I’m here to stay.
That’s nice. But its still a browser application written in JavaScript and not everyone likes using the browser for that. Having alternative options is always good. In example I lean more towards Rust and can read the code and make changes the way I want.
Not everyone likes to do that in the browser. They are mostly full with ads or other nonsense that read more data of your browser than needed. In addition, its Open Source and you can verify and even update the code. I used such tools in the browser a few times and always hated it. Such a native tool written in Rust is much, much better in my opinion.
The older the Kernel gets, the more Rust it will get.
I assume its this one: https://flathub.org/apps/org.virt_manager.virt-manager but its unverified and not directly from the actual developers.
The standard session requires root, and for some reason this means that VMs couls harm your system more or something
VMs don’t have access to the host, so even if the virtual machine emulator Qemu and libvirt require root access, the encapsulated guest virtual machine have no access to the host. They can’t harm your system.
There will always be a controversy, we just don’t see each of it. The recent one you talk is probably about the talk a Rust developer was giving and where the toxic C dev didn’t let him speak. Or is there a more bigger and recent controversy? Nothing happened to it, it happened, people discussed it and now its history. Development continues and its in a good position as it seems.
What are you looking for? A FOSS news webpage or an app? You talk about DivestOS, which is an operating system for mobile when I search for. Its a bit unclear what you are looking for. Need to be more specific.
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That’s a lot. But that also means your system is not very secure, as you are missing ton of security patches for the packages.
34 days without booting? Are you using a Debian system and don’t update often? You should, for security patches at least. I’m on an Arch based system and update every day. Sometimes there are updates that require a reboot, so all services are up to date. My system is often up for a few days, sometimes even for a week.
Small tip, logging out and in will have a semi clean environment without a full boot. That means the uptime won’t reset.
And the Garbage Collector in Go is also a thing that helps ton for most normal work. To be honest, I wish sometimes Rust had an optional GC mode (I know this would be against the principles of the language… don’t take this wish too seriously). I see it like C with a GC+Concurrency. And one should not forget, because the language is dead simple, the compiler compiles extremely fast; even suitable as an interpreter language basically (purely judging by speed metrics).
But after being exposed to Rust, I do not have fun with Go because it misses some really cool or basic functionality; like proper error handling. Ultimately these are different approaches and that’s good. In example functional programming works a bit differently and we are not saying they should give up on this approach, because you like C so much.
I’m in a similar position. I tried Go too, but its not a fun language to work with for me. But I get what they are aiming for, a very simplistic language without too many features or structures, inspired by C itself. In fact one of the Go language developers is Ken Thompson, who developed C language itself too.
And you know what, that’s fine. Not every language has to offer everything. There are huge portion of people who like this approach. You can easily begin programming in Go, after a few hours or days of learning. There is really not much from language perspective to learn. I don’t have to like it, but others do, and that’s fine.
If anything, I would look at Zig instead Go. Zig is also not very complicated. Its even closer to C and can run C code directly. Its kinda the child of C and Rust.
Agreed. This term “unixporn” bugs me. I cannot recommend those platforms to anyone, because of the direct use of “porn” term. Its like kiddies made up the term unixporn or something…
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TL;DR: My desktop PC uses EndeavourOS and the only immutable experience I have is SteamOS 3. I can’t say one approach is better than the other, but I like having the newest software and packages in my system. And that’s best provided with a rolling release. I also think that sandbox systems like Flatpak and the several alternative installation methods besides the system package manager is an added complexity for a new user in Linux.
I don’t mind using an immutable system (BTW another term that describes this kind of system is Atomic, which comes from Fedora), as long as it is designed around it and works well. The only immutable system I use is on my Steam Deck with the pre-installed SteamOS 3. My generic desktop personal computer is using an Archlinux derivative EndeavourOS with a rolling-release, where I have much greater control over the system.
Both systems have their strengths. I don’t think that my mutable and always up to date system is breaking more often than the other system. The best part of it is, its always up to date and I get the newest applications. I try to not use much Flatpaks or AppImages (but do for certain apps, where I have no other choice for ease of use). And an immutable system naturally basically asks me to use Flatpaks and other user space package formats that is not handled by the distribution itself.
Even though I have some thoughts on it, I am not excluding one approach. Many say that immutable distributions are good for new users to Linux. I think this adds some complexity and problems, because they need to use sandbox systems like Flatpak. And that’s if they know that they are using Flatpak, because sometimes the app distribution gives options like AppImage and custom installer scripts as well. This is all confusing for someone who just starts with Linux. On top of it, the sandbox of Flatpak requires some additional setup and configuration for some apps, to access certain hardware or filesystems in example.
All in all, I tend to like the traditional “mutable” distribution system as a rolling release model the most. But I’m an not excluding any other and would use a good “immutable” one; I just didn’t try any other than the one in my Steam Deck.
I use FreeTube too and none Invidious instance work for me. So Local API only right now.
This only means programmers of Linux itself can use Rust to program the Kernel. In example if Rust programmers are good at it, they can use the language over something they are not good at it like C in example. You as the end user does not see any direct difference. Like with any other application if its written in Rust or in C, it does not matter much if you use the binary executable.