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Because they don’t support OpenSuse. They historically only supported Ubuntu but allowed people to package for other distros.

No. Mandriva and eventually Mageia are their own projects that use RPM.

Because apartment’s don’t exist where you live? If your gonna be a smooth brain troll at least be entertaining.

Sometimes people live in apartments or some other living arrangements that don’t allow for pets. Stop being a dumbass.

Because portage is GOAT. Also see this comment higher up.

Slackware. Like I respect the fuck out of it, but every time I’ve used it I’ve borked it in fun and interesting ways.

I only check protondb when something doesn’t work. Usually some gigachad has a fix or a good reason in the comments.

Does synology run on FOSS?

Invidious exists. While it is still youtube it at the very least respects your privacy.

It should be okay, just comment/delete out the archlabs repos as they are dead and make sure the mirrorlist in /etc/pacman.d is actually pointing at arch repos and then just run sudo pacman -Syu. If you want/need to edit names and logos and stuff just edit /etc/os-release.

Have my honorary gold star * for wading through that bullshit. Absolute chad.

The Massacre of Manila

I self host a calckey instance (what firefish was called before a week ago and I’m too busy to update atm) and it integrates just fine with everything else in the fediverse. The cool thing about the fediverse is that user numbers don’t matter because it all ties in together.

ok boomer

Mastodon is the same as Phpbb in the example you gave though.

I use Debian exclusively for my servers. Rock solid experience for me. On my desktops I like having up to date stuff and even though Debian Sid exists it’s not the same as Arch or Gentoo testing.

Gentoo is pretty rad but be prepared for the compile times and to fail a few times (it’s a learning experience!). You could even speed things up by setting up Distcc on a beefy rig to build stuff for your optiplexes.

I was around 16 or 17 when my Windows Vista laptop took a dump. Managed to install Ubuntu via WUBI, not because I was interested in Linux, I just really wanted to watch Gundam on Youtube and I didn’t have the money to take my laptop to a repair shop. When I got a new laptop I planned on staying with Windows 7 but 3 days later I nuked and paved Linux Mint over it because I got used to how Linux worked lol. 13 years later I’m running Gentoo on my main desktop, Arch on my laptop, and debian everywhere else.

Also one of the use cases for flatpaks I forgot to mention was for proprietary software like Steam, Spotify, and Discord. It makes installing those a breeze.

The point of Gentoo is it’s configurability. Gentoo has binary packages in it’s main repo’s and even an experimental binhost for precompiled packages. Forcing one to use any one thing is against the Gentoo philosophy.