Clem talks about that in the comments. What are some no hassle, Debian based, rustless distros as alternative to Mint?
I thought we weren’t supposed to be using Mint anyways because it uses Systemd? /s
sudo xbps-install -y cinnamon-allFor those who can
Why is this a problem?
The main problem is that it’s just not battle tested like GNU coreutils are. And Canonical has only tested this in one cycle, 25.10, before introducing it in an LTS. Would’ve made more sense to wait until 26.10.
Other find problem with it being MIT licensed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG2ZMvBT8W4
4:25
(sorry my third party youtube frontend can’t share timestamp links)
tldw:
- more CVEs than the old core utils that have been tested and in prod for over 30years
- no feature parity, so existing stuff that uses them will suddenly misbehave, when certain flags are missing
- different license, MIT instead of copyleft, so it’s more friendly for companies to use it for profit, while abusing the work of volunteer contributors
FYI you can put &t=265 on the end of the URL for the timestamp.
Its two fold for many (not for me): Rust and MIT
I wasn’t aware that the pist was hidden/remove by myself
LMDE comes to mind
The comment itself:
[…] Rust-coreutils does affect us. This is something we definitely see as part of the base so even though we would prefer for coreutils not to change, we’re hoping to align with Ubuntu on this. We’re concerned with regressions. New code almost always introduces regressions. That’s a lot of new code on very important components. I was shocked to see rust-coreutils updated from 0.7 to 0.8 just days before the stable release of Ubuntu 26.04. It actually broke something important on our side. We fixed it. I’m sure Ubuntu will update it whenever new regressions are found. We’ll see.
You do realise that the Linux Kernel has Rust in it, right ?
You’ll need to go to BSD if you want to be Rust-less
https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-7-features-changes
" Linux 7.0 also declares the Rust for Linux effort as “here to stay”"
I’m aware. Python (which is the glue of apt) uses Rust as well. Baby steps.
The Linux Foundation is part of the enshitification of Linux.
Noob question - I use Linux Mint and have for a year or so. People often have comments about switching distros like it’s super easy to do.
If I wanted to do that, how hard is it? I’ve not really had any problems with Mint… but mainly want to know in case I want to try a new distribution one day.
It depends. I’d say it’s a scale of fairly easy to very easy depending on how you have everything set up and documented. Essentially, back everything up and install the new distro then put it all back. It will take some time, though. The first time I distro-hopped, I forgot to take a list of my installed packages, which made for some unwelcome surprises when I couldn’t find certain programs. That’s not hard to overcome, just keep a list of your installed packages. Even if you don’t, it’s easy to just reinstall them.
It’s easy or hard depending on how you did your previous installation and how much are you willing to learn.
Having / and /home in diferent partitions helps a lot but then one has to think about keeping or changing the DE of choice, keeping or changing bash, zsh, fish, etc. Some adaptation is required.
If your current distro works, there’s no reason to switch. Switching means a fresh install, repeat whatever customization you want or need, restore your backup. It’s not difficult, but can be time-consuming until you have everything configured they way you want it.
Have anybody here tried Tuxedo OS?Forget it, same Ubuntu base
