QUOTE(herpderply @ Sep 30 2019, 03:25)
Debian unstable on my notebook and desktop, Debian stable on my home server.
Nice. Finally another Sid user.
I'm running Debian unstable on both my server and all of my laptops, including my Powerbook G4.
The only problem is that systemd-shim isn't being maintained anymore, so I'm investigating taking the "no systemd at all" route on my thinkpad right now. Wicd fails miserably whenever I'm in an area with tons of access points (some python parsing problem I don't want to deal with), so I am using bare wpa_supplicant and dhclient to connect while at university. If I hadn't already had some experience with wpa_supplicant due to my FreeBSD dualboot, it would have been very painful.
The other issue is that Debian seems to like to impose systemd unnecessarily on other packages via optional dependencies they've compiled in. I can't seem to get any KDE5 stuff working through the package manager without switching init systems. It's seriously making me consider hopping to Devuan since I kept running into more and more stupid bugs when I attempted to use systemd init.
If I do hop, I'm hoping I can just edit my sources.list and have it transition relatively painlessly. As of right now I'm maintaining a few custom debian packages for things I use that would normally force the use of systemd init.
Oh, also, I'm maintaining patched builds of the GTK3 library because their file chooser sucks so badly without patches. Gnome or whoever just recently transitioned it to Meson, so now I have to learn all about that. Fun.
On the powerbook side, they recently stopped supporting powerpc 32 bit as an official target, so I'm starting to feel the impact of that and might switch to Gentoo or something since it still supports it in name.
For now, Debian's "ports" project does still host some powerpc32 stuff, but there are some gaping holes that I've been having to fill by cross-compiling for it from my thinkpad and my server. Recently, an update broke OpenSSL so badly that I couldn't run any programs that linked to it, meaning no wget or apt-get to fix my problems. If I'd rebooted I probably wouldn't have been able to log in. That was rescued from anhilation by some cross-compiled packages.
Also Firefox currently has some really bad endian-specific graphics code, as well as some spots that have endian checks but that perform the wrong operations when actually used on big endian systems.
This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Oct 12 2019, 06:47
what OS are you using now?
Sep 7 2019, 07:32
