major distros have hundreds of mirrors

>>107679636
where do i find those mirrors if arch website goes down?

>>107679646
Is google down, too?

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>>107679646
You don't

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>>107679630
I got banned for pointing this out a few times before

>>107679630
>1 pseudonymous npc with an anime avatar listens to cnn
>half the world now has an empty home folder

>>107679630
>lies on the internet

>>107679671
When you realize that 4chan is now just Reddit where you can say nigger, it makes perfect sense.

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>>107679688
Yeah the mods seem to get very pissy when you point out that centralised software distribution is a flawed model

>>107679690
no necrobumping >:(

>>107679671
>banned for being a complete retard
About time the janny did his job.

>>107679714
You have to understand that leftists (which includes communists, which includes freetards) don't actually have an ideology. They will say/do exactly the opposite of what they did 5 minutes ago if it wins them an argument.
This is why freetards worship a jewish pro-vaxxer: anyone with actual standards would dismiss him instantly. But they don't - QED.

Shit like this is why I'll never install linux. You're all fat faggots or little twinks that twist your dicks all day.

>>107679630
It's under ddos attack by the competition.

>>107679729
every other thread is a retard posting some inane shit
half the time it's a repost
the other half it's twatter screencaps

>>107679781
>Arch has some haters so obsessed they go out of their way to try to take it down
How did they do it?

>>107679963
>take it down
redhat and microsoft will take care of that

>>107679630
>gays are everywhere and in everything
>trannies are everywhere and in everything
>arch is still objectively good
How did they design it like this?

>>107680040
They didn't. Throwing "objectively" into all your NPC posts doesn't change that Arch is shit, always has been, and always will be.

>>107679646
For a competently programmed package manager? In the config file it loads.

>>107680067
Works on my machine

>>107679646
archive.org

>>107680101
>npc keeps talking like an npc
Glad we had this chat.

>>107680106
https://web.archive.org/web/20251226171838/https://archlinux.org/

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>>107680114
>archive.org to install software

>>107679646
>>107679630
check "/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist", comment the dead mirror, uncomment any other, do "sudo pacman -Syy".

that's it, fuck you

I don't use arch, btw. I just think you're a bit retarded if you can't figure out a workaround for simple issues. If you use any Linux distro it's probably a good idea to choose a reliable nearby mirror as opposed to relying on the default that your install comes with. Then things like this won't even be a problem.

>>107680131
You don't use it to install software (in this case) you use it to find where to get the software from.

https://web.archive.org/web/20251113043944/https://archlinux.org/mirrors/

This is something you should be doing while the website is actually up but if you're in an emergency situation it's a teachable moment I guess.

>>107679646
You're already using ghostmirror or reflector if you're obsessed with updooting

>>107679630
>>1 website goes down
>>can't install software
Use Gentoo and build everything from source so there isn't a centralized reliance.

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>>107679630
>lelnux

>>107680137
nobody who posts these threads have used linux

>>107680233
I prefer "Anux" myself.
But it excites freetards for some reason.

>>107680241
That's obvious. We are using it because we want an experience where we have some degree of control over these types of things. If they say they will use Windows or Mac OS because they want these things managed for them and backed by a corporation who will use a CDN instead of relying on donated mirrors that the user will need to point to themselves, I'll say okay, that's fine. But I'm fine with managing my own experience and working around problems.

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The bigger problem is you need internet connection to install software
On windows I can just put an installer on a flash drive and be able to install it anywhere at any time

>inb4 you can put packages on a flash drive too
Linux has 0 backwards compatibility so they will stop working soon

>>107680264
>Linux has 0 backwards compatibility so they will stop working soon
This isn't really true. The real problem will be managing dependencies.

>>107679630
>what are mirrors?
>>107679646
pacman-mirrorlist package already has them all bruh.

>>107680112
>no argument against Arch
I accept your concession. Nice talking to you

>>107680297
Arch devs accept any convenience trojan horse you throw at them

>>107680274
It's splitting hairs, though.
My 12MB InstallShield EXE will always work (well, until at least 20 years after AMD128 comes along).
I can save my 3MB package and its 800MB of dependencies, but how long before I hit "libfaggot-0.12.3beta4 conflicts with libfaggot-0.75.2alpha9patchlevel205"?

>>107680297
>>107680112

>>107680305
If this was a serious issue for me I would be building docker images for things I will need to keep working well into the future, but do not expect or want updates on. It's definitely different from Windows where I would have maybe 20 different programs which all shipped their own version of ffmpeg. Instead I have all this software I installed relying on the ffmpeg I compiled myself exactly the way I want, except jellyfin which ships it's own via apt which doesn't conflict with the one on the system.

It's not so much offline access that's the problem as it is dealing with legacy software in the first place. Windows is easier and better in that regard but it can still be a nightmare. I've been dealing with a scenario (above my pay grade but I still agreed to help) like that at work. I came to the conclusion that running all the shit they need in Wine is probably better and smarter than anything else but you already know that's not going to happen. LTSC licenses for everyone it is!

>>107680330
If you don't care don't post sweaty

>>107679662
google sucks. It's started hitting me with constant "prove you're not a bot" stupid shit. hate that goddamned trash, I now have unironically switched to Yandex. fucking tired of google's goddamned jeetware fucking trash.

>>107679688
>say nigger
Actually, whenever the jeets brigade you, the faggot mods ban you. The global rule is no racism except on /pol/, or maybe /b/, I forget.

>>107680342
Nice boomerbook meme grandpa. Come back when you're ready to discuss tech instead of make corny posts that contribute nothing.

