kuberoot

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yup ๐Ÿ˜‰

It's a unit that's been adopted by many technical mods, and conveniently sidesteps the issue of what the actual unit is by using the bucket as a reference. After all, in the wacky world of computer game, the actual measure doesn't matter, so long as it's consistent.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

As a tech mod player, they hold exactly 1000mB of water

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But thanks for being so dismissive.

Like you weren't?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Why does every distro need yet another package manager?

I think most package managers - the ones actually part of a distro - are old. It's not a question of why they all use different package managers, it's a matter of them having developed them long ago before any single one matured.

That said, there are other considerations, which is also where new ones come from - different distros will have different approaches to package formats, dependency management, tracking of installed packages and system files, some might be implemented in a specific language due to the distro's ideology, some might work in a different way (like NixOS), and there's probably a whole bunch that just want a different interface.

You wouldn't ask why Linux has a different way of viewing installed programs from Windows, and in the same vein packages are not a universal aspect of Linux, so each distro has to make its own choices.

Also I like pacman, some people complain about the commands being obscure, but I feel like they're structured in a much more logical way. Don't confuse it with yay though, pacman doesn't build packages, and yay is specifically a wrapper around pacman that has different commands, while adding the ability to interact with the AUR.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

To think some people would instead ridicule others when you can have so much fun together...

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh god, please no, that's too real

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That makes sense, thanks for explaining! I saw "makes space" as what's happening right now, since Android does let you install alternatives for all those, including third party app stores, but it does go farther than that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I don't think anything you said makes it not free, as long as you can fork it. The same can be said about most FOSS, since somebody, usually the creator, is in control of the repository.

That's the point of FOSS - your repository isn't becoming a democracy by virtue of using a permissive license, but it means somebody could outcompete you with a fork and effectively take over as the dominant project.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

But... Aren't all of those things still very much dominant?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The 8 dependencies must be an optional dependency for some other package you already have installed. That said, that kind of stuff is the main reason I want to try NixOS - any time I install something, configure something, etc. I'm risking forgetting about it and getting tripped up over it down the line, with no good way to check.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

When you pour a liquid, some bubbles form in it. In case of whey, those bubbles probably also stay coherent for a while longer.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Considering they supposedly cited performance as a reason, they might've been about to pull a Cities skylines 2 indeed

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