The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

Are there any Linux distributions that can fit on an USB drive under 262 MB?
With that kind of space restriction, you need better specification. I'd reckon you could make Gentoo do it. What do you want to accomplish? You're not getting much in the way of "desktop applications" in 256MB, but you could probably get a decent console dev platform for a language or two, depending.
 
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++.
If Wayland is the mark of the beast then wlroots is the cloven ballsack of the tranny pushing it. I will never not mention how dogshit wlroots is and lament the fact that most Wayland WMs are based on wlroots, by far. AFAIK the only ones that do not use it are Hyprland, Niri and really niche ones like Hevel. Two of those three are pretty big if you're a minimalism fetishist, and the third is so minimal and esoteric that it reaches feature poverty.

I really wish that Sway could be smashed to work with Aquamarine or some other backend lib beyond wlroots because having a 1:1 portable config for X via i3 and Wayland via Sway would be awesome. Ishallah we shall sacrifice Drew "Lolicon/Paedophile" DeSegFault to the corn, that we may prosper.

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.
Although there's like a 99% chance you'll never need to, if you want to get a fresher and more actively developed X experience, you might want to check out XLibre. Its a drop-in replacement and has some nice little additions like tear-free. Again, usually you'll nave no need at all to do this, its just an option to keep in mind.
 
I installed Linux on my girlfriend's laptop and now she hates me.

I let her try to use a Linux distro via the live enviornment, she didn't complain at the time, just happily played Minecraft and browsed the internet. So, afterwards I talked to her about her usecases, she said she didn't play any obnoxious bullshit like Fortnite or something, so that's alright. She didn't use any specialized software for school or anything, so that's alright. I, explicitly, asked her if she had any folders that mattered to her. She responded "oh yeah, my downloads folder, most of my stuff's in there." I looked through all the folders anyway to see if anything important was in there too, so I archived her Documents folder and Downloads folder, totalling around 70GB.

Yet, when I converted her drive from Windows to Linux, she forgot to mention she had a, secretly, really fucking important .minecraft folder. But only after the fact of converting her entire drive. So, what I've done to retrieve her precious fucking .minecraft folder is download TestDisk and run PhotoRec to potentially retreive all the lost files. Now she just fucking blames me for all the technical mistakes she obviously makes, such as being an incapable moron and failing to even install fucking Minecraft Forge or failing to know the WiFi password.

Anything I could do to make file recovery anymore managable? Because all the files are just numbered garbage instead of a proper file structure.
 
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.
Short answer: Wayland is "the future" but it's half baked and being pushed by futurist fanatics even though it's not ready.

Longer answer: X11 and Wayland are display servers, which basically sets up a graphical rectangle system that applications and desktop environments like Cinnamon use in order to display content like Windows and applications.

X11 is the newest version of the X specification, which dates back to the 80's and has been the core of Linux graphical user interface for a very long time. Xorg is the name of the actual software used, the running code that uses the X11 specification.

Wayland was a new specification created about 10-20 years ago in response to perceived design flaws in the X11 specification. It is rather feature incomplete, with many implementations of things users regularly use like screenshots and screen recording being restricted by the specification. The Wayland specification does not exactly have a software counterpart that everyone uses, instead every desktop environment (KDE, Gnome, Cinnamon) is expected to write their own software, which often has to work around limitations on the specification and requires a level of in depth knowledge of core coding that the de teams may not have originally had.

The result is that Wayland is a mess where implementation is rather inconsistent and lackluster, and instead of fixing the flaws the team behind it has instead chosen to push it even if it isn't ready.
 

OpenMandriva dev team has been cooking.
Why do you tolerate AI narrators?
"If you're young and modern, Fedora or CachyOS [two second pause as though there were a full stop, probably because the transcript he fed the bot was written by a 2nd-grader] or maybe soo-see."
Yes, it's seriously pronouncing SUSE as soo-see. This is the FIRST sentence in the whole video. The animation is totally out of sync and order too; it puts SUSE in a group of distros different from where the narrator puts them.
Tell me, how are you not repulsed by this? It's SCREAMING the author's distaste for quality at you and you're going so far as to share it? Are you the jeet who proompts for this video, then uploads it without even watching it?
 
