The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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HootersMcBoobies said:
This meme's code is so damn weak:

fn main() { let args: Vec<String> = env::args().skip(1).collect(); Command::new("rm").args(args).spawn().unwrap(); }
If you're going to make a joke about rm in Rust, at least actually implement rm in Rust (or at least the basics without any of the advanced switches). Don't just call actual rm. It would have been way funnier (C+= actually did translate/compile their fake language).
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That's what the joke is: it's a bare-minimum wrapper and not actually a genuine Rust port. If it were a fully-fledged port, it wouldn't be able to boast, on a strictly technical/pedantic level, key features like "Blazingly Fast™ file removal capabilities" or "No unsafe code blocks!"
 
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HootersMcBoobies said:
If you're going to make a joke about rm in Rust, at least actually implement rm in Rust (or at least the basics without any of the advanced switches). Don't just call actual rm. It would have been way funnier (C+= actually did translate/compile their fake language).
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I assume the point is to make fun of all the 'superior' 'safe' 'rewrites' in Rust that then just reference 'unsafe' C libraries.
 
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Speaking of Luke Smith funny enough. Good to see he has found religion actually.

On another topic. I starting working on a kiwifarms rice. Just for the fun of it. Trying to decide if I want to make a new home dir and make a new user to take screenshots. Or just block out the name. Idk I'll decide how much effort I actually want to put into it.
 
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prollyanotherlurker said:

Speaking of Luke Smith funny enough. Good to see he has found religion actually.

On another topic. I starting working on a kiwifarms rice. Just for the fun of it. Trying to decide if I want to make a new home dir and make a new user to take screenshots. Or just block out the name. Idk I'll decide how much effort I actually want to put into it.
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What package manager and init system does it use?
 
WhiteNight said:
There's a real project to rewrite rm (and other core utilities):
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C isn't inherently platform specific, what are they smoking?
I haven't even scrolled down yet and they are already lying about the purpose of their project.
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Betonhaus said:
What package manager and init system does it use?
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What the operating system with the rice? I'm doing it on void. Since that's just what I was using when I decided to do it. So xbps.

Though thinking about it. It might make sense to move it to Gentoo for a kiwifarms rice. Or maybe arch but I feel like non systemd feels more kiwifarms. I was also doing it in qtile. But I could move it to hyrprland or dwm.

If I did hyrprland I would move it to arch. And dwm Gentoo. Idk. None of it really matters. Just something I wanted to do to give myself something interesting in my free time.
 
Anyone else have problems with wine wayland breaking Opengl apps by making them open pop-up boxes with multiple windows? I'd love to get rid of Xwayland, but the wine wayland driver is so broken. It doesn't even support touchpad gestures. Wine WoW64 works way better, but I have a minor issue with quartz's audio for a single visual novel (White Album 2). where it speeds up really fast/crackles and ends before the video is played. I think it's mpeg related. Can't find online anything about it yet.
 
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Wine WoW64 does something weird to lavfilters. Works fine on regular wine with no issues. It sucks that Wayland is so far behind. I'm mainly just testing stuff. If anyone knows any VNs/games with heavy WMVs lemme know so I can test Wow64's decoding
 
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prollyanotherlurker said:

Speaking of Luke Smith funny enough. Good to see he has found religion actually.

On another topic. I starting working on a kiwifarms rice. Just for the fun of it. Trying to decide if I want to make a new home dir and make a new user to take screenshots. Or just block out the name. Idk I'll decide how much effort I actually want to put into it.
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I’ve thought he found religion way before he left Youtube? Either way, I’m glad to see Luke is well and in good spirits.
 
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Lone Wandering Courier said:
Wayland definitely has some issues still, and it amazes me that people act like it works flawlessly.
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It requires workarounds even on AMD. I had an issue where only on Wayland where my laptop would freeze/artifact, and by dumb luck I solved it by scourging the web. The bug still exists months later, and only gets "fixed" with an easy grub edit. There are a lot of obscure issues like that, and most people just won't put up with it.
Unrelated, I also found a workaround for the codec issue by just using ffmpeg to convert the videos to something like mp4 lol
 
jONALD said:
I say do it for Slackware . It truly is the bestView attachment 6746541
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Slackware is the first Linux I ever saw, probably shortly after the first release, back when it was still the domain of total autists and the installation process was arcane. I was never able to install it personally before more recently, although I could handle SunOS/Solaris. Early Linux was some pretty rough shit and barely documented, while Solaris was meticulously documented (and if you were using it you probably had access to corporate support anyway).
 
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has anyone used keycloak? I think I'm at the point where I want to set up a sso for my server, but wanted something that doesn't need a google or facebook account to work and i can slowly migrate (most of) my docker apps to one at a time without everything breaking.
 
AnOminous said:
lackware is the first Linux I ever saw, probably shortly after the first release, back when it was still the domain of total autists and the installation process was arcane
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Even like 10 years ago Linux was super arcane, but thanks to Valve, things have really turned around. I can't imagine using and compiling something like Gentoo 20+ years ago.
 
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AnOminous said:
Slackware is the first Linux I ever saw, probably shortly after the first release, back when it was still the domain of total autists and the installation process was arcane. I was never able to install it personally before more recently, although I could handle SunOS/Solaris. Early Linux was some pretty rough shit and barely documented, while Solaris was meticulously documented (and if you were using it you probably had access to corporate support anyway).
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Documentation and actual design is one thing, but Sun's hardware was also superior, RAM stick died? The computer will tell you on your monitor or serial port which one is faulty, etc. Meanwhile on the lowest common denominator slop hardware design that won the architecture wars just drops dead with little to no information at all when something fails.


I remember coming across some semi-early Ubuntu CDs and even that was a hellish nightmare to install and use, god forbid your computer had a less popular component or two in it.
 
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So I got myself a Steamdeck OLED. It's a neat little machine, although lack of keyboard hurts it in some use cases, but that's what small laptops are for. Battery life isn't bad either. OLED really makes me not notice when some games run at 16:9 instead 16:10.
One thing I've noticed, KDE session runs on X11, really makes you think.
 
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