The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

Betonhaus said:
QNX was a microkernel, right? Shame it was bought out by BlackBerry which promptly collapsed.
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Yes it is. QNX is still around, and still made by Blackberry.
You may not see it but it runs many embedded systems, it especially seems to be popular in cars.
I read somewhere that all the major car brands except for Tesla use QNX for their infotainment screens, so its far from dead.
 
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Judge Dredd said:
Linux users seem to forget that the challenge was to use Linux with only the resources a normie would have access too, and document the experience. And to a new user, even one who works with computers, it looks like a bunch of word vomit, and when he googled the error, the solution he was told to use to type "do as I say", which uninstalled his desktop. At what point did he do something unreasonable?
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Linus isn't a 'normie'. He's subnormal. He's a retarded nigger who should be ritually slaughtered for the good of the species.
 
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volatile puar said:
There is about as much reason to refer to GNU/MacOS as GNU/Linux since they both utilized the GNU core utilities (and other GNU software).
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But they don't. MacOS doesn't utilize any GNU software nowadays as far as I know and it never utilized the gnu coreutils. They did ship gcc and the autotools back in the day but they replaced that with clang almost 20 years ago.
 
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Snackbarism said:
I'm thinking about giving Linux another go given Microsoft's best attempts to force Windows 11 down peoples throats (last Linux usage was about a decade ago).

What's the best out there these days worth trying for regular general usage and game playing too?
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Not Linux, but I'm currently using Win 10 LTSC as my daily driver. No issues so far. Easy to get (archive.org has it) and easy to crack (simply run a .bat from github). Only real problem I had was no image viewer by default, which I fixed by installing infraview, but somewhere along the way the stock win 10 one appeared, so that's nice.

However, Win 10 LTSC is on borrowed time. I think support ends in 2028 or something like that.

I haven't used real linux for a couple years and am a noob when it comes to this stuff. The two Linux distros I see recommended repeatedly on the wider internet for desktop use is Linux Mint, or Ubuntu with KDE Plasma. For gaming, if you have the right hardware, Steam OS or Bazzite are the ways to go, though they make it clear that desktop is more of an added bonus instead of something you can daily drive.
 
Snackbarism said:
I'm thinking about giving Linux another go given Microsoft's best attempts to force Windows 11 down peoples throats (last Linux usage was about a decade ago).

What's the best out there these days worth trying for regular general usage and game playing too?
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Ironically Fedora, it's basically in the middle of Mint and Arch both in stability (Mint is super stable, Arch requires more maintenance) and "difficulty" (Mint can be used as is out of the box, Arch requires you to choose what software you want to run on your own). Fedora is semi-rolling and requires some post-install setup, but it's updated frequently (sometimes they push new technologies when they're not completely ready but you can avoid those) and has a lot of developers looking at it so things tend to work as intended.
 
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Snackbarism said:
I'm thinking about giving Linux another go given Microsoft's best attempts to force Windows 11 down peoples throats (last Linux usage was about a decade ago).

What's the best out there these days worth trying for regular general usage and game playing too?
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About four years ago I switched from Windows to Pop_OS and haven't looked back. Been gaming in it with no issues. I do have AMD/ATI chips but they have an nVidia version you can install. I was a complete Linux noob when I installed it and have been daily driving Pop since.
 
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Fcret said:
But they don't. MacOS doesn't utilize any GNU software nowadays as far as I know and it never utilized the gnu coreutils. They did ship gcc and the autotools back in the day but they replaced that with clang almost 20 years ago.
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That's my bad for assuming they would be using the Gnu utils if they were using bash.
Judge Dredd said:
I haven't used real linux for a couple years and am a noob when it comes to this stuff. The two Linux distros I see recommended repeatedly on the wider internet for desktop use is Linux Mint, or Ubuntu with KDE Plasma. For gaming, if you have the right hardware, Steam OS or Bazzite are the ways to go, though they make it clear that desktop is more of an added bonus instead of something you can daily drive.
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Linux distributions are not technically interchangeable, but as long as the distribution is popular troubleshooting and learning are easy. You could go on distrowatch and randomly choose one of the popular distributions and do well, I recommend MX Linux because it's a popular distribution that is lightweight by default, but even Arch and Fedora are good choices even though they will break more often than the Debian based distributions.
 
