The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[analrapist]

Debian

sank yu saar, +67 izzat

(photo is the Debian project leader Sruthi Chandran BTW)

Someone suggest a distro that doesn't suck ass

Artix and/or Gentoo

Artix installer is Calamares, and runs ridiculously fast.

I was shocked at how well Gentoo worked. If you're using much of the AUR, Gentoo's even fewer headaches than Arch once you know what you're doing.

 

[Miller]

sank yu saar, +67 izzat
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(photo is the Debian project leader Sruthi Chandran BTW)

Do not ponder the fragrance saar!

 

[Unknown God]

Jokes write themself. Unless if you use something rock stable like debian, of course.

Debian?

I used Debian for the longest time and still use it exclusively for servers, but on my own computers I kept getting problems that I'm just not smart enough to diagnose and fix. For example, on two different machines (a desktop workstation and a laptop) and with two different browsers on both, the Kiwi Farms front page has a memory leak that will either crash Librewolf or crash the entire system if using Brave or anything Chrome-based. I literally couldn't forget the KF front page open otherwise it would start consuming several GB until all memory is gone. I'm not much of a tinkerer so I just switched to Mint and it was resolved. Thing is I don't like Cinnamon and despite Linux people's promises that you can just change and install anything you want, using a non-supported DE is invariably ass on any distro I have ever tried.

 

[Curry Teafag]

after the motherboard of my windows machine crapped out and my laptop short circuited

WTF are you guys doing to your machines?

 

[WhiteNight]

I literally couldn't forget the KF front page open otherwise it would start consuming several GB until all memory is gone. I'm not much of a tinkerer so I just switched to Mint and it was resolved.

This is/was a problem with the Kiwi Farms chat where it would leak memory. A lot of people reported this issue in the Technical Grievances thread, and some resorted to blocking the chat to prevent it. As I recall, Null did a few things at various times to mitigate the issue. It is likely not related to your choice of distro.

 

[Betonhaus]

This is/was a problem with the Kiwi Farms chat where it would leak memory. A lot of people reported this issue in the Technical Grievances thread, and some resorted to blocking the chat to prevent it. As I recall, Null did a few things at various times to mitigate the issue. It is likely not related to your choice of distro.

The biggest improvement was not literally having the chat on every single page. Caused browsers to shit the bed if you had multiple threads open in different tabs

 

[DavidS877]

I finally, after 30 years, found a Debian bug. Or a me bug. I had a system with an AM5 board and thus on-board graphics but I was using a GPU. I moved the SSD and Nvidia GPU into an AM4 system. Now whenever I unlock the screen it's just black. Apparently there's some vestigial AMD setting or library hiding somewhere or something didn't get installed from a normal Nvidia-only setup. Maybe tonight I'll actually fix it. It feels like something Windows would do.

 

[Betonhaus]

Linux can be up to 60% faster than Windows 11 in Forza Horizon 6 using Valve's VRAM fix on a 4GB GPU

For context valve has recently released a linux config for under 8GB VRAMS that significantly increases performance in basically any proton game, likely spurred by the global shortages and Steam Machine optimisations

 

[Hakase Shinonome]

likely spurred by the global shortages and Steam Machine optimisations

Valve is so intertwined with Linux gaming that some 'people'* refer to Linux gaming machines as SteamStations.
*Mentally deficient retards.

Spoiler

 

[acid_ra1n]

WTF are you guys doing to your machines?

That tower I'm working on I reseated everything and now the mobo doesn't power on lol
Hopefully didn't short anything but I'm guessing maybe bad PSU
Molex has good voltage though so not sure why my cd drive won't eject

 

[SchizoDaemon]

I used Debian for the longest time and still use it exclusively for servers, but on my own computers I kept getting problems that I'm just not smart enough to diagnose and fix. For example, on two different machines (a desktop workstation and a laptop) and with two different browsers on both, the Kiwi Farms front page has a memory leak that will either crash Librewolf or crash the entire system if using Brave or anything Chrome-based. I literally couldn't forget the KF front page open otherwise it would start consuming several GB until all memory is gone. I'm not much of a tinkerer so I just switched to Mint and it was resolved. Thing is I don't like Cinnamon and despite Linux people's promises that you can just change and install anything you want, using a non-supported DE is invariably ass on any distro I have ever tried.

I've run it on a bunch of machines, both low-end and high-end, and it is quite stable.

 

[Il Palazzo]

sank yu saar, +67 izzat
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(photo is the Debian project leader Sruthi Chandran BTW)

The ride just never ends.

 

[Fat Camp Intern]

WTF are you guys doing to your machines?

It's called "we outsourced all of our manufacturing to China and shitty third world countries".

The Mobo was malfunctioning right out of the box. No refunds of course. Thanks, NewEgg.