The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

Knight of the Rope said:
Linux Mint is generally pretty good.

Heck, Ubuntu itself is pretty good (and I just don't hate Snaps enough for that opinion to change). Or one of the other DE flavors (e.g. Kubuntu for a pretty decent KDE setup).

Or you can even spread your seed out in the world and check out Fedora or Manjaro. Or you can go full Reddit and dive into Arch Linux or Gentoo or Slackware. Being a faggot ricer at some point in your journey is basically a rite of passage for Linuxfags, but it really is a young fella's game and the second you have IRL responsibilities like a job or a family or getting laid on the reg you just don't have the time to devote an entire afternoon to rebuilding a system (e.g. because you Russian Roulette'd your system by not installing updates for a week and now Pacman has fucked you like the fickle bitch that she is), so it's best to get the ricing out of your system early when you've got less going on. It's all Linux underneath anyway, so it's all good.
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Just to second what Knight said. Ubuntu is good. I recommend an LTS version. I however recommend not using gnome3 so some of the first packages you should install is the Xubuntu desktop. You could always use Xubuntu but the little fork off shoots may take longer to update compared to the main branch.

eternal dog mongler said:
Arch breaks less often than you think it would. I still recommend Fedora for people who use their computers for actual work though.
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I use Manjaro for my graduate school program. Originally when I started the semester, I thought I would be working with my Ubuntu machine and MacBook more but Manjaro has exceeded my expectations and I do a majority of my work in it. I only touch my MacBook if I'm working on the go or doing IRL stuff and my Ubuntu machine rarely gets booted. There are some kinks here and there but its a very stable distro and I'm not getting problems out of it like I used to with Fedora years ago. Granted it is Arch-lite, but it has done a good enough job to push me into the Arch camp that I may consider running Arch soon.

I like Manjaro/Arch, I just wish there were more pre-compiled binaries for it e.g. Oracle JDK or Matlab.
 
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Mister Uno said:
Even with the non-free firmware installation.
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The non-free ISO from the Debian website is just bogus. The non-free packages are on there, but I need the drivers during installation which doesn't seem possible. The only way I could figure is by adding the USB mount point as an APT source after installation and manually installing them.

I really wish Ubuntu would release an officially supported minimal distro that is just Debian netinst + drivers. Instead there's about 3 mini-Ubuntu distros all intended for VMs and are missing drivers.
 
Devuan. I need to be back to it. The perpetual downside of using KDE Neon for my dev machine is that it's utterly infested with systemd and snapd. Everything is touched by the slug-like tentacles of these two so-called daemons (an absolute lie: they're a constant hindrance, not helpers). I've mostly bumbled along, but I've started hitting regular issues with networking and such, that are entirely the result of the bizarre decisions made by systemd. Not least the decision to respect "privacy" by refusing to upstream requests for lan-local domains. Poettering repeatedly WONTFIX it even though it's breaking expectations every which way. Apparently the solution is just register your own domain instead.
 
teriyakiburns said:
Poettering repeatedly WONTFIX it even though it's breaking expectations every which way. Apparently the solution is just register your own domain instead.
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Link some bugreports with those inanities if you have them on hand. I haven't yet looked into snapd and might as well just give myself some braindamage for the next week.
 
Considered HARMful said:
Link some bugreports with those inanities if you have them on hand. I haven't yet looked into snapd and might as well just give myself some braindamage for the next week.
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I can't find the bug report I was looking at, but I've found an old one similar. Classic poettering. "My way is right, evidence be damned".


There's also this fun article.


tl;dr systemd-resolvd makes everything more complicated just for the sake of it, which breaks things in subtle and hard-to-debug ways.
 
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IamnottheNSA said:
This but unironically. Linux + Wine legit give me less shit than Windows does when I'm trying to run older games.
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I wish that was the case, but everytime i've tried to install an older game on Linux + Wine, it ended up running slower than running it under Windows on the same machine, which sucks, because Modern Windows keeps getting worse at running older games.
 
Mr. Duck said:
I wish that was the case, but everytime i've tried to install an older game on Linux + Wine, it ended up running slower than running it under Windows on the same machine, which sucks, because Modern Windows keeps getting worse at running older games.
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I was thinking more late 90's/very early 2000s games, so for me it's usually stuff like video modes that made Windows shit the bed, while the difference in performance was imperceptible. I haven't tried a lot of late 2000s stuff yet, so I can't really talk about that.
 
IamnottheNSA said:
I was thinking more late 90's/very early 2000s games, so for me it's usually stuff like video modes that made Windows shit the bed, while the difference in performance was imperceptible. I haven't tried a lot of late 2000s stuff yet, so I can't really talk about that.
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Late 90's/early 2000's games are the ones giving me issues, (specially late 90's stuff), i've tried some late 2000's games via Proton and they work without any issue, GTA IV works really well on my current laptop.
 
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Mr. Duck said:
I wish that was the case, but everytime i've tried to install an older game on Linux + Wine, it ended up running slower than running it under Windows on the same machine, which sucks, because Modern Windows keeps getting worse at running older games.
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Have you tried switching to the Staging branch and running wine with esync enabled (Set the environment variable WINEESYNC=1 before starting your program)?
 
Ahriman said:
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So douche that he may be, it seems like it's potentially solid, although I am really not interested in the rapey nature of M1 Macs at all. If they get the fucking GPU stuff and the Neural Engine shit working it will probably catch on. I will never trust this dev though because of his prominent role in the Byuuicide hoax.
 
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