The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Kuroyuri said:
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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They were still light years ahead of what preceeded them. I remember being so excited to get the free 5.10 or 6.06 CD in the mail (the one with three kind of faggy looking people with arms interlocked), and barring needing to use ndiswrapper to load wireless drivers, things usually worked without big problems even on laptops. Knoppix before that also was kind of a big step forward in shit mostly just working (and was really cool because you could just go to your buddies house, put the CD in, and have a working Linux system 80%+ of the time). Even kind of "well supported" distros like RHL (not RHEL) and Mandrake were kind of a opaque crapshoot, and if you didn't have access to people who really knew what was going on (I had to have some of Dad's Ham boomer buddies help me a lot) you probably weren't going to have anything work worth a shit.
 
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Weapons of Mass Tardation said:
if you didn't have access to people who really knew what was going on (I had to have some of Dad's Ham boomer buddies help me a lot) you probably weren't going to have anything work worth a shit.
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I remember attending a Linux install party in the office space of a local mill around the time of the Red Hat 6 release. I was too young to really get too involved at the time, but it was a fun experience. I don't think anyone had too much trouble at that point, but this was before eg. wireless drivers and software modems.
 
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Betonhaus said:
That Valve wanted to go for maximum backwards compatibility for its gaming OS?
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I suppose you could call working better backwards (forwards, and sideways) compatibility.

Incidentally, the world's most popular Linux distribution, ChromeOS, only started moving to Wayland last year. Because until then, Google, which is pretty much the sole developer behind ChromeOS and Chrome, was not confident that they could get Wayland to work reliably with Chrome, which is pretty much the sole application running on ChromeOS. God forbid you run something other than the world's most ubiquitous web browser...
 
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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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I don't think most people are saying Wayland is currently flawless.

For me though, with what I use my computers for, which is just general use. On hyrprland specifically, I don't actually think I have ran into any actual issues yet. But people that do other things, that might use other DE's or WM's could potentially have issues.
jONALD said:
I say do it for Slackware . It truly is the bestView attachment 6746541
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God that would require I install slackware. 😂

I did try at one point. But it kept telling me there was some issues with the driver needed for Wi-Fi even after selecting it. I could have maybe had a corrupted iso. But idk. It basically wouldn't let me install. I might decide to try installing again once I'm tired of void and decide to put something else on there. Hopefully next time I'm more successful.
 
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I suppose you could call working better backwards (forwards, and sideways) compatibility.

Incidentally, the world's most popular Linux distribution, ChromeOS, only started moving to Wayland last year. Because until then, Google, which is pretty much the sole developer behind ChromeOS and Chrome, was not confident that they could get Wayland to work reliably with Chrome, which is pretty much the sole application running on ChromeOS. God forbid you run something other than the world's most ubiquitous web browser...
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Imagine taking sixteen years to write a display manager and it still being unusable.

This post was made by the X gang
 
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jeff7989 said:
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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I really like mine. But watch out for the PWM that several people have reported.

 
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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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They don't understand the "future" part of "wayland is the future"

Rust Trannies are setting a new standard for half-assed software. Look at the new Cosmic desktop. It's barely even functional and yet it markets itself like it's the next KDE killer.

You ask maintainers of GNOME and KDE to fix minor bugs in their X compositors they fixed on Wayland years ago and they throw a temper tantrum because you have to use the display server they want you to use. "It's not possible" "X is just like that" meanwhile I can find a dozen other X WMs that run better than anything today, Wayland or not, it's just excuses.
 
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Daily reminder that you still can't run mixed refresh rate displays on X without screen tearing or frame skipping, and HDR is not supported at all.
 
jeff7989 said:
Thanks, I wasn't aware, I haven't encountered any flicker on mine. Why would I use it at 100% brightness though, I never had reason to go over 50%.
They are asking for eyestrain, unless some like to play out in the sun.
My deck has Samsung OLED by the way.
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It’s only really noticeable at night. If i play with the lights off, i can’t play it for more than 15 minutes.

If I would have known about the PWM, i would have Bought the LCD version.
 
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They don't understand the "future" part of "wayland is the future"

Rust Trannies are setting a new standard for half-assed software. Look at the new Cosmic desktop. It's barely even functional and yet it markets itself like it's the next KDE killer.

You ask maintainers of GNOME and KDE to fix minor bugs in their X compositors they fixed on Wayland years ago and they throw a temper tantrum because you have to use the display server they want you to use. "It's not possible" "X is just like that" meanwhile I can find a dozen other X WMs that run better than anything today, Wayland or not, it's just excuses.
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I recently wiped my desktop that had PopOS and went with KDE Neon. When i last used Neon, it was a bit rough around the edges back in 2018. But with KDE 6, it really is a good OS.

I hate gnome and cosmic is just overhyped.
 
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Frederica Bernkastel said:
I've had to run KDE on X11 because it breaks emulators. It also had some weird issues with SDDM.
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I can't run KDE because KWin 5 and 6 have a bug where it always vertically syncs to the lowest common refresh rate on all your monitors. They fixed this on Wayland 4 years ago but refuse to acknowledge it on X. TWin 3 works fine.
 
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Frederica Bernkastel said:
I'm waiting for this to be mainlined (NTSYNC) https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241209185904.507350-1-zfigura@codeweavers.com/
It should have happened months ago, but I think they unironically forgot about it.
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More schizo tranny than most. Zebediah seems to be his real name, which he pretends is a female name, but then also calls himself Elizabeth in some places for some reason.
Reddit is /u/ObsequiousNewt, and it's full of the usual troon nonsense.

Jeff Q. Anime said:
Daily reminder that you still can't run mixed refresh rate displays on X without screen tearing or frame skipping, and HDR is not supported at all.
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Oh no
 
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Rusty Metal Skull Gun said:
More schizo tranny than most. Zebediah seems to be his real name, which he pretends is a female name, but then also calls himself Elizabeth in some places for some reason.
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I noticed that too, but I was unsure. I did see several trannies on the Codeweavers page. So I assumed it was a tranny. It's funny because Alexandre is the only guy who really does anything. The name Elizabeth is almost always a tranny name.
 
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