Problem for Linux on phones is ARM limitations require a unique device tree for every OS deployed per device.
When I retire to Asia next year I'm considering just getting one of those simple feature phones sold in India which has Firefox OS. Limit myself to Vox/SMS/Email.
I'm showing my age but I fondly remember those lipstick case Nokia's from back in the day. Couldn't get much smaller than that.
Congratulations you have discovered the new hotness being forced upon Linux community (only 17 years in development and counting lol) isn't so hot.
My favourite quote from the linked article:
"Instead of providing a better way of doing something, common features are not supported at all, and instead it's the job of everyone else in the ecosystem to agree on a standard. That's not a stunning argument in favor of replacing something that already exists and that has already been standardized in X11!"
As A long time Linux user I couldn't agree more. My son, who likes to game with me, was handing down his 'old' nvidia cards such as a 3070, so I put up with years of nvidia's crap. A couple of months ago I ripped out his 'old' 3070 and put in a new XFX brand AMD RX 7600. Works out of the box and plenty fast for HD resolutions. Why did I waste years of my life fighting with nvidia nonsense on Linux??
At the age of 67, having tried and used everything, not just booted a vm, but honestly used, I found Arch a much higher maintenance burden. System borking changes are definitely a thing - see the "needs manual intervention" messages that happen often. I know Arch users seem to revel in this and gloss over it. Thats fine for them but I no longer get any sense of personal empowerment from tedious obsessive hand holding of any operating system. To me it's just unnecessary distracting extra work.
I'm always interested in Micheal's comparisons but rarely see anything more than an illustration of newer libraries etc showing natural improvements. The trade off of Arch distros is the increased workload of managing a constant change & inevitable instability. Arch devs are notoriously for kicking out capricious system borking changes and the Pacman package manager is rather weak at dealing with cumulative changes. 2% or 3 % potential ephemeral improvements in speed vs hovering over the cli 'fixing' things seems a poor bargain to me.
Exactly. systemd has a glaring security hole that had to be kludged.
As the OP I posted the article to warn non technical users of the danger but systemd defenders league are predictably blind to any possible flaw in their golden calf and cannot resist the temptation to rush to battle. yawn
If you want the convenient features of systemd without the cancerous assimilation of the entire userland then dinit is recommended. OpenRC is a mature choice. Server folk seem to recommend S6 but I dont have enough personal use of it to verify.
expect every response trying to provide useful info here to be drowned out by systemd brigading
Read the bug in the systemd repo.
meanwhile the systemd cultists will defend it to the death.
Look, if you value the positive aspects of systemd but dislike the cancerous assimilation of the entire userland, dinit is a perfectly good option.
Problem for Linux on phones is ARM limitations require a unique device tree for every OS deployed per device.
When I retire to Asia next year I'm considering just getting one of those simple feature phones sold in India which has Firefox OS. Limit myself to Vox/SMS/Email.
I'm showing my age but I fondly remember those lipstick case Nokia's from back in the day. Couldn't get much smaller than that.
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Congratulations you have discovered the new hotness being forced upon Linux community (only 17 years in development and counting lol) isn't so hot.
My favourite quote from the linked article:
"Instead of providing a better way of doing something, common features are not supported at all, and instead it's the job of everyone else in the ecosystem to agree on a standard. That's not a stunning argument in favor of replacing something that already exists and that has already been standardized in X11!"
citation -
Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years
https://omar.yt/posts/wayland-set-the-linux-desktop-back-by-10-years
OVH S3 is extremely cost effective and in a privacy respecting jurisdiction far from DrumpfGhanistan
My solution: Use a NAS on my Lan to store files which backs up to an OVH S3. The S3 is accessible from Android or Linux if required.
Your experience may vary but I soon closed the account after buying their promises. Lousy speeds, lousy interopability and lousy support.
Getting to the point where we go back to cash and have a safe installed in our house ...
Agree. Shameful cowardice of Australian government.
As A long time Linux user I couldn't agree more. My son, who likes to game with me, was handing down his 'old' nvidia cards such as a 3070, so I put up with years of nvidia's crap. A couple of months ago I ripped out his 'old' 3070 and put in a new XFX brand AMD RX 7600. Works out of the box and plenty fast for HD resolutions. Why did I waste years of my life fighting with nvidia nonsense on Linux??
The science on this is still developing. I would be very cautious in jumping to conclusions.
At the age of 67, having tried and used everything, not just booted a vm, but honestly used, I found Arch a much higher maintenance burden. System borking changes are definitely a thing - see the "needs manual intervention" messages that happen often. I know Arch users seem to revel in this and gloss over it. Thats fine for them but I no longer get any sense of personal empowerment from tedious obsessive hand holding of any operating system. To me it's just unnecessary distracting extra work.
I'm always interested in Micheal's comparisons but rarely see anything more than an illustration of newer libraries etc showing natural improvements. The trade off of Arch distros is the increased workload of managing a constant change & inevitable instability. Arch devs are notoriously for kicking out capricious system borking changes and the Pacman package manager is rather weak at dealing with cumulative changes. 2% or 3 % potential ephemeral improvements in speed vs hovering over the cli 'fixing' things seems a poor bargain to me.
Completely ceding software development to automation. Repeat across all fields of knowledge.
As data centers recycle and churn through past human input this will be the death of human progress.
Exactly. systemd has a glaring security hole that had to be kludged. As the OP I posted the article to warn non technical users of the danger but systemd defenders league are predictably blind to any possible flaw in their golden calf and cannot resist the temptation to rush to battle. yawn
Emblematic of the decline of the former US.
If you want the convenient features of systemd without the cancerous assimilation of the entire userland then dinit is recommended. OpenRC is a mature choice. Server folk seem to recommend S6 but I dont have enough personal use of it to verify.
Read the bug in the systemd repo. meanwhile the systemd cultists will defend it to the death. Look, if you value the positive aspects of systemd but dislike the cancerous assimilation of the entire userland, dinit is a perfectly good option.
Read
Stop using it.