The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Spaced Outside Cargo said:
Been about a month since I switched off Windows to Mint and I'm having a lot of fun despite the issues.
At least now any issue i have has been solved already by someone else.
When I'd have a problem on Windows the top 100 [Solved] posts were just an automated post on MS forums going "This issue is a duplicate [Link to 404 page] and has already been solved. Closing ticket. You're welcome asshole." and also I'm getting advertised to the whole time.
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prollyanotherlurker said:
Hmm. Josh pushes rust...

Edit: in all seriousness. I don't use enough rust software to know which license they usually use. I think the ones i use that are rust, are paru, and i think there is a matrix client i compiled that was written in rust. Other than that I cant think of anything.

I know the troons like rust a lot.
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Rust is pretty nice to develop. You can be lazy about memory because it will just handle malloc and free for you. You can’t really get null pointer deref or race conditions because it checks your code for anything that could make that happen. It can be annoying at first but it does save you a ton of work later, a lot of the common mistakes, especially around memory, just can’t happen.
 
Spaced Outside Cargo said:
When I'd have a problem on Windows the top 100 [Solved] posts were just an automated post on MS forums going "This issue is a duplicate [Link to 404 page] and has already been solved. Closing ticket. You're welcome asshole." and also I'm getting advertised to the whole time.
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and it's full of pajeets who LARP as experts.
 
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Dr. Geronimo said:
The lack of consistency in all the distros I've tried has been driving me crazy. I hope in another year the baseline improves.
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The former has always been a problem on Linux due to the very nature of Linux itself. It's a double edged sword: on one part you can switch out components but it's not guaranteed that your chosen components will work effectively.
 
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prollyanotherlurker said:
I think the best non arch arch distro, is arco. Its like endeavor kind of but closer to arch, and an insane ammount of choices in the installer.

You can get basically every window manager pre-configured, and it has various different iso's for whatever level of control you want.

Personally i like building up a plain arch install, and using a window manager with no configuration done, because I get to do things exactly how I want them, and learn how the window manager I'm using works as I set it up.
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I did consider arco aswell but having everything all in one to keep on a USB was nice. I was using NixOS for half a year but it was a pain for node and Python and stuff and I didn't want to have to mess with nix-shell all the time. I need to move my servers over to it at some point though.
 
analrapist said:
There might be some "new retardation" you're referencing that I'm not familiar with, but /usr/etc is a default sysconfdir when a /usr PREFIX is specified. You need to ./configure with --prefix=/usr and --sysconfdir=/etc in some cases when you want to avoid /usr/etc. This is a portability concern and is probably older than many posters in this thread.
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Traditionally, distro packagers will add --sysconfdir=/etc, so it was never a problem, but /usr/etc is starting to show up on some distros as a symlink, I want to say it was on some embedded Ubuntu setup but I can't recall which distro exactly.
 
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Carpe Jugulum said:
I do because I’m a newfag and endeavour was my next step in my learning. Next time I try doing the arch install.
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Arch ftw.

I've distro hopped a good bit. Tried basically everything else, and I keep coming back to vanilla arch.

I even did a gentoo install pretty recently, and maybe it could have been cool, but ended up running into some issues after getting eveything set up that I couldnt find a way to solve.

Anyway. Arch is nice. The "unstable" thing hasn't been an issue for me. Really you just need to make sure you don't forget to update at least once a week. Though 2 or 3 times is best ime.

And in the rare occasion something breaks because of an update, you can just downgrade that program and wait a few days and update it, and usually the issue will be fixed.

Also, i Don't use the testing repos.
 
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i haven't posted here in a while and i came across something i think you lads might enjoy and my thoughts on it.
recently i came across t/2 linux (t2sde.org, I'd properly link it but the site keeps auto posting my post when i do, soz lads), a linux distro to help port other linux distros over to other architectures.
as far as i can tell its mostly developed and maintained by one guy, René Rebe. he has a YouTube channel where he shows things such as linux on an sgi system, and is also apparently a kernel dev.
what makes this distro special however is that, as far as i can tell, its the only actively maintained distro with native sgi support.
sgi's are most famous for their use for making the 3d scenes in Jurassic park and terminator 2.
debian did have support but it was dropped in debian 10.
its an alright distro but it does have its quirks, such as not having perl installed, but having autoconf installed and its package manager only supporting a cdrom source for any packages that aren't ruby gem files for some reason. (from the documentation it seems like it can just download ruby dependencies automatically, a bit strange)
it does its job though, anything that doesn't come with it will have to be compiled and installed manually ala linux from scratch but for a dev system i don't find it surprising.
i did have an issue where, when compiling open-vm-tools, it couldn't find libmspack despite it being installed.
i did double check everything was right so as far as i can tell, the distro itself must be the cause and something about it is throwing off open-vm-tool's configure script.
all in all, its alright. docs could be more fleshed out with potential incompatibles and quirks but hey, one man can only do so much.
 
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emerge said:
Because it is free, open source and good.
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replying to the 4th post in a thread 8,130 posts long is somewhat moot. You're not the only person who responded to that post. there are hundreds if not thousands of posts that dispute the claim in a much better way. Please do not broadcast your inferiority
 
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Spaced Outside Cargo said:
Been about a month since I switched off Windows to Mint and I'm having a lot of fun despite the issues.
At least now any issue i have has been solved already by someone else.
When I'd have a problem on Windows the top 100 [Solved] posts were just an automated post on MS forums going "This issue is a duplicate [Link to 404 page] and has already been solved. Closing ticket. You're welcome asshole." and also I'm getting advertised to the whole time.
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literally fake news, everybody knows windows just works.

prollyanotherlurker said:
Also.

You can run you can hide. But cosmic desktop is coming.

Gotta love the soy faced thumbnail...
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even if I think it's just budgie 2.0 (for now) it's worth it for the butthurt ebussy memes.
 
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