For real. Some guy I knew introduced me to SuSE back when I was in highschool. It was great and all, but it made things easy by hiding details behind snappy GUIs. While I was in college, I started to realize I wasn’t learning anything about Linux. So I took a deep breath and installed Gentoo. Switched to Arch for a while, but I’m back to Gentoo now. I wanted to learn more about how Linux really worked and holy shit did I get my wish.

ChatGPT-coded

And nothing of value was lost.

Even if an LLM hallucinates a sentiment that we like, it’s still slop.

Huh! That’s wild. How have I never heard of this?

I’ve frankensteined distros before, but without the help of Bedrock. An employer asked what OS I’d like on my work laptop and I asked for a Linux system, but of course they didn’t offer me my choice of distro or anything. It came with KDE Neon. I wanted to run Artix and I wasn’t going to let UEFI Secure Boot stop me even if the PC Support department wouldn’t share the BIOS password. Now, KDE Neon uses the Ubuntu kernel, and it booted on the laptop in question, so I knew the secure boot trusted the signature on the official Ubuntu kernel. But Artix uses the Arch kernel which isn’t signed at all, so the laptop wouldn’t boot that. So I made a PKGBUILD that would download the Ubuntu kernel .deb file from the official Ubuntu repository, unzip the .deb file, and build an Arch/Artix package containing the kernel image and initramfs and CPU microcode and such. The result was a system that was entirely Artix except that it used the Ubuntu kernel. Worked perfectly. I’m sure the folks at PC Support were confused when an Artix box showed up on their Nessus asset management software.

Right? The OP describes me (except I like to think I’m not that sweaty) and I don’t remember ever having reinstalled because things were broken.

Sincerely, a Gentoo user.

I’d have to stop before I could start.

Python rebuilds don’t cause (noticeable) problems for AMD64 Arch Linux.

And any time anyone offers any kind of help on the Arch Linux Arm forums to try to help resolve the issue, the admins ignore and/or lock the thread. They’re not open to help and the people on the forums are super frustrated about it.

I know it. I’m literally typing this on a Raspberry Pi. I used to run Arch Linux on it, but Arch Linux on ARM has severe issues. It’ll literally go months with no package updates.

One day I’ll get brave and switch it to Gentoo. Just need to put together a build server first.

Piracy will always be possible.