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Windows doesn't "just work"
Linux and BSD doesn't just work. I've been using Plan 9 and when I have to use linux I feel very frustrated when graphical windows doesn't open in a terminal like in plan 9.
Not knowing where to find anything.
man, try info too. But linux might not have good man page, so use the wiki too.
Great! I would like to use -O0 or -O1 on my distro..
Insane graphical installer. You cannot install an os with just serial console access.
We’re using Firefox to render the UI when you’re installing locally. (There’s no Chromium or Electron involved.)
Both are insane.
The only thing that is a genuine problem with Linux as a whole is that a lot of apps and games just aren’t compatible
Because two systems are different.
It is not a problem. Shut up and hack.
It can find and load your ssh keys. Does it just do one thing well?
Use plan 9.
Just install plan 9. It is better than anything else.
There are errors in my post, so it must not be chatgpt ;)
Yes, the syntax is the same. It also support various GNU and BSD extensions.
GNU bc is unmaintained for years. The latest version is from 2017. It don't have a repo or a mailing list.
bc-gh started in 2018 and it is still actively developed. It is adopted by many projects I've listed in my post.
perhaps they don't care about bc. I think they don't even notice that GNU bc haven't been updated since 2017.
I will change it to "licensing reason". Thank you
But the software you listed are used by many peoples. bc-gh is robust and performant, GNU bc is not actively developed, and benchmark shows that it is clearly slower than bc-gh in most case. But in most distros bc-gh is not available.
But there are technical reason too. IIRC, gcc > 4.3 drop support for some architecture?
Linux distros not shipping Gavin Howard's bc for licensing reasons
(for anyone who do not know, bc is a "arbitrary-precision arithmetic language". its syntax is similar to C)
Gavin Howard's bc (bc-gh) is adopted by busybox, toybox, FreeBSD, Android, macOS for its robustness and superior performance. It is also shipped with Gentoo Linux; LFS also use bc-gh.
Even though bc-gh is more robust and updated, Linux distros other than Gentoo and Fedora do not package it it. bc-gh is not available on Arch (available on AUR), Debian and perhaps all of its derivative. The reason seems to be a licensing reason: bc-gh is under the BSD license.
bc-gh is clearly superior to GNU bc, Gavin Howard's benchmark show that bc-gh is faster than GNU bc in most case, while bc-gh actually do more work than GNU bc.
Today I tested GNU bc and bc-gh. I let they do this operation: (10241024)^(10241024). GNU bc give me the answer in five minutes, bc-gh give me the answer in two minutes.
GNU bc do not have a repository. All development happen in private, and we can't make su
~/real
~/real/cprac
~/real/git
Making a LFS distro already show you all the GNU mess! Why another distro?
GitHub can you shut down this repo? ahaha 🤣 🤣 🤪
its quality will not be lower than usa linux, as they will pull latest development but not push back (to the linux list)
The Linux world have bad things, especially in userland and libc
op-ti-mize [verb (trans.)]* … (gcc) to modify executable code so that it fails more quickly.
"Stable distro" meaning
Distributions like RHEL and Debian freeze packages, you will have to use old package when the newer is available. I think these distributions is just for highly mission-critical system, they have to run software smoothly, no breakage. Most personal computer don't need that stability.
Can anyone explain more about what a stable distributions mean?