What’s the appeal of staying on the bleeding edge?
>software gets infiltrated by troons, Arch users are immediately forced to use the new version
>new version introduces a severe bug, Arch users have to live with it until it gets patched, other distro users never had to deal with it, Arch users are unpaid beta testers
>don’t want to use new version? just never update your whole system again bro
Yes. Linux distro package managers are a cancer. Windows just relies on 20 different installations of VCC or whatever it’s called and this enables support for whatever software version you want to use. Linux is limited to a single version and everything on your entire system has to match that version. One dependency breaks? Sorry bro, your whole system is unusable. Windows offers more freedom than Linux in this regard, which is ironic. Why are freetards like this. Freetards on suicide watch.
>Windows just relies on 20 different installations of VCC or whatever it’s called and this enables support for whatever software version you want to use.
And even with all of that mindless bloat it still can't run anything from 2 Windows versions ago without major tweaking.
I'll take 1 GB of dependencies if it means I can run any software version I want, Linux has exactly zero freedom by forcing you to stay at one snapshot in time
>1GB
More like 20-30GB lol.
I would even take 30 GB of bloat if it allowed me to use Linux like this.
Just use an old version of Debian or Ubuntu or install Windows 2000 if you want a time capsule.
I know I could do that but I would prefer if I could use a old version of software x while still being able to use the new software that I need all on one Distro,
couldn't you accomplish this with debian backports?
>use Debian stable
>shit is broken
>upstream fixed the problem
>no backport available
>wontfix
>mfw
>1 GB of dependencies
If you're happy with that you can run pretty much everything on any distro with a chroot, container or flatshit.
You'd think turbo autism contained in IRC servers would be capable of at least matching 30 year old Windows design. Apparently not
Why can't there be a linux distro that lets you use multiple versions of the same software?
because, just because!
Doesn't NixOS and Guix try to do something like that?
I don't know if they're good Distros since IQfy seems to hate them.
Are they proprietary?
If you answered (n)o, then no, they're not good.
If you answered (y)es, then yes.
You get what you pay for.
not needed for furry porn consumption and hoarding.
use a flatpak or appimage.
because of the libraries they use to compile their software
How is something like Winblows able to do it?
>picrel
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side-by-side_assembly
I still would prefer something like that and all the potential problems it brings with it if allowed for better backwards compatibility and would let me use multiple version of the same software on Linux.
it's not pretty but it works and I can't remember the last time when I ran into a "dll hell"
>I still would prefer something like that and all the potential problems it brings with it if allowed for better backwards compatibility and would let me use multiple version of the same software on Linux.
But you can.
install guix anon
that's what stable distros are for, dummy.
yes!!!!!!!!!!! I will either use a crippled OS in a virtualized environment, or I will purchase multiple hard drives and most of all, I will use multiple OSes just to run this one old software!! I like being KEKED because Linux maintainers are not power users and therefore never saw the need to fix any of the issues
have sex. your posts are funny but please get something better to get mad at.
i don't have any friends so that is never going to happen
larp as an egirl on twitter and lots of nerds will want to. even if they find out you're a guy. trust me anon, this is a game changer.
i'd rather kill myself but thank you for saying my posts are funny
i've been keking like a dumbfrick for a while, thanks for making my morning less depressing.
Works on my machine
>moronic IQfy user cannot disprove this argument
It just works for me bro
I cannot look at the arch imagine and not see the silhouette of the fat arch user. Just like fedora, another distro ruined for me by internet memes and moronic neckbeards.
Same. It's hysterical to see. They should change it.
I don't see how anyone enjoys using his computer. If you go one step further than the average consuming moron everything starts to fall apart. Want to save an image on a mounted smb share? No problem dude, please just excuse the dolphin file browser popup being 10x slower than the normal one in navigating folders. What, you don't want to wait 5 seconds for every folder to load? What do you mean the scrollbar is laggy? I don't care, you should be grateful that Linux even allows you to configure your system! On Windows you can't do that. Yes, it's broken, why don't you volunteer and fix it yourself? Well, yes, we have a rigorous screening procedure and if you're unlucky we won't merge your pull requests because we just don't like you and your idea of how the software should work. Yes, we do appreciate unopinionated optimization but we can't merge this, because, well, just because. Excuse me now, I have to help my e612 friend with his Tor archival project, another HDD broke...
Linux has thousands of contributors yet no one has the courtesy of fixing many of the glaringly obvious shortcomings in Linux desktop use. One might wonder why that is. Don't they want the attention that these huge QoL improvements would bring? Attention-seeking Black folk they are
>You WILL UPDATE EVERYTHING
>kicad and freecad both rely on the same package
>one switches to the new version but the other doesn't
>have to choose between installing one or the other for weeks while they get around to updating the dependencies
That was probably the worst thing I've dealt with.
why don't you just ignore packages? I have all pipewire packages because the most recent version broke sound for half my programs. You don't NEED to upgrade everything, you know
That's a partial upgrade, and those are not supported.
Not supported by what?
>muh partial upgrade
99% of the time this is just because of mismatching SONAMES. If you aren't a moron, this is trivial to deal with yourself if it comes to it.
>Arch users are immediately forced to use the new version
False, you can just not update
>Arch users have to live with it until it gets patched
False, you can just downgrade the buggy package
>just never update your whole system again bro
You can just wait until the new version is stable and update
You are a lying Black person
the reasons why these threads still happen is because you keep taking the bait.
>new version introduces a severe bug
never happened me; it just werks. Newer versions are nice because sometimes there's a new feature I care about.
>software gets infiltrated by troons
Nothing wrong with that. Reminder the alternative is for your software to get infested by racist and transphobic boomers who are afraid of change
"transphobic" is a strange word, it implies the fear of trannies is irrational.
Imagine believing it's rational to be afraid of individuals expressing themselves
Try MS-DOS, the ultimate OS for boomers afraid of change
>Try MS-DOS
MS-DOS or FreeDOS is great but I still need some modern applications for work.
So I at least need to be able to use a VM on the OS for modern applications which I think DOS sadly can't do.
Do you have anything else that you could recommend to me?
>I'm afraid of change but I still want to be able to use new and modern applications
That's not how it works bud, pick one or the other
Then you shouldn't be afraid of trans people, they're not mentally ill. You should be afraid of linux users on IQfy, the autism they contain is the ultimate mental illness
>>I'm afraid of change but I still want to be able to use new and modern applications
>That's not how it works bud, pick one or the other
I want to use old applications by default but still want to be able to use new applications through a VM if I really need them for something.
Well you can't have that, sorry. VMs for amd64 processors did not exist in the 60s 70s and 80s when boomers were doing their thing
I don't dislike modern hardware I only dislike modern software.
They are one in the same, they don't exist without each other
It's perfectly rational to be afraid of individuals with mental illnesses, especially when they demand everybody around them play along.
>get infested by racist and transphobic boomers who are afraid of change
This is actually what I want, Is there any OS like that?
I prefer boomers over zoomers all day.
>the alternative is for your software to get infested by racist and transphobic boomers
Well i want that alternative
Sounds based
It's actually not based at all, it's giga cringe