>>107680264
you can do the same with linux. when i first started using linux i had slow/limited internet access, so i would keep/copy my package cache when reinstalling/setting up another computer
these days reinstalling is a foreign concept to me as i have learned to maintain my os properly, and while i still can, i generally don't bother even copying over a package cache on a new machine because i have an 800Mbit/s down connection. i know not everyone does, so reusing the cache is certainly going to benefit others still
nice thing about a package cache vs. a folder full of setup.exe's is that it keeps itself organised and up to date, one command updates them all and one command removes obsolete files.

last time i set up a windows computer for a friend, i don't think i ended up using anything from my windows installers folder, since it was all outdated. now sure it'd be better maintained if it was still my main os, but even when linux was my secondary os it still did an installers folder better than windows

>>107679630
download reflector

sudo reflector --latest 20 --protocol https --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

>>107680330
>instead of 800mb of dependencies
>throw in an entire os as dependencies
This is arguably worse thoughverbeit.

>>107680137
I don't use Arch, does it not just automatically attempt to use other mirrors if one fails? Or is the "dead mirror" in this case a mirror that is permanently dead and therefore worth commenting out?

>>107680403
you can uncomment multiple mirrors. i just uncomment all the ones in my country, if one doesn't work i'll try the next automatically

>>107680396
There's a reason the vast majority of images use alpine as a base. Most of the time you shouldn't need extreme bloat just to get a single piece of software working.

>>107680149
>>107680390
>>107680137
>Have to tinkertroon and download things
No thanks, I like when my computer just works

>>107680424
That's fine. Just don't complain when it predictably gets worse with each passing year.

>>107680233
Bratty Microsoft needs correction

>>107680432
see >>107680008

>>107680424
you dont, you set it up as a service and it runs for you. you brainlets are despicable

>>107679630
is there a linus usb to download everything you need

>>107680424
>jeetysoft indows
>just le werkerinoes!
Pick one

>>107680709
Freetards have swallowed the "shitty DOS clone makes me awesome" propaganda so totally, that they can't understand most people aren't as helpless and/or incompetent as they are.

>>107680131
lintroons are fucking retarded

>>107680772
Installing software from archive.org was never suggested though. Only using it to view a website when it's down was suggested. If anybody is retarded it's you.

>>107680709
name 1 thing that doesn't just work on windows

>>107680795
The pirated IPTV panel I use at work

>>107680803
No valid usecase

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>>107680264
>Linux has 0 backwards compatibility
They literally delete packages because they're old and made by "fascists"
>https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/460711
They CAN'T have backwards compatibility

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>>107680264
>Linux has 0 backwards compatibility
are you sure about that?

>>107680821
Not true. The usecase is making money. I have found Windows to be inferior for that task. It's only good for spending money so office monkeys can do their jobs.

>>107680909
retard

>>107680803
OK
Now list all the things that don't just work on Linux

>>107680943
The only thing that I want to work that doesn't is SDR#. It's by far the best SDR software. I've made incremental progress getting it to work first with really old versions on Wine then more recently a newer one with Proton but the latest builds using dotnet 8 and 9 are a no go. I have found that SDR++ basically clones it's UI and has a few features I appreciate that SDR# is missing. That has helped but SDR# still has the best community making plugins etc for it so it's the gold standard and trying to run it with proton can be a little bit janky and frustrating sometimes depending on my luck.

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>>107680966
SDR# will always be my favorite but SDR++ is seriously based. I am planning on replacing this RTL-SDR that's on the rooftop of my work with a Chinese RSP1 clone I have. I was never able to get that working in SDR# which is part of the reason why I stopped using it. The SDR++ server mode will enable this.

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>>107679656
usecase?

>>107680938
>linux has 0 backward compatibility so software will stop working soon
>demos running a 20 year old binary
>"retard"
what did i miss?

>>107681249
That's not a 20 year old binary

>>107679630
>install debian on a laptop in 2023, everything just works
>turn on laptop two years later
>go online, youtube works
>ok lets update
>apt update
>404
>404
>404
>404
yea this shit is stupid

>>107681401
it is, see the build date. this is the linux demo released over 20 years ago

> file UT2004-LNX-Demo3334.run.gz 
UT2004-LNX-Demo3334.run.gz: gzip compressed data, was "UT2004-LNX-Demo3334.run", last modified: Fri Sep 24 10:39:12 2004, max speed, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 288950743

>>107681440
So fix it.

>>107681401
>>107681453
and if you're wondering how it's 64bit, linux had AMD64 support before windows did

>>107681457
i can update my windows7 pc from 2009 without """fixing it"""

>>107681463
give me the binary

>>107681457
Go back to playing with your axewound of an OS faggot

>>107681548
That was never my experience with Windows 7. Windows update would get fucked up and you couldn't update it past a specific point. I had trouble trying to install ESU updates for it in a VM more recently too.

Windows Update was a heap of fucking shit during the actual lifespan of 7. I do not have good memories of it. It didn't become good until Windows 10 but that was the age of system breaking updates (until I switched to LTSC)

>>107681577
I have no issues with my OS. If I do it is easy to take care of them. I'm not too retarded to do basic troubleshooting.

>>107681568
https://www.moddb.com/games/unreal-tournament-2004/downloads/ut2004-demo-v3334-for-linux
on a modern distro you'll likely need to install libstdc++5/-v3, and you'll need an oss wrapper/alsa oss support enabled for sound since that's also not usually on by default anymore.

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>>107681592
>on a modern distro you'll likely need to install libstdc++5/-v3, and you'll need an oss wrapper/alsa oss support enabled for sound since that's also not usually on by default anymore.

>>107681598
>as if there aren't entire websites dedicated to hacky fixes to get old games running on modern versions of Windows

>>107681598
if you want me to list off windows games from 2004 you need to do tweaks to get running on windows...

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>>107679630