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The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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Well the consequences of even mentioning him are an immediate ban.
Feels like gnome is scared of something. Maybe COSMIC. Maybe all the "ebussy" and "whats the use case for using gnome" jokes are getting to this fucker.
woowie queen
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i think so?
honestly, my xp-pen tablet (an artist 12 2nd gen) always acted strange with linux. one time it worked only one side, one time it would do a weird hiccup that when i powered the pc with that on, the screen resolution would fuck itself to oblivion (difficult to explain), this time it decided to not power on the screen (but the touch worked?)
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time to check /g/ for the freshest memes and what they come up with next.
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All these "unattached" compositors have the same lineage and are forks of each other. picom is a fork of compton, compton is a fork of xcompmgr-dana which is a fork of xcompmgr which I think is over 20 years old at this point now. Looking at picom I think it's a combination of very naive redraw strategies (where a single scrolling text will keep your CPU/GPU awake forever, even if it's covered by another window) and the way vsync works.
That's the thing, it doesn't work as intended. Modesetting (the universal, default gpu driver everyone's using X is supposed to use) flat out doesn't support tearfree in the current release of the X server. I know it works fine with amdgpu, don't know about nvidia, with the (deprecated) intel driver it'll eventually break if you don't downgrade to DRI 2, which is not only slower but also breaks things like Vulkan support. The infuriating thing is that there's no major X release which includes the fix that the mainline code already had for a year now even though it's a critical feature for many users. This is an excellent reason to run gentoo btw.; You can just pop patches in or compile the latest git version and have fixes like this. Portage is basically made for making ths possible. Often a lot more difficult in other distros.
...and scaling on HiDPI displays, which X still is better at, too. Also input latency, which is worse in Wayland. Do not take my word for any of this, you can google this. I didn't want to shit on wayland anymore before trying to use it with all advantages of current year but I could not stand it for long. the lightweight WMs seem to have all the yank of the X ones (while being, really, really barebones) but contrary to there, you cannot implement hacks or little QoL improvements because ~*safety*~. I do completely discount the monolithic DEs on purpose as I do not want to put so much of the computing I do in a singular pair of manicured, yet suspiciously male hands because that's why I left Windows behind. Maybe they fix a lot of this. I doubt it but either way, I have no interest finding out.
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prollyanotherlurker
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For whatever reason I just haven't had the screen tearing issues. But maybe thats because I don't use super new hardware.
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Do you remember exactly what desktop environment, linux distribution you used? Maybe someone can help you out. Keep in mind that drawing tablets can only be extensively configured while using X11 because Wayland only supports input devices implemented by libinput.
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well. endeavouros with kde, both the official xp-pen driver and opentabletdriver can be found in the aur.
granted, i installed the drivers inside the wayland session. not sure if it would change anything if i did log in a x11 session.
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wow! I've followed Lunduke for a while now (Linux sucks is a fun watch) and I do tend to feel he oversells his influence on these people a tad but no, they really do treat him like Lord Voldemort.
EDIT: "free to be terrible elsewhere" god the fucking arrogance of these fat dysgenic cunts.
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I never liked GNOME because of its enormous bloat. Now I have even less of a reason to use it.
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If it bothered him maybe he shouldn't make Gnome so shit that it keeps spawning forks
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For all their bluster and philosophy, Gnome's main practical usage is to ship with a set it and forget it OS like RHEL or Ubuntu LTS and be so easy to use that people who have barely used desktop computers in their lives can work it. IBM, Google, etc have obviously found it satisfactory for that and I think that's why the project is so threatened by Cosmic. While the average enterprise user is not going to use its tiling features, it has characteristics that would appeal to megacorps, while MATE and Cinnamon are primarily aimed at the home user who wishes to have a familiar, traditional desktop paradigm without the bugginess or experimentation of KDE Plasma (fair or not, this reputation has likely stuck for the long-term) or just plain prefers the GTK, in corporations if they want that they are just going to deploy Windows for a likely negible cost. Cosmic is continuing the touchscreen oriented, enterprise friendly design and even has the corporate 'pick-me's of FOSS software: "written in rust" "next generation" "no X11 tech debt". If it is successful, it could eat into a lot of their pie. There's also the typical FOSS beef shit like feeling jilted for being passed over for freelance work.
Although, System76's primary aim is to use it to empress Linux enthusiasts to purchase a laptop from them, I don't know if they would be interested or willing to pursue the same streams of revenue Gnome does. The home/hobbyist userbases probably wont be affected, completely different audiences that donate neglible amounts of time or money.
Although, System76's primary aim is to use it to empress Linux enthusiasts to purchase a laptop from them, I don't know if they would be interested or willing to pursue the same streams of revenue Gnome does. The home/hobbyist userbases probably wont be affected, completely different audiences that donate neglible amounts of time or money.
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That guy tries pretty hard to be the centrist of the desktop linux space, if you look at his coverage of the GNUboot and Hyprland debacles and that he has refused to denounce Lunduke shows he at least presents an image of apolitical-ness.
If anything, his politics are the least troubling thing about him! I made an account on his Locals (lel) thing to watch the free episodes of Linux sucks and he has been spamming that throwaway trying to hock me reduced yearly memberships for years at this point, I don't know if his shameless not-substack shilling and has a very odd cadence of speak that a particular type of guy has that I can't put my finger on. Unlike a lot of commentators he isn't autistic, though. He does have a pretty good niche opened up now now that it seems like Luke Smith is living the Uncle Ted life.
Whether his position is overblown or not, in addition to Gnome, he also has a no-mention policy in OpenSUSE and Haiku.
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So it turns out, this dude installed Cachy on an old-ass ThinkPad, had issues (rightfully so) and because of that, then proceeded to whinge at CachyOS. All because it doesn't work on his vintage laptop.
The absolute state.
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Idk if the w520 is old enough to be using 2nd gen intel or if it still uses 4th. If so, I have a thinkpad with 4th gen intel, and I've used prerty similar distros to cachy on it. No problems with those. If its 2nd gen it definitely makes sense it would perform like shit.
Otherwise idk, he might have an internet connection like josh's
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if he's having boot issues then it makes perfect sense. for like a decade after EFI came out it was very very fussy and anything slightly unusual will break it. If he had disabled efi boot and used MBR boot he may have been fine.
awesome. seems the upgrade instructions from 21.3 aren't available yet.
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I don't see a "use case" for ever trusting something developed by such severely mentally ill people.
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My Windows 10 box keeps popping up messages about reaching the end of support and though little practical will change when it goes out, it's tipping me over to come back to Linux for my main box. I don't game so that's a major tie to Windows I don't have. I do prefer Windows generally but Microsoft do their utmost to fuck it up with ads and privacy concerns and refusing to move on from NTFS's limitations. I'm fairly comfortable on Linux. Started off with SuSE back in the pre-Ubuntu days, moved to Gentoo then ended up with Kubuntu for a while before moving to Windows when Windows 8 came out.
I shall probably go with Debian as I'm used to it and stick KDE on there. Maybe xfce as that used to be DE of preference but the box is powerful and I can afford a little extra load.
Anyway, any particular new hotness whilst I've been away that would change this? Any reason I should go for a different distro or DE? Priorities are stability and the slickest possible UI experience.
I shall probably go with Debian as I'm used to it and stick KDE on there. Maybe xfce as that used to be DE of preference but the box is powerful and I can afford a little extra load.
Anyway, any particular new hotness whilst I've been away that would change this? Any reason I should go for a different distro or DE? Priorities are stability and the slickest possible UI experience.