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Wow, putting shit all over the place? It's just like Windows!
Anyway, here's an interesting video from the British tech monk:
The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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Anyway, here's an interesting video from the British tech monk:
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These suggestions are valid but I am scared that if developers start making Linux a "one size fits all" desktop system it would stop catering to everyone. Someone said elsewhere something along the lines of: "if you cather to everyone, you cather to no one". Maybe there could be different editions, each with a very specific audience and also keep in mind this is just my observation.
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Would be ideal, a more corporate fine tuned edition for the general audience moving over from Windows and the OG edition for the OG's. Like I said, the issue with Windows for me is that it gets in my way, but it just works under the hood. If there was a Linux branch that just worked under the hood like Windows that doesn't get in my way and I don't have to keep fighting it so it won't keep getting in my way, and it runs all the software that I need, that would be great.
But again, there is no corporate incentive for such an OS. Desktop Linux is coincidental because corpos wanted a Unix-like desktop OS for corporate use. Consumers are supposed to go with Windows.
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Each distribution has very specific directories where the files get installed to. The real problem are user config files, granted, the situation is much better than on Windows but still.
Eeehhh I really don't know about that, just look at RedHat and it's autistic obsession with GNOME, a desktop environment that it's hated because it uses a shitty toolkit and it's pretty much a shitty clone of Mac OS's shell.
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Fedorabros, we eatin' good tonight.
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Kill yourself you fucking faggot RedHat shill.
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Hey, new pytorch packages! Now I won't have to dualboot anymore when drawing tits!
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No, I'd rather use Slackware, it just works and it has no corporate meedling. God bless potato nigger Patrick Volkerding, eternal BDFL.
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I've noticed a few times over the week that it seems to handle multitasking better. Unsure if it's from the new kernel or other changes, but it does perform better on my dated laptop.
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It solved some dumb problems I've had with notifications too. Overall okay update.
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Devuan released v5.0 6 months ago. I upgraded today. Just worked, no systemd, no homo. Simple as
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I somehow managed to
Yes, do as I say! my Xorg server doing the Devuan Daedalus upgrade. No big deal since I could just reinstall the packages after the fact, but I would have liked to know why it happened. Even if the answer probably boils down to "u dum".
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I don't think I'd be of much help. The only /etc/ diffs I got prompted on in the upgrade were /etc/default/ ones, and none to do with X- though I have no customizations on those.
I rather suspect there's no good way to go back and diagnose this stuff without decent Timeshift-level backups.
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Third-party packagers don't always adhere to these specs though. A lot of novice packagers seem to throw things into /usr/local "to be safe" but this is how weird breakages occur.
e: Also as far as config files go, IMHO every distro should have a place where package-provided default config files live so that if something gets fucked up after multiple updates and merges you still have a default you can reference. Only the package manager should be able to write to them.
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Oh, so that's probably fucking why I haven't been able to install updates due to a generic "Catastrophic Failure" error with no further explanation.
It's a problem of its own, but for whatever reason, Windows stalled any Win10 updates on my machine some times after I installed grub on another disk. Windows has refused to update ever since (for whatever reason), and I'm unable to reinstall without wiping my Windows disk. DISM and what else also doesn't help and just crashes. From what I've gathered there doesn't seem to be a hardware failure of any kind.
I hate Windows for the shenanigans it pulls off. Recently, my virtual machines suddenly stopped working after a recent update.
After some diagnostics, I saw my Pro/Education edition version had been demoted to *Home Edition* just because I have changed countries temporarily, and Microsoft thought it would be a grrreat Idea to make WSL stop working as well as my virtual machines I had installed. I don't recall making any changes to my licensing keys.
I also love how the operating system is unfriendly to switching hardware components. Windows kernel will *not* unload old drivers due to HAL's retardation, and the only way to make Windows stop Bluescreening is to nuke all of your drivers and then just spam
DISM and SFC until it fucking works. (which is even funnier because I've managed to do this myself, as googling will only show you India). And once I actually fixed my system, Microsoft revoked my prebuilt license.I've stopped believing it's incompetence or anything but just pure fucking malice of whoever is actually working on that operating system. It's a tool designed to monitor niggercattle and will treat you like so whether you like it or not.
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Actually, not too long ago there was a major issue where Windows couldn't update because the recovery partition was full. That's when I decided to delete my old one with gparted and I bricked my install so I had to reinstall on a spare SSD that I thankfully had, lesson learned to not fuck with Windows partitions and to make sure it throws the recovery one at the end of the disk on a fresh install.
It might be related to that rather than MS fighting against UI modifications. I'm running Win10 Pro with ExplorerPatcher, Windhawk 7+ Taskbar Tweaker and other ricer shit, yet I still get security updates that install without a hitch. Also, IIRC they've started fighting with shit like ExplorerPatcher because Win11's taskbar is one step forward and ten steps back, so people started using EP, but MS keeps changing shit so EP ends up breaking explorer.exe, so they just went "fuck it" and refuse to update the OS if you run something like that so you won't complain that something breaks. Ironically MS can't realize that people wouldn't be using EP if Win11's taskbar had at least feature parity with the Win10 one, before they started adding all the fancy schmancy new WinUI3 shit to it.
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How come would my recovery partition be full? I did a fresh install of windows when I built my computer and I have never even used snapshots, let alone doing backups of anything but photos.
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Simple: you're using Windows and Microsoft is retarded. Every update, some files get added to the recovery partition, since updating Windows means changing vital OS components, and slowly but surely this partition gets filled up, but Microsoft either doesn't prune unneeded files from it, always sets it to a small size like 500MB, or both. Then after a few years the partition is full, you can't update, and you either have to wait for Microsoft to push out a fix for it, or figure out yourself how to extend the recovery partition, or just make a new one.
By the way, I have never experienced Windows refusing to update after installing GRUB, and my previous installation went from LTSC 2016, to LTSC 2019, to Pro, and then had a platform swap from B85 to B660 and it adjusted to it perfectly fine. I lost my activation though since that's tied to the motherboard but I just ran MAS again. No issues whatsoever despite me torturing my install this way, only when I decided to fuck with it outside of Windows with gparted is when I killed it off. Skill issue, learn how to use Windows etc etc.
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There are obvious instances of User error but I find the developers who shift the blame away from them fucking despicable.Skill issue, learn how to use Windows etc etc.
If everything worked as it was supposed to, you would never have to repartition your recovery partition. Microsoft dipshits are stoll mentally in the DOS-era when it was acceptable to reinstall your OS (read: take out and insert the floppy disk) in the event any problems occurred. End users aren't supposed to risk their files reinstalling the OS (god forbid they're a not tech-savvy person) when you break the system. If your updates risk End Users' software licenses, potentially worth hundreds of dollars, you're full of shit, period.
Microsoft surely went downhill. A person that I know of has an XP computer with 20~ yo un-updated programs that
still work fine without any maintenance, and the only bug they've encountered was when an employee fucked up the config of the program by supposedly dragging the window out of bounds, which was quickly fixed with a simple config change.
They don't make software as they used to.
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This last line is killer. So many electron apps that are poorly optimized, buggy and crash prone but hey at least we have more soy devs to make more shitty memory hungry apps right.