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0x4E4F, (edited ) to linux in Help me decide my first distro for Audio.

I’d suggets Void. It has Ardour in the repo (not Reaper though) and PiperWire with JACK should work out of the box. If you want Reaper, you’d have to install it manually though. I’m working on a template for Reaper, but it’s not finished yet. If you’re willing to wait a month or so, you’ll probably have Reaper in xbps-src as well.

0x4E4F, (edited ) to linux in My first year using Linux: My experience

Do you know any other distro that’s not LFS or Gentoo that still supports x86? I said a lot, not everything. Most distros don’t support anything below 64-bits.

A fork supported PPC up until a while ago. That project halted though. There was a new spin on it, can’t remember the distro’s name though.

xbps-src can cross compile for MIPS. There are no packages in the repo for MIPS though.

0x4E4F, to linux in My first year using Linux: My experience

Not even console locale did on my notebook, have to fix that setup sometime.

What exactly did you do that you couldn’t change your locale? You do know that you have to reconfigure glibc-locales afterwards.

And the installer is pretty barebones and a bit buggy.

What exactly is buggy about the installer?

Nononono, there are only two POSIX certified linux distros: K-UX and Huawey’s EulerOS.

POSIX certification costs money. There are a lot of distros and OSes that are POSIX compatibe, just not certified.

0x4E4F, to linux in My first year using Linux: My experience

No, it’s not Arch without systemd. Arch breaks a lot more than Void does. Ask Void users when was the last time a Void update broke their system. I use it as a daily driver, plus for a lot of other things (at work and home) that are considered mission critical. I would never use Arch for that. Also, it’s faster than Arch, it supports A LOT more architectures than Arch does… or any other Linux distro for that matter (LFS excluded).

0x4E4F, to piracy in Long storage life curiosity

Here, 25GB BR is about $4. DVDs are about $0.20.

0x4E4F, (edited ) to linux in My first year using Linux: My experience
  • It doesn’t use systemd, it uses runit.
  • The repo is full of any software you might need, including proprietary (through xbps-src).
  • Everything just works, if it doesn’t it’s probably your fault.
  • It’s a rolling release distro, yet focused on stability and usabilty, so you won’t get the latest and greates, but instead builds that are known to be solid. For example the kernel, it’s not the latest, as is with Arch, but it’s maybe one or two minor versions behin. The same applies to software, they’re known to jump versions if the current build proves to be unstable.
  • Lightning fast boot up. It’s also the fastest distro there is, apart from the *BSDs.
  • Compiling and testing is a breeze thanks to xbps-src.
  • A lot of tools and scripts that make building templates for software not in the repo very easy.
  • Supports a lot of architectures. NetBSD is the only other POSIX OS that supports more architectures than Void.

There are other things, I’m sure, but these are the ones I can think of ATM.

0x4E4F, to linux in My first year using Linux: My experience

Try Void. I was aiming at Arch as well, but then I stumbled upon Void… never made the switch to Arch.

0x4E4F, to lemmyshitpost in This one's for you

Roxy Raye… Legend…

0x4E4F, to piracy in Long storage life curiosity

BR discs are still very expensive and will most probably be for a very long time. So are the BR drives. That’s why I still use DVDs.

0x4E4F, (edited ) to piracy in Sites for downloading high quality music files

rutracker.org, rutracker.ru

0x4E4F, to asklemmy in How would you explain Lemmy/Kbin to a Reddit person or to a social media person?

I just tell them there are pirate subs (comms), that get’s their attention rather quickly.

0x4E4F, to asklemmy in What setting do you use for Lemmy for active posts?

New… always.

0x4E4F, to memes in They don't know which plumbing fixtures are better or worse do you think a plumber would work here?

Even worse, doing it on check out.

0x4E4F, to linux in Is there any way I can make an old XMMS plugin work in any modern player?

Yeah, well, people are not like that around here. Once you buy something 2nd hand, that’s it, you’re stuck with it, no refunds, no replacements.

0x4E4F, to memes in I feel this…

This is where I draw the line.

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