The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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What a shame
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heh heh.
 
The only good thing that comes from it is that if you've done it once and lost data you'll never do it again.
I understand that Stockholm syndrome comes with being a Linux user, yes? If Windows did this, I wouldn't go "oh well, can't be mad at it, I'll just avoid doing that", I would go "why the fuck do you do this you piece of shit you're supposed to work".

If Linux users stopped being this forgiving about their OS doing asinine shit for once and actually complained like a functional human being, it would finally be a good contender for a Windows replacement.
I decided it made very little sense to run a rolling release distro on a laptop I barely use except for traveling, so I ultimately decided to go with Devuan. I chose it because it is debian based and also because I didn't want systemd (even though my desktop is still running a distro that has systemd). While the netinstall image didn't work with Ventoy, the live desktop one did. The installer for devuan is a bit weird but it mostly works. The only part that didn't work was GRUB installation but thankfully the boot-repair-disk ISO was able to fix it. I also added the Mozilla repo to use the current firefox instead of the esr version just for consistency as I targzip'd my home folder before installing devuan and the firefox profile is for the current version. I seem to have some trouble opening the file, but maybe it is because I tar'd it first then used the gzip command. I did that because trying to do both in one command wasn't working (probably should've used a gui to archive it in the first place to be honest). Hopefully if I reverse my steps in the command line everything will be fine.
You know, last time I installed Debian, with it's evil systemd, I booted it up from Ventoy, installed it with ease with the GUI installer, and it installed GRUB just fine, it just worked. Not really selling me on the wonders of the systemd-less Devuan being superior to regular Debian here. It has to do more than to not use systemd, it has to, you know, work.
mc just works.
If you're not OFM-pilled you're a retard. Norton Commander, DOS Navigator, Midnight Commander, Far Manager, Total Commander, OFM's are the the white man's way of managing files. No retarded GUI's like Windows Explorer or Dolphin that expect you to use your mouse for everything, no autistic command typing for the most miniscule of tasks, and an actual multi-platform standard that people adhere to, so going from TC to mc feels natural, and not like going uphill.
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heh heh.
Dare I say what size your system drive is? 100GB? My current system SSD is 1TB and has 800GB of space left. Also I keep most of my shit on a separate 2TB SSD and 2TB hard drive. It's better to dedicate your main OS drive for just the OS and keeping absolutely everything on a secondary one anyway. Shit goes down? Your most important files are on the other drive, safe and sound. Your OS drive is an SSD? Congrats, by filling it up to 80% you've made your OS run slower because the less free space an SSD has, the slower it runs.

Also, 10GB downloads is a lot apparently, lol, amateurs:
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About 20GB is yt-dlp shit, then two sort categories of "Archives" and "Software" are 16GB. And this is just the current one, I have over 100GB worth of old downloads on my 2TB hard drive with hundreds of gigabytes of other shit on there. It has 170GB of free space left. It's the main hoard and it's not enough.
 
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Your OS drive is an SSD? Congrats, by filling it up to 80% you've made your OS run slower because the less free space an SSD has, the slower it runs.
Just buy an NVMe :smug:
I understand that Stockholm syndrome comes with being a Linux user, yes? If Windows did this, I wouldn't go "oh well, can't be mad at it, I'll just avoid doing that", I would go "why the fuck do you do this you piece of shit you're supposed to work".
Stockholm syndome also comes with being a Windows 10-11 user due to forced updates, telemetry that a normal joe cannot disable by his own, general slowness of Windows 11, etc, it's not just limited to being a Linux user, not as much as being a willing MacOS user though.
 
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This is not a valid thing to do in any OS. There is absolutely no way for the OS to know when you are done with a hotswappable drive. It cannot read your mind. I know nothing about Windows but my assumption is that it is quicker to commit to USB drives because Microsoft knows it's knuckle-dragging customer base. Unmounting the drive in windows is still the correct way to do it last time I checked and everything else can cause data loss.

That said, you can make an unnanounced removal safer in Linux by mounting such a drive with the --sync option. This causes all writes to being flushed (committed) to the device in question immediately instead of being queued in a more convinient way and being written at an indefinite point when the OS deems it's most efficent to do so. It is not the default because it leads to more and pointless writes which is not good for flash media and also potentially slow. I am sure Microsoft doesn't care. If you want this to be the default behavior in Linux, nothing and nobody is stopping you from making it so.

good contender for a Windows replacement
You say this as if people not understanding the above coming to Linux userland and shitting it up is somehow a good thing and the best thing to do would be to dumb everything down that these people can operate it. Stay with Windows, I am perfectly fine with that.

