this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2024
82 points (88.7% liked)

Linux

48654 readers
416 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 16 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Omg apt is like the worst UI there is.

Have a look at nala! It needs some depencies but is a huge upgrade

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The worst UI?

Clearly you've never used zypper dup

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hahaha zypper is hell. This must have looked cool when internet speed was slow. But its just horrible.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

One of the things that keeps me from staying with OpenSUSE.

That, and its overzealous security policy.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Mind to elaborate? That sounds like a good thing.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It would be a good thing if you want to have stuff inaccessible by your users. Reasonable assumptions when you're the IT department with the company workstations. Not so reasonable when you just want to have a working PC for yourself (and probably your family).

The other day, I gave up on my Tumbleweed system when an update for some reason rendered my living room PC unable to connect to internet.

Maybe it was done in a good reason. Maybe it's supposed to give me some protection of some sort. Would I need that protection? Definitely not if it keeps me (and other family members) to watch youtube.

If anyone wants to attack me thru that thing, I'd say go for it. I got nothing but my Netflix & Spotify creds. They can try infecting my media library, which I can just wipe since I got multiple copies of it.

Right now, I got Debian running on all my systems. I get to configure each of them to be as secure as it needs to be without having my operations hindered.

[–] TGhost@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Ah ah i will one day.

I clearly agree, apt is ugly and even synaptic making it better. But like i said, while ago when I used synaptic I did break my packages and I got to use dpkg and apt, to repair.

Since, I guess, I'm on a PTSD about it and now just use apt or dpkg, when using a Debian or Debian based system.

But I will listen to you, and for sure will give it a try

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nala is an apt wrapper, it just displays stuff better, automates updates and automatically chooses the fastest mirror (thats the stuff I know)

[–] TGhost@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I dont know why a (tui) wrapper should cause stuff apt doesnt. Its likely an apt problem.

[–] TGhost@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

No that was an synaptic issue, dont remember now the specific issue,
But it didnt managed well, certainly a bug at the bad moment for me at this time XD

But hey i dont regret, i know how to manage a broken apt DB now XD. I guess.. x)

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

apt is easy to use and read. I haven't dreamed of searching for a shiny replacement because there's no problem to solve.