The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Evil Whitey]

What should I use for mining, e.g, XMR?

 

[teriyakiburns]

According to (old, probably superseded itself) Firefox documentation the 'sessionstore.enabled' setting was deprecated before Firefox 3.5, about two decades ago.

Boy, I sure am retarded sometimes.

And how would that permissions problem be fixed?

Assuming a file firefox wants to write to is set to read-only, the fix would be giving your user permission to write it. This all assumes a non-writable file is the problem. I can't replicate this issue at all (which is why I'm flailing around old posts to find "solutions" that won't work); my firefox install doesn't behave this way, nor does librewolf. Either you've got a rogue extension, or something about your profile is busted. I suppose the quick way to test would be to create a new profile and see if the problem persists.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

a rogue extension

The only extension I've got installed is uBlock Origin.

I should try the other suggestions in this thread soon.

 

[The Anarki Main]

The only extension I've got installed is uBlock Origin.

I should try the other suggestions in this thread soon.

Null recommends AdNauseum, gave it a shot some time ago, still using it. What it does (forgive me if i missed someone who said this already) is click every single ad on your behalf before blocking it so that it confuses the ad provider's algorithms and makes their usage data completely worthless.

Sometimes it acts a little strange and you can enable the old ublock behavior instead, but it's usually invisible.

 

[Nothing Is Written]

For me. I do generally have a better time with openresolv. But I hate dealing with dns at all. I swear half the time when I have issues with internet, it comes down to some dns thing. I can't think of anyone, using any OS, doing anything that likes dealing with dns though.

Also. I do really recommend mullvad, or at least something that works through wireguard if not. You might be able to set that up with your current VPN.

I'm changing ISPs, bought a Flint 2 (OSS modem router, with native VPN functionality for OVPN and WG), and using the paid version of ProtonVPN for the WG support, p2p servers, VPN relay servers, and "stealth mode" whatever the fuck that is. It's certainly more feature-rich than ExpressVPN. If all else fails I'll either go mullvad (really don't want to) or private via my homelab.

 

[Aidan]

Funny how things work out. This happens to be on topic. Also. Luke Smith finally uploaded a video again.

Going off the thumbnail alone, you would never have to ask and he'd never have to tell you that he uses Linux.

I'm changing ISPs, bought a Flint 2 (OSS modem router, with native VPN functionality for OVPN and WG), and using the paid version of ProtonVPN for the WG support, p2p servers, VPN relay servers, and "stealth mode" whatever the fuck that is. It's certainly more feature-rich than ExpressVPN. If all else fails I'll either go mullvad (really don't want to) or private via my homelab.

Nowadays there's no good reason for a VPN not to let you configure OpenVPN or Wireguard yourself to use them. If they don't support that then they're not worth using.

 

[no-exit]

Getting a new (to me) gaming PC tomorrow! Very excited. Not sure what distro to install on it. I'm kinda dreading it to be honest. I have classes and work and shit to do, and I wish I had more time to set it up. I haven't really distro hopped in years, my laptop is running a 4 y/o install of Fedora + AwesomeWM, and I use a steamdeck for gaming. I guess now is as good a time as any to finally give a new distro, wayland, and hyprland a try. I'm thinking something Arch or Fedora based. Any last minute suggestions before I spend my weekend screaming at my terminal emulator?

Funny how things work out. This happens to be on topic. Also. Luke Smith finally uploaded a video again.

The real question is "what does the Luke Smith think about Pewdiepie switching to Arch?"

@Nothing Is Written (tagging bc I cant quote in an edit) I've been eyeballing their travel routers for a while now, but I see they just released a new one that has a touch screen. That's awesome how did they make me excited over a damn router? I run openWRT on my current home router and I'm very pleased with it.

 

[Nothing Is Written]

I'm thinking something Arch or Fedora based.

EndeavourOS (the Linux Mint of Arch-based distros). I've never used Fedora so I can't help you there.

I've been eyeballing their travel routers for a while now, but I see they just released a new one that has a touch screen. That's awesome how did they make me excited over a damn router? I run openWRT on my current home router and I'm very pleased with it.

