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But I think distro hopping is a great idea if you have the machines / time.

Gentoo user here. It can be great for dev as you have everything that is required to build the software you’re running assuming you’re trying to produce something using the same base. Ie C++ with Qt for KDE etc.

It’s also a lot easier to build your own repo and packages with than any dev setup I’ve seen, it’s literally just a text file.

It does take a while to compile. However you need opinions to use it… Otherwise you will just have useflags enabled on everything. It does require a bit of understanding of how linux is built but the guide does most of the work for you, and it’s easy to install on an existing system. If you’re using btrfs you can install it on a subvolume and try it out easy.

However I used it during the 00s and 20s… But not the 10s. The difference is that software is moving way too fast for distributions to keep up with, so you will definitely want to build your own ebuilds at some point. Emerge / portage can sometimes cause issues upgrading too. But nothing a btrfs snapshot can’t save you from.

I feel like there is some cause to list CS degrees and their position on Unix and Linux. awesome-linux-cs repo?

Moved from Gentoo to Ubuntu in 2008 as I needed to focus more on my job, moved back to Gentoo in 2022. Snaps were part of it, but really the lack of maintenance and vision around the apt repository was really the issue. More and more I was installing stray debs, or having to use flatpaks / AppImages for what what I wanted the system to manage for me.

Not that I’ve entirely stopped using flatpaks or AppImages, but the process of creating an ebuild is far simpler than trying to do anything with a deb. For a while I had hope about the ppa, however that became fewer and fewer. I do think that the battle to have a comprehensive software repository is a loosing one because of the way things are currently structured.

What languages are you wanting to use, the combination between toolkit and language can make a big difference to your experience.

There are a lot of interesting options out there that aren’t top of people’s minds too. For instance Lazarus, and Flutter. Both can do cross platform.

Something like: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-147062-start-0.html

Used to use Xnest to do this. IDK how easy it still is these days.

Agreed

Knoppix got Ubuntu halfway there.

Is it Space Odyssey?

Sounds like a regulatory solution is needed. The intersection where domestic policy impacts international.

As in part of a review process?

Things like:

• Software update process
• Installing software which isn’t in a repository
• Seeing how the community is for support ?

This.

Thanks to Meta BTRFS is apparently got/getting it to a certain extent too: https://youtu.be/6YIc2fVLVPU?si=ngiHWS0fw2zIHf2M

This. Although I’m not sure if it’s about in-app display, but it needs to be on the store and on a website somewhere.

Thanks

For another conversation I need some evidence of that, where did you find it?

This sounds like FUD to me. If it were it would be acquired pretty quickly.

There are several ways of doing this, but you have to be wary of how grub is configured to boot off the disks, and how your /etc/fstab is configured.

The simplest way probably is to just put the old ssd in a USB case, boot off a live usb/cd, then dd the disk (make sure you do it the right way around or there will be tears), then reboot. There are a couple ways this could fail still depending on config, but you can always put the old disk in if it does. Then once you’re in the system you can use tools like parted/kde partition manager to resize the volumes once decrypted. – And you will have your old disk as a backup the entire process.

If you want to get more comfortable with this type of work install arch / gentoo and you will learn more of the underline processes making you more confident.

Using btrfs with subvolumes to mount different disks in different locations. To maintain an “OS” disk and “what really matters” disk.

I like the idea and have been meaning to build / find something like this however this does a little too much and in not quite the way I want. But it’s cool for those who need this exact implementation.