I think that’s at least a big part of it. There’s so much unnecessary friction in legacy projects that, while understandable to a degree, sucks.

About run0, isn’t it also not a setuid binary?

Iirc sudo-rs was still setuid…

Still a setuid bin. 🥺

What, you don’t like role-playing software development & distribution as if we were still in the 90s?? 🥺🥺 /j

But srs, most of Linux’s biggest technical problems are either caused by cultural legacy or blocked by it. The distribution model being one of the most pungent examples.

Nushell is very cozy for me. I work with SQL all day so I ended with PTSD and having my terminal syntax cosplay as it is nice.

Come one, free software aside bash UX is terrible. Not everything is a conspiracy.

Totally agree.

And here OP proves perfectly how Windows Updates have done a ton of collective damage to security by being a terrible experience.

Software MUST be always updated.

but then it breaks or the design team needed to justify its salary again or…

Then the problem lies with the software. Not updating it is not a solution despite Debian propaganda (/hj)

You can have FDE binded to the TMP and then inside that encrypted volume an encrypted home.

By doing that you only need to input your login password and get better security than the meme setup and other suggestions.

You would need, iirc (I am typing this from memory):

• A TPM.
• systemd-cryptenroll
• Some PAM config for fscrypt or similar.

I know the steps but for NixOS only lmao.

How do you deal with platform specific stuff? I am talking about desktop API and friends. (If that’s even a thing in your problem space). /gen

Most coreutils are in dire need of a replacement tho.

Atuin is so good, especially with multiple machines. I just would love more comp. time options to disable the dot dotfiles feature etc.

Pretty useful for not getting locked out. It can be finetuned if you want to assign priorities and that.

It is usually handled by systemd-oomd.

And do not forget about impermanence everywhere.

I would argue that’s the cool part. You also have the average hyper racist neo-reactionary Suckless fossid user who thinks daring to write in anything other than C is “gay” or smth.

And also it let’s you do crazy things that would be impossible in other imperative distros tho.

I am thinking about root-on-tmpfs, conditional configuration and doing all sorts of crazy things with packages while remaining manageable.

It is simply another whole tier.

Flatpak and SystemD Portable services are actually pretty good.

That’s the direction I see Linux going. I personally use NixOS because I am sad.

Last time I read something from the main dev I almost ran stright into the woods.

Also idk about how it is the management situation, portals integration, etc…

Insisting in the GNU/Linux thing gets cringier as time passes and GNU continues to fall into irrelevance.

It has always been a terrible take, but bro, I don’t see GNU being used in mainstream distros by the end of the next decade.

I could also name like a shit ton of programs way more relevant than the coreutils.

Uhhh, there are no alternatives to SystemD right now.

While different inits exists and they work just as well as SystemD, there is no replacement for the whole suite of programs.

See PostmarketOS, they ended up adding SystemD because it ends up being either thar or reinventing the wheel.

Imho SystemD gets a lot of hate for no reason at all. (Not saying it is perfect at all).

Literally tons of distros could be some lib.mkDefault nixos configs. And they would get a package manager improvement.