- Joined
- Jan 31, 2018
The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
- Thread starter tehpope
- Start date
- Joined
- May 5, 2019
- Joined
- Dec 1, 2018
Did dangerhairs and troons replace the entire codebase replaced with gender-neutral microaggression-free spaghetti code while I wasn't looking? It's a bad sign certainly but last I checked you could still bet your life on deb's stable branch.
- Joined
- Jan 31, 2018
lol you never had to worry about debian making a blm statement and disturbing ian murdock in his grave to begin with because they're still stuck in the fucking pleistocene (which tsn't necessarily a bad thing)
- Joined
- Mar 4, 2019
The decision to force systemd, against the wishes of the broader community (and against a majority of the maintainers at the time), drove a lot of the more competent devs and maintainers away from Debian, giving the dangerhairs proportionally more power.
They've recently announced a huge cash pile and a shortage of maintainers. Next step is probably splurging that money on diversity initiatives and woke consultants, who will drive away more maintainers under the guise of trying to bring in diversity to "improve" the community.
- Joined
- Jun 1, 2020
I feel like openSUSE doesn't get much love from people. IMO it works perfect for day to day tasks, and lets you easily mess with the system if you want to.
YaST is a big plus as well.
On another note, what do you guys think about LibreOffice? I genuinely hate it. If you're not autistic enough to use LaTeX, you're pretty much bound to WINE-ing Microsoft Office, because doing anything other than writing a hate letter to your boss in LibreOffice is akin to stabbing yourself in the dick with an icepick.
Last edited:
- Joined
- Aug 21, 2019
- Joined
- Feb 3, 2013
It's great for installing on your 4th laptop that you don't want to buy another $200 MSOffice license for.
- Joined
- Mar 12, 2019
I've always despised every office suit I've ever come across, to the point I handle my document needs in HTML files. Basic HTML can handle 95% of your document needs, and very basic CSS can handle the rest (largely just alignments in my case). Since its the basic language of web pages, it works in almost everything word processor you can throw at it, and everyone has a a HTML viewer in the form of their web browser. You can even put in annotations and meta data via HTML tags, so you can mark a section with <div> or <span> and easily reference that section or put it in another document. Only annoying thing is having to mark every paragraph with a <p> tag. But I use Vim like a good autist, so macros cover that.
As for LaTeX, I messed around with it, and it seems like it's only necessary if you're writing something that requires a lot of exact citations or advanced mathmatics; in other words academic writing.
Replacing spreadsheets means having to learn some sort of DB software or language, which is a bigger hurdle than the afternoon it takes to learn enough HTML to write out a basic document.
- Joined
- Aug 16, 2020
ViM makes note taking in anything a breeze. May be a bit rainbow of me to say but I think more people would be on board with vanilla vim if they knew what you could do with it to get rid of annoying edits.
The same could probably be said with emacs but I think it's a bigger hurdle to mess with elisp than vimscript.
Regarding LibreOffice @Nathan Higgers I use it and shill it, though nothing beats MS Excel as far as spreadsheet software imo, I don't need its advanced features for personal use and if I did then I just wouldn't use Excel or LibreOffice Calc. Admittedly for PDFs I do just end up using LaTeX but that doesn't bother me at all since I'd much rather fiddle with things entirely on keyboard than click and drag pictures and tables in the document to get them to format properly which is all I've ever ended up doing in MS Word. Plus I've had more than one occasion where I slapped together a doc in MS Word and then made it into a PDF only for the formatting to be all over the place and not at all what I wanted.
At least with LaTeX I can preview the PDF "live" since I have it set up to compile everytime I save the document and I know exactly whatever I typed appears a certain type of way.
The same could probably be said with emacs but I think it's a bigger hurdle to mess with elisp than vimscript.
Regarding LibreOffice @Nathan Higgers I use it and shill it, though nothing beats MS Excel as far as spreadsheet software imo, I don't need its advanced features for personal use and if I did then I just wouldn't use Excel or LibreOffice Calc. Admittedly for PDFs I do just end up using LaTeX but that doesn't bother me at all since I'd much rather fiddle with things entirely on keyboard than click and drag pictures and tables in the document to get them to format properly which is all I've ever ended up doing in MS Word. Plus I've had more than one occasion where I slapped together a doc in MS Word and then made it into a PDF only for the formatting to be all over the place and not at all what I wanted.
At least with LaTeX I can preview the PDF "live" since I have it set up to compile everytime I save the document and I know exactly whatever I typed appears a certain type of way.
Last edited:
- Joined
- Apr 25, 2019
- Joined
- Sep 26, 2019
Posting from a Raspberry Pi 4 w/ Raspberry Pi OS right now
it's surprisingly fast at web browsing and started up in a heartbeat from just a simple little Sandisk Ultra MicroSD card. 464mb of memory used right now with just four tabs open, lol
it's surprisingly fast at web browsing and started up in a heartbeat from just a simple little Sandisk Ultra MicroSD card. 464mb of memory used right now with just four tabs open, lol
- Joined
- Jan 22, 2018
What about Fedora? I'm willing to make the switch.
Even better,
Debian vs Fedora, which one is better? 2020 edition.
- Joined
- Mar 17, 2019
Devuan is where it's at.
Lennart Poettring- who morally speaking deserves to be tortured to death in Minecraft for his various crimes- has criticized Devuan's mailing lists for being unwoke. That's a glowing endorsement as far as I'm concerned.
- Joined
- Aug 16, 2020
- Joined
- Oct 6, 2016
>Message deleted
>I check dyne front page
>Shit about the EU with buzzwords like block chain and "helping humanity" and how we need black cum inserted in us five times a day
quelle suprise
- Joined
- Aug 21, 2019
I'm running Manjaro ARM on mine. I have the 8 gig one. My computer at work busted after the power supply browned out and we just built this $2,000 PC with Windows Server 2019 for remoting into while working at home, despite the fact that we're back at the office now, so I actually ended up bringing the Pi 4 into work and hooking it up to two screens, and I remote into the Server on one to do my actual work and I shit post and play YouTube videos in the background while on the Pi itself on the other screen. It's probably the computer I use the most now. Makes a pretty good thin client. There's no dropbox build for arm in the official or user repositories though, so that's a bit of a pain in the ass.
*Edited for more sperging*
Last edited:
- Joined
- Mar 17, 2019
That listserv web interface's been fucked for a while. If the EU will give money to be used to help keep Linux free of Poettring, who deserves to be covered in honey and tied to a nest of fire ants, more power to them.
- Joined
- Sep 26, 2019
Yeah, aside from any applications that needs heavy lifting (basically just games and Adobe stuff for me) I could totally see myself using a RPi 4 as a general purpose PC. I've always wanted to build a Mini-ITX machine, and this pretty well scratches that itch. Hell, if future RPis support external video cards via Thunderbolt, I'd be a pig in shit.
I've got the 4GB one, by the way.