The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

Kosher Dill said:
I was going to ask the same thing - why is it that Poettering's corporate backers love the idea of "Systemd Plus Gnu" so much? Is something about it more convenient if you want to run a datacenter rather than a desktop?
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It's so you have a wider pool of potential hires that are already familiar with all the tools used at work. To a company's management, the diversity of tools on Linux going all the way up to the init is a straight downside, which is why Red Hat and GNOMEfags are the enemy. BSDs are also monolithic the higher up you go, I think, but luckily for them their design is from way before current year.

Stabmaster Arson said:
You guys may be the only people who would care. I upgraded the RAM in my desktop today from 8GB to 24GB, finally (bought 16GB more and had enough slots to add it without removing the old RAM).
I can now finally have my work virtual machine portal open, a browser for here, and whatever video game I'm playing all at the same time.
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Living on less than 8 for now, so I can imagine the magnitude of this upgrade. How do you not develop ADHD from this kind of setup?
 
awoo said:
isn't that the point of init? to do that in parallel which would save a lot of time over executing bash scripts?
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No, the point of init is just to be the first program, and reap zombie processes.

Putting fancy service management directly into the single most critical process and a whole bunch of other shit is just systemd retardation.
 
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Baguette Child said:
As someone who started out learning on a computer using less than 1GB of RAM, I am continually amazed at how far this technology has come in my lifetime. I'm also lowkey jealous of your three monitor setup.
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My first ever desktop rocked 64mb of ram lol. My first micro computer, the Spectrum had 128k ram. We've come a long way.
 
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Frail Snail said:
The constant context switching would fuck with my brain too much, two is the most I can handle when working mostly on one task.
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Mostly two of the screens are just being used for notification monitoring. When something pops up, I pause what I'm doing and attend to it.
 
Stabmaster Arson said:
Mostly two of the screens are just being used for notification monitoring. When something pops up, I pause what I'm doing and attend to it.
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maybe not a good use of your attention. well it's probably not productive to have video game + other productivity task open if you're trying to do something productive. I find two monitors to be very useful for programming and looking up docs tho.
 
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awoo said:
I find two monitors to be very useful for programming and looking up docs tho.
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I used to be a diehard single-monitor user ("You fucking kids with your ADHD 'multiple curved monitor' setups!") but now I can't even be at my most productive without at least two. One for the stuff I'm currently working on, and the second for documentation and diagnostics and things. Trying to do all of that by tiling/tabbing on a single monitor whenever I'm stuck with a laptop only is always a massive pain.

AnOminous said:
Started out with 16 KB.
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Old.

Old and fat.
 
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Knight of the Rope said:
Old.

Old and fat.
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16KB should be enough for anyone.
Maybe this is why I still enjoy programming microcontrollers from time to time. And I find the new FPGA 'emulation' stuff pretty cool, even if the ZX81 emulation doesn't have the words on the keys.

Also, my next laptop will have 64GB. Why, because I can.
Current one is 40GB RAM and 2TB NVMe, it's mostly VMs for the VPNs or other remote access for the various customers I do work for, so I have to keep them separate.
 
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AnOminous said:
Started out with 16 KB.
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My first machine had 2 megs I think. It shipped with windows 3.1. When windows 95 came out, I couldn't run it so I switched to Slackware on four floppies and did everything in virtual terminals.

All and all it was a really good thing for me because I was using Linux on the desktop in '95.
 
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Basil Julep said:
My first machine had 2 megs I think. It shipped with windows 3.1. When windows 95 came out, I couldn't run it so I switched to Slackware on four floppies and did everything in virtual terminals.

All and all it was a really good thing for me because I was using Linux on the desktop in '95.
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Never forget that the year of the Linux desktop is whenever you started using it.
 
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Baguette Child said:
As someone who started out learning on a computer using less than 1GB of RAM, I am continually amazed at how far this technology has come in my lifetime. I'm also lowkey jealous of your three monitor setup.
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I remember 1gb ram being £50 around 1995 and we still had BBCs when I started high school. How things have changed.

I want a fourth monitor but I’m resisting. If I could find somewhere to stick the laptop I’d use that but it’s probably good that I can’t.

Edit; I don’t remember my first PC specs but I had a dot matrix printer, the green text and DOS only programs. It was a relic even then.
 
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Mint bros, get ready.

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EDIT: Turned on an old-ass laptop I used to use some 10+ years ago, I was checking out its contents, and found my old Opera favorites .adr file. Many broken links, some salvageable, but noticed that I had saved this old Openbox guide, it's very thorough, check it out:

 
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Ahriman said:
Mint bros, get ready.

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EDIT: Turned on an old-ass laptop I used to use some 10+ years ago, I was checking out its contents, and found my old Opera favorites .adr file. Many broken links, some salvageable, but noticed that I had saved this old Openbox guide, it's very thorough, check it out:

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With all the female names the Mint team uses for their releases, I'm surprised there hasn't been an anime girl personification of the releases made by an enthusiastic Mint weeb.
 
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Car Won't Crank said:
With all the female names the Mint team uses for their releases, I'm surprised there hasn't been an anime girl personification of the releases made by an enthusiastic Mint weeb.
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Been done. I don't know if there's Rule 34 yet.
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Car Won't Crank said:
With all the female names the Mint team uses for their releases, I'm surprised there hasn't been an anime girl personification of the releases made by an enthusiastic Mint weeb.
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I was about to ask you guys why the Linux Mint people name their distributions with women's names, but then I decided I'm a grown-ass adult that can google for himself, so I had a looksie. First page of results:
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Fuck these social justice clowns.
 
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