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volatile puar said:
That's my bad for assuming they would be using the Gnu utils if they were using bash.
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They don't even use bash anymore. MacOS switched to zsh by default sometime around 2019 with Catalina. I think you can still run bash but you'll get a warning since it's deprecated in favor of zsh running in bash-compatibility mode.
 
Fcret said:
They don't even use bash anymore. MacOS switched to zsh by default sometime around 2019 with Catalina. I think you can still run bash but you'll get a warning since it's deprecated in favor of zsh running in bash-compatibility mode.
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And the worst part is, they replaced GNU Chess.
 
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Fcret said:
They don't even use bash anymore. MacOS switched to zsh by default sometime around 2019 with Catalina. I think you can still run bash but you'll get a warning since it's deprecated in favor of zsh running in bash-compatibility mode.
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My understanding is that bash had a license change (to GPLv3) starting with 4.0, which apparently is unacceptable to Apple and how it packages software. So they either had to switch shells or stay on a version of bash that's way out of date. The latter isn't a workable option, as the computing world continues to change as years and decades pass. zsh has a free license and a bash compatibility mode, so that's what they went with.
 
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Snackbarism said:
I'm thinking about giving Linux another go given Microsoft's best attempts to force Windows 11 down peoples throats (last Linux usage was about a decade ago).

What's the best out there these days worth trying for regular general usage and game playing too?
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volatile puar said:
I recommend MX Linux because it's a popular distribution that is lightweight by default, but even Arch and Fedora are good choices even though they will break more often than the Debian based distributions.
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Seconding MX Linux. Extremely user friendly, extremely intuitive, has tons of graphical interfaces to help you install new stuff and manage your computer, and still does all that while having all of Debian's packages. Flatpak is the easiest way to get anything that's missing, which can also be accessed through the gui MX Package Installer. It is essentially just better Mint. If you're willing to get your hands a little dirtier, you can try something like Artix or another "build your own" distro. Just read the friendly manual and you'll be good to go.
 
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Slav Power said:
MX Linux still irks me with how it's a "cooperative venture" with "proudly anti-fascist" antiX that shows you a hideous tankie when you open up their webpage. I wouldn't feel right using a distro that's so openly politically charged.

Linux Mint is all you need.
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Oh yeah that's a red flag. You can expect at any moment they kick out their biggest maintainers just because he said something off color.
 
volatile puar said:
Of course Linux Mint is officially partnered with the "Global Crew of Activists" Mozilla, so if these sorts of associations bother you then Mint is not the choice for you.
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If you want to go with that reach you might as well talk about what Microsoft's stance on ideological BS is, but in both cases you're missing the point that there's a stark difference between having those sorts of associations buried away on your homepage and them being presented in the very first words you read on it.
 
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Slav Power said:
If you want to go with that reach you might as well talk about what Microsoft's stance on ideological BS is, but in both cases you're missing the point that there's a stark difference between having those sorts of associations buried away on your homepage and them being presented in the very first words you read on it.
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According to you MX Linux is too political because they're friendly with another distribution that calls themselves "proudly anti-fascist" and displays a tutorial video featuring an ugly person on their front page. As far as I can find, the only other political statement AntiX has ever made was on a Mastodon account where they made a single post saying that there was genocidal influence on Twitter https://mastodon.social/@antix@mastodon.sdf.org. MX Linux does not call themselves an anti-fascist distribution, and have a portion of their "about us" called "our positions" where they say nothing political. If you consider this MX Linux being too political, I have no idea how you can call Mint's partnership with Mozilla a "reach", and it simply seems like you're looking for reasons hate MX Linux.
 
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