With that, I’m starting a contest (the prize is the honor of being texted by me that you won):

Guess how much it will take me to break the system beyond repair. I will deliberately do stupid things such as using random niche bootloaders, bcachefs and whatever else is suggested in comments.

If I can’t break the system in like 2 weeks, I’m installing that NixOS config regardless of this challenge.

Yep, that’s it. Thanks for participation and don’t break your system.

Edit: I’m not going with bcachefs. Thanks Linus

    • trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 hours ago

      I’ve always seen fans call it “cutting edge” or “leading edge”, as it’s somewhere between other distros with it shipping most feature updates once every six months.

      Personally, I prefer something more up-to-date, but at least you don’t typically get stuff in the Fedora repos that’s so out of date, that it’s actively broken.
      For example, for $DAYJOB, I need the reuse CLI, which states in its documentation to install it with apt install reuse. On Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, that’s just a dumb idea, because the version in the repos is 3 years old and crashes when you go to use it, producing subtly wrong results. That cost us half a day of debugging this week, for no good reason…

  • lemmysmash@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    You obviously should ditch the package manager and install everything with ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install. And no, I didn’t miss sudo in front of make install, I missed it in front of su - :)