Yeah they've just only recently popped up on the radar for me - surprised I've never heard of them. Apparently my Flint 2 can act as a travel router as well which is neat.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

I'm thinking something Arch or Fedora based. Any last minute suggestions before I spend my weekend screaming at my terminal emulator?

If you have to go for best gaymin compatability and dont care about selling your soul Ubuntu. If not a retard run linux of your choice (Mine's Gentoo) with wangblows in a VM with GPU and I/O passthrough.

If using Nivdia graphics card suggest checking distro libc and kernel versions, because nividia drivers only work with certain versions of libc/kernels.

 

[Nothing Is Written]

If you have to go for best gaymin compatability and dont care about selling your soul Ubuntu. If not a retard run linux of your choice (Mine's Gentoo) with wangblows in a VM with GPU and I/O passthrough.

If using Nivdia graphics card suggest checking distro libc and kernel versions, because nividia drivers only work with certain versions of libc/kernels.

How's Garuda and POP!_OS going these days? Still meme distros?

 

[Rust Troony]

How's Garuda and POP!_OS going these days? Still meme distros?

Pop OS is only really good if you want cosmic-de, outside of that just use mint and its the same exact thing.

Garuda has always and will continue to be a meme Pajeet distro. It even got BTFOed out of its "Gamer" status by CachyOS. It literally has nothing going for it.

 

[Autistic Gunspergings]

Anyone tried installing DaVinci Resolve w/ MakeResolveDeb here before?
The install works fine, right up until I try launching the application. For some reason it just doesn't want to run unless I run it with sudo in the terminal. otherwise running without it returns a segmentation fault.

 

[Another Char Clone]

Anyone tried installing DaVinci Resolve w/ MakeResolveDeb here before?
The install works fine, right up until I try launching the application. For some reason it just doesn't want to run unless I run it with sudo in the terminal. otherwise running without it returns a segmentation fault.

Try running it under strace and compare as root and non-root?

 

[Akerman]

FOSS & WINE related, it seems like ReactOS project has finally started to move again. From the gallery it looks like someone actually got a recentish non-FOSS game like Paper's Please to run on it last year. And a build from March by a dev on the right looks very different to where the system was just a few years ago:



Dunno if anyone here has messed with it recently, I assume it's still trash. It’s obviously still in alpha and unusable outside of novelty, but I am still sort of tempted to try to mess around with it again in a VM. Last time I did was half a decade ago and I couldn’t even get it to boot properly. I've checked in on the project periodically both before & since then and development has always been glacially slow, so if it is more energetic and it does seem to be then I also wonder what changed that. I suspect maybe it's the strides with WINE lately and them backporting stuff from the project?

 

[Dread First]

I'm thinking something Arch or Fedora based. Any last minute suggestions before I spend my weekend screaming at my terminal emulator?

Fedora >>> Arch in this scenario. By leaps and bounds, if I may be so bold.

Here’s how I’m interpreting your post: you want the latest and greatest software, some degree of chaos to fuck around with, and you’re not necessarily too concerned about distinction between fixed and rolling releases.

Arch is many things, I’ve used it before, but it’s a massive ball ache to get up and running. Even with the reintroduction of archinstall, you still need to do the work to get X11, a desktop environment, Firefox, and insert applications here up and running. That’s not even getting into its rolling release nature. Breakages are rare, but they do happen and it’s really easy to get too comfortable, pacman -Syu, and suddenly you’re at a text prompt when rebooting because you didn’t check the Arch home page for news, didn’t skulk the forums for signs of trouble, and all that painfully boring but still necessary stuff.

Fedora, on the other hand, is about as close as you can reasonably get to rolling while still maintaining a fixed release cycle. New releases come out every 6 months, you’re normally able to stick around on a specific release for roughly a year before you must upgrade, and the upgrade process is surprisingly easy. You’re dropped into GNOME, KDE, or any of the other spin environments like Xfce, Cinnamon, etc, you have a modest amount of pre-installed software at your disposal, and away you go.

