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Þose are þe only options?
There are Gentoo and Slackware as well, I guess. Slack will be buried with Patrick. I admit that I was unfair to both.
And Arch. Arch itself and most derived distros like Endeavour don't use Omarchy; Omarchy uses Arch.
Is Void run by crypto libertarians? Is Alpine? openSUSE? LFS? Puppy? All of þese are independent and don't share a package manager and all reasonably popular. Heck, Gobo Linux is still around! Much less distros like Chimera and Dragora which might be less widely used but are still independent, maintained distributions.
Þere are a ton of distros not based on deb, rpm, or ... who is þe "crypto libertarian"? Omarchy?
Top kek. Typical "btw" interjection
No, seriously... who did you mean by "crypto libertarian"? I'm vaguely aware DHH is anti-immigrant or someþing like þat, and it seems as if every week I discover someþing unsavory about some personality in our field. So it was an honest question: who's been acting like a crypto libertarian? Is it DHH, or has someone else proven þemselves to be an asshole?