Oh, sorry for the late answer. I use a mobile client without notifications. ^^ From your other answer it seems you probably already know more than I do. ;)
Afaik they have their own repos but because of there being fewer people working on it, they often drop packages with systemd dependence instead of patching them, correct?
Oh, I tried Debian several times and it’s so much harder than CachyOS, especially concerning package availability. If Debian gave me headaches, Devuan will not be better, right? ^^
It’s definitely a me issue, but just to elaborate: A lot of stuff that’s in the CachyOS standard repos isn’t even available in Debian’s repos (and therefore probably the same is true for Devuan), so you have to add additional repos or compile from source (examples I ran into: julia programming language, Niri window manager, Noctalia “shell” (in the sense of a graphical desktop environment, it’s not a terminal emulator)). Don’t get me wrong, I can of course follow guides to get things done or settle for another software… But when I follow guides to force non-available software into Debian, I often have the feeling that I risk breaking things in the long term (e.g., how should I do updates of the stuff I compiled from source?) because I don’t really know that much about the system. Right now, sadly, I don’t have the energy to learn all of that. :'(
Absolutely. I was also thinking about trying a non-systemd distro. But I fear I’m not yet ready to hop into a system that I have to configure myself from the bottom up. If there was a well-configured “out-of-the-box” distro like Mint or CachyOS based on Devuan, Artix or Void, that would be so great.
That’s why I told you. :) Sorry that it won’t help you because of systemd dependence.
Oh shit, didn’t know that, thanks. :(
But it turns out that SDDM, the QT based login manager that’s meant to use with KDE
SDDM is Plasma’s “old” login manager. They phased it out in favor of the new Plasma login manager a few months ago. I don’t know how recent Void’s packages are, but I think I remember it being a rolling release, right? On CachyOS the switch was a few months ago.
I’m not that experienced with http(s) hosting, but for the two sites I host, I used Certbot with nginx. It seems the combination of the two does the same thing as caddy which was suggested a few times.
So you could either install certbot and point it to your working nginx http config (then certbot will try to get the ssl certificates and modify the nginx config so it works for https and https connections are preferred) or ditch nginx for caddy.
Is what you describe really socialism though? Western leftists would probably call these policies social democracy. And yes, they make the life of people in that country better! Relatively high minimum wages, limits on prices (or price increases) for certain things (especially housing), mandatory paid sick leave, mandatory unemployment insurance, and so on are all things that some European countries have in some form or another. And yes, that makes most of our lives (I’m German) relatively great.
However, most of the housing, factories and land are still owned by capitalists. They still exploit their workers and tenants, the policies only soften the blows. In recent decades, the concentration of capital in a few families’ hands has also skyrocketed here, which gives them political power (sometimes openly, sometimes covertly) and led to the erosion of many of these social democratic benefits. Also, a lot of the high social security in the west in the past century was only possible thanks to exploitation of people and nature in the global south.
That’s why many leftists, at least in the west, don’t think that social democracy is enough in the long term. Many even see social democrats as stabilizing the fundamentally corrupt capitalist system by covering up that corruption. For most of us, socialism would mean that, at the very least, big corporations are owned and lead by the workers themselves. That could be cooperatives in markets (market socialism) or that could be some kind of planned economy (not only state central planning, there’s also proposals for somewhat or even totally distributed/decentralized schemes). The point here is that there are no more owners of productive forces, who don’t participate themselves in production, i.e. capitalists. The existence of a separate capitalist class with a lot of power and opposed to the workers is a common denominator for unneccessary misery in this world. Eliminating that class (that doesn’t mean eliminating the people, only expropriating them) would not magically solve all problems in the world, but it would make us freer to seek effective measures.
Therefore, do all of that but also: organize. Collectively, we have more power. Depending on one’s situation, e.g. a union, tenants’ union and/or mutual aid groups can be things that not only help your own life, but also build power against the oligarchy and gives the feeling you can enable change.