The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

Churros con Manteca said:
Instructions for KDE Plasma, hide every window in your current virtual desktop (or go to another one that has no visible wins otherwise), then right click the Application Launcher (the Plasma logo thingy, or where do you launch your programs), a menu pops up that says "Enter Edit Mode", click it then hover over to the right to find the Activity Pager (or any other Activity widget) and lastly you click "Show Alternatives". You can choose any alternative that fits best for you.
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serious n00b said:
PM'd you the answer (:
*locks thread*
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Friendly Primarina said:
Don't be "that guy." What did you do?
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Sorry about that. There's an Activity Pager called Compact Pager that I used that solved this problem. It's pretty good and way better than what I was working with beforehand. The green buttons are the new pager.
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serious n00b said:
Linux Mint. ​
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As a recent windows 11 to mint convert. Last one is accurate. Mint feels really fucking natural.

Also Microsoft pissed me off by proceeding to break every single registry tweak I make whenever they push an update. I just want my normal fucking start menu back.

Despite the stereotype of Linux being only reserved for techies and geeks, I've found it's honestly so much easier to use it right now. Cause I can get things just how I like it and then they actually fucking stay like that.
 
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Miller said:
Mint just werks, unironically.
I had an old ASUS M6-series laptop, I reinstaled Win XP, it refused to connect to the wifi, I tried every 32-bit distro, the installation would always fail at one point. Tried Linux Mint, installation went fine and connected to the wifi with no issue.
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I think I’m going to try Mint on my laptop and see if it speeds things up (fairly confident it will). It’s not as old as yours but shits the bed at win10.
 
Mint has the best MATE customization ever. Period. To the point it trivializes the need for Cinnamon to look and feel like an everyday desktop by being lighter.
 
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Welsh Catgirl Enjoyer said:
As a recent windows 11 to mint convert. Last one is accurate. Mint feels really fucking natural.

Also Microsoft pissed me off by proceeding to break every single registry tweak I make whenever they push an update. I just want my normal fucking start menu back.

Despite the stereotype of Linux being only reserved for techies and geeks, I've found it's honestly so much easier to use it right now. Cause I can get things just how I like it and then they actually fucking stay like that.
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Miller said:
Mint just werks, unironically.
I had an old ASUS M6-series laptop, I reinstaled Win XP, it refused to connect to the wifi, I tried every 32-bit distro, the installation would always fail at one point. Tried Linux Mint, installation went fine and connected to the wifi with no issue.
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Carpe Jugulum said:
I think I’m going to try Mint on my laptop and see if it speeds things up (fairly confident it will). It’s not as old as yours but shits the bed at win10.
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AlephOne2Many said:
Mint has the best MATE customization ever. Period. To the point it trivializes the need for Cinnamon to look and feel like an everyday desktop by being lighter.
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From freedom came elegance.
 
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If I want to gayme on linux, is there a specific desktop environment that works best or can I just pick whatever I want?
 
Miller said:
If I want to gayme on linux, is there a specific desktop environment that works best or can I just pick whatever I want?
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The technical correct answer is that some older/slimmer window managers do not deal well with the way fullscreen is done in X and some other things game windows like to pull but that you have to ask this puts the chance you'll encounter these window mangers at zero, so really pick whatever you like.

Most compositors these days also try to be sensible about noticing that such an application is fullscreened and take themselves out of the equation. That really does not always work though.
 
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Stabmaster Arson said:
You know who I blame for this? Leonard FUCKING Poettering. If I ever meet that cracker int he street I'm gonna give him such a beatdown like you've never seen. BAM that's for pulseaudio you Finnish fucking faggot. BAM that's for SystemD. BAM that's also for systemD. BAM again, still for systemD. What kind of an ignorant ass cracker decides to change logfiles from human readable text to a motherfucking BINARY FORMAT! THIS CRACKER NEEDS TO FUCKING DIE! Hand me your tophats gents, I am legitmately mad at this prick and have been for years.
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AmpleApricots said:
Most compositors these days also try to be sensible about noticing that such an application is fullscreened and take themselves out of the equation. That really does not always work though.
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KDE does this and gives you some awesome-looking graphical errors.

Really for gaming I'd just use XFCE and turn off the compositor manually.
 
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Change is a hassle but Microsoft keep nudging me little by little to finally going back to GNU/Linux. W11 is a downgrade, political stuff is being inserted unasked for in the interface... whatever. I'm going to install something else and try that for a while. I want to dual boot though - too much hassle to try and jump all in one go.

Anyone point me in the direction of some good guides to dual booting with an existing Windows system? And is it a problem that my Windows system is all BitLocker encrypted and uses Secure Boot?
 
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Frail Snail said:
In my experience, you're more likely to encounter problems with compositors, opacity/transparency fuckery and graphics drivers than the desktop environments themselves when playing games.
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This is a valid point. I have encountered many problems when trying to play games on my computer, and most of them have been due to compositors, opacity/transparency issues, or graphics drivers.
 
Overly Serious said:
Change is a hassle but Microsoft keep nudging me little by little to finally going back to GNU/Linux. W11 is a downgrade, political stuff is being inserted unasked for in the interface... whatever. I'm going to install something else and try that for a while. I want to dual boot though - too much hassle to try and jump all in one go.

Anyone point me in the direction of some good guides to dual booting with an existing Windows system? And is it a problem that my Windows system is all BitLocker encrypted and uses Secure Boot?
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These days secure boot isn't a problem. Most Linuxes have shim loaders for Grub which already are signed by MS. You might run into issues with 'special' hardware like Nvidia which requires a couple extra steps to approve the locally compiled DKMS modules, but it's usually automated.

Bitlocker isn't a problem if you don't want to share the data between Linux and Windows.(Or just make an unencrypted drive for that) I did try that once and it blew the heck out of the Bitlocker drive, maybe better now.

My main recommendation is shrink the Windows drive first using Windows tools(especially with Bitlocker) and be very careful about what you tell the Linux partitioner.
 
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