God damn, fuckin mark it nsfw for christ’s sake 😅

Meant to reply to this but it got burried-

Oh I fully just gave up 😅 the reason I didn’t get it figured out is cause I didn’t stick with it lol. My previous laptop had broken and I decided I wanted to just go ahead and be up and running on the replacement rather than tinkering with void setup. I might come back to it at some point, but it’s definitely beyond my competency. Especially since ideally I’d like to have luks encryption, which I know you can do, but not from the more basic install process if I remember right.

Network manager (so I could use GNOME settings to change networks), and audio through pipewire were the two remaining things. I gave setting up pipewire a try following a YouTube tutorial, but it didn’t work properly, and at that point I decided I just wanted to have a working laptop again after a couple weeks without. But I did learn a bunch! and got a lot more comfortable with the command line!

Package kit is what allows graphical software stores or graphical package managers to integrate with the native package manager backend if I understand right. I’d miss being able to browse native packages along side flatpaks.

I found that fork, but yeah I don’t think it works. There were also one or two graphical software stores specifically for xbps, but I don’t recall if they’re still maintained, and I don’t think there was a GTK option. Part of me desperately hopes someone will make a simple distro based on void that functions as a customized install, kinda like spiral linux or gecko linux, for debian and opensuse. Until then, I know that my perfect distro might be out there, if I can just successfully get everything initally set up 🥲

Maybe I’ll make an IRL linux friend I’m close enough to harass into helping me with it at some point lol. Hope you have a lovely day!

Meant to reply to this but it got burried in my inbox-

Im glad you got value out of it, it’s a subject I care a lot about as someone who’s fairly mentally ill and tries to hold myself to a high standard in how I engage with people.

Hope you have a good one :)

Huh, that’d be super interesting, given that’d be a complete about face!

And I think from a technical perspective it’s actually not one? I’m not totally positive. I’ve usually heard it called an compatibility layer, which I think would be different from the way an emulator typically emulates a piece of hardware and its firmware

Could also have something to do with not wanting to draw the ire of Microsoft? “Emulator” kinda feels like it’d come with different implications or connotations than calling it a compatibility layer 🤷‍♂️

Thats pretty sick!

It can build packages from source like Gentoo though if I remember right

I’ve never really had issues with systemd, but I must say when I was setting up void I did really enjoy the runit init system 🤷‍♂️

Excuse you, wine ISN’T emulation, it’s literally in the name W.ine I.s N.ot an E.mulator >.>

/j I knew exactly what you mean and it doesn’t matter, I’m just being silly

Very much agree with this, I think people really overcomplicate it.

“It’s like reddit, but community build and community run.”

And they you can just invite them to your instance

I just say it’s basically reddit but it’s community built and run instead of owned by a big company. And then if they wanna know more about how it works, I can explain the concept of it being distributed and whatnot

I very much agree with just inviting people to join your instance. Don’t overcomplicate it.

Aw neat! Thanks for sharing 😊

Aw neat! Cool to see Fediverse platforms growing and (hopefully) thriving ☺️

Love seeing linux experiment videos!

Though I’m not actually able to watch this one through the link, it tells me it’s not available on that instance. It’d be kind nice if using share functionality shared the like for the source instance

Sending love from my corner of the world to yours 🫂. On the upside it sounds like his parents are the exactly kind of zealous advocates every kid really deserves

Big agree. If you’re reading this and could spare a couple bucks for some of the projects you use most often, maybe think about donating 😊

On one hand, I absolutely support leaving Microsoft behind. On the other hand, I don’t know that this form of action is likely to really be felt by Microsoft, and I think the FSFs sort of evangelical approach to sharing what’s special and worthwhile about free software often just kinda feeds negative sentiments towards FOSS as a worthwhile cause.

One of my close friends was, for a long time, kinda hostile to the idea of anything open source because her experiences with open source folks always sucked.

I’m just kinda typing out the thoughts this prompted, this isn’t necessarily a response specifically or exclusively to the article.

Wishing you luck! I’m sure that can be difficult to watch as a parent

Thank you, that’s helpful!

I tried when I set up my new laptop and definitely learned a ton, but eventually stalled at getting network manager setup so I could use GNOME settings to configure networks, and getting sound set up

I completely forgot about trying it in a VM, I may have to go give that a try!

If it had package kit implementation so I could use a graphical package manager/app store it’d basically be my perfect distro if I could get it set up the way I want. An independent distro, super elegant, if I understand right the packages are all vanilla, “stable rolling release”. I really like it, a minimal distro is just a bit beyond me skill-wise, and I’d miss having a way to browse native (non-flatpak) applications graphically

Frankly I’d much rather have void. Super cool distro, a lot of things about it seem like an ideal fit for me, I just don’t really have the technical skill to get a minimal distro all set up the way I want it

Plus their logo is pretty. Which shouldn’t matter but like, look at it- it’s a cool logo!