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I've become a distrohopper in spite of myself. And so I blew away Alpine and installed Void, which, so far, is great.
Installing it was actually a lot easier than getting Alpine from barebones to XFCE. I had to rerun the ncurses-based installer a couple of times because of some disk partitioning confusion, but it was about 30 minutes from nothing to LibreWolf and Lagrange working.
I don't know if it's really more minimal than Xubuntu, but at least it's a cleaner distro, which boots really fast. mount shows a lot of crap (why is modern linux philosophy 'everything is a filesystem' ?), and many processes running, but whatever. At least it's not Ubuntu.
Jan 22 · 4 months ago · 👍 hyperreal, gamma, ReMARStered
| Why is modern Linux philosophy "Everythin is a filesystem"
That dates back to the og UNIX days, its nothing new in Linux as it tries to be a UNIX like os. That was the goal of the GNU project, to make a UNIX like OS that has its soures available.
🚀 stack [OP] · May 21 at 23:45:
@Drakx: I don't think the unix philosophy ever included mounting applications as filesystems...
Yep. You've got me there. That's a new one, I am wondering what app in Void you're using that dose this.
I've not noticed any app in Void doing this.
🚀 stack [OP] · May 22 at 19:10:
@Drakx: not just void. Anything that uses snap, or AppImage for instance. Try doing a 'mount' and count the lines. My xubuntu laptop has 46 things mounted. It's insane.
| Anything that uses snap, or AppImage for instance
Ah, that'll be why, I've never used a 'snap' or 'AppImage'. TBH I have no clue what they are and why they exist, most things that I want to use/install if xbps cannot provide I'll just go build the source.
Quick search reveals what they are and why the exist. I like the idea, but... Not sure if its something of use to someone like myself.