The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Rusty Metal Skull Gun said:
Shall we spend our time fixing Nouveau? No, let's redo it from scratch in a language with the worst community imaginable. What could possibly go wrong?
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I might be mistaken as I only skimmed the Reddit article I pulled this from, but I think Nova is based on drivers that Nvidia released for their latest video cards and Nova back ports it to older models
 
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AFAIU it's a consequence of Nvidia open sourcing some of their driver code a couple of years ago, but only for newer GPUs, i.e. if you have a Pascal generation card you are stuck with either Nouveau or Nvidia's proprietary drivers. I am inclined to believe that Nvidia's intentions with open sourcing some of their driver code is to drop their Linux support altogether, and leave it to the community, hence Nova. I had a Pascal generation card when Nvidia made the announcement and it made me decide to buy a new AMD GPU.
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Sound like redditard, Nvidia makes good money on CUDA on Linux.

So far it's Nvidia>VESA>Nouveau if you are on Nvidia hardware. Unless you don't like your GPU being stable.
 
Belisarius Cawl said:
How bad is it really
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How bad's the community? If I wasn't horrendously transphobic already, I certainly would be after interacting with the average Rust developer.

Betonhaus said:
I might be mistaken as I only skimmed the Reddit article I pulled this from, but I think Nova is based on drivers that Nvidia released for their latest video cards and Nova back ports it to older models
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I dunno, but Phoronix gives the impression it's an outright replacement: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Nova-Rust-Abstractions, https://archive.is/aCXtt

From the mailing list post:
With the choice of Rust the first problem to deal with are missing C binding abstractions for
integral kernel infrastructure (e.g. device / driver abstractions). Since this is a bit of a chicken
and egg problem - we need a user to upstream abstractions, but we also need the abstractions to
create a driver - we want to develop Nova upstream and start with just a driver stub that only makes
use of some basic Rust abstractions.
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"We're going to waste our time doing useless Rust bullshit before we even get to the development work."

The problem with Nouveau is its glacial pace of development, which this will make even worse. The problem with Nouveau is not memory issues, which is the problem that Rust was intended to solve.
 
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KDE advises extreme caution after theme wipes Linux user's files | Archive
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KDE bros it's so over
 
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Question: I grew up on a G3, switched to windows until 7, though used ubuntu since 09 (when you used to get it on a CD from the library). I have an unhealthy obsession with "finished" software like x11 or TeX, and have never really found a distro that acted that way. I'm currently using nixos but as I turn into a sour old piss-aged century egg I grow tired of configuring everything. Is there good solution?

I basically just program in rust/go/ts for my bread and use the internet, but for some reason pretty much I use anything other than nix it never lasts longer than 3 months before some aberration pops up. A friend tells me it's my fault for using KDE, though I'm not sure what's better considering I've used it since kde3
 
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Question: I grew up on a G3, switched to windows until 7, though used ubuntu since 09 (when you used to get it on a CD from the library). I have an unhealthy obsession with "finished" software like x11 or TeX, and have never really found a distro that acted that way. I'm currently using nixos but as I turn into a sour old piss-aged century egg I grow tired of configuring everything. Is there good solution?

I basically just program in rust/go/ts for my bread and use the internet, but for some reason pretty much I use anything other than nix it never lasts longer than 3 months before some aberration pops up. A friend tells me it's my fault for using KDE, though I'm not sure what's better considering I've used it since kde3
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Cinnamon on Debian.
 
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Betonhaus said:
I take it themes install files all over the OS and are responsible for including an uninstall script instead of having the os handle that?
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KDE global themes in particular have some pretty powerful permissions, they change behaviour as well as appearance of the desktop environment, so they have the capability to run bash commands during installation across the entire system. This one was bunged on the store with rm -rf in there. Install the theme, command runs, goodbye files.

In terms of uninstallation for globals I believe that is handled at an OS level, but it would likely change on a theme by theme basis given how it's currently set up. I might be compeltely wrong about that though so please take what I've said with a grain of salt, personally I don't touch global themes and prefer to make my own shit if I want to rice something because everything on the store fucking sucks
 
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gibbslets said:
Question: I grew up on a G3, switched to windows until 7, though used ubuntu since 09 (when you used to get it on a CD from the library). I have an unhealthy obsession with "finished" software like x11 or TeX, and have never really found a distro that acted that way. I'm currently using nixos but as I turn into a sour old piss-aged century egg I grow tired of configuring everything. Is there good solution?

I basically just program in rust/go/ts for my bread and use the internet, but for some reason pretty much I use anything other than nix it never lasts longer than 3 months before some aberration pops up. A friend tells me it's my fault for using KDE, though I'm not sure what's better considering I've used it since kde3
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Mint with Xfce4 has been highly stable for me and in fact the largest stumbling block I have run into is software that isn't bleeding edge when I require it to be
 
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HahaYes said:
personally I don't touch global themes and prefer to make my own shit if I want to rice something because everything on the store fucking sucks
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I've never been particularly happy with the global themes as most of them look like a Wish version of Windows or macOS, or some really tacky 12-year old edgelord's dream. I understand the attraction of customizing, but I would appreciate it if they could agree on ground rules for asthetics so people try to work within them and make something awesome instead of constantly reinventing the wheel and doing a slapdash job of it.
 
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Betonhaus said:
I've never been particularly happy with the global themes as most of them look like a Wish version of Windows or macOS, or some really tacky 12-year old edgelord's dream. I understand the attraction of customizing, but I would appreciate it if they could agree on ground rules for asthetics so people try to work within them and make something awesome instead of constantly reinventing the wheel and doing a slapdash job of it.
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When I *tried* to run with KDE for a week, I found the accent color extracted from wallpapers were enough. Global themes were too jank to constantly hop back and forth with.
 
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