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  • ashtoLinux@lemmy.mlChimera Linux
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    142 years ago

    Just use Alpine. Chimera uses Alpine’s package manager anyway. The only reason you havent heard about Alpine in this context is because they do not claim they are doing anything revolutionary, they just strive to make a great distro.


  • ashtoLinux@lemmy.mlChimera Linux
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    2 years ago

    Chimera Linux actually uses apk or Alpine Package Keeper as its package manager, they acknowledge this but despite that market themselves as if they did something revolutionary that has never been done before







  • Think of AppImage like a standalone executable on windows, you download it, it just works and thats good. But it doesnt get automatic updates and to get a new feature you need to download it again. Flatpaks and Snaps don’t have this issue and are more like traditional package managers.




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    inb4 but thats a corporate distro, it is just sponsored by SUSE but is community maintained

    I agree that there are not many distros that are both user friendly and not forks of something else, but I don’t see it as an issue, imo there is nothing wrong with forks.




  • ashOPtoUnixporn@lemmy.ml[Sway] Purple tiles
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    22 years ago

    Yeah, its extremely minimal, but thats part of the appeal for me.

    For automounting I just have udev rule for my usb drive, which is ok, but if I had to use a bunch of different drives for whatever reason I’d probably setup polkit.


  • ashOPtoUnixporn@lemmy.ml[Sway] Purple tiles
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    32 years ago

    I only ever used systemd for services and did not use any of the other features. Openrc does that and it works so nothing to handle.

    I use seatd and I do not use polkit. The only thing that caught me off guard was that the default login binary does not support PAM so I had to install shadow-login.

    I do use flatpak for lutris, web browser and few other things, but I prefer native packages. If the package isn’t in the repos I package it myself, the package format is almost identical to the one Arch has so a lot of times its enough to just edit the dependencies and build.