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You sure the guys running pacman are sitting on the right hand side of the bus? Seems a bit more like they should be in the back doing a skill check for luck and rolling a d20
The recent attacks have been against the AUR.
Which pacman doesn't reference.
In terms of sneaking in malicious code, that's possible in the official repos of all operating systems, including the windows store.
The actual meme speaks more to the fact that windows update is enforced unless you jump through enormous flaming hoops, and it will measurably make your already running system worse as it forces the installation of things the user wouldn't want (ie copilot) or removes functionality they do (classic control panel).
But you know... I use Arch btw.
My comment was just a joke man, wow
Sometimes it feels more like in front of the bus, and running pacman just puts you a little further up the road
I think this is true of open source more generally.
In the long run there's no way that the actual desires of humanity can be out-developed by an extremely privileged group of front-runners, rent-seekers, enshittifiers, etc. (eg. proprietary software)...
The main enshitification I've seen has been when a project tries to financially support itself via a supported version or enterprise version. More often than not new features get developed for the paid version and the open source version becomes the community version. New features then never got put in to the community version, or it remains in a crippled state
Eh, you'd hope. I can't definitively say why this happens for now, but I'm seeing a surprising amount of "little bugs and quirks" seeping through, more than it used to. And that makes me worried.
It's probably heavily dependent on distro, using Bazzite right now and the only bug I've run into recently is ProtonPlus not downloading Steam Tinker Launcher because "yad >= 7.2" for some fucken reason. Let me download it fucker I want to use Vortex to download my fuckoff NV modpack.
I certainly have a guess
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I do believe it's not just one of the things to keep getting better, it's a blueprint for the things we want to build in the future. From software to society. More individual participation, less corporate involvement, zero corporate ownership of essentials.
My current enemy is the stranglehold of corporate OSs in the mobile space. That really really needs to go for good.
More individual participation, less corporate involvement, zero corporate ownership of essentials.
I've got some bad news about Linux then, the main contibutors are companies, and the infrastructure is owned by them.
It's not individuals who paying Linus $1.5 million a year (Under "Compensation").
I agree, however, rather than individual participation, I would say Linux represents a victory for the collective spirit. Yes Linus has spearheaded the kernal development for years, but without all the other contributors sacrificing countless hours, Linux wouldn't be nearly as successful (and ubiquitous) as it is. Linux demonstrates that we, as a community, can come together to work towards something we know is good and right, without the drive of monetary gain, or social recognition, but just because it's fun, or fills a need, or helps us learn.
That's one of the biggest reasons I think Linux is so evangelised on Lemmy specifically: because it epitomises the power of collective altruism in a world increasingly dominated by corporate greed.
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Poor zypper gets forgotten again!
Zypper is the Gen X of package managers.
At least until the AI slop updates don't reach the kernel (at least they're banned from some parts of it).
Linus was openly not-anti-slop recently, so I don't have enormous amount of hopes.
How did you get that from what he's said? Vibe coding is slop. Holding devs 100% accountable for their AI-assisted code is explicitly not allowing slop. He is doing the latter.
I'm referring to the letter of his when he said that he's not going to ban generated code, not gonna "wage a war" on it or whatever. It might sound like "devs are still accountable for the code they commit" and all is a good position, but like with a lot of the other shit, if you're not explicitly ban 100% of it, you're now in a position of arguing with bots about nonsense. You still can be tough and all, but you're alone and the bots are numerous and nonsense is neverending.
That's what I mean not-anti-slop, and right now it looks like being all fence-sitting about this wouldn't actually work. I predict that he'll either will rethink the policy, or limit the amount of patches merged significantly, or lose his mind and will write a big rant and possibly does something stupid.
its one of the few things that has consistently gotten better so far
You forget that enshittification follows popularity and market share.
Which means that as linux gets more used, and more popular, the chance for its enshitification will increase exponentially.
Enshittification is a function of capitalism, not popularity. Unless every Linux distro gets paywalled, there is no profit incentive that would drive Linux to enshittification. The kinds of people who currently work on it for no pay will continue to work on it.
"It can never happen here" - People who it inevitably happens to.
This only applies when you are talking about comparable things (E.g. two pieces of for profit software that do the same thing). If they don't seem to be the same thing, then you actually have to explain how would it happen if you want to be taken seriously.
Specially when we have examples of companies trying to tighten control over GPL software immediately getting forked and having to backtrack
I'm pretty sure that's just capitalism.
I think this is where Linux shines.
You already CAN find enshittification versions of Linux.
And you can find lightweight ones, security ones, ones for servers, one that's very user friendly, etc.
I wager that'll end up dying off too.
As linux gets more popular, more laypeople are gonna be involved in its use. more laypeople means more issues solved and found, more support needed, more time and attention required, and thanks to everyone using discord any kind of easy to find alternative support is non-existent to any and all search engines, so all that supports gonna fall back on the distro creators and individual devs.. and you will see consolidation of teams and packs just to handle the enormous and ever growing load, until you eventually end up with..maybe, generously, 1-3 packs that basically become a cartel.
and, with those 1-3 packs holding all the users, they'll eventually start dictating what others can and can not do, to stay in step with them and their services. Which will see more packs falling in line with dictates or just evaporating for refusing to play the game, and thus enshitification.
and pretending it cant happen will just blindly accelerate it happening.
because this is how things always go.
In a universe of enshitification, Linux is one of the few things that consistently gets better.
Try telling that to someone who had a spinning cube desktop on their 386 or 486.
Ask not how worthy an idol Linux is, but what you can do to give back to free software.
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zypper dup
*cries in AUR supply chain attacks*
FR, I have had so few problems wiþ arch updates in þe past couple of years my update flow has become
$ archnews
$ pacman -Syu --noconfirm
$ yay -Qu # review and cautiously update 1 at a time
Þe last step used to be a for loop on yay -Qu output, but þe attacks have me being far more cautious. Still, þe issue is wiþ security, not þat I'm concerned about anyþing breaking. It happens, but it's always a package issue and not a package manager one.
E.G., a new dovecot version utterly broke all config file backwards compatibility and took down my IMAP server for a couple of frustrating days, until I downgraded it. Þat's dovecot's fault, not Arch's.
You forgot to update the mirrors list.
$ paru -Syuu, correct (extra u at the end)?
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