The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

Random question but what well supported dwm would work well for tvs? Something that just opens an app full screen and has a full screen app menu.? And ideally touchscreen compatible as the main tv a smartboard. Something that can be set up and themed to look as slick as a Google TV or the Plasma Big Screen project that I'm not quite sure is abandoned or not.
 
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I stumbled onto this. I don't think I've seen anyone that was covering the Xlibre fork when it happened quoted from this directly. And I feel like it's worth actually seeing what the person who made it said directly. Instead of a wayland shill, or a drama farmer.
He copied that same exact message to a bunch of mailing lists. It is basically what launched Xlibre.

Examples:
 
I stumbled onto this. I don't think I've seen anyone that was covering the Xlibre fork when it happened quoted from this directly. And I feel like it's worth actually seeing what the person who made it said directly. Instead of a wayland shill, or a drama farmer.
Redskirts lmao. I'm going to use that. Enrico is hero we need.

I mean, I can't really go back and check since, it was a little while back and everything is long gone. From the point I decided it wasn't worth pursuing full virtualization over containerization, I got rid of everything.

And what specifically do you mean by viewing the display?
Ah well. If you try again I've had a relatively easy time with virtual machine manager / qemu and will try to answer questions. For the display I meant how did you see the output of the virtual machine? Did you connect a separate monitor to the gpu you passed through? The window that pops up on your desktop when you ran it (probably a SPICE display)?

Artix testing has iso's with xlibre. It seems to seamlessly work, so I'm guessing it will start replacing xorg in non-tranny focused distros pretty soon.
Already there brother 🤘
 
stupid fuckign debian cumputer we have set up for a 3d printer was not set up to the new wifi network, and I can't seem to get it to connect because it doesn't have half the cli commands installed that all the guides use and it seems networkmanager refuses to start if the printer's canbus is not connected

edit: turns out having a cam0 network in etc/network/devices was the old way, removing it made everything work.
 
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My router ended up dying last week, and magically the new one is allowing my home server to just werk now. I'm very happy
 
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Are you thinking of UniGetUI (formerly WinGetUI)?
Has support for all the popular package managers for Windows (Winget, Scoop, Chocolatey, Pip, Npm, .NET Tool and PowerShell Gallery).
The program itself is webshit, but is so useful that I got past that.
Personally I'm more fond of using PowerShell 7 with the Winget.Client module. There's probably a similar one for Chocolatey but it's a pleasure being able to manage software via objects, like installing all of the Visual C++ redistributables with just Find-WinGetPackage | ? Id -match "^Microsoft\.VCRedist.*\.x.*$" | Install-WinGetPackage, something that wouldn't be possible without the PowerShell module. UniWinGetUI or whatever it's called can be great for having a visual "app store" so to speak, but for management it's comfier and faster to use the command line since you already know the names of software that you're interested in. I also can't tolerate C# bloat, the only C# bloat that I rely on is Flow Launcher since there's no better keyboard launcher around, and alternatives are based on Electron, which makes C# look lightweight.
 
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I'm going back to Linux after a long time of using Windows and I really only used Linux Mint before.

I'm starting with Gentoo, but I'm not sure if there's a more based option? I want to maximize the level customization I have, short of just compiling a stable release of Linux myself.
 
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I'm going back to Linux after a long time of using Windows and I really only used Linux Mint before.

I'm starting with Gentoo, but I'm not sure if there's a more based option? I want to maximize the level customization I have, short of just compiling a stable release of Linux myself.
Ok let's slow down here.


Gentoo? after only using Mint? That's a steep curve right there. Mind you, if you know what you're getting into, Gentoo can be great for you. However, if you don't, I'd say Arch does everything you need it to do.
Saying you want customization, Arch is pretty much you building your own desktop and can even rebase it to use other Arch distros ' repos. Hell, a lot of the arch distros have GUI-based kernel builders and schedulers.

