The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

My parents used to buy these proper crap tops down the supermarket. Then they wouldn't work very well and asked me to fix them.

I said I could get a really good top of the range laptop from a few years ago refurbed that would work perfectly. They always refused.

I was so glad when they just bought iPads as they kinda manage themselves for the most part.
 
General Zoider said:
Which part of linux would you not want to touch with a 10 foot pole to the point that you would rather just reinstall instead of touching its configuration files? For me its the audio subsystem, if that thing breaks i consider just reinstalling.
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ALSA because too much manual workaround jank rather than the hat on top of a hat logic that's PipeWire which is at least one-and-done.
 
General Zoider said:
Which part of linux would you not want to touch with a 10 foot pole to the point that you would rather just reinstall instead of touching its configuration files? For me its the audio subsystem, if that thing breaks i consider just reinstalling.
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The package manager. Even if there isn't one, like with Slackware (/usr/local/), if it becomes too much of a mess, its time to upgrade from scratch.

The site is 'not secure' : http://www.slackware.com/install/softwaresets.php
 
AbendCode12 said:
The package manager. Even if there isn't one, like with Slackware (/usr/local/), if it becomes too much of a mess, its time to upgrade from scratch.

The site is 'not secure' : http://www.slackware.com/install/softwaresets.php
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ironicly out of all the package managers arch seems to be the most stable. I only need to spam pacman 5-10 times depending on how bad my internet is vs apt-gets normal 20. I dont have expirence with fedora so i cant say how good or bad it is.
 
General Zoider said:
Which part of linux would you not want to touch with a 10 foot pole to the point that you would rather just reinstall instead of touching its configuration files? For me its the audio subsystem, if that thing breaks i consider just reinstalling.
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Is this an Arch thing? In decades of using Linux, generally Debian-based distributions except for a period with Gentoo, I've never encountered any problem that would lead me to need to do this.
 
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Is this an Arch thing? In decades of using Linux, generally Debian-based distributions except for a period with Gentoo, I've never encountered any problem that would lead me to need to do this.
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in my case its both arch and debian based dstros. However, I've mostly encountered it when I try to upgrade debian bases to new major revisions. Most recent example where this issue occurred was dealing with mint and needing to update from 21 to 22, the update broke a number of configs and required a fresh install of 22.
 
I apologize if this question has already been asked. Why is wayland being pushed so hard? My cinnamon mint version has x11, what's the difference. I saw some people (usual suspects) say they are dropping x11 "for political reasons" but I'm out of the loop on this.
 
RacistComputer79 said:
I apologize if this question has already been asked. Why is wayland being pushed so hard? My cinnamon mint version has x11, what's the difference. I saw some people (usual suspects) say they are dropping x11 "for political reasons" but I'm out of the loop on this.
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Trannies mostly. I'm right in the middle of helping a friend switch from Wayland to x11 because he can't get Push to Talk keys going.
 
Dante Alighieri said:
Trannies mostly. I'm right in the middle of helping a friend switch from Wayland to x11 because he can't get Push to Talk keys going.
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is wayland being written in rust? I've heard that rust attracts a lot of stinkditch freaks. I don't like these subhumans attempting to rewrite and replace our software.
 
RacistComputer79 said:
is wayland being written in rust? I've heard that rust attracts a lot of stinkditch freaks. I don't like these subhumans attempting to rewrite and replace our software.
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Wayland is just a specification; where it's written in anything, it's XML. Most of the implementations, including tranny-lover Drew deVault's wlroots, are written in C++.
 
Are there any Linux distributions that can fit on an USB drive under 262 MB?
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Preferably a GUI-based one, like Tiny Core or one of the Puppy distros.
 
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