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It's OK if you cry (infosec.pub)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Whenever I come across something I'd have to build myself, I just give up. No matter the instruction, there is always something wrong.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Compiling starts to work rather well once you've done it a few times. Especially when you get more used to understanding what ./configure tries to tell you. You should really try to get behind that, since you Linux will

https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=E9Ftjm4FfMg6F2IU

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Allright. You've convinced me not to give up.

And that Rick Roll song perfectly sums up how I personally think of Linux. I will not be giving it up. And I will not be saying goodbye.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That is true on any LTS distro. Try rolling release, works without a glitch almost every time... well, at least on Void it does.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I read the previous comment and thought to myself "I bet there is some reply about LTS vs rolling release to this". I KNEW IT!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep, been in the same boat 😂. Was an LTS fan for a long long time till I realized... this shit ain't worth it 😂.

Everthing there is out there in 99% of the cases compiles against latest libraries. And well, LTS is just... lagging behind 🤷. So, you solve one lib dependcy and then, bam, another one pops up... OK, solved that one, bam, another one 😒... it just gets frustrating to compile stuff on LTS.

And then you get all sorts of errors from the package manager cuz you did the unthinkable - install latest libs on an LTS distro.

LTS is good for one thing only nowadays - servers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Interesting. I did not know about that. I'll be sure to give rolling a try then.