The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Betonhaus]

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/opensuse-unable-to-find-board-candidates

Well well well how the turntables.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

Well well well how the turntables.

What does the board even do? I swear, I don't hear about Slackware having problems with a dictator for life.

 

[Betonhaus]

What does the board even do? I swear, I don't hear about Slackware having problems with a dictator for life.

Fuck if I know. All these groups playing stupid games with their OSs is why nobody uses them.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Saars and white women, have you considered switching to BOSS Linux, the Indian Linux distro? (Bharat Operating System Solutions)

https://bosslinux.in

This is pure gold My favorite part is the supposed rewrite of the Linux kernel into C++. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be public source code for any of this bitch lasagna.

 

[Belisarius Cawl]

Saars and white women, have you considered switching to BOSS Linux, the Indian Linux distro? (Bharat Operating System Solutions)

https://bosslinux.in

This is pure gold My favorite part is the supposed rewrite of the Linux kernel into C++. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be public source code for any of this bitch lasagna.

Apparently it's not a rewrite of the kernel but modification to support better interoperability with C++. Here's an over-a-decade-old GitHub repo:

https://github.com/doslab/mool

Anyway:

 

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Saars and white women, have you considered switching to BOSS Linux, the Indian Linux distro? (Bharat Operating System Solutions)

https://bosslinux.in

This is pure gold My favorite part is the supposed rewrite of the Linux kernel into C++. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be public source code for any of this bitch lasagna.

Hmm. Their downloads page doesn't mention Java directly anywhere (I assume when they refer to 'developing' it's just implied). I like this quote from their 'BOSS Server' product:

It also has support administrative tool such as webmin, Gadmin, PHP myadmin, PHP LDAP admin, PG admin, etc.

When I think Hindutva OS, I do indeed think 'every shitty insecure PHP web admin tool installed at the same time'.

 

[botrix_fan]

Sorry, breaks too often. Xfce 4 lyfe.

Does XFCE still force desktop icons on a grid that never quite lines up the icons right. Because that really rustled my jimmies.

 

[Belisarius Cawl]

Does XFCE still force desktop icons on a grid that never quite lines up the icons right. Because that really rustled my jimmies.

I rarely even see my only two desktop icons

 

[xXthrowawayaccountXx]

There's a Unix-style operating system for those people, it's called macOS.

I wish most linux users were just this upfront about this being the attitude of linux.

So many headaches and heartaches happen because windows users don't get this. They keep making suggestions and changes, hoping to fix linux into something that the majority can use, when the linux userbase sees linux experience as something perfect, and would only be corrupted by making it more friendly to casual users. And that if you want an alternative for something that your 50 year old dad who doesn't have the time or leftover grey matter to learn linux you are better off trying to make that alternative from scratch.

 

[Betonhaus]

I wish most linux users were just this upfront about this being the attitude of linux.

So many headaches and heartaches happen because windows users don't get this. They keep making suggestions and changes, hoping to fix linux into something that the majority can use, when the linux userbase sees linux experience as something perfect, and would only be corrupted by making it more friendly to casual users. And that if you want an alternative for something that your 50 year old dad who doesn't have the time or leftover grey matter to learn linux you are better off trying to make that alternative from scratch.

Or Linux Mint. Cinnamon by default is set up like Windows is, and pretty much everything is navigateable by anyone who can read and hasn't just blinky memorized the exact clicks needed to do a task (which rules out some old people and tech illiterates)

 

[Susanna]

I wish most linux users were just this upfront about this being the attitude of linux.

So many headaches and heartaches happen because windows users don't get this. They keep making suggestions and changes, hoping to fix linux into something that the majority can use, when the linux userbase sees linux experience as something perfect, and would only be corrupted by making it more friendly to casual users. And that if you want an alternative for something that your 50 year old dad who doesn't have the time or leftover grey matter to learn linux you are better off trying to make that alternative from scratch.

Linux isn’t perfect and I’m sure nobody actually thinks so.
What is the case is that Linux users are pretty much guaranteed to be power users. And power users have very particular ways they prefer to do things. A normal user may not mind spending twenty seconds minimising a bunch of windows one by one and then launching a new application from the desktop shortcut ”Microsoft Edge (3)”, and switching back to their old application by hovering over the icons on the task bar, but a power user might want to just hit super, type ”edge”, then shift-enter to launch it full-screen on a new desktop and then hitting super-left to swap back to something else. The normal user will find the power user’s approach overwhelming and complicated, the power user will find the normal user’s approach insufferably tedious.

Out of the box, KDE should suit the normal user fine, and there are distros that are less complicated to install and keep updated, like Fedora. The power user may prefer a tiling WM, or may heavily customise his KDE, and might prefer setting specific use flags to make sure his Gentoo installs a media player using one particular codec over another. Both approaches are valid, and what makes Linux great is that it won’t hold the power user back or mess with his habits every other year, like Windows does.

 

[Heliantheae]

I wish most linux users were just this upfront about this being the attitude of linux.

