The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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The new AMD P-State frequency scaler has landed with the 5.17 kernel, it's for newer Zen 2 and 3 CPUs that expose CPPC. My very non-scientific testing indicates that together with the schedutil governor it seems a bit better latency wise (when having to shift to higher work loads suddenly) and more energy efficient in light to medium workloads. (on a non-desktop this actually might give you up to "additional hours", my intuition guesses) You also get a few MHz "for free" extra at the top. Overall, a clear improvement, at least on my machine. I suspect most distros will implement this as default fairly quickly.

I spent a bit of time reconfiguring the intel RAPL for my notebook and noticed that the firmware of the manufacturer not only sets wattages the notebook's almost non-existant cooling can't even hope to deliver in antartica but also that settings for boost times are all screwy if you send the notebook to suspend until next reboot, which possibly could make the notebook slower. Good job. That's the clear and only advantage windows has; the pajeets at microsoft fix the mistakes of the chinese engineers shitting out broken UEFI firmware. Windows is full of very individual kludges to fix shit like this. The more cynical reasoning for these firmware settings could be that they wanted to make the notebook's weak SoC seem faster on surface testing and just let thermal limiting take care of the rest, lowering the life expectancy of all components including the battery as a plus. (so you'll buy the new one) With my new settings oriented after intel recommendations, the temperature of the SoC doesn't really go past 50C, no matter the work load, while only really losing a minimum of speed.

Noticeable again that intel's overall linux support feels much better than AMDs, AMDs support for all the little hardware extras still sorely lacking in many departments even in older Zens as compared to windows. A pity it's intel. A pity ARM sucks even more.
 
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why do people like richard stallman dislike Ubuntu?
 
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why do people like richard stallman dislike Ubuntu?
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The dev team has made some poor decisions in the past (ads, spying)
The package manager is absolute rubbish compared to Synaptic (no ability to create package download lists to dl packages for later offline installs)
The UI dev team is full of leftoid activists and trannies.
The UI is needlessly bloated. You don't really need anything larger than Openbox or i3 window manager.

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Over the last couple of days I found myself needing to move relatively large amounts of data between two systems. I was previously using rsync to do this, but stumbled upon a solution using Pax and Netcat that cuts out a lot of overhead:

Source PC: pax -w . | nc destination_ip 50505
Destination PC: nc -l -p 50505 | pax -rv -pe

Navigate to the source directory you want to copy, then navigate to the destination directory you want the files in. Execute, and wait. I recommend running rsync on the same files after that.

This only works for the initial dump of files because it makes zero considerations for existing files on the destination PC and will just overwrite them. On future transfers over the same files (updates, etc) use rsync.
 
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Doing exactly the same for the last ${N} years but using tar. In fact, I never heard of pax until now - is it somehow better?
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That was my first time hearing about it. From what I understand, pax handles a few edge cases tar doesn't, but they seem esoteric. It was apparently created to be a kind of successor to tar and cpio, another tool I haven't heard of.
 
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Canonical has a weird case of Not Invented Here syndrome where they do their own projects instead of contributing to the wider open source community. See: Unity, Mir and Snap. None of these projects had to exist.
 
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To be fair, if you look at it without the elitist neckbeard goggles, Ubuntu (especially LTS) is incredibly good as an OS for normal people. Unity is gone (using Gnome now), it's the easiest to use (most guides are written for ubuntu based stuff foremost).
The weird Amazon search stuff was dropped a long time ago and the rest is rock-solid, I've been using it as my main OS for the last almost 10 years (since 14.04) and it's the most friendly Linux for regular users imo (maybe shared with other Ubuntu based distros).
 
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January Cyst said:
Ubuntu (especially LTS) is incredibly good as an OS for normal people.
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It's also incredibly good for developers and more professional users too. At the company I work at for example, pretty much any research computing or cloud virtualization shit is going to be done using Ubuntu VMs these days (nice going, Red Hat). And it suits for us, anyway. Everyone knows what Ubuntu is, it works at least decently for the majority of our use cases (or at least not bad enough that we'd consider porting infrastructure to something else), and most are at least familiar with its tools so unlike Arch Linux or SUSE or Gentoo, when shit does go wrong we're not stuck waiting on the team's token Linux autist to get back into the office before getting things back on track.
 
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Newfag to Linux here. I've ported almost everything I have over to Fedora 35 except my NAS which is running W2G 11 Pro for Workstations. I enabled SMB 1.1 and legacy SMB support on it however none of my fedora systems can access it. What do?
 
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Newfag to Linux here. I've ported almost everything I have over to Fedora 35 except my NAS which is running W2G 11 Pro for Workstations. I enabled SMB 1.1 and legacy SMB support on it however none of my fedora systems can access it. What do?
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IIRC, if the file system is NTFS it won’t be accessible.
 
I really dont like Windows 11, , and decided to give Linux another shot - was unhappy with Ubuntu and Gnome, Mint/ Mate didnt do it for me, and finally decided on Manjaro/KDE - if nothing else its gotta be the most beautiful OS I have ever seen. Took all of a few hours to set up ,and to discover how amazing the AUR is. Pipewire is also a huge step in the right direction and solves one of my biggest complaints.
 

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I really dont like Windows 11, , and decided to give Linux another shot - was unhappy with Ubuntu and Gnome, Mint/ Mate didnt do it for me, and finally decided on Manjaro/KDE - if nothing else its gotta be the most beautiful OS I have ever seen. Took all of a few hours to set up ,and to discover how amazing the AUR is. Pipewire is also a huge step in the right direction and solves one of my biggest complaints.
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It's KDE that's beautiful not Manjaro. When your OS inevitably breaks because you're using the AUR try out Kubuntu or Fedora's KDE spin. Neptune is another interesting looking KDE distro based on Debian.
 
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Considered HARMful said:
Doing exactly the same for the last ${N} years but using tar. In fact, I never heard of pax until now - is it somehow better?
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I'd never heard of it before myself, but it seems it was created as a successor to tar and cpio because BSD and GNU and [insert other insane fork here] versions of those utilities had differences in how flags which people would expect to work a certain way worked. Not ideal for 'universal' archiving utilities which should be able to be called by things like self-extracting shell archives.
 
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Wait, people don't have separate partitions for their data and their installation?
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used to even have the installation on a whole different computer (/usr was a network drive) and it would still be easy to do that. There's just no need for it anymore in a time where 256 GB SSDs cost nothing and broadband is plentiful and flatrated.

You might make still an argument for a networked $HOME on a small SBC tucked away so that your big boy computers have the same config files, scripts and personal data and I even was considering that for a hot minute lately, but eh. Didn't systemd have some rube goldberg contraption for that, because that really sounds like a job for PID 1, you know.
 
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