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Linux users with uncommon or unusual setups: tell us about it (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'll start with mine. yes part of this was to brag about my somewhat but not too unusual setup. But I also wanna learn from your setups!

Anyways: I primarily use Gentoo Linux.

I have two headless servers: a Raspberry Pi 4B and a Oracle cloud VM (free tier). Both running OpenRC, and both were running mainline kernel with custom config (I recently switched the Pi to PiFoundation kernel due to some issues). The raspberry pi boots from SSD and has no sd card inserted.

Both servers were running musl libc instead of glibc for a while. This gave me a couple of random issues, but eventually I got tired and switched back to glibc.

I have a desktop running gentoo and a laptop running arch, but hoping to switch the laptop to gentoo soon.

Both are daily driving wayland (the desktop had nvidia card and used for gaming). The desktop is running a kernel with a minimal config that compiles in 2-3 minutes.

What's your unusual setup like?

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I sometimes use a snap

[–] [email protected] 88 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Gross

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

🤷‍♀️ the snap works absolutely fine with no issues, the flatpak doesn't exist and the apt is two years out of date.

I'm not on the outrage boat myself tho

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I mean seeing how often malware and other bad stuff has gotten on their. It is bad for the linux eco system in general. Worse then finding random installers on windows

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I used Ubuntu for years and never had a single issue with snap. I didn't even know about the hate back then, nor had I heard of Flatpak. I eventually started to really like it and prefer to get my apps as snaps when available. Eventually I had to give up that laptop because it belonged to my work, and I left for another job. When I installed linux on my personal laptop, I decided to move away from Ubuntu for reasons completely unrelated to snap or proprietary software.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Security.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Check out guix or nixpkgs too, very good alts if flatpak or distro pkg manager doesn't have it. Snap's store is proprietary.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Both are terrible for security. Apt is actually safe

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Lol, no, it isn't. Anyone can set up an apt repository and ask you to use it. Many providers do.. You might mean the walled garden of an official singular apt repository is safe.