I can’t even feel superior to everyone when theirs so many arch installers!! I use real arch btw. I thought “I guess I should go to Gentoo” but then wait, CHROMEOS IS A GENTOO INSTALLER!

I feel like we only have two options now

  1. Ascend to BSD-land
  2. Ironically supporting Windows Unironically

edit: I have decided to replace my debian laptop with BSD

      • Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        8 days ago

        probably quicker and easier to just write whatever calculation you need in python

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        (10^100) + 1 − (10^100) is 1, not 0.

        A “computer algebra system” would have accomplished a similar goal, but been much slower and much more complicated

        $ maxima -q

(%i1) (10^100)+1-(10^100);

(%o1)                                  1
(%i2)

        There’s no perceptible delay on my laptop here, and I use maxima on my phone and my computers. And a CAS gives you a lot more power to do other things.

    • evol@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
      8·
      8 days ago

      Lol new license, you way read my source code but you may not run it/use it/ do literally anything with it

    • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      5·
      8 days ago

      &

      Got an old wild idea resurfaced from that…

      An OS “entirely” in Haskell.

      … calculator: ghci.

      … window manager: xmonad. … (and… a rewrite of X11 protocol in Haskell, sufficient to run xmonad).

      … text editor: yi

      … … and a Haskell shell… would surely be named hash.

      I already have irc bots made from the tutorial to make an irc bot in Haskell… that could be converted to an irc client.

      … doubtless many more Haskell tools to populate the rest of the purposes.

      … Haskell tools to interface with the web could be interesting…

    • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      At first I thought you meant merely compiling everything by hand [(with make)], like LFS (and then thought LFS without following LFS… and then thought make life easy, start with just a kernel and busybox (or toybox)).

      But yeah… that’d be the real kudos.

      I’ve made a small start towards that, having written my own text editor. (And, I suppose, in a way, my own irc client, “diis”.)

      But that’s a long way from writing my own kernel and userland and other advanced accoutrements.

      Maybe instead of writing own kernel, could just fork one. … Maybe Ironclad… or even Hurd.

      • [object Object]@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 days ago

        Since you already did the hard part and now have a text editor, you just need to make it run on bare metal, and then go the Emacs way of having everything else run in the editor.