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Just buy an NVMe
Same shit, the issue is in the way flash memory works. The only difference with NVMe is that you have so much headroom even with PCIe 3.0 that the slowdowns aren't nearly as noticeable.
being a Windows 10-11 user due to forced updates, telemetry that a normal joe cannot disable by his own, general slowness of Windows 11, etc
Except a Windows user rightfully curses at Microsoft for all of it. If a Windows user had the Linux mentality, he'd blame anyone but Microsoft for that state. That's the big difference. Learn to blame the creators for once instead of doing this constant blame shifting mental gymnastics, maybe then you'll stop having dealing with this shit when you bully Linux devs into making their shit better.

You say this as if people not understanding the above coming to Linux userland and shitting it up is somehow a good thing and the best thing to do would be to dumb everything down that these people can operate it. Stay with Windows, I am perfectly fine with that.
I've seen enough Linux faggots going into various comment sections on different websites to proclaim the superiority of their OS unprompted, even declaring that "there's no reason to use Windows", showing that, paraphrasing you, they don't understand it coming to Windows userland and shitting it up, and I've even seen it happen on this forum that it's only right that I do the same. If Linux users can do it, then so do I, right?

I'll stop assuming that every Linux user wants to see Linux completely replace Windows when I'll actually stop seeing Linux users proclaiming that everywhere I go. You can yap about your "Linux is not Windows" rhetoric all day, I don't care.

When I notice a pattern, I assume that's the truth. And the pattern is Linux users praising Linux as a flawless replacement to Windows, telling every Windows normie to switch to Linux, and then telling every Windows normie whenever they inevitably run into issues that it's their fault and not of Linux.

Either make a clear division in your community between people who want to take over Windows and people who want to stay in their small circlejerk or eat shit forever, you're part of the Linux community therefore you are responsible for this public image of it. Fuck you.
 
Either make a clear division in your community between people
I have no influence on other people, neither do I want to tell them what to do. That's also more of a Windows thing.

you're part of the Linux community therefore you are responsible for this public image of it.
Wrong.
 
The only difference with NVMe is that you have so much headroom even with PCIe 3.0 that the slowdowns aren't nearly as noticeable.
Well it's not really the same shit. The difference is that you don't notice a slowdown. Do you care that the drive slows down or that your experience is slower? NVMEs are also the same price as sata ssds(at least in my area), so it's not like there's any downsides.

Also, 10GB downloads is a lot apparently
Powerleveling with my tens of TB worth of media
 
Powerleveling with my tens of TB worth of media
Uh huh
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backupMergerfs    66T   64T  622G 100% /backups
bigdisk1          11T  7.7T  2.7T  75% /bigdisk1
bigdisk2          72T   68T  3.5T  96% /bigdisk2

Needless to say my power bill is a bit high.

Although thinking about it the backups should be the sum of the other 2... hmm, something not being backed up I guess.
 
Learn to blame the creators for once instead of doing this constant blame shifting mental gymnastics, maybe then you'll stop having dealing with this shit when you bully Linux devs into making their shit better.
Oh we sure do blame program creators for the shit that we have on Linux, why do you think we express our grievances with systemd, wayland, etc?
People are pissed at Microsoft for legitimate reasons such as:
  • Ruining an operating system that was practically perfect so, there was NO reason to use Linux in the first place.
  • Transforming an OS into a surveillance platform (sure you can mitigate it but you cannot block it in anyway whatsoever - and no - even enterprise versions of Windows send data to third parties unwarranted)
  • See the point above but with unsolicited ads in the start menu (windows 10) and the weather widget (windows 11)
  • General sluggisness of Windows 11's UI specifically, Windows 10 did NOT have this problem irc.
What I do notice is Windows users not seeing that the Windows that once was THE os for the consumers has now become an ANTI-consumer OS. You all cry about being spied on by daddy Microsoft and yet most of you (because some people do make effort to fight back but that's a minority) don't do jackshit about it. And Microsoft has a fuckton of money to potentially fix Windows's problems but it doesn't. Until Microsoft stops being anti-consumer and delivers a quality product (it will never happen) then I will rightfully shit on (modern) Windows, a husk of what once was.
 
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