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[-] De_Narm@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Yep, I have a lot of AUR packages installed. Never had any problems besides needing to remove a package once to resolve some dependency issues.

[-] pkill@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

the real question is whether you use git variants. Which is another way of not making arch (and Gentoo) certainly not free as in free beer, especially if you live in Europe and need to deal with those outrageous energy prices. btw imo one should be suspicious of projects with long tagged release cadence since it's usually a sign of technical debt and the need to look for alternatives.

[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

Hmm, I think I broke my X11 server with an update more than once.

[-] pkill@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.
Ken Thompson

I see Wayland's flaws but X is such a bloated piece of hardly maintainable spaghetti code that it is sadly beyond saving or prospects for anything in terms of significant improvement

this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2024
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