The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

Considered HARMful said:
Their minds: blown. It's just, like, ethernet was invented you USB-stick carrying, google-drive abusing neanderthals.
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USB sticks? I wish. The thing to do nowadays is send yourself sensitive files in messenger services that strangely now all start to offer this function — to just attach files to send to yourself. And please don't mind if they have a little peek. I'm sure it's just for your own safety.
Kosher Dill said:
You joined KF to talk about Linux?
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In his defense, this is one of the less soy-laden places to talk about linux without it flipping over into outright trolling. As sad as that is.
 
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I recently wiped Windows off my old Thinkpad X250 and have been distro hopping a bit. Not sure if I want the stability and familiarity of Debian or the more up to date nature of Fedora but I'm currently running Fedora 36 XFCE spin on it.

I just put an Intel AX200 wi-fi card in it and upgraded the SSD and everything is working great so far.
 
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Meanwhile I've been comparing EndeavourOS XFCE and Manjaro XFCE, and found somehow Manjaro has the worst XFCE experience even compared to Linux Mint or Xubuntu (with Snap retardation, even)... What the hell?
 
AlephOne2Many said:
Meanwhile I've been comparing EndeavourOS XFCE and Manjaro XFCE, and found somehow Manjaro has the worst XFCE experience even compared to Linux Mint or Xubuntu (with Snap retardation, even)... What the hell?
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This seems to be a general theme with Manjaro, being a worse option for most things (if you know what you are doing, of course). Recently the Pine64 community has exploded with chat about Martin Braam's post about leaving the project, citing percieved favoritism as the primary reason for leaving. As someone noted above, they forgot to renew their SSL certificate, which is unacceptable from a project that big. By the way, if you are up for learning a new init system (it really isn't that hard, however you might have to write a couple init scripts) you might also look at Artix XFCE edition. Comes with a nice GUI installer, but you still have Artix under the hood. You also have access to three different init systems. (I would go with OpenRC if I were you.)
 
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AlephOne2Many said:
Meanwhile I've been comparing EndeavourOS XFCE and Manjaro XFCE, and found somehow Manjaro has the worst XFCE experience even compared to Linux Mint or Xubuntu (with Snap retardation, even)... What the hell?
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EndeavourOS has really amazing XFCE theming. Like they really took their time with that shit.

Stock XFCE is an eye-bleeding ballsore.
 
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It is. Devuan and Void may as well customize their xfce, I got mine to look and control much nicer just like any standalone tiling WM.
 
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Sperg Coalition said:
Good thing that some distributions try to make it decent looking: Slackware for example uses the Greybird theme and the elementary xfce icon theme to give XFCE a non-flat looking theme which I really like because it doesn't look soulless like the majority of modern flat styled themes.
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Fedora and Debian use the Adwaita theme for XFCE and I like the look. Especially with the dark version. I don't particularly like the stock icon theme though so I'll have to try out the elementary one.
 
Ahriman said:
Another "turn KDE into a MacOS rip-off, but better in practically every way" video.


Either way, I still enjoy this guy's content.
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I see a million of these, all I want from Linux is for it to be windows 7 with modern drivers.
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Mint and manjaro, have always given a closer thing to what i'm after out of the box.
I honestly tried to stay away from manjaro after I saw linus brick his os, but I've come to terms with the fact he's actually retarded.
I've been running manjaro on my work laptop and it's actually been pretty good, even with an older hard drive it's running well.

My main fear right now is windows 11, I've tried it and I've had others I know try it too. It's shit and Microsoft is trying really hard to make it for the lowest IQ users and rip off apple's os. They made the "Start menu" a webapp...
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Customization is also important, though I tend to go back and forth on some things the fact manjaro just has the abilty to change from a mac os to a windows 95 look at the press of a button is cool. Windows is always a fight and will often add features that are terrible like literally forcing 3 different news pop ups without any way to change the news source (even apple lets it's users do this). Manjaro also has widgets that can be added at the press of a button with a steam workshop like page to get more (it also has this for it's themes).
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The sad part is trying to get apps to work, I've gotten a lot better at learning how to install shit on linux, from my sudo apt get days on raspbian. I'm even willing to accept a lot of games simply wont work, but it annoys me to see shit like Visual Studio Code not having any official support, like guys you offer it on mac os and it's literally a glorified text editor. Sure you can get a version that will sort of work but I can't log in and one of my fav things about vs code is that I can make it auto put my code in the cloud, and I cant do that without signing in.

But one of my main issues with windows is even if you get past all the horrible useless new setting menus, unpin all the bs they try to give you and give up on any hope of being able to change anything even surface level about the os, it will still be slow and bloated as shit.
like a car with a new coat of paint to cover the rust windows is slow because it's still windows 95.
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