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Anything I could do to make file recovery anymore managable? Because all the files are just numbered garbage instead of a proper file structure.
Fish out all the configs and screenshots is my best guess. Some of those configs could be put together into a list of mods that were installed or they could be configs to those mods. More importantly, the lesson from this situation is to never trust the user. Trawl the entire hard drive yourself manually next time and then bring up potentially important shit she might've missed.
 
Got tired of using VSCode and wanted to try something new. Heard about neovim and thought I’d give it a shot. First thing I see when I run nvim…

“Kuwasha - Helping poor children in Uganda”

Then I find all sorts of faggotry around all funds donated will be sent into the black hole that is africa. There’s an entire doc dedicated to it in the help.

uganda.txt

Guess it’s back to VSCode unless someone else has a better recommendation…
 
Got tired of using VSCode and wanted to try something new. Heard about neovim and thought I’d give it a shot. First thing I see when I run nvim…

“Kuwasha - Helping poor children in Uganda”

Then I find all sorts of faggotry around all funds donated will be sent into the black hole that is africa. There’s an entire doc dedicated to it in the help.

uganda.txt

Guess it’s back to VSCode unless someone else has a better recommendation…
I've been advised to use sublime text
 
Got tired of using VSCode and wanted to try something new. Heard about neovim and thought I’d give it a shot. First thing I see when I run nvim…

“Kuwasha - Helping poor children in Uganda”

Then I find all sorts of faggotry around all funds donated will be sent into the black hole that is africa. There’s an entire doc dedicated to it in the help.

uganda.txt

Guess it’s back to VSCode unless someone else has a better recommendation…
You can turn off the intro message and it is gone. It is a oneliner in a config file. TBH until you pointed it out I had never noticed it and I use vim a lot.

You could use Emacs, but then again some people consider it a religion.

Just generally a huge amount of open source stuff is done by lefties and shit-libs that I deeply disagree with. e.g. Linus Torvalds has some proper smooth brain takes about Geopolitics, RMS is generally a train wreck outside his commentary about free software, a lot of popular projects have the Slava Ukraine/BLM bullshit. If I didn't use anything that didn't have some bollox like this in it, I would have to use MS-DOS.
 
Got tired of using VSCode and wanted to try something new. Heard about neovim and thought I’d give it a shot. First thing I see when I run nvim…

“Kuwasha - Helping poor children in Uganda”

Then I find all sorts of faggotry around all funds donated will be sent into the black hole that is africa. There’s an entire doc dedicated to it in the help.

uganda.txt
tbf, the children in uganda shit has been around in vim forever. It's not exclusive to neovim.
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From here:
wackypedia said:
He advocated for ICCF Holland, a non-governmental organization supporting AIDS victims in Uganda, and used the popularity of Vim to encourage donations.

[...]

Moolenaar was an advocate of ICCF Holland, a non-governmental organization based in Kibaale, Uganda which he founded to support children whose parents have died of AIDS. In 1994, he volunteered as a water and sanitation engineer for the Kibaale Children's Centre; he made several return trips over the following twenty-five years. In 1995, he made Vim charityware. An estimated US$2,000 was raised for ICCF Holland in 1997, followed by US$4,000 a year later. In 1999, donation income totaled approximately US$7,000. He last visited the Kibaale Community Centre in 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic. Following Bram's passing in 2023, ICCF Holland transferred all activities to its sister charity Kuwasha in Canada and dissolved at the end of 2025.
Call Bram a fag for doing this if you wish, but vim and its offshoots (like neovim) are amazing and this is something you don't even have to see if you provide a file as an argument.
 
VSCode is a better Sublime Text. That is the reason VSCode basically won the current Editor War
I agree, especially given sublime's price (not $0). But this is like comparing two piles of shit, each dropped by different species.
 
I used to use nvim, now I'm basically exclusively on emacs. I like it. Yes, there are modes, they are not perfect, but the editor is a lot less state-full than vim, which I like.
Children in uganda message doesn't bother me (or rather didn't, when I used to use nvim), it only shows up if you open vim without a document (already basically nowhen), and is just a random buffer that iirc just dies when you visit a normal one. I, personally don't care too much about children in uganda, but if the author of a software I use does, why not let him do this. It's a lot better than saartext, which someone here recommended, showing you a popup to give the author money on every nth save.
 
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