The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Nothing Is Written]

>Most people want a desktop, with a full ecosystem of packages that integrates nicely, with all features working out of the box just like Windows
"Bloat!!!"

This mindset is exactly why Linux users are seen by others as NEET losers who think they are better then everyone else because they use something like Arch. You are a walking stereotype, please go back to r/linux if you want to join the circlejerk of fuckhead Linux users who want to keep its use to "elite computer users only".

Speaking of, I'm thinking of ditching Arch because it's borderline unusable if I don't have half a way to rice it. Will I encounter similar frustrations with EndeavourOS + KDE Plasma + hyprland?

I already have Mint on my laptop and I'm familiar with its package manager. I find apt more intuitive and less volatile than pacman should I, god forbid, mistype the flags, but I think an Arch based distro for my desktop and Debian based for the laptop is either good practice or insanity inducing.

 

[The Saltening]

Speaking of, I'm thinking of ditching Arch because it's borderline unusable if I don't have half a way to rice it. Will I encounter similar frustrations with EndeavourOS + KDE Plasma + hyprland?

I already have Mint on my laptop and I'm familiar with its package manager. I find apt more intuitive and less volatile than pacman should I, god forbid, mistype the flags, but I think an Arch based distro for my desktop and Debian based for the laptop is either good practice or insanity inducing.

I had 0 linux experience pretty much and I am using endeavourOS just fine. Aside from HDR gaming and FSR4 which are both optional.

 

[El Goblina]

it's borderline unusable if I don't have half a way to rice it

The green fields of Gentoo call to that use case. Even if your notion of "building packages" is rebuilding DWM to your specification, Gentoo makes it less hassle. Own kernel? Same deal. Drop a couple CONFIG fragments in /etc/kernel and you get your local config built. Wanna boot from UKI and automagically update to the latest Gentoo kernel? Mine doesn't even need initrd.

Use what works best for you, of course, but your desires here really do align with Gentoo's use cases.

 

[They were once men]

is lutris still the best tool for managing vidya games?

 

[Carpe Jugulum]

is endeavourOS any good? a lot of people say to stay away from arch based distros and just use base arch if wanted, but the installation for that seems really gay and i didnt like the other non-arch distros that i've tried (ubuntu, mint, fedora)

Been using it over a year with much issues (besides it killing my microphone one time and I ended up having to reinstall despite trying to fix it.) and I’m a literally noobie. I do still use x11 over wayland because it had issues last time I tried.

is lutris still the best tool for managing vidya games?

Lutris or steam are ok (I use both).

 

[Croco]

You are a faggot.

I'm just pretending to be a faggot for the lols saar. Anything that gets people away from proprietary software is an act of good. GNU with linux included is like owning the house, make it your own. That's totally fine

 

[Noyciciw]

If that isn't cleaned/freed and a buffer overflow happens, it can be exploited.

How does a buffer overflow exploitaion work?
I'm not all that learned on hacking.

 

[Voloromir of bad Yuristan]

is lutris still the best tool for managing vidya games?

Heroic games launcher works great for gog and egs games, lutris is only worth it for games on random windows launchers that need special configs.
I think there should be an official launcher for itch.io games too, but I don't use that store so I don't know much about it.

 

[Retarded Weeb]

I'm just pretending to be a faggot for the lols saar. Anything that gets people away from proprietary software is an act of good. GNU with linux included is like owning the house, make it your own. That's totally fine

 

[Noyciciw]

is endeavourOS any good?

I've been using EndeavourOS for years now; the worst thing that ever happend to me was an update temperarily broke mesa for me, and I had to switch to mesa amber for a while. Overall I'd say it's great.
I use EndeavourOS because I'm too stupid to figure out how to install Arch on this crusty old laptop. I can install arch just fine on newer hardware though; the Distro Tube tutorial I followed just worked.

 

[Aidan]

is endeavourOS any good? a lot of people say to stay away from arch based distros and just use base arch if wanted, but the installation for that seems really gay and i didnt like the other non-arch distros that i've tried (ubuntu, mint, fedora)

Arch based distros are fine for personal use, just give it a shot. One nice thing about Linux is it's easy to distro hop without losing anything. It's easy to install and use "out of the box."

