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Manjaro is experimenting with **opt-out telemetry | Hacker News (More like op-out spying) (news.ycombinator.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Why are distro communities turning linux more and more into Windows and Mac OS clones?

This is why I use Arch.

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[–] AkatsukiLevi 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

'Till you figure out that, on Arch, if you missed/broke anything, you can boot into the Arch USB, mount your root into /mnt, and arch-chroot in to fix whatever is broken

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yup, a live image works in a pinch. IMO, just use BTRFS on root and install something like snapper to handle snapshots and you shouldn't need the live USB (unless you bork your bootloader somehow).

[–] AkatsukiLevi 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Be me, and bork BTRFS itself while trying to compile OpenMW from source

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How did you manage that??

[–] AkatsukiLevi 2 points 1 month ago

There are things in this world you are not meant to fiddle with And apparently, glibc is one of 'em