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  • One more time, for those in the back:
    New types of nuclear power can’t be developed and built fast enough to help prevent the climate catastrophy. We need to (and are on track to) be carbon neutral in 20 years.
    Building new nuclear power plants is more expensive than any other form of energy.
    They hamper building renewables because they can’t be switched off quickly, which means they don’t fit into the flexible energy infrastructure that is needed to use renewables.
    They are unnecessary. Germany already replaced the power from nuclear with renewables, and are continuing to reduce coal power.
    Solar and energy storage capacity are exploding (pun not intended), and the costs are dropping through the floor right now.

    Even if nuclear power is 100% safe, it’s obsolete already.









  • superkret@feddit.orgtoLinux@lemmy.mlGoldilocks distro?
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    I looked behind the scenes quite a bit in Debian and what you say mirrors what I saw. The project is very political and does suffer from a serious lack of man-(and woman-)power in many areas. If you do want to help, you’re almost immediately hampered by the community’s Byzantine structure.

    If that puts you off, Arch is a more dynamic project that’s easier to get into as a maintainer. But it’s also organized with a more hierarchical and less democratic structure.

    Additionally, you’ll find the issues Debian has all over the FOSS world (The Linux kernel is especially bad). And if you work in corporate IT like I do, you’ll soon notice that proprietary software organisations are no better. There’s software many people depend on maintained by a single overworked and struggling person everywhere you look. Yet it still works somehow. Cause wherever there is demand, a solution is found. And Debian at least has a long-established structure with the goal of finding that solution, even though it’s antiquated.


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    Tumbleweed includes the YaST package manager with all the repository priority settings that make sense in Leap, but the TW documentation tells you not to use it.
    You can run zypper up which is a standard updating method in Leap, but the TW documentation tells you not to do that. More than half the zypper options make no sense in TW.
    That’s the stuff I mean by “derivative”. They built on a Leap base and modified it into a rolling release.
    If it was truly designed as a new, independent rolling release distro, they’d have taken those things out, packaged a different version of zypper or at least a different manpage.


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    Debian. I run Stable on servers and Unstable on desktops.
    Although I do think OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and Arch are actually better in some aspects, I find Tumbleweed too rough around the edges (it’s a derivative of Leap and that shows). And I just can’t be bothered to install and configure Arch anymore. Fedora and Ubuntu are too buggy on average, Mint is too “stable” for a desktop and I don’t use all the helpers that make it newbie-friendly. Slackware suffers from issues that were solved in the Linux world decades ago, and I dislike derivative distros on principle.

    I’ve probably tried around 30-40 distros and I always return to Debian.