cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/516795

• https://www.debian.org/social_contract
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Social_Contract

If this is in the wrong community let me know, but I have been away from linux for a little while now, and I have decided to come back to it. I am trying to figure out what Distro and Desktop environment I should use.

I used to use Ubuntu and, Ubuntu based Distributions, though for various reasons I had bad experiences with the ones based down stream of Ubuntu, I have also heard that Ubuntu is no longer nearly as good as they where before. As for desktop Experences, I never really liked Gnome. That being said from what I can tell there has been quite a bit that has changed sense I left, and any recommendations would be much appreciated.

I've been using Arch on all my daily driver devices for years now. One of the main reasons for this is the AUR. It's very convenient for installing all kinds of software, since it can build a full, native package from a simple build script written in bash. I personally have packages on the AUR and use it daily.

Anyway, I've thought many times of such a simple and easy solution being missing from other distros, but have never had the experience and motivation to create it. Recently, I used goreleaser to automatically build and release my project, ITD, for several distros at the same time. While doing so, I had an idea, so I went to check what goreleaser uses to build packages, and it turns out they have a separate library for this purpose: nfpm. This was the only thing missing for me to be able to build an AUR-like system.

I did notice one issue. It didn't support Arch Linux packages, so I created a PR adding support for them. The PR is completely working and it has been reviewed and approved. So, I started working on my idea, and so far, it's going really well. I've already been able to build and install multiple packages using my program on my Arch system and inside a Fedora and Debian docker container. I just uploaded my program now that I've finished implementing the basic features and testing them. I hope it ends up being useful.

Link to the repo with my new program: https://gitea.arsenm.dev/Arsen6331/lure

The README is very small right now, I'm working on making a better one.

Thoughts and ideas on FOSS software that needs to be done. Personally i've been thinking on working in an offline marxist.org (like arch-wiki-docs)

It's not specifically linux but I think there's a lot of overlap between people interested in linux/unix and the type of people who use old/used laptops either out of necessity or just because they prefer to.

I have been running cheat-sh for awhile now and I tell you this is better then "tldr" or "tealdeer" from a rust crate.

Example of cheat:

cheat-sh stat cheat.sheets:stat

stat

Display file or file system status

display numerical values for file permissions

stat -c '%a %n' *

Display only the octal permissions for the given directory. Great for tests.

stat --format='%a' /boot

tldr:stat

stat

Display file and filesystem information.

More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/stat-invocation.html.

Show file properties such as size, permissions, creation and access dates among others:

stat file

Same as above but in a more concise way:

stat -t file

Show filesystem information:

stat -f file

Show only octal file permissions:

stat -c "%a %n" file

Show owner and group of the file:

stat -c "%U %G" file

Show the size of the file in bytes:

stat -c "%s %n" file

Cheat has helped me out a lot since I can't memorize everything and anything related to a Linux CLI.

Super easy with #archlinux sudo pacman -S cheat-sh also with Osx brew install cheat-sh

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/320628

https://redd.it/v8l8vi

These people keep bringing up "mArKeT sHaRE"

1. Linux is free. How would it get market share?
2. It's quite difficult to get an accurate "market share" since user-agents can be faked.

EDIT: I wonder if Microsoft are making anti-Linux accounts to try and hamper Linux.

The amount of libertarian ideology present in FOSS is shocking