Yeah you’d want to pin whatever image number you’re using. You’re basically saying, “Yeah, #1 is the good one I want to save for later.”
ETA: the rollback command does two things:
I cannot recall if you will have to rebase back to the upstream build to start getting updates again or not. I think you will, but double check.
When you say “boot,” do you mean that your computer started but didn’t start the OS?
And yes, I believe that’s the correct command to pin an image. It’s either that or 1. As you update, it will eventually become image 3 and just live there until you unpin it.
The other twist is, unlike Xitter, you don’t have to create an account on Mastodon to be able to read their feed. You can access it like any other website. So nobody is getting shut out. They’re just posting elsewhere, where anyone can read it.
Not that the author is necessarily off-base, but that blog post is almost three years old. Tech and software evolve fast, and I would hazard a guess that at least a few of their gripes have been addressed by now. Additionally, due partly to the success of the Steam Deck, Valve has officially partnered with Arch and it’s throwing some of their considerable resources into Linux development.
I also noticed that they barely mentioned SELinux or AppArmor, and they probably didn’t know about immutable distros (which didn’t really exist, yet). It’s fair to say that Linux isn’t the gold standard of good security, but the post reads like someone with a beef and not someone trying to inform by presenting a skeptic’s take (indeed, they seem to gush over Windows and MacOS).
They finish by name-dropping a few people with a vested interest in security, and they’re practically begging the question in doing so. If the facts don’t stand on their own as the author has presented, why should I listen to strangers who allegedly share the same opinion? That’s not how consensus is formed.
I guess what I’m trying to say is, an old article about the state of Linux Security should be assessed within a modern context if we’re to apply it to current software.
The error seems to say that it can’t find the source file on whatever repo you’re using. Are you sure it exists there?
Gears, my friend. The transistors don’t form from these proto-circuits until the third trimester, and the CPU doesn’t start forming until the last two weeks.
Doctors of Computer Science will often label the computer Windows or Mac around week 18, but you won’t truly know whether it’s a Windows, Mac, or Linux computer until after the build, sometimes years after.
Dunno if this helps, but it sounds like you’re trying to do something similar (?) to what’s described in this article:
https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2022/10/wireguard-in-podman/
They also have this guide:
https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2021/11/wireguard-nftables/#point-to-site
Good luck!
Even if we can’t prove a post is fake, it still can be.
Literally the definition of Appeal to Possibility. “It could be, therefore it is.”
I can tell you were born yesterday.
Gonna block you now, because I can tell you’re never going to stop replying to me. It’s how you people try to cover up shilling.
Ow, my poor feelings. /s
Exactly what I’d expect from somebody who broadly claims a post is fake but can’t provide the receipts. Somebody calls you out, and you call them stupid, double down, and run, instead of engaging honestly.
Standing on top of others’ shoulders is the entire deal of distros (and Linux, more broadly), no?
I don’t know anything about Cloudflare vis a vis CachyOS (the politics of business melts my brain), but supposedly Cachy offers a speed boost for certain tasks. When I’ve used it, it feels as snappy as a Debian install I use.
For some, it may not offer them much of a difference. It’s not going to be a “leaps and bounds” difference either way, but it allows people who don’t want to optimize their packages manually and don’t want to optimize and build their own kernel the opportunity to experience the potential benefits of those things.
Not really. If it’s fake, it’s fake. Proof isn’t necessary for that to be the case.
Yes it is. Realness or fakeness is not a subjective matter of opinion.
Do you think this post is fake? If so, why?
Yes, because I wasn’t born yesterday.
Your personal incredulity is not valid justification. Either you have proof why you think it’s fake, or you’re making irrational claims.
It’s possible, but unless you can prove it, you’re just blindly casting aspersions. Appeal to possibility is a logical fallacy.
Do you guys think people affiliated with a distro make fake posts like this to drum up interest in their product?
I’m sorry, “fake posts like this?” Do you think this post is fake? If so, why?
Keep a cloud-synced notebook of bugs, ideas, and fixes. That way, you can help people in the future or know how to do things for yourself if you ever need to reinstall. I have notes for fixing things like my keyboard layout on GDM/SDDM or how to set up certain software in a privileged podman container.
A lot of distros have their own Discord communities these days. It’s pretty easy to find people who can help in real time.
With a big red 🚫 over it.
As with anything, YMMV. I’m curious why you’re running games through Wine though. Proton seems to be the better option for gaming.
Nowadays, Linux runs well with Nvidia chips. Recent benchmarks show that open-source Linux graphic drivers work with Nvidia GPUs as well as its proprietary drivers.
No, they’re not, and I wish people would stop repeating this. If you want to do anything in userspace, it’s still proprietary, Nouveau, or NVK, the second of which has never been comparable and the third of which is still in development (though showing a lot of promise). What is basically at feature parity is the kernel drivers, which if the author had read their source, they’d already know. Kernelspace ≠ Userspace.
However, I will agree that even with the proprietary driver, most people will have a comparable experience to anyone with an AMD card. Hell, I can even use my old laptop with an integrated 960M to play the same games it has always been able to play. Linux has become more available to more people than ever, and it’s only going to continue to get better.
You know, that’s probably something every Linux dev team could use: a volunteer marketing team. Devs volunteer their time, and not everyone can or wants to code, so it seems to me that there should be space made for other skillsets.
like what if linux still was open source but had a lot of proprietary dependencies and packages…
At that point, it’s not really open source anymore. Once it has proprietary dependencies, it’s no longer open.
but it still would let you use any desktop environment and there would be a new proprietary desktop environment which was like gnome but easier
What you’re describing is a closed-source version of Pop!_OS with a closed source version of Cosmic, their latest DE still in Alpha.
Businesses and software companies don’t make software for operating systems based on their openness or proprietary-ness. They make it based on market share. Your idea would still have to compete with Linux, MacOS, and Windows, and it would have to get a better share of the market than at least Linux before businesses would even bother making software for your closed system.
The reason Linux is as successful as it is, is because it’s open, and hobbyists can and do contribute to it for free. When you close that off, you then have to pay for development, and you’ll have to overcome the gigantic barrier to entry set up by the likes of Microsoft and Apple.
I think I’d rather just be a good community member and remind people to donate, and that it’s the cool and right thing to do as a FOSS user.