The monoculture of meritocracy [LWN.net]

The monoculture of meritocracy

Posted Nov 15, 2012 15:16 UTC (Thu) by lacos (subscriber, #70616)
In reply to: The monoculture of meritocracy by wahern
Parent article: Crowding out OpenBSD

Thank you, William, great comment.

> chase minimalism while staying relevant and useful

This matches my ideals perfectly. Unfortunately, I can't run *BSD as a home user, because (as much as I ignore "modern desktops") I need my consumer electronics crap to work with my computer. For that I need user base behind my desktop OS. I must go with the gnome3-crazed crowd because they cause new drivers to be written too.

(The logical extrapolation would be to run Windows at home, of course, but I simply can't tolerate it.)

I'm already buying only years old (aka "antique") "consumer technology", both for low price and for better support, but Debian Stable *still* screws me regularly.

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The monoculture of meritocracy

Posted Nov 15, 2012 18:22 UTC (Thu) by wazoox (subscriber, #69624) [Link]

> Debian Stable *still* screws me regularly.

Slackware, man. Slackware is the way. Antique, battle proven technology (no stinky systemd! no friggin' pam! good ol' *BSD style rc files!) and modern enough stuff. And sbopkg. Even this stupid new phone with mtp storage mode works, thanks dog (new phones don't come with usb-storage anymore, noooo, would be too easy and practical).