The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Does this apply for Linux Mint?

Yes, though since you mention Mint in particular, I would have assumed that the installer would have set them both simultaneously. If in doubt just double-check that that's the case as per the configuration file section.

 

[AnOminous]

Italian guy took the criticisms pretty well.

He literally has a neckbeard and there is no excuse for having one.

 

[Look over there]

I still will never understand why they do it. It's like they're competing for some nonexistent prize.
Some people chalk it up to a sort of "compulsive participation" mentality among pajeets, but that theory only holds water to me when the audience is some sort of meaningful community like a workplace.

Some of them get paid for it.

Do not ask me how I know.

 

[Stoneheart]

 

[Look over there]

 

[Madre Muerte]

Pop os 21.10 came out today, I like it, biggest change for me is the application folder as in no longer takes over the entire screen.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Pop os 21.10 came out today, I like it, biggest change for me is the application folder as in no longer takes over the entire screen.

It's also the first Pop!OS version to be available for the Raspberry Pi 4B, which is a huge win for the desktop entry segment for that particular hardware.

 

[ducktales4gameboy]

Is there something weird going on with Wine as of late? Seems like wineserver lingers in the background and eats a ton of CPU even after anything I'm running exits on two different computers both running tiny Win32 apps that are known to not be viral or use background tasks. It'd be whatever version is current with Manjaro and since that's arch-based I'm assuming it's bleeding edge/last stable.

 

[AmpleApricots]

Is there something weird going on with Wine as of late? Seems like wineserver lingers in the background and eats a ton of CPU even after anything I'm running exits on two different computers both running tiny Win32 apps that are known to not be viral or use background tasks. It'd be whatever version is current with Manjaro and since that's arch-based I'm assuming it's bleeding edge/last stable.

wine just really likes not closing properly, problem has always existed as long as I know wine with certain things. wineserver -k should help.

 

[Carpenter Trout]

He literally has a neckbeard and there is no excuse for having one.

except being a linux user.
"wait, let me fix this thing that just broke - whoops now the folders aren't opening anymore, need to fix that". by the time you're done you've been incorporated by the beard and turned into that character from the addams family.


I used to use manjaro, but got tired after a while. also dolphin fucking sucks, although it's better than gnome's nautilus, where you can't even write the directory manually. I wonder if all the happenings on linux are actually going to help or the dropping in linux desktop usage is a sign of things to come and this will be a repetition of history. I hope neither, I like linux but the community is pretty lulzy at times.

 

[Equivocal_Iki]

dropping in linux desktop usage

What? Was there a fad to get linux that's now going out of favor? Or are people actually switching back to windows because of Linus S.? I wouldn't think there'd be a drop in linux desktop usage unless there's a drop in desktop usage in general.

 

[Carpenter Trout]

What? Was there a fad to get linux that's now going out of favor? Or are people actually switching back to windows because of Linus? I wouldn't think there'd be a drop in linux desktop usage unless there's a drop in desktop usage in general.

The fad would proably be the usual drama over the new windows release, the drop was around october/november, you're giving LTT too much credit, as they all shill hard for linux, actually. I think the drop may also due to the surge of "Stay on windows" type of videos that are surfacing lately. Some tech channels have been begging people to switch to linux, and now that noobs are switching over to linux and are unable to do anything and are flooding the forums and wiki with questions, those same channels (and blogs) are now asking people NOT to switch to linux unless all they do is code or browse the web. Quite saddening, really.

Unless you meant Linus Torvalds, which again stated that the state of linux desktop is better than 2014, but still a far cry from being an actual windows and mac competitor. I couln't agree more, if the linux community would stop the occasional infighting and forking every quarter of a second and would actually get togheter to make a good desktop-based distro, with the average joe in mind, and not the typical gnu/linux or unix user, it would be for the better. Instead of being high on copium whenever someone criticizes either the community or the various Linux-based systems

Spoiler: minor rant

Especially if they'd make everything customizable from the settings, rather than having to check some random text file hidden somewhere in the clusterfuck that is the root folder. this is all to similar to what happened back in 2007/2010, when gnu/linux fucked up and didn't gained a bigger share of the desktop market because of... well, linux.

I don't understand why user-centrism and user-friendlyness have to be mutually exclusive.

Anyway, it wasn't a big drop, and to sum it up, from july 2021 to november 2021 there was a ~0.5% drop in linux usage.

Still a net gain since august 2015, where it was 1.5% or something. I'm feeling more inclined to think that it's also because of the new macbook, because when the drop begun in july there was a gain in OS X adoption (and also the official release windows 11). At least according to this graph. (it's fun how linux got surpassed by chrome os. which is still a linux-based kernel, iirc)

 

[ditto]

What? Was there a fad to get linux that's now going out of favor? Or are people actually switching back to windows because of Linus S.? I wouldn't think there'd be a drop in linux desktop usage unless there's a drop in desktop usage in general.