I have done minor (keyword minor) stuff with customization and whatnot, but Arch truly lets you do whatever you want within the context of not having to compile everything from source. Gentoo is that but you're having to compile any and every program from source. Not to mention, you'll also have to get very familiar with compiling flags, which are a whole beast. Since, mind yo,u with Gentoo there is no "standard" when it comes to compiler flags since for every instance of Gentoo there''s also a unique set of compiling settings for THAT Gentoo installation.


If I were you. and coming from experience of using Linux in VMs coming from Windows. Then switching to daily driving Linux. Just stick to the more normalized distros that support your needs rather than wants.

daily driving linux is a different thing to just spinning up a VM and playing around with it for a bit.
 
I'm going back to Linux after a long time of using Windows and I really only used Linux Mint before.

I'm starting with Gentoo, but I'm not sure if there's a more based option? I want to maximize the level customization I have, short of just compiling a stable release of Linux myself.
Maybe Artix? It makes it easy to install Xlibre which is based, just make sure you pay attention to the install process so you know how to deal with your graphics driver
 
Ok let's slow down here.


Gentoo? after only using Mint? That's a steep curve right there. Mind you, if you know what you're getting into, Gentoo can be great for you. However, if you don't, I'd say Arch does everything you need it to do.
Saying you want customization, Arch is pretty much you building your own desktop and can even rebase it to use other Arch distros ' repos. Hell, a lot of the arch distros have GUI-based kernel builders and schedulers.

I have done minor (keyword minor) stuff with customization and whatnot, but Arch truly lets you do whatever you want within the context of not having to compile everything from source. Gentoo is that but you're having to compile any and every program from source. Not to mention, you'll also have to get very familiar with compiling flags, which are a whole beast. Since, mind yo,u with Gentoo there is no "standard" when it comes to compiler flags since for every instance of Gentoo there''s also a unique set of compiling settings for THAT Gentoo installation.


If I were you. and coming from experience of using Linux in VMs coming from Windows. Then switching to daily driving Linux. Just stick to the more normalized distros that support your needs rather than wants.

daily driving linux is a different thing to just spinning up a VM and playing around with it for a bit.
This is the only Linux distro to use. Ya know, if you're not a faggot.

 
I'm starting with Gentoo, but I'm not sure if there's a more based option? I want to maximize the level customization I have, short of just compiling a stable release of Linux myself.
This is unironically a perfect description of artix. Max customization without re-compiling the kernel (and everything else) constantly -> Arch. Less gay and retarded arch -> Artix.

Yeah, my experience was pacman -S xlibre-xserver on Artix (s6-MATE on Qemu) and it just worked. Really positive experiences with Artix so far.
On the off chance that isn't just a throwaway VM I think you should be installing xlibre-drivers too.
 
I feel like my needs are too autistic and specific I risk outing myself here, but to start I want to reclaim some monitor space with a tiled window manager and then see what productivity improvements I can make from there.
In that case I think it would be difficult to find any mainstream Linux desktop distribution that won't work for you. You could just install Debian (or better yet Devuan), choosing the XFCE 'task', to conveniently get the X11 packages you need, then install awesomewm or i3.
 
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I feel like my needs are too autistic and specific I risk outing myself here, but to start I want to reclaim some monitor space with a tiled window manager and then see what productivity improvements I can make from there.
I am biased as someone who's been daily driving Debian since the early 2000s, but I actually would say Debian can probably do the sort of things you want to do while being a stable environment to adjust to linux in. You might give it a go.
 
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Wanting a tiling window manager is not outing yourself and can be done on any distro. The package manager and its repositories are more important but I think you should take the plunge on whatever you want and if it doesn't work then move to something else.
 
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Wanting a tiling window manager is not outing yourself and can be done on any distro. The package manager and its repositories are more important but I think you should take the plunge on whatever you want and if it doesn't work then move to something else.
there might be hints in the details, like wanting to have a yellow smirking animal thing with rosy cheeks front and centre in the screen with the windows wrapping around it.
 
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