The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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I started with Garuda because it looked pretty. Stuck it on a spare hdd, killed it, tried again. Never really looked back.

I was utterly clueless (still am). I guess dicking about with basic and dos as a kid helped because the terminal was never daunting. If a relative normie like myself can, anyone else can if they genuinely want to do it.
 
AnOminous said:
Anyone who thinks Windows is "user-friendly" is fucking retarded. It is beyond user-adversarial and well into user-hostile.
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Microsoft had a pretty decent product with Windows 7, of course its not perfect but it was pretty easy to use for all types of computer users.
The rot really set in with Windows 8 and Windows has just gone down the toilet since then. 11 is pretty bad but not bad enough for normal people to seriously consider alternatives... yet. I give it a few years until Windows becomes too Jeeted for most people to use.
Funny how Linux is quite popular in India.
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Akerman said:
There is a better file manager for Windows called DOpus, but it costs money. It has actually innovated on the explorer in many ways, too many to include here. I haven't used it myself, found it one day while researching the Amiga. This program was actually originally made for that system and is used by many ex-Amiga users. It makes Microsoft's explorer look like a trial version of itself.
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I decided to give DOpus a try as the Windows 11 Explorer (or as I prefer to call it, Windows Exploder) is absolutely horrible, It is such a breath of fresh air. Search results are instant, moving around and right clicking something doesn't have a lag like the stock Explorer, much more stable too and even takes over all functions of Explorer excluding the Open/Save dialogs, which is pretty good.
It not only BTFO's Explorer but also is a really good OFM too, not quite as good as Total Commander but still works great, and beats any other OFM I tried. The license cost is a bit steep in my opinion, but the cheap upgrade cost is worth it, as well as being perpetual.
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YoRHa No. 2 Type B said:
I decided to give DOpus a try as the Windows 11 Explorer (or as I prefer to call it, Windows Exploder) is absolutely horrible, It is such a breath of fresh air. Search results are instant, moving around and right clicking something doesn't have a lag like the stock Explorer, much more stable too and even takes over all functions of Explorer excluding the Open/Save dialogs, which is pretty good.
It not only BTFO's Explorer but also is a really good OFM too, not quite as good as Total Commander but still works great, and beats any other OFM I tried. The license cost is a bit steep in my opinion, but the cheap upgrade cost is worth it, as well as being perpetual.
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Don't cry if DOpus makes it a subscription instead.
 
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Battlefield42 said:
Don't cry if DOpus makes it a subscription instead.
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Seems to be the fate of all commercial software these days to eventually go subscription unfortunately.
Microsoft has just released Windows 365 which is a subscription service to use a cloud Windows instance, this is very likely the future of computing.
If that happens I will probably go back to Linux, despite its faults I shouldn't need to pay a monthly subscription to use my machine, what a terrible concept.
Thankfully its easy to sail the seven seas or find an alternative when a program goes into the shitter.
I do like to support developers that do the right thing by not using a subscription or at least keeping a perpetual version around.
Seems to be good for now but maybe not in the future.
 
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Aidan said:
I've never even heard of micro. You use nano or vim as defaults. Those are your only choices until you grow up and use GNU Emacs.

GNU less ps vim also supports mouse scroll
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It won't let me Ctrl+_ though, and exiting vim is tedious when switching between modes. Emacs nearly made me fail a course once so I have Emacs trauma.
 
Nothing Is Written said:
It won't let me Ctrl+_ though, and exiting vim is tedious when switching between modes. Emacs nearly made me fail a course once so I have Emacs trauma.
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You could macro that and exiting is mindless. If you learned vim you'd realize it's not that bad but I get it seems unintuitive initially, Emacs is genuinely insane, I could never get into the default keybinds and I tried.
gg in vim to jump to a line. gg30 to jump to line 30.
 
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Aidan said:
You could macro that and exiting is mindless. If you learned vim you'd realize it's not that bad but I get it seems unintuitive initially, Emacs is genuinely insane, I could never get into the default keybinds and I tried.
gg in vim to jump to a line. gg30 to jump to line 30.
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I suppose I can download the vim-motions plugin for vscode to begin with. I do like nVim, and I'm a sucker for ricing.

