What non-American alternative is there anyway? Only SimpleX comes to mind. Which I sadly don’t see getting widely adopted.

I’d argue that beyond surface-level stuff, the Debian-based distros have a steeper learning curve. PPA’s, packages with versions in the name of the package, .debs that don’t update with the rest of the system, the list goes on. No shade to anyone who is happy with Ubuntu or Mint, but I too started on Ubuntu and didn’t find it intuitive enough to stick around. OP is talking about avoiding the terminal, “just use Debian” is not even a solution to that.

Absolutely!

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Never cleans it the way I want

What am I making up? That most AUR packages don’t have a .install file? You couldn’t be bothered to say what I got wrong or provide any evidence to back it up so I can only assume. But if you have issue with me speculating about how common .install files are in the AUR, fine. Here are some numbers.

Out of the 2500 packages I analyzed, only 19.08% of them had an install list in their PKGBUILD. One could very easily use the AUR and never, and I quote, “literally [execute] random shell scripts by strangers as root.”

I also dug deeper regarding your claim that install files “don’t have to be explicitly mentioned in the PKGBUILD if it shares the same name as the package.” I can’t find any evidence of that. It doesn’t have to be listed in the sources, which is probably what you meant.

Clearly these couldn’t be the things I’m wrong about, so I await your careful clarification.

edit: Alright it’s clear that you’re not capable of grown-up discussion. You’re blocked.

Not every PKGBUILD contains a .install file. So again, it is not inherently the case that you’re “literally executing random shell scripts by strangers as root.” slackness has it right that most people probably don’t read the install files, but it seems to me that their prevalence in the AUR is overstated here.

You’re literally executing random shell scripts by strangers as root.

You’re literally not doing that. Escalated permissions are needed for installing dependencies and installing the resulting package, not for building. Just try running makepkg as root and see what happens.

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And thus highlights the hypocrisy of their “let’s all be friends” messaging around getting Apple to adopt RCS; Google holds the keys to integrating RCS in messaging apps on Android. Last I heard they only granted access to Samsung.

I’d be willing to excuse a mobile OS for being partially or completely proprietary if it was good. But neither Android nor iOS are.

Thanks!

https://lemmy.ml/comment/19791538

I haven’t tried it out but the advent of the XLibre testing ISOs has created a lot of buzz around Artix I’ve noticed.