17, 2023 @04:16AM
(#38671520)
I'm not a "hacker distro guy", so my opinion doesn't matter much, but thisn definitely seems far more interesting than the piles of shell scripts most distros use.