Just use Alpine. Chimera uses Alpine’s package manager anyway. The only reason you havent heard about Alpine in this context is because they do not claim they are doing anything revolutionary, they just strive to make a great distro.

Chimera Linux actually uses apk or Alpine Package Keeper as its package manager, they acknowledge this but despite that market themselves as if they did something revolutionary that has never been done before

I could watch 2 seconds before realizing it is a vtuber. Promptly blocked.

Think of AppImage like a standalone executable on windows, you download it, it just works and thats good. But it doesnt get automatic updates and to get a new feature you need to download it again. Flatpaks and Snaps don’t have this issue and are more like traditional package managers.

OpenSUSE

inb4 but thats a corporate distro, it is just sponsored by SUSE but is community maintained

I agree that there are not many distros that are both user friendly and not forks of something else, but I don’t see it as an issue, imo there is nothing wrong with forks.

Yeah, its extremely minimal, but thats part of the appeal for me.

For automounting I just have udev rule for my usb drive, which is ok, but if I had to use a bunch of different drives for whatever reason I’d probably setup polkit.

I only ever used systemd for services and did not use any of the other features. Openrc does that and it works so nothing to handle.

I use seatd and I do not use polkit. The only thing that caught me off guard was that the default login binary does not support PAM so I had to install shadow-login.

I do use flatpak for lutris, web browser and few other things, but I prefer native packages. If the package isn’t in the repos I package it myself, the package format is almost identical to the one Arch has so a lot of times its enough to just edit the dependencies and build.

Alpine Linux

My answers to your questions in order:

• No.
• No workflow.
• I have periodic backups of the entire system, but I do not organize my configs or anything like that.
• I only customize the install on my laptop and it is over time, I do not install different distros on it, just the same install ever since I got it. On any other install I usually use the defaults.

Nečakala som že otvorím lemmy a prvé čo uvidím je post od Slováka, ktorý bol pridaný 5 minút dozadu.

It seems like one is showing GiB and the other GB, which are two different units.

KB = 1000B KiB = 1024B

Which doesn’t seem significant but it adds up.

Proof?

I dislike when documentations add sudo because what if I am root already or what if sudo is not installed on my machine and I cannot just copy and paste the lines because I have to avoid pasting sudo.

Also fyi ArchWiki also uses the # approach.

grim -t png -g "$(slurp -d)" - | wl-copy

I have no complaints about the OS itself and I really like the package manager. The wiki is lacking tho, which is not an issue 99% of the time cause I can still check archwiki, but its something to keep in mind.

Post-install was similar to Arch and fairly straightforward, except for having to set up logind

As far as wayland goes it works the same as on any other distro, nothing Alpine specific that you should look out for.

To be completely safe I’d just use a VM, if you think that is an overkill then I suggest Bubblewrap.

I do not have one, I am not very artistic so I keep things plaintext and simple. But https://zeusofthecrows.github.io/stadt/ really makes me wanna reconsider, I really like how it looks and it reminds me that I should visit neocities more.

I said some points about why Arch is good, but also difficult for beginners so I listed two of its forks and said a sentence or two about them.

On an unrelated note, strawberry is a bad choice of fruit to describe Arch distros, since they are usually in shades of blue.

The ordering is arbitrary, I did not think about the order as I tried to simply list things people may wish to consider when choosing.

I do not think I will be making a blogpost about advanced distros, I feel like people who want to use distributions like that (myself included) have the knowledge to decide themselves and there would be too many factors to consider.

Afaik no distros ship those codecs by default now, they might prompt you to download them during the installation. Fedora was just the first to notice that “oopsie we are violating a license” and others followed soon after.