 

[Croco]

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But seriously command line does bring back good childhood memories. Like playing all those MajorMUDs on the local bulletin board systems. Scripting telnet clients in ancient code so you can level up faster. It's just good, comfy associations man. Obviously that's not for everybody and is a major deterrent for 999/1000 people. But even Arch has come a long long way with the new install scripts.

 

[Ferryman]

How does a buffer overflow exploitaion work?
I'm not all that learned on hacking.

TLDR it happens when a program writes data outside of its allocated memory and you make it either spit out stuff it isn't supposed to or return to an unintended location. You plug a shoddy input that makes a program with buggy code that doesn't keep it in its memory boundaries invoke or jump to somewhere that has malicious code.

 

[Vesperus]

is endeavourOS any good? a lot of people say to stay away from arch based distros and just use base arch if wanted, but the installation for that seems really gay and i didnt like the other non-arch distros that i've tried (ubuntu, mint, fedora)

I'm switching to it whenever I find time to sit down and play musical partitions: In news that that will surprise nobody, Manjaro has shat all over my dependencies again and I'm out of fucks to give and time to waste fixing the damn thing. @Croco if you want to spend all day staring at a terminal prompt you should give Manjaro a go.

 

[ElAbominacion]

Muh memory safety. Its an okay programming language but it gets all of it attention based of the things that should be a cherry on top. People treat it as a savior of programming because it has training wheels that most people who use it for major software take off anyways.

So pretty much a tldc is it's jeetifying programming so you no longer need to think about memory safety.

Rust is about as 'memory safe' as a kiddy safe with a bunch of quarters in it, in reality. For its 10-15 year old existence, it's already gotten its own CVEs, and not all of them are due to misuse of the 'unsafe' functions.

In fact, Rust is shit, and Canonical is just sucking off trannies, as usual.

 

[Rust Troony]

Rust is about as 'memory safe' as a kiddy safe with a bunch of quarters in it, in reality. For its 10-15 year old existence, it's already gotten its own CVEs, and not all of them are due to misuse of the 'unsafe' functions.

In fact, Rust is shit, and Canonical is just sucking off trannies, as usual.

I was going to add to my post that most large projects that use rust always have a lot of code inside unsafe functions, but i got lazy and didn't want to type anymore .

I think there should be an official launcher for itch.io games too, but I don't use that store so I don't know much about it.

From what i remember the application is very out of date and breaks a lot. Lutris has a runner for it but it doesn't handle free games sadly.

 

[Miller]

is lutris still the best tool for managing vidya games?

I use Heroic Launcher for the EGS and GOG games.

 

[TheDataHorder]

I think there should be an official launcher for itch.io games too, but I don't use that store so I don't know much about it.

From what i remember the application is very out of date and breaks a lot. Lutris has a runner for it but it doesn't handle free games sadly.

Itch.io does have a linux launcher but its not great (speaking from personal experience). you can download games and browse the store, but things like showing your game library are herculean tasks and when you do manage to find it, its a terrible laggy experience with no search or filter function.
but my biggest gripe with it is that it'll refuse to download windows exclusive games, dispite it being dead easy to run them on linux nowadays. I understand why its this way, but they don't even allow you to bypass in the launcher for those who actually know how to run them.
just use the site and a download manager that supports simultaneous downloads from multiple mirrors like Free Download Manager to download games faster. its easier this way.

 

[Baraka Obama]

Rust is about as 'memory safe' as a kiddy safe with a bunch of quarters in it, in reality. For its 10-15 year old existence, it's already gotten its own CVEs, and not all of them are due to misuse of the 'unsafe' functions.

In fact, Rust is shit, and Canonical is just sucking off trannies, as usual.

CVEs are a like a business for retarded people. Everything gets CVEs and most of them are honestly complete BS that don't matter.

 

[ElAbominacion]

CVEs are a like a business for retarded people. Everything gets CVEs and most of them are honestly complete BS that don't matter.

Sure, but when one of your CVEs is about a buffer overflow, or a race condition, or... you know, memory problems in memory-safe land, the claims that language X is memory-safe don't age well. And the latest one was about privilege escalation with cargo on Windows.

Nim > Rust.