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Like... Mac OS X?
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Or windows, when you think about it. What do they think mounting a usb to a drive letter is, if not a mount point? It's just a different way of presenting the same information.

All the problems people have with linux boil down to "it doesn't work exactly the way I'm used to", which is just silly. The transition from 3.11 to 95 (or NT 3.5 to NT 4), swapping program manager for explorer/start menu, was a much greater culture shock for most people and caused no end of complaint at the time. People given a demo of a KDE desktop and told it's a new version of windows are usually very positive about it. In most cases, all they'll use it for is opening a browser anyway.

Anyhoo...

In an entirely unrelated thought: never try to mount an NFS share into a k3s deployment when that share is shared from the same machine hosting the pod that mounts the mount. It gets exciting.
 
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prollyanotherlurker said:
Is this the mac and windows thread?
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Every OS thread is for every OS.
Nothing Is Written said:
I suppose I can download the vim-motions plugin for vscode to begin with. I do like nVim, and I'm a sucker for ricing.

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Whenever I have to use vscode I use the VSCodeVim plugin and it's close enough. Back to your original point about a default editor and jumping to specific lines though, vscode is pretty heavy for that. Any text editor worth a damn can do that, even less can do it by typing the line number and g. For example, 30g to jump to line 30.
 
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Nothing Is Written said:
you'll end up with hundreds of dot files, configs for things you've tried once and forgotten, and in the end the ecosystem is hostile
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Ah, so just like my Windows install after I bumblefucked with various bullshit, leaving a trail of dead folders, files and registry keys that linger around and do fuck-all? That's just par for the course with operating systems, uninstallers aren't as good at cleaning up after the program as they should be.
Nothing Is Written said:
"advanced user" in Windows
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Oh fuck off with your high horse quotation marks. People who act like Windows is a baby box where you can't do anything are the same type of people that act like Linux is an OS that you have to always use a command line for which is really difficult. Dunning-Kruger retards that didn't spend the time to learn the OS thoroughly that start spewing opinionated bullshit online once they hit a wall and get angry at their own skill issue.

For the average user, Linux Mint is just like Windows 11. The average user does fuck-all on their computers, they launch their web browser, maybe write some documents and that's it. Most people don't even use Pivot Tables in Excel so LibreOffice will be sufficient for them. Give them Firefox and they won't care as long as it launches websites, which Firefox does. Oh wait, Mint comes pre-installed with both, and by default it's less asinine to use than Windows 11, so it'll be a major step-up for them.
YoRHa No. 2 Type B said:
The license cost is a bit steep in my opinion
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The ridiculous pricing of DOpus is the sole reason I don't want to give it a try. This sort of pricing segmentation is a gigantic red flag and I don't care if DOpus can give me some sloppy toppy on the side of file management, they can get fucked by a kangaroo for this type of fuckery on principle. Total Commander all the way. Solo dev from Switzerland, over 3 decades of development, same one time payment perpetual license that is backwards compatible all the way back to version 3.0 from 1996 that you can use on however many machines you want, and you don't have to pay for updates. Those are the types of devs you want to financially support, perfected Swiss precision. Not this Aussie cuntshit fuckery.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
an entirely unrelated thought: never try to mount an NFS share into a k3s deployment when that share is shared from the same machine hosting the pod that mounts the mount. It gets exciting
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What exactly happens, does it get stuck in a mounting loop or something?
 
Aidan said:
Every OS thread is for every OS.
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This thread used to talk about Linux. It wasn't full of windows users that complain about Linux. Or people that use mac and windows comparing them. It was about the title of the thread. Linux, the autists choice of operating system.

If people like windows great good for them. Who actually cares about your opinion on why Linux will never be popular? before the thread was on topic. It wasn't a non stop gay argument comparing windows and Linux.

The people that were posting here 2 months ago. Will probably remember what I'm talking about. I don't care if people have retarded arguments. I'll take part in them. I'm tired of this thread being gay windows and Apple shit.
 
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