Windows 11 WSLg can run Linux GUI and audio apps out of the box.
Now that WSL is supported by JetBrains and VSCode it's good enough for a lot of web devs and data science people not to bother with desktop linux.

 

[your stupid]

Is there anyway to switch distros relatively easily? I've grown tired of my ailing Ubuntu install and want to switch to Artix as my daily driver, but the thought of having to reinstall hundreds and hundreds of programs/tools has been making me hesitate. Additionally I really don't want to have to redownload my steam library. I came across this article which suggests creating a separate /home partition, which is a pretty good idea (in hindsight). Unfortunately, I'm a retard who's prone to really screwing up disk formatting and who's home folder is about a full TB, half of which is actually kind of important.

Normally I would have completely fucked my installation by this point and have to start over anyways, but I've managed to keep my setup at stable level of hell this time. Do I really have to bite the bullet and nuke everything or is there actually a cleaner way out of this?

 

[Ahriman]

 

[Dick Justice]

Is there anyway to switch distros relatively easily? I've grown tired of my ailing Ubuntu install and want to switch to Artix as my daily driver, but the thought of having to reinstall hundreds and hundreds of programs/tools has been making me hesitate. Additionally I really don't want to have to redownload my steam library. I came across this article which suggests creating a separate /home partition, which is a pretty good idea (in hindsight). Unfortunately, I'm a retard who's prone to really screwing up disk formatting and who's home folder is about a full TB, half of which is actually kind of important.

Normally I would have completely fucked my installation by this point and have to start over anyways, but I've managed to keep my setup at stable level of hell this time. Do I really have to bite the bullet and nuke everything or is there actually a cleaner way out of this?

Ironic username. Make a copy of your /home dir. Merge and replace. Steam installed games are completely portable. Wine bottles should be to. I'm pretty sure there's a way to export your package list in synaptic but IDR how.
But the kino option is to have small separate physical SSDs for the non-portable stuff ( / and /boot, etc.), and have everything else on large disks that can be freely mounted by whatever distro so you can multiboot painlessly.

 

[Frail Snail]

Is there anyway to switch distros relatively easily? I've grown tired of my ailing Ubuntu install and want to switch to Artix as my daily driver, but the thought of having to reinstall hundreds and hundreds of programs/tools has been making me hesitate. Additionally I really don't want to have to redownload my steam library. I came across this article which suggests creating a separate /home partition, which is a pretty good idea (in hindsight). Unfortunately, I'm a retard who's prone to really screwing up disk formatting and who's home folder is about a full TB, half of which is actually kind of important.

Normally I would have completely fucked my installation by this point and have to start over anyways, but I've managed to keep my setup at stable level of hell this time. Do I really have to bite the bullet and nuke everything or is there actually a cleaner way out of this?

If there is absolutely no way to buy or lend an extra drive and you like crutches, (potentially) suffering and seeing all of your shit deleted, try this in a VM first: roll Ubuntu, boot a live Artix image, skip the partitioning instructions, do the pre-chroot mounts of swap and / only, delete everything but /home inside /, continue the installation as normal but specify a different user name. If all goes well, the system has been successfully installed and there are now two users inside /home. Then it's just a matter of moving everything from A to B.

 

[HunterHearstHelmsley]

I watched those Linus Tech Tip Linux videos because I recently started using Ubuntu on an old computer as the main home dekstop. Seems to work fine out of the box for my light usage. Minor issues with drivers for my old graphics card, but resolvable. I was surprised neither used a standard Ubuntu install (although one is using Pop OS). Maybe I’m a retard for liking Ubuntu, I don’t know.

I guess Linus went with Manjaro so that he could bitch about it being difficult for him. Just use Ubuntu, you’re not a Linux power user, it’s fine. What a retard.

 

[Knight of the Rope]

Just use Ubuntu, you’re not a Linux power user, it’s fine.

Heck, I use Ubuntu almost exclusively and I have Linux system administrator certifications. Sometimes the best reason to use something is because it's ubiquitous. When clients (or coworkers...) have issues with their cloud shit, since most of that is Ubuntu now anyway (because ubiquity is self-propelling after you reach critical mass) it's refreshing that I don't need to juggle different package managers or directory conventions in my head, and that the system I'll be troubleshooting is exactly the same one that I use for personal work/play.

I also use Windows where necessary, and for the exact same reasons.

 

[ditto]

For a dude called Linus he sure sucks at Linux.