The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Frail Snail]

I've never experienced a distro stuffing everything it has on the live media, including the graphical installer itself, onto your hard drive until the latest hop with Fedora. With some package marking tricks, it's thankfully removeable post-install. Seriously, why the fuck would I need to keep 20 extra wireless card driver packages and a Bengali language pack lying around? According to the official forums, this is intended behavior. Just get more space. Very cool. Thank you, Red Hat.

 

[Carpenter Trout]

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?

Put everything you need in an external drive and keep it there until you're sure you're going to keep that OS (at least ne or more months).

Windows 11 WSLg

If I'm not mistaken, WSL is also available on Windows 10, as well, since around 2018.

For a dude called Linus he sure sucks at Linux

Torvalds? Yeah, he can't even install debian or ubuntu lol.

 

[Aidan]

Torvalds? Yeah, he can't even install debian or ubuntu lol.

To be fair even the manual was shit back when he attempted the debian install. Nowadays it's some of the easiest stuff ever and there's ample documentation.

 

[grannygoose]

Which distro would best support my special snowflake hardware? It consists of the malevolent Nvidia optimus and I need fractional scaling or else I'll have to squint.

 

[Dick Justice]

To be fair even the manual was shit back when he attempted the debian install. Nowadays it's some of the easiest stuff ever and there's ample documentation.

I wonder if there's a connection there

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

Well tried Mint once more and it ran like shit still. I guess I'll wait to be disappointed again with 20.3

 

[ditto]

If I'm not mistaken, WSL is also available on Windows 10, as well, since around 2018.

WSLg is new in Windows 11 and can run Linux desktop apps seamlessly with GPU acceleration, unlike plain WSL that can only do command line. It's probably the best way to do GPU accellerated stuff under Linux with an NVIDIA card since it can just use the Windows drivers.

Well tried Mint once more and it ran like shit still. I guess I'll wait to be disappointed again with 20.3

I recently found an old laptop running Ubuntu 7 and even only ancient hardware it felt so much better than any modern distro. We had perfection a decade ago and let it slip away.

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

I recently found an old laptop running Ubuntu 7 and even only ancient hardware it felt so much better than any modern distro. We had perfection a decade ago and let it slip away.

With Windows 11 being a joke, I just wish these autistic trannies would just say "hey, everyone keeps bitching about all this bugs and quirks. Why don't we take the next 6 months and try to fix as much of this as possible"

 

[John McAfee]

I've been on bunsenlabs for a year. I program in vim, and only use a web browser, but I haven't had any patches fuck my os yet like mint so I guess you can say were lts

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

I've been on bunsenlabs for a year. I program in vim, and only use a web browser, but I haven't had any patches fuck my os yet like mint so I guess you can say were lts

I'm just trying to find a close, yet possibly superior DE to windows as I can. I'm sperging harder over Mint because it's the one everyone says to go to, and I honestly like the cinnamon DE.

Right now, the only distro that's come closest to 'it just works' is Manjaro, but I'd rather have the greater support base of Deb releases.

 

[John McAfee]

I'm just trying to find a close, yet possibly superior DE to windows as I can. I'm sperging harder over Mint because it's the one everyone says to go to, and I honestly like the cinnamon DE.

Right now, the only distro that's come closest to 'it just works' is Manjaro, but I'd rather have the greater support base of Deb releases.

I was on manjaro, but manjaro was constant headaches, my pipeline is so tame all distros address me, but holy shit I've never in my life had to roll back updates like I did with manjaro. Debian is old, monolithic, outdated, and fucking STABLE.

I do have to note, my servers are debian and having bleeding edge manjaro client pushes fucked me more than the os hosing nvidia, steam, brave, and telegram. You'll probably be fine.

 

[419]

the only distro that's come closest to 'it just works' is Manjaro

Not even close. Manjaro is somehow even more likely to fucking brick than pure Arch and just has a load of problems with how it's run and maintained in spite of how often it gets advertised to people as a newbie distro.

If you really want a "just works" Arch-based distro in its place, I've heard much better things about EndeavourOS considering it's the successor to the once-popular Antergos. You still have a choice there of either Mint's Cinnamon or KDE Plasma for your Windows-like DE so hopefully you shouldn't have much to worry about there.

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

Not even close. Manjaro is somehow even more likely to fucking brick than pure Arch and just has a load of problems with how it's run and maintained in spite of how often it gets advertised to people as a newbie distro.

If you really want a "just works" Arch-based distro in its place, I've heard much better things about EndeavourOS considering it's the successor to the once-popular Antergos. You still have a choice there of either Mint's Cinnamon or KDE Plasma for your Windows-like DE so hopefully you shouldn't have much to worry about there.

I should've wrote 'FOR ME' in that statement.

I'm really looking for a Deb or Ubuntu based distro since it has a bigger support base. So far I've only found duds though.

 

[419]

I should've wrote 'FOR ME' in that statement.

I'm really looking for a Deb or Ubuntu based distro since it has a bigger support base. So far I've only found duds though.

Have you tried MX? I think someone else in this thread was praising it quite a lot before over the other usual suspects that had issues even on his end.

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

Have you tried MX?

Only on VM to try xfce (didn't like it)
I see there's a kde version I'll give it a go. Still cautious though because I tried kde and went to shit by the 3rd boot.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

WSLg is new in Windows 11 and can run Linux desktop apps seamlessly with GPU acceleration, unlike plain WSL that can only do command line. It's probably the best way to do GPU accellerated stuff under Linux with an NVIDIA card since it can just use the Windows drivers.

I recently found an old laptop running Ubuntu 7 and even only ancient hardware it felt so much better than any modern distro. We had perfection a decade ago and let it slip away.

Lucid Lynx on a PPC Mac was heaven

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

Forgot to ask, but since I updated the kernel on Mint my computer refuses to shut down and I get this error:


What's the problem here?

 

[ducktales4gameboy]

This is my biggest linux bitch right now. Even on a igpu laptop from 2016 with everything supported out of the box in Manjaro, suspend/hibernate just fails for no reason with no visible cause in dmesg and the failures are completely random. Sometimes it sleeps fine, other times i'll just reopen it to a 'suspend failed' dialog and 20% battery remaining.

Bumping to say I finally fucking solved this after like a year; It's some dumb shit with how the swapfile is handled during low-power states and giving it a ton more swap solves the problem. 8GB ram, 24GB swapfile solved everything. Whee, linux.

 

[MysticLord]

Bumping to say I finally fucking solved this after like a year; It's some dumb shit with how the swapfile is handled during low-power states and giving it a ton more swap solves the problem. 8GB ram, 24GB swapfile solved everything. Whee, linux.

Is that wise if you have a SSD?

 

[419]

Forgot to ask, but since I updated the kernel on Mint my computer refuses to shut down and I get this error:

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What's the problem here?

Systemd. It's shit. Not your fault.