The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Knight of the Rope]

Windows is always a fight and will often add features that are terrible

Fuckin' Amen to that. Whoever it was at Microsoft that decided that 'shaking the window a little too hard while you're dragging it' should close every other fucking window across all monitors all at once, should be taken out the back and shot.

 

[Ahriman]

Never had to create one, pretty insightful.

 

[Considered HARMful]

Never had to create one, pretty insightful.

You've never created a directory? Here, let me help: mkdir /mnt/pendrive

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[Ahriman]

You've never created a directory? Here, let me help: mkdir /mnt/pendrive

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Haha I know, I've never had the necessity to put it into practice, it's all.

 

[DavidS877]

You've never created a directory? Here, let me help: mkdir /mnt/pendrive

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Come on, it could be significantly more complicated.... you might have to do sudo mkdir /some/path/that/only/root/can/write

Next up, a video on how to list files in a directory from the command line.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Come on, it could be significantly more complicated.... you might have to do sudo mkdir /some/path/that/only/root/can/write

You forgot -p

 

[AnOminous]

Never had to create one, pretty insightful.

As with many Linux things, whenever I do this I've already forgotten the syntax again, so step 1 of many Linux things for me is "do a search on stackoverflow."

 

[Ahriman]

As with many Linux things, whenever I do this I've already forgotten the syntax again, so step 1 of many Linux things for me is "do a search on stackoverflow."

Story of my life. It's why sites like commandlinefu.com are fantastic.

 

[kūhaku]

We have some spare office computers at work so I'm trying my hand at installing gentoo on one of them just for fun. Kills downtime at work and the things were getting scrapped anyways. I only got so far today but overall the installation process was relatively reminiscent of when I manually installed artix. Gentoo seems interesting, part of why I'm doing this is just because it's really fun to learn about and I hope one day to be able to know enough to daily drive it with no problems.

As with many Linux things, whenever I do this I've already forgotten the syntax again, so step 1 of many Linux things for me is "do a search on stackoverflow."

It would be fun to write a little bash alias that just functions as a pseudo help menu, which just prints out the top 30 most useful commands and a brief description of what they do, so you don't have to look it up every time.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

It would be fun to write a little bash alias that just functions as a pseudo help menu, which just prints out the top 30 most useful commands and a brief description of what they do, so you don't have to look it up every time.

I keep a bunch of .sh files for various useful but semi verbose commands for that reason. Comes in handy when you least expect.

 

[Carpe Jugulum]

I think I’ve really been bitten by this. After getting rid of cinnamon on Mint (win7 look wasn’t for me, makes me feel old) I’m thinking of partitioning my drive yet again (every fucking install makes me do this manually, I’m clearly a sped) and having a go from scratch.

Or get another drive first. Might be safer and there’s room for a fourth.

I’m kinda a bit sad I didn’t get interested all those years ago when I knew some irl into it.

Additional: anything I desperately need to know before I go delve into the unknown?

 

[Had]

win7 look wasn’t for me, makes me feel old)

Saying windows 7 is old will kill half the people in the thread, lol.
also what look are you going for we might be able to recommend a os based on that, if that's an issue

I’m thinking of partitioning my drive yet again ...Might be safer and there’s room for a fourth.

Try not to have a million os's on a given system, I think even having two should really be the max unless your running a server at least as far as usability goes. I personally just have 2 main systems one with manjaro linux for my coding ecosystem and one with windows for muh gaming.

A typical mistake people will make is being distro homeless, though you will be for a while till you find something that's right for you try not to be forever homeless.

 

[Carpe Jugulum]

Saying windows 7 is old will kill half the people in the thread, lol.
also what look are you going for we might be able to recommend a os based on that, if that's an issue

I nearly said XP but I can’t remember how 95/XP look well. Do remember 3.1 and thinking how fancy it was lol.

I have KDE on both Mint and Garuda. I game on both and Windows is on its own drive for if I can’t absolutely 100% can’t work around anything.

It’s really just about having a go and seeing if I can do it. I’d certainly learn more even if I’m not successful the first time.

 

[Had]

It’s really just about having a go and seeing if I can do it. I’d certainly learn more even if I’m not successful the first time.

I guess if you don't like the "windows lay out"

you could try fedora linux, Linus Torvalds uses it and I used it for a good month or two on a shitty Dell optiplex

I loved it but switch cuz I need muh windows layout (I know now you can make ferdora more windows like but i didn't know that at the time)

There's also a lot of "trying to be Mac os" distros
like ubuntu budgie but i always found them to be too "baby's first linux" and there are less documentation on these lesser known os's, but im sure most ubuntu stuff would work.

 

[DavidS877]

Try not to have a million os's on a given system, I think even having two should really be the max unless your running a server at least as far as usability goes.

If you're running a server you're only going to have one OS unless you like losing functionality when dual booting. Servers only get multiple OSes with VMs or Containers.

And personally almost all my desktop multi-OS is VMs as well. Sometimes for testing, sometimes for isolating one customer from another and sometimes to just see if GPU passthrough worked(it did, but was a pain in the ass).

 

[Considered HARMful]

As with many Linux things, whenever I do this I've already forgotten the syntax again, so step 1 of many Linux things for me is "do a search on stackoverflow."

man mount
man fstab

 

[Knight of the Rope]

man mount

Faggot.

It would be fun to write a little bash alias that just functions as a pseudo help menu, which just prints out the top 30 most useful commands and a brief description of what they do, so you don't have to look it up every time.

cheat was mentioned earlier in this thread, it looks pretty cool for this sort of thing actually.

https://github.com/cheat/cheat

 

[Had]

I have heard that china has been trying to get away from using windows because it's an american company with backdoors. So I looked into what they use and they use Kylin os at a state level, it's skined such that 90% of people wouldn't even be able to tell it's not windows. it's debian based, so if that's your thing the ccp has got you.

https://www.ubuntukylin.com/downloads/download-en.html
might fuck around with it and see how it feels.

 

[Had]

Sorry for the double post but I figure it's been day's since anyone has posted

So, I'm on the look out to build the ultimate autists laptop for linux when I found this originally from a since deleted Chinese form

These mad lads have been reverse engineering Ibm think pad's so much so that they have been making custom motherboards. with build in HDMI and USB 3.0

(link)
Sadly all the stuff they link to has since been removed, let me know if any of you have been able to figure out how on earth they did this.

Or just tell me, what would your ultimate linux laptop be like? what io would it have? what would the keyboard be like(would it have macro keys) ? what isn't in mainstream machines that you would want?

 

[Kosher Dill]

let me know if any of you have been able to figure out how on earth they did this.

The Chinamen that make the motherboards are called 51nb. I believe they started with leaked Lenovo schematics and used those as a base for modification. This being China, it was presumably easy enough to find a place that would manufacture electronics of dubious provenance.

If you want a board or a system you're either going to have to get in on accursed redditor group-buys or find a reseller.
I've bought full builds from XY-Tech and I've been pretty pleased with them. The early batches of screen mods were a bit quirky and temperamental but on the whole the quality is good.