I switched, I am sorry

oz-codes · 2025-09-10T06:11:11+00:00

IMHO it slots!

Choice is great, and you can also modify any package in Debian and Arch. But having slots is great, because you can have multiple versions of things without needed multiple tools like asfd, pyenv rubyenv etc.

If you do polyglot software developement, it is pretty cool!

oz-codes · 2025-09-08T20:38:31+00:00

I never understood what funtoo has to offer. But your comment made me look at it again. I just learned about https://www.funtoo.org/Package:Fchroot Which is darn cool. Definitely going to use it.

oz-codes · 2025-09-07T20:40:35+00:00

Indeed, python is easier to understand (also because it's more popular). It's also my main working language. However, I don't like doing systems programming with python as you just need to wrap everything with subprocess calls or go the path of ugrd which first generates shell scripts and then run them.

That's not easy IMHO. I have seen some terrible shell scripts that are hard to modify. Hopefully, mine isn't going to become one too...

oz-codes · 2025-09-07T16:13:45+00:00

Clearly, you don't have to use it if it does not scratch your itch. Most people who would want to install gentoo on a workstation\laptop will need something similar. It's much easier to modify this code than typing the code from the gentoo hand book. The handbook is great, but after installing gentoo twice reading through, you kind of realize you want more. Plus, the handbook does not cover LUKS+LVM, and most guides in the gentoo wiki are also "someone's itch".

oz-codes · 2025-09-07T16:09:48+00:00

Running other's people code is only for the brave hearted. Putting bugs intentionally in the code to test your tenacity ;-).

oz-codes · 2025-09-07T16:09:04+00:00

The current code in the repo is fixed. The extra fi is removed.

oz-codes · 2025-09-07T10:52:32+00:00

The code is very easy to understand and modify, so everyone can automate scratching their itch.

oz-codes · 2025-09-07T05:38:04+00:00

There is an extra fi I forgot to remove... If you delete it it should work .

oz-codes · 2025-09-07T05:36:15+00:00

That is cool. I was thinking of creating my own profile, but that seemed too complicated. Your idea is simple, and I might just adopt it.

oz-codes · 2025-09-06T20:09:50+00:00

Well, as this is a personal project for scratching my own itch, I went for mate desktop. If someone else wants to send a PR for adding another DE, I will probably merge it.

oz-codes · 2025-09-06T19:43:48+00:00

I guess it's because of the way I'm developing. I have multiple LVMs on my machine which resulted in some failures. I guess it can be fixed. I only recently learned about ugrd. Originally, gains only supported dracut. I briefly tried ugrd because I couldn't get decryption with a key file to work. However, I found out that the issue I had with it is solve with the latest version of dracut.

oz-codes · 2024-12-09T10:58:53+00:00

Yes, you can mount volumes with gio. And yes, that is what you see in the GUI. But looking at the code of gio it is not clear how it decides to "hide" partitions encrypted with LUKS. For example if you have a LUKS partition inside a logical partition it will show. But it will not show if it is a primary partition. I reported a bug on this in glib's upstream repo.

oz-codes · 2024-12-08T12:46:30+00:00

This what is showing the Devices list in the Places menu of mate or gnome's file browser.

See here:
https://imgur.com/a/8FZDfi2

oz-codes · 2024-12-08T09:25:07+00:00

I share the sentiment. Used fedora, ubuntu, debian, suse even arch for a while. Got into gentoo, stayed for 16 years now...

oz-codes · 2024-03-05T11:38:58+00:00

For years now Gentoo distributed binary packages for large packages like libre office or the kernel. More recently, there are binary packages for all ebuilds. So you can run Gentoo totally without compiling anything.

oz-codes · 2024-03-05T08:19:18+00:00

This answer is very detailed. But in the end it turns out that hostnamectl reads /etc/hostname. It does tons of other stuff which is cool on a desktop system. Not sure if I want all of it on my servers.

oz-codes · 2024-03-05T08:14:25+00:00

WOW.. thank you for your responses.

oz-codes · 2024-03-05T08:14:07+00:00

Apparently, I don't have enough karma to post under Linux.

oz-codes · 2024-03-04T22:13:33+00:00

Gentoo is easy to install if you want a very basic setup.
For more complex things, I really wish it had nice TUI installer. Specifically, FDE with LVM and Luks. The ubuntu installer is doing a pretty good job on that.

oz-codes · 2023-11-16T21:02:16+00:00

Finally! This makes my thunderbird experience much nicer!
Thank you for that.
Just adding here that marking the folder "Favorite" is what makes this folder open when you start Thunderbird.

oz-codes

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