So many headaches and heartaches happen because windows users don't get this. They keep making suggestions and changes, hoping to fix linux into something that the majority can use, when the linux userbase sees linux experience as something perfect, and would only be corrupted by making it more friendly to casual users. And that if you want an alternative for something that your 50 year old dad who doesn't have the time or leftover grey matter to learn linux you are better off trying to make that alternative from scratch.

The Linux "evangelism" some people insist on practicing has been to everyone's detriment. A Windows user may piss and moan about Microsoft's changes in the upcoming version and loudly claim "I'm switching to Linux", but it's all bullshit: he does not want Linux, and reaching out a helping hand will just result in him trying to drag you down with him to drown in pessimistic misery. Leave the dregs to wallow in their own filth. Those who really want to move to Linux will find their own way, and they are the only ones that can be helped.

 

[Belisarius Cawl]

Out of the box, KDE should suit the normal user fine, and there are distros that are less complicated to install and keep updated, like Fedora. The power user may prefer a tiling WM, or may heavily customise his KDE, and might prefer setting specific use flags to make sure his Gentoo installs a media player using one particular codec over another. Both approaches are valid, and what makes Linux great is that it won’t hold the power user back or mess with his habits every other year, like Windows does.

At least Windows has finally evolved past cmd.exe with PowerShell, whatever you think of the latter. (In fact I now remember using the asterisk wildcard as a very ghetto substitute for <Tab> completion in cmd.exe way back in the day.) Anyway, there are over 3 billion active Android devices in the world ... I think it's safe to say that Linux has made its mark with regular users.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

Anyone using Linux here remember their first time using it? Why did you switch and what was it like?

 

[x3firehexx]

Anyone using Linux here remember their first time using it? Why did you switch and what was it like?

Well i switched 2 years ago? maybe 2 and a half, to guess who... Kali, why? Because i was still in my edgy ass L33T 1337 h@ckerm4n phase and tought i was the next terry davis... I umm... regretted that decision, when the wifi drivers didn't work, i had to reinstall it twice, and then proceed to use chatgpt for like two days to help me fix said wifi issues ... Yeah, turns out, i was not, infact, a 1337 420 h@ck3rm@n, nor the next terry davis so i backpedaled to linux mint... Then i got bored of that and when i got my new 1TB ssd decided to run debian, with xfce4, which, honestly, has been working great.... except for the times it wasn't. But hey, never looked back at windows 10, never will.

 

[DavidS877]

Anyone using Linux here remember their first time using it? Why did you switch and what was it like?

It was the year of our lord 1992. I was in college. It was an experimental time. But I had a hard drive with 40MB and DOS made me split it into 32+8. So I spent a long time in the computer lab to make a bunch of floppies. It was different. My video card was only supported in X at 320x200, so I played with Xeyes a bit but mostly used the terminal. And could still reboot to DOS/Win3.1.

LILO Forever!

 

[Aidan]

Anyone using Linux here remember their first time using it? Why did you switch and what was it like?

First time: A technical course. Thrown into a Fedora and Ubuntu terminals. Lots of stuff in virtual machines. Later we used CentOS setups to use a few GUI programs but other than that it was all terminal and I was being a retard contrarian in the course.
Linux nerds I knew seemed like geniuses when it came to technical problem solving, which silently inspired me, and later on a friend recommended I set up a basic Debian VM to play around with setting up a web server out of curiosity and after a lot of banging my head against the wall I started to like the way the commands worked on Linux and something clicked.

I started trying different distros in VMs and when a Windows update broke things, I decided I'd install Mint to my main computer as an alternative and never went back. The initial introduction was very intimidating because there wasn't much time to poke around but I learned a lot. Turns out there's nothing I did on Windows I couldn't do on Linux and it was fairly seamless.

 

[Susanna]

Anyone using Linux here remember their first time using it? Why did you switch and what was it like?

It was 2008 and I needed to be able to compile and run C for a university course, so my then-boyfriend installed Arch on the computer I'd put together a few months prior (that was my first desktop computer, my first laptop was a MacBook I got a few years earlier, I wasn't really into computers at the time). I ended up keeping Arch once I figured out how you could customise the desktop to behave more like a Mac, since the alternative was Windows, which I didn't like.
Did eventually need to learn Windows anyway, which sucked, but such is life.

 

[Max Free]

Anyone using Linux here remember their first time using it? Why did you switch and what was it like?

All the big boys use Linux and praise it as some holy shit, so I tried it for the first time a long time ago, which was an OpenSUSE back then. I tried to get used to it, which was very hard. Majorly used it for browsing, tbh. At some point, opening any kind of window started to take around 10 minutes. It was fine after a re-install, but then the issue started again. Went back to Windows right after that.

Came back to Linux long after that and hope to switch before Win10 support fades completely. Linux Mint this time. It's absolutely inferior, but way better than my first experience back then.

 

[TheDataHorder]

Anyone using Linux here remember their first time using it? Why did you switch and what was it like?

running windows 10 ltsc right now (I'll swap to linux in the future when my drive's warranty runs out or when windows shits itself)
but i remember my cousin convincing me to install ubuntu on my old school laptop before i started high school.
it ran minecraft (which was all i cared for at the time) so it didn't really run into any issues that i remember. which was impressive considering this was in 2011-2012.