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Is this the endgame of loonix? 04/29/26(Wed)10:09:53 No.108715982

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Is this the endgame of loonix? Anonymous 04/29/26(Wed)10:09:53 No.108715982 Archived

Messing around with it in a VM and love it. Still testing to see if I can get everything up and running. It's pretty straightforward actually.

Anonymous
04/29/26(Wed)11:26:32 No.108716438

Anonymous 04/29/26(Wed)11:26:32 No.108716438

>>108716324
You do everything inside a single config files. You build your system off of that and can rollback to previous states. You can also change freely between stable and unstable branches. Basically an atomic distro that doesn't rely on flatpaks. Nix packages give you way more freedom.

It has an arm64 iso

Anonymous
04/29/26(Wed)11:30:38 No.108716471

Anonymous 04/29/26(Wed)11:30:38 No.108716471

>>108716324
It has an arm64 version and it's actually better than most other distros because you can build your own installation ISO with a custom kernel or boot parameters which is required to get video output on some arm boards.

Anonymous
04/29/26(Wed)11:31:35 No.108716475

Anonymous 04/29/26(Wed)11:31:35 No.108716475

>>108715982
Arch+KDE is the endgame of Linux

Anonymous
04/29/26(Wed)12:11:24 No.108716768

Anonymous 04/29/26(Wed)12:11:24 No.108716768

>>108715982
Close. It's Guix.

Anonymous
04/29/26(Wed)12:54:29 No.108717052

Anonymous 04/29/26(Wed)12:54:29 No.108717052

>>108716438
No you end up with the same mess you have with arch and other distros

Anonymous
04/29/26(Wed)13:44:22 No.108717410

Anonymous 04/29/26(Wed)13:44:22 No.108717410

Okay, I'll give it a try right now then if you say there's a good arm64 version. Let's have a look.

Anonymous
04/29/26(Wed)13:54:29 No.108717484

Anonymous 04/29/26(Wed)13:54:29 No.108717484

>>108716768
> nix clone run by communists
Hard pass.

Anonymous
04/29/26(Wed)14:01:40 No.108717547

Anonymous 04/29/26(Wed)14:01:40 No.108717547

>>108717052
that's not how it's worked out for me

Anonymous
04/29/26(Wed)14:14:33 No.108717649

Anonymous 04/29/26(Wed)14:14:33 No.108717649

>>108715982
I think in some ways it kinda is. We see more and more Linux distros try to be immutable, get rollbacks and snapshots working, and be as deterministic as possible. It also allows you to highly customize with little effort and switch things around without leaving a bunch of breadcrumbs everywhere. It's built on systemd, which is a crucial part of systemd/GNU/Linux. I think it represents Linux evolution away from it's humble Unix roots into it's own vision, similar to Mac.