a) I've removed Firefox-esr many times from Devuan Beowulf installs and never had this problem. Haven't tried it with Chimaera yet, but - lesson learned!!! Don't mess with the big Foxxy, or you'll get burned!

2) How many old, obscure, book-length forum posts does a person have to read to have a sane experience with Debian? Four years into this Debian-based distro experiment, and I'm still stunned by the jaw-dropping randomity of the various bits of important information. It's like giving all your money in $1 bills to a 3-year-old and watching him hide it from you in every part of the house and yard and neighborhood.

D) I didn't need a part D, but I like the aesthetic. The post seems more balanced this way.

But as you probably know, the real value of the AUR is for people like us to look at the PKGBUILD and see where they got a binary or piece of source code from, and if there are any useful hints on how to compile it or install it. Saves a lot of time in some cases.

The fact that actual AUR users want to be guinea pigs for someone else's experimentation is not really the point.

That's interesting, especially the ability to get parallel downloads going like on Arch. And on the nala github page, it has a link to a new(ish) AUR-style repo for Debian-based distros, 'pacstall': https://github.com/pacstall/pacstall

Looks like pacstall has a bunch of packages, might be worth checking out. Lots of cool new toys to check out today.

Using the suckless autostart patch would work, then your .desktop file would simply have the 'Exec=dwm' line. But it sounds like tbsm probably won't work with a hand-crafted script like you are using. That's unfortunate.

Oh interesting. Could you just make a dwm.desktop file and point it at your dwm autostart script I wonder? Something like

Desktop Entry]
Name=DWM
Comment=Window manager for the X11 Window System
Exec=~/.dwm/autostart.sh
Terminal=false
Type=Application

or something?

I don't know - I just use vanilla dwm with a few updated keybindings these days. Trying to maximize my memory availability for some VMs that I run. Maybe HOAS would have a better idea for you on a way for tbsm to start that script.

EDIT: I'm reading the tbsm documentation. tbsm is just a bash shell script that is not in active development. And the docs say it only handles .desktop files, so you'd have to get that autostart script to launch via a dwm.desktop file I believe. Similar to the one I posted I think.

Wow! Do we have anything like pledge in Linux-land? Looks like a security must-have.

Regarding DWM, I'm assuming you can just 'git clone' and 'make install' like on Devuan? Does openbsd have all the libxft-dev libx11-dev and libxinerama-dev dependencies?

The OP was probably referring to IBM's system-D and just missed the hyphen. No need to get angry over a simple missed key press.

You mis-spelled https://github.com/void-linux/xbps. See? Keyboard errors can happen to anyone.

So you're saying they all get paid by IBM to put backdoors into the BSDs so that government spies can steal all our data?

Is that your gemini capsule? That's very well organized and filled with useful links. I'm going to make that my Lagrange homepage for awhile.

Here you go. My image hosting website auto-deleted it, so I'm hosting it on my Internet Archive account instead:

Not much to see, I've just been playing around with it and haven't changed the LXQT theme or icons or anything. FireDragon web browser is quite a nice browser in my experience so far. It's got a lot of the privacy settings from LibreWolf, but a different set of settings options.  Artix is now requiring that the "universe" repo be manually added in order to access most web browsers - instructions on adding universe are here: https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Repositories

Another interesting point is that by default FireDragon uses the "Whoogle" web search engine from the Garuda Linux project. I had never heard of it before, but it is described as "Google search results, but without any ads, javascript, AMP links, cookies, or IP address tracking" - https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search. Might be worth playing around with, although I'm not a fan of Google's heavily censored search results. Could be a good alternative to Startpage though, for those few occasions when I do want to look at Google's search results and SearX isn't giving them properly.

Dinit was giving me a cgroups message when the system was booting up. In the Artix forum I'm reading that cgroups support is "crude", just mounting the cgroups file system like on runit. Full cgroups support is supposed to be brought in after the dinit 1.0 release. Currently Artix is on the 0.12.0-5 release of dinit.

Dynamic tiling. Once you get used to it, everything else feels deficient by design.