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From the FAQ > Is GoboLinux "ready"? > Yes, it is ready in the sense that you can, today, have a full operating system running 100% on GoboLinux, like many pe
by LockAndLol 6y ago
From the FAQ
> Is GoboLinux "ready"?
> Yes, it is ready in the sense that you can, today, have a full operating system running 100% on GoboLinux, like many people around the world do.
> Note, however, that it is neither a beginner-oriented distribution, or an end-user binary-oriented distribution like Ubuntu. To use GoboLinux today, the user is expected to be proficient with the command-line and willing to compile and configure their software.
Yeah, nah. I recently watched a streamer try to compile some nvidia stuff for CUDA in order to use her DSLR camera at >18fps. A very nice reminder that it's never "just ./configure && sudo make install".
Especially uninstalling stuff installed that way is a horrible pain. I used to create .deb's from it, but boy am I glad those days are over.
Besides that, the motivation and sane folder names seem great.
- freedomben 6y agoI wouldn't say it's never "just ./configure && sudo make install". I compile a fair number of projects myself and (as long as deps are installed properly) it usually is just configure/install, on mainstream distros at least (Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch). No doubt though a lot of projects could do much better. I find anything needing GTK and Qt are often much harder, usually because the required packages aren't documented anywhere, or if they are it's for Ubuntu that's 4 years old. Nvidia and other things requiring proprietary are a nightmare. I will never buy another machine with an Nvidia card after the kernel 5.9 hell I've been through.
- hisham_hm 6y ago> Especially uninstalling stuff installed that way is a horrible pain. That was indeed one of the motivations for GoboLinux after tinkering with hand-compiled software a lot. Uninstalling is a mere "rm -rf /Programs/ProgramName" :)