MariaDB has a lot of users, and they should be more vocal about it to give it more visibility.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see multiple MySQL forks emerge in 2026, now that more people are realizing how bad Oracle has been as an open source project steward for MySQL.

There was a bunch of luck involved that Andres Freund detected this. Give more time, it would have ended up in stable releases eventually if not detected.

Exactly. I don’t use Omarchy, but I think it is good someone did a polished distro for a specific use case, and some web dev Windows users will surely find it more appealing than a generic distro where they need to figure out a lot of stuff from scratch.

Seems there are also https://www.opensourcealternative.to/, https://euroalternative.co/ and https://european-alternatives.eu/

“Unicode as default character set” - finally, nice!

I can’t setup a ‘default user’ (only root), but there is now a MR adding exact commands you can copy-paste in a README: https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/merge_requests/115

I am asking for general strategies, not for a solution to a specific case.

What do you mean a default user? You can just run ‘mariadb’ to access to console with the same user that had permissions to run ‘apt install’.

For your actual application you need to plan what database name to use, what user, what permissions it needs, potentially remote connection and TLS etc. This indeed is some work and could perhaps be automated a bit, but it also needs sysadmin to make some decisions.

MariaDB supports Galera clustering out-of-the-box, and also traditional primary/replica setups. But you need to have something that spans multiple hosts to monitor and manage it, and that is outside of what a single-host OS package management system can do.

You mean ollama? There are so many options, any favorites?

https://www.perplexity.ai/search?q=howto+upgrade+windows+to+ubuntu+linux

I just prefix all my git aliases with g-. So for status I type g-s<tab>.

You need bisect only as a last resort. Effective use of git blame, git log -p -S <keyword> etc has always been enough for me. Also, the projects I work with take 10+ minutes to compile even when cached, so doing tens of builds to bisect is much slower than just hunting for strings in git commits and code.

I had the same feeling until I started using gitk. I always have a gitk window open and press F5 to reload, so it shows me the state of everything after I’ve run git commands. Now I grasp everything much better.

Only product from Microsoft I actually like using and trust. Quality from 1998, and still going :)

One is enough if it is very big

Try again tomorrow, seems it got popular today

We just need specific portals for sharing that remember your homeserver. See for example https://mastodonshare.com/.