I know, I was just having a bad day and I kinda took it out on you. My bad.

If you ever want to self host … psono is always an option, but it has a hairy setup.

As a former sysadmin, there is plenty of logic in saying that. I have debugged countless systems that were using systemd, yet somehow the openrc ones just chug along. In the server space systemd is a travesty.

In the desktop space however, i much prefer systemd. Dev environments as well. So yes thst is where “it’s fine”. More than fine, needed!

I just hate this black and white view of the world, I cant stand it. Everything has its place, on servers you want as small a software footprint as possible, on desktop you want compatibility.

This right here is why i moved to a single display setup.

Just flash your own.

Maybe I chose the words badly. I meant that want to live in a civilized place, i have been an expat for 10 years and I just want to put down roots with my wife. So far we have been moving with the jobs and I had enough. Thats what I meant with my colourful language.

Yeah, I know, I am in the process of leaving where I am now (eu citizen) and its between uk, germany and the netherlands. The reason I didnt look seriously at swiss, is because of all the stories I heard about people never integrating, despite efforts.

I’m looking for my forever place, that means balls deep in every aspect.

This is such a superficial take.

Flatpaks have their use-case. Alpine has its use-case as a small footprint distro, focused on security. Using flatpaks would nuke that ethos.

Furthermore, they need those servers to build their core and base system packages. There is no distro out there that uses flatpaks or appimages for their CORE.

Any distro needs to build their toolchain, libs and core. Flatpaks are irrelevant to this discussion.

At the risk of repteating myself, flatpaks are irrelevant to Alpine because its a small footprint distro, used alot in container base images, containers use their own packaging!

Furthermore, flatpaks are literal bloat, compared to alpines’ apk packages which focus on security and minimalism.

Edit: Flatpak literally uses alpine to build its packages. No alpine, no flatpaks. Period

Flatpaks have their use. This is not that. Check your ignorance.

So I have to move to Swiss then, got it.

So many tips, let me add mine.

• btop - for monitoring and process management
• pacseek - terminal UI for installing, searching packages (uses yay)
• chaotic aur - repo for prebuilt binaries that are generally ok

When installing use the archinstall the first time, unless you really want to go into the deep end and use the normal install.

Like folding at home :D

That averages out to around 300 megabytes per second. No way anyone has that at home comercially.

One of the best comercial fiber connections i ever saw will provide 50 megabytes per second upload, best effort that is.

No way in hell you can satisfy that bandwidth requirement at home. Lets not mention that they need 3 nodes with such bw.

I id something very similar, spent about a year on fedora … 33? then discovered “my preffered distro” and never looked back.

Thing is that everyone finds their place with a distro and settles for as long as it suits their needs. Then, you might move on, you might not. Its just an OS, a means to an end. Use what you need, then use something else, no need to go to the doctor for hopping headaches :)