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    [–] Avicenna@programming.dev 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

    They never got to the installation stage because they couldn't agree on the distro

    [–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)
    [–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Huh! That's wild. How have I never heard of this?

    I've frankensteined distros before, but without the help of Bedrock. An employer asked what OS I'd like on my work laptop and I asked for a Linux system, but of course they didn't offer me my choice of distro or anything. It came with KDE Neon. I wanted to run Artix and I wasn't going to let UEFI Secure Boot stop me even if the PC Support department wouldn't share the BIOS password. Now, KDE Neon uses the Ubuntu kernel, and it booted on the laptop in question, so I knew the secure boot trusted the signature on the official Ubuntu kernel. But Artix uses the Arch kernel which isn't signed at all, so the laptop wouldn't boot that. So I made a PKGBUILD that would download the Ubuntu kernel .deb file from the official Ubuntu repository, unzip the .deb file, and build an Arch/Artix package containing the kernel image and initramfs and CPU microcode and such. The result was a system that was entirely Artix except that it used the Ubuntu kernel. Worked perfectly. I'm sure the folks at PC Support were confused when an Artix box showed up on their Nessus asset management software.

    [–] teslekova@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

    "But we didn't give anyone an Artix box!" "Life... uh, finds a way."

    [–] notthebees@reddthat.com 5 points 2 days ago

    this is sick. I'm saving this for later.

    Fancy gaming debian (with openbox) here I come.

    [–] Avicenna@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

    huh TIL bedrock