I’m not sure. I remember seeing an example in the docs, but I can’t find it now. Actually the docs in general are a lot less opinionated than I remember them.

One thing that I did find is that the ion shell document mentions that it isn’t a posix compliant shell because they would have had to leave out a bunch of features.

This is true, but the differences go even further than that. Redox is intentionally non-posix-compliant. This means that userspace programs written for posix operating systems may or may not need patching to even compile.

Part of the philosophy of Redox is to follow the beaten path mostly, but not be afraid of exploring better ideas when appropriate.

I blame C++. When these kernel hackers hear about how they should switch to this shiny new language that’s going to make their code so much cleanser and more manageable, I don’t blame them for thinking it’s all bullshit. It was last time.

I finally watched the talk today and that wasn’t what I thought he meant. What I thought he was getting at was that the rust parts of the kernel interact with lots of other modules written by people who don’t know rust. When those C modules change their semantics in ways that break the rust code, they can’t go fix it because they don’t know rust. In fact, whenever they make a change, they don’t even know if they broke some rust module, because they don’t understand the rust code well enough. And this is something that everyone is going to have to live with for the foreseeable future, because you can’t force all those other kernel hackers to learn rust.

What about Redox?

This is why I have a windows box. I’m hoping when they finally release SteamOS 3 for PC it will have stable SteamVR support.

The way nix deals with packages is very different from most distros. If you install a newer version of a package, the older version just gets hidden, not removed. This makes it very easy to rollback or recover from errors, but it does mean you tend to use more space.

I like book reader. It’s simple and does the job.

I had a similar experience. Back before epub took off, I started reading Gutenberg books on my wince phone. I think I was using an app called jbookshelf. Even then I loved the convenience of it.

Once android happened, I switched to epubs and it was so much better.

Now I’m mostly using koreader, along with kindle and Google play books. I prefer reading anything in a foreign language on Kindle, because it’s so easy to look up words.

Fzf isn’t really experimental. It’s pretty mature at this point. I found it to be pretty innovative, though, adding an interactive spin to the find program.

I have a Galago from S76 and am very happy with it. I replaced the SSD a few months ago and found the service manual well written and easy to follow.

My next machine will probably be one of theirs too.

I think I’ve learned and forgotten that tidbit a couple of times. It’s something that I need to do seldom enough that when I finally do, I don’t remember the keybind .

Here’s a screenshot of the Gnome one, which is actually called baobob:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baobab_screenshot.png

Wiztree looks interesting, I’ll see if I can install it, although my work machine is pretty locked down, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s off limits.

I really like the disk usage analyzer in gnome. The ui/visualization is really intuitive and useful, and I often wish for something similar on windows.

I saw several threads and may be mixing them up, but at one point someone dug up a link to an interview with desselines where he claimed that the uyghur genecide and the tiananmen square massacre were both hoaxes. There was also some worry in one of the discussions about security and the inability to delete comments. Also something about private messages being stored in plaintext on the server.

When the API thing happened, several of the subreddits I frequented had threads about finding an alternative to move to. Lemmy was mentioned, but but discounted early on.

One problem was that people found out the main dev was a tankie and didn’t want to be associated with the project because of that.

They ended up going to discords, or self hosted forums, or just staying on reddit.

It doesn’t. All the time you spent reading manuals and tweaking configs to get it to boot quicker does.

If you’re looking to try something a little different, I recommend Guix.

It’s based around a nyx-style package manager written in scheme, which is also called guix. There’s an EDSL for writing package definitions. One interesting result about this is that the package manager has a REPL and a dedicated emacs mode

Instead of systemd, the PID1 process is called GNU Shepherd, and is also written in scheme.

Guix also has a strong emphasis on bootstrapping. You can build almost the entire system from source, relying on only a few binaries to start with.

It may be a sort of shy Tory effect. People don’t volunteer that they run Gnome because it’s seen as the default mainstream option, but if someone uses xmonad, they’re going to tell you about it.