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This is why I abandoned Ubuntu for Arch. This is not tenable, really. The things I change are all over the place. From say /var/lib/mysql to /usr/local/bin an

• acqq 7y ago
  Yes, I know, unfortunately there is still too much attitude of "just change as root x y in some/path/accesible/to/root" A dose of a "normal-user"-hostility is kind of a given in Linux platforms, the best reflected by: https://xkcd.com/619/ https://xkcd.com/619/ and sometimes it's, unfortunately, unavoidable for us when we are in the user's role to have to "just change as root that x y somewhere." Long term, the goal should be to raise the awareness that there is a real need for most of the configuration to be easily transferable from the installation to the installation. But what we get instead is "just change as root wherever" and the containers for containers being run in the containers -- more bloat, but still not less demanding to maintain. I really think Red Hat is not appreciated enough for their work on maintaining stability. The optimal solution will be when we have really stable platforms on which we will be able to easily and cheaply have recent languages, but also stable. Knowing how unstable practically a lot of programming platforms are, I am aware we're still not there. But... raise the awareness!