I guess ignorance is bliss now?

I had several tests at the beginning of the script. These tests define the "low-level" functions based the capability of the shell. To test new features I "simply" ran all the necessary commands on the test environments (bash, busybox, toybox+mksh).

The script would error out if some necessary capability was missing from the host system. It also had a feature to switch shell if it found a better one (preferring busybox and its internal tools).

Yeah... It was tedious process. It was one of those "I'll write a simple script. So simple that it'll work on almost every posixy shell."... rest is history.

Gentoo cured my distrohopping

Kinda the same with me, I've been using Gentoo the most of my life.

Gah. I should have stated "I see what you did there." instead. ;)

TIL: that exists.

I've always thought GOAT stands for Gentleman Of All Trades. I make a wild guess it's Girl Of All Trades in this case?

Yes. I agreed with you. But I made it sound like something else. Bad wording on my side.

As I'm too Gentoo openrc user. I also use seatd+greetd instead of (e)logind and replacing sysvinit with openrc-init. The availability of choices made me do it!

I’ve only ever had minor ones on arch and pretty much nothing on gentoo.

My biggest complaint with Arch was that downgrading wasn't officially supported.

With Gentoo I don't have pretty much nothing to complain. But I get it's not for everyone.

That said I've not ran many different distros as my main distro. I went with mkLinux --> Gentoo --> Arch --> Gentoo.

Maybe soon?

Bu the more you diverge from the default the more portage will compile packages for your setup.

To whom are you responding to?

This means Chimera is not a GNU/Linux system, as it utilizes neither GNU utilities, nor GNU libc, nor GNU toolchain. The system is bootstrappable almost entirely without any GNU components (other than make) and is capable of booting without them (however, most people will have some).

I'd guess they'll move to some bsd make at some point.

⬆️ for rdiff-backup since it keeps the last backup easily readable.

I had before (and I think I'll implement it again) snapshot capable filesystem where to I rsynced my stuff. Then once a day did a snapshot of the backups. It has the advantage of all the backups being easily readable as long as your backup filesystem is intact and your kernel can mount it.