The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

Bittah Pupil said:
Shoutout to pine for allowing you to set your username as “root” during setup, completely bricking the pinephone as I discovered troubleshooting a linux illiterate friend’s device yesterday.
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Your friend was Linux illiterate but happened to pick "root" anyway? Of all the luck :lol:
(and if they're not into Linux why do they even have a Pinephone?)
 
Kosher Dill said:
Your friend was Linux illiterate but happened to pick "root" anyway? Of all the luck :lol:
(and if they're not into Linux why do they even have a Pinephone?)
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They're unreasonably paranoid about their data and bought what they thought might offer the best protection... obviously not really a product if you aren't familiar with nix but it's not my money. But yeah, what an incredibly ironic mistake to make. I wasn't able to fix it after a few hours of trying various things though so I should probably submit a short bug report to pine.
 
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Bittah Pupil said:
They're unreasonably paranoid about their data and bought what they thought might offer the best protection... obviously not really a product if you aren't familiar with nix but it's not my money. But yeah, what an incredibly ironic mistake to make. I wasn't able to fix it after a few hours of trying various things though so I should probably submit a short bug report to pine.
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Why not run a privacy-oriented ROM? I'm unusually "paranoid" about my data but I don't really think a pinephone is a solution to that, I'd get a dumb phone before I got a pinephone right now. It's too late for the ROM thing now anyway, it's just usually where privacy-minded people go when it comes to smartphones.
I'm a bit surprised it's beyond redemption if you make an account called "root" and that it's even permitted, is there anything stopping you from reinstalling manually? They have a wiki page dedicated to manual installs so it seems like normal linux where if you do a royal fuckup, you just start all over.
 
Ubuntu’s upgrade process is a crock of shit. It’s the only distro that can’t get it right. I only use my laptop once or twice a year and it’s almost always a full install to get the latest version.
 
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Dick Justice said:
Try CloverOS if you want to spend all night fucking your gf instead of your .conf files.
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Considered HARMful said:
But but but you're removing all the gentoo-experience! Watching compilation logs is obligatory!

[and I'm only half joking]
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PMSL I actually don't mind needing to, sometimes it triggers thoughts about other shit, that I need to work out.

I tried Artix a few months ago, that was a disaster. I had no problems getting it up and running, got programs installed. The issue was that I stupidly put it on my NVME, as if I could use it as a daily straight off, yeah no...

This time, I'm going to put, okay okay I'll look into CloverOS, on the SSD (I have a HDD for storage), and dual boot it, at least that way I don't have to stress out about shit going wrong.
 
Had said:
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I actually had no idea they still gave a shit about SteamOS enough to keep maintaining it, but going as far as to switch its base from Debian to Arch is a really pleasant surprise. Now I'm pretty fucking giddy to be honest.

Here's hoping the Steam Deck itself turns out more successful this time around than whatever the fuck happened with Steam Machines, though...
 
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Isam said:
I didn't stop using Windows just to get fucked by Poettering/RedHat.
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I'm coming around to this viewpoint too, but what's people's opinion on the long-term prospects of non-systemd distros? Is it already too late, particularly on the desktop?
 
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