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I'd forgot all about it until just now. If init isn't represented by a Cyberdemon, I'll be disappointed.
The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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🔧 Actively working on site again.
I'd forgot all about it until just now. If init isn't represented by a Cyberdemon, I'll be disappointed.
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...And now I want a Deus Ex process manager. Taking a flamethrower to chrome processes would be cathartic.
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Kind of ironic considering he just shilled Deepin because of its eye candy while minimizing the usability issues and intentionally avoiding the red slant-eyed elephant in the room of its CCP ties. Not to mention being the only Linux distro that requires you to accept an EULA. But I don't really expect consistency from DT at this point.
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My earlier statement in this very thread made me reinstall emacs because I wanted to give lisp another round and while emacs isn't the only way to do lisp, it felt appropriate and I have some experience with using emacs as an editor, in the sense of being familiar with the keybindings and basic concepts.
Funnily enough, I feel that for the first time of my life, lisp actually clicked with me and when you look at it that way, it makes sense to look at emacs not as an editor which can read mail and has tetris built-in, but as a lisp-vm running a lisp image with many extensions. I feel I have somewhat of a journey ahead now.
Funnily enough, I feel that for the first time of my life, lisp actually clicked with me and when you look at it that way, it makes sense to look at emacs not as an editor which can read mail and has tetris built-in, but as a lisp-vm running a lisp image with many extensions. I feel I have somewhat of a journey ahead now.
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Go full-on chaos-reeling sadism and use the EXWM (Emacs X11 Window Manager) plugin.
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Distrotube is a fag, but I do like emacs. I have to use latex a lot, and emacs/auctex has a leg up over the other typesetting environments and text editors. That being said, if I were to not have to use tex, I wouldn't use anything other than pen and paper, because I find most people (including myself) are hindered by computer use for the most part instead of it helping productivity increase.
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I know this was kind of tongue in cheek but seriously, AFAIK emacs still can only do single-threaded so a block anywhere would also hang the window manager. I did look at stumpwm though which is basically ratpoison what I currently use, just in lisp. Emacs can interact with the stumpwm lisp image, so that you still have the control but even emacs crashing wouldn't bring down your window manager.
I'm currently planning out re-implementing crond in sbcl as practice. It's a low-enough hanging fruit that it shouldn't prove too complicated while still having implementation details you need to pay attention to.
I think what finally made lisp click for me after so many years was doing lots of forth lately. Also a very elegant, old and even less popular language, but not as high level. It started with me being blinded by the way-too-bright power LED of my Node 202 case in front of me, to the point that I would cover it up with various items just not to have to look at it. Then I thought it'd be neat to put an RGB led in there and hook it up to a microcontroller I can control via serial from an unused internal USB header to have linux color the LED to signifiy various system states or things like e.g. new mail, maybe even have a nice slow pulse effect when the system is in S3, as opposed to the obnoxious blinking most devices do. I did the chosen microcontroller in forth. Worked really well and was genuinely fun. I was writing hardware drivers for a Z180 system earlier, which was not as fun as a modern microcontroller is just that bit more powerful and convenient.
So in conclusing, shining bright LEDs into your eyes makes you understand lisp.
So in conclusing, shining bright LEDs into your eyes makes you understand lisp.
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Decided to give Mint another go since I liked the visual changes they made but it literally broke the same way it did last time I tried. At this point I'm just going to wait until SteamOS gets a public release and if that breaks then I'll know it's a hardware issue.
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What is the best Arch distro at the moment? I use Manjaro and it is quite good on my home PC but I was thinking of changing to either Garuda or Endevour when I format my PC again. Anyone ever used them and can give some feedback on how they feel?
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EndeavourOS is closer to the point of Arch, Manjaro is the furthest thing and ends up bleeding out the asshole for it due to incompetent management. You'll deal with less trouble on EndeavourOS compared to Manjaro, and some long time Arch users are able to give their testimony.
One such issue with Manjaro is SSL not being updated, leading to issues with installing packages or having general, highly avoidable security holes as a result.
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The best Arch distro is Arch. Why would you ever use an Arch derivative? Changing DE 2hard4u? You *want* more retards in the chain between you and your packages? wtf is supposed to be the difference other than different default skins and slower package updates? and the inevitable abandonment of said splinter distro and the need to switch again anyway?
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I like having a layer of nerds help me keep myself from bricking my OS every time I want to update something. Distros like Manjaro come with official and community repositories that help with keeping my software working.
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I don't even know how to respond to a statement like that. Unlike all the fuckups from the tard team wrangling Manjaro, Arch breakage is a myth. Breaking changes are always announced, and they are very rare. I've been running Arch on *everything* - VPS, bare metal servers, PCs - for many years, and I've had ONE (1) instance where I rebooted after an update and had a bricked system. It was my fault, and unrelated to Arch at all. I did zpool upgrade on my root pool and forgot that that would enable features that are incompatible with GRUB. Manjaro encourages bad behavior by making the AUR easily accessible and basically indistinguishable from regular packages... Which is absolutely terrible for noobs and far more likely to cause breakage than anything Arch has ever done. Particularly upon updating, when an AUR package expects a newer version of a dependency (since it tracks Arch, not Manjaro) 
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I have been running Garuda for six months now and besides one rollback when an update bricked the sound the only problems I have had are me problems (I’m a) noob b) retarded).
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I don't even know how to respond to a statement like that. Unlike all the fuckups from the tard team wrangling Manjaro, Arch breakage is a myth. Breaking changes are always announced, and they are very rare. I've been running Arch on *everything* - VPS, bare metal servers, PCs - for many years, and I've had ONE (1) instance where I rebooted after an update and had a bricked system. It was my fault, and unrelated to Arch at all. I did zpool upgrade on my root pool and forgot that that would enable features that are incompatible with GRUB. Manjaro encourages bad behavior by making the AUR easily accessible and basically indistinguishable from regular packages... Which is absolutely terrible for noobs and far more likely to cause breakage than anything Arch has ever done. Particularly upon updating, when an AUR package expects a newer version of a dependency (since it tracks Arch, not Manjaro)
I am gonna be straight with you G, I am kind of a dumbass. Even though I now understand how to install from the terminal I am still weary of doing it and spooked by it. it took me like 8 tries to get a install running when I was doing some testing with another non-GUI install distro the other day and that shit worries me. There was some Pahjeet that made a fork of Arch where it just had a little GUI install but apparently he stopped doing it so his stuff is out of day.
So I have good word on both Garuda and Endevour. I am gonna probably try both out on a VM just to get a feel and then choose.
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That's the same reason I run straight Debian instead of Mint/Ubuntu/etc. The water is cleaner upstream, Testing is close enough to the bleeding edge, and Debian has been around 30 years, it'll probably be around another 30.
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What the fuck am I doing wrong lmao
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Well, for one, using Mint...
Just install Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Bunsenlabs, or OpenSuse.
But seriously;
UEFI or Legacy boot?
Installed with system totally offline, or with network cable plugged in?
NVME drive?
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Kinda hard to fuck this up with the default install option assuming you just selected a drive for it to do all the partitions on and then booted from that drive without touching anything.
I've heard dual booting with Windows can result in Windows sometimes messing up the boot partition but I know nothing about that as I'm not a dual booter.