Unlike Arch, the Red Hat/Fedora ecosystem requires you to enable extra repositories for all the fun (re: proprietary or otherwise open-source but still problematic to redistribute by default) stuff, but Arch is a much smaller project with nowhere near as many eyes on it as the Fedora/Red Hat ecosystem. It doesn’t quite do everything for you out of the box like Baby’s First Linux (ie Ubuntu, Mint, and derivatives), but you’re about 80% of the way there post-install, and all you need to do is put in just a touch more legwork.

Additional context: Since the Fedora Project is stewarded by Red Hat, do bear in mind that Fedora’s priorities tend to lean toward enterprise features and constant innovation for innovation’s sake. Wayland tends to be default on the GNOME/KDE editions and has been for years, systemd was implemented in Fedora first before radiating outward to other distributions in the early 2010s, and they’ve done tons of other shit before all of that. Back when Java was still proprietary and OpenJDK/OpenJRE didn’t exist yet, Fedora pioneered GCJ (GNU Compiler for Java) so that Linux users could technically make use of Java in some small fashion.

 

[Miller]

Funny how things work out. This happens to be on topic. Also. Luke Smith finally uploaded a video again.

3 days later the snow is gone:

I'm glad he is back (or found an Internet connection).

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

I'm changing ISPs, bought a Flint 2 (OSS modem router, with native VPN functionality for OVPN and WG), and using the paid version of ProtonVPN for the WG support, p2p servers, VPN relay servers, and "stealth mode" whatever the fuck that is. It's certainly more feature-rich than ExpressVPN. If all else fails I'll either go mullvad (really don't want to) or private via my homelab.

If it works with wireguard it should be fine.

Wish I knew more about routers and that kind of thing. Overall I keep my setup pretty simple, at least when it comes to that kind of thing.

Arch is many things, I’ve used it before, but it’s a massive ball ache to get up and running. Even with the reintroduction of archinstal

Do you? It lets you pick in the arch install what desktop or window manager you want to use, and all the extra software you want installed. Like I used to pick network manager to use for my network, so I wouldn't have to mess around with getting that set up after an install.

 

[Dread First]

Do you? It lets you pick in the arch install what desktop or window manager you want to use, and all the extra software you want installed. Like I used to pick network manager to use for my network, so I wouldn't have to mess around with getting that set up after an install.

Oh wow, I was thinking it was still an ncurses-based text installer that lets you install the “base” system, maybe the updates to the base while you’re connected to the network, and then you still had to build your way up to X11. The last time I used Arch Linux for any stretch of time was 2013-2014. Right around when systemd replaced the old BSD init scripts and when they nixed archinstall in favour of the Arch Install Scripts. Thanks for the heads-up.

 

[no-exit]

Here’s how I’m interpreting your post: you want the latest and greatest software, some degree of chaos to fuck around with, and you’re not necessarily too concerned about distinction between fixed and rolling releases.

Sounds about right. The only thing I miss about Arch is the AUR. 3rd party repos + COPR is ok but slow and smaller, and I'm not a huge fan of playing with packages through 10 different package managers (shoutout to topgrade). I kinda want to start building my own packages, anyone have any experience with Fedora's COPR vs openSUSE's Open Build Service?

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

Oh wow, I was thinking it was still an ncurses-based text installer that lets you install the “base” system, maybe the updates to the base while you’re connected to the network, and then you still had to build your way up to X11. The last time I used Arch Linux for any stretch of time was 2013-2014. Right around when systemd replaced the old BSD init scripts and when they nixed archinstall in favour of the Arch Install Scripts. Thanks for the heads-up.

It is still a tui. But it does actually do a lot of the work for you. I actually do like the current arch install. If you are just wanting to get an arch system set up really quick to mess around with something. You can just pick a few options and basically in the time it takes to download the packages. You have a minimal system set up for you, to do whatever you want with it.

When I'm actually planning to keep an arch install. I will actually go through and do the whole thing manually because it's still easy for me to do it pretty quickly and I get more control. But archinstall gets you to a similar place with basically no effort. Just a bit less choice.