The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[std::string]

@Dr. Geronimo you'll have to post the whole thing on pastebin or something. It's usually like a thousand lines. Null cries when someone posts that much here.

e: but yeah this is correct it might not be wise to post things like this on KF. It'd reveal all of your hardware details.

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

None of you niggers told me about systemd-analyze blame.

Literally 2 minutes 18 seconds just for systemd-udev-settle.service to boot. Let's see where this might lead me.

Edit: systemctl mask systemd-udev-settle seems to have solved my long boot time. I hope this doesn't break anything. It did NOT fix my shutdown issue

 

[Spasticus Autisticus]

Can someone explain to me why unofficial apps are allowed on an unofficial manager?
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Also I think I got this piece of shit to work decently now. I don't know why a screen full of errors pop up on boot but I hate it.

It’s a Flatpak. Most Flatpaks are not maintained by the software authors. You can view the source of the Flatpak build to see that it just bundles the binary from Brave’s Github repo. This is a lot easier than trying to read some AUR build.

https://github.com/flathub/com.brave.Browser/blob/master/com.brave.Browser.yaml

 

[GoysGoneWild]

I'm ashamed to admit I haven't tried NixOS yet. Anyone got hot takes on this? How are their repos the biggest and freshest?

What are the pros/cons of it vs the Arch ecosystem? Vs gentoo?

 

[Markass the Worst]

I'm ashamed to admit I haven't tried NixOS yet. Anyone got hot takes on this?

If you have the time and energy to spend on it then go for it. This is true of anything Linux related but it's especially true for NixOS as documentation is scarce and most of the time you'll be copying off some tranny's config somewhere or banging your head against the wall trying to get something to work.

How are their repos the biggest and freshest?

Autism. Also because Nix (the package manager) can be used on non-NixOS installs too and by its very nature any packages made for it are guaranteed to work on any glibc system too.

What are the pros/cons of it vs the Arch ecosystem? Vs gentoo?

Pros: if you do it properly you can replicate your exact system setup on any machine with just one config file.
Cons: updating/installing things is slightly more annoying and cryptic (why do nix-env -iA instead of nix-env -i? I don't know but the latter will result in bad things happening down the line)

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

Reporting in to advise all you peasants that my shit is actually stable for once. I just get some visual glitches when unlocking my computer but aside from that, everything works. Everything fucking works! It's a god damn miracle. It fucking works! It'll probably stop working next time I update it, but for now, everything works!

I actually cannot believe it.

 

[Miller]

How come some linux distros recognize a Windows 10 drive during boot (grub or not) whilst others don't?

 

[AnOminous]

How come some linux distros recognize a Windows 10 drive during boot (grub or not) whilst others don't?

I think it depends on what filesystems they support. Some don't seem to recognize ntfs by default, while most seem to recognize FAT32 and the like. I assume it's whatever the distro maintainer decided to support for whatever neckbeardy reason he had.

 

[std::string]

How come some linux distros recognize a Windows 10 drive during boot (grub or not) whilst others don't?

os-prober has been disabled by default in grub since 2.06 because it's a theoretical security hole. Crippling autism strikes again.

Dunno about your other bootloaders.

 

[Miller]

os-prober has been disabled by default in grub since 2.06 because it's a theoretical security hole. Crippling autism strikes again.

Dunno about your other bootloaders.

It's weird because the grub that comes with the gnome versions of Manjaro and Fedora seem to see the windows 10 drives.
I tried Mint and it didn't see my Windows drive, so I went with Fedora.

 

[AnOminous]

os-prober has been disabled by default in grub since 2.06 because it's a theoretical security hole. Crippling autism strikes again.

Dunno about your other bootloaders.

That's interesting because it actually ran this when I installed Mint. I guess they must have customized it to do that. It even recognized MacOS drives that can't actually boot on this system.

 

[YE24]

One of the drives in my storage server is dying. NBD, everything's adequately redundant. However, there's a bit of a snag. One of my LVM volumes is formatted XFS. All my EXT4 volumes fscked in a few minutes. The XFS volume? We're at 60 times longer than the longest EXT4 fsck, on a volume that's a third as big.

Moral of the story: if you have a large volume that might ever need repair, don't use XFS.

TIL.

 

[Knight of the Rope]

Moral of the story: if you have a large volume that might ever need repair, don't use XFS.

Everyone out in enterprise has an XFS repair horror story. I can sort of understand why RHEL shills it so hard, but goddamn do I sometimes wonder why they don't work to try and mitigate some of the issues.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Everyone out in enterprise has an XFS repair horror story. I can sort of understand why RHEL shills it so hard, but goddamn do I sometimes wonder why they don't work to try and mitigate some of the issues.

Rhel lives on support contracts. Software that works perfectly is a net loss for them.

 

[Fcret]

I'm a winnigger and I used xUbuntu as well as regular Ubuntu and they were both shit.
Tons of little problems, most prominent of which was the cursor glitching out and clipping across the screen.
Is this common with Linux or is Ubuntu just shit? I used Ubuntu since it's recommended the most to normalfaggots.
Performance isn't really an issue for me , I would only want to use Linux for privacy/l33t haXor "it looks cool" reasons, as well as just having something else tech related under my belt for career purposes.
What distro should I use, if I should use one at all?

If you want to 'learn' Linux and don't care much about actually using it immediately, you should try Arch or Gentoo. Both of them are installed by bootstrapping the system yourself and configuring your packages etc. They have a lot of good documentation but the process itself is necessarily autistic. The upside is that completing one of these installs will make you much more comfortable with interacting with Linux at a poweruser level. I'd recommend grabbing a cheapo laptop off ebay or something and installing one of those on that to fuck around with.

Anyway to your first point - xubuntu is barely maintained and Ubuntu itself bundles a lot of stupid shit into their default desktop install. There's a spinoff distro called Linux Mint which has a better out-of-the-box experience IMO while still being largely drop-in compatible with Ubuntu installers for all your favorite proprietary shitware. Mint has an XFCE version but for my money I much prefer the Cinnamon desktop when using Mint.

 

[byuu]

Reject grub2
Embrace LILO

 

[AmpleApricots]

efistub because changing boot parameters is for people who are not confident about their decisions in life.

I finally got my thinkpad tablet to give me 50 Hz screen refresh. (mostly need it for emulation