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  • Because of all the nice feedback about OpenSUSE:
    SUSE was my first (bought) Linux distribution, at a time when I would have spent days downloading an ISO, SUSE was available with a manual in store. That was nice.

    But then I had an AVM Fritz! ISDN card and it was a complete shit show to get this working. Especially as YAST(2?) didn’t support the configuration I needed, but every time you opened it, it would overwrite your manual changes in some configuration files.
    (Edit: I’ll probably need to add, that this was like 25 years ago. So besides “fuck, I’m old”, my perspective in SUSE is very probably not up-to-date)

    After that I hopped through a few distros and mostly stayed with basic Debian.

    Nowadays I’m mostly using Manjaro (or just Arch itself, if I don’t need X), because I like the Arch package system and actually also the whole system architecture… Don’t exactly know what it is, but I feel much more at home.
    With apt I sometimes found myself in situations, where a fresh install will resolve things faster than trying to restore/save the system. With Arch I always was somehow able to restore everything.

    Can someone tell me how Tumbleweed differs/excels?
    Thanks in advance!
    Currently waiting for my new laptop (Framework 16 :-D) and that would be a nice opportunity to try something new.
    But as I need my device for work, it’s important to me, that I really have it under my control and am not depending on some half-baked configuration utility like YAST was.

    Edit: I’m also playing with the thought of moving to something immutable. NixOS looked nice in concept, but the more I read about it, the more I see that it’s more suitable for more server than my laptop - but maybe I’m wrong here, as I don’t have any hands-on experience




  • naeap@sopuli.xyztoGreentext@sh.itjust.worksAnon thinks about CPUs
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    19 days ago

    Software runs on processing power. Doesn’t matter if it’s mechanical, electrical or biological computing power.

    The important part is, that something is processing it.
    And although by now software development through abstraction feels disconnected from just specialised algorithms: everything will break down into numbers and some form of algorithm to process the information








  • Entsprich jetzt nicht deinen Anforderungen, aber gegen Datensparsamkeit kann man mit aktuellen Speicher Preisen uä argumentieren, so dass aus einem Privatsphäre Recht eine ökonomische Diskussion wird.

    Find ich gut und richtig sowas im Keim zu ersticken.

    Muss aber zugeben, dass ich mir den Artikel nicht durch gelesen hab und meine Antwort nicht greift. Aber das wäre auch meine ungefähre Reaktion, wenn jemand Privatsphäre Fragen in Richtung wirtschaftlicher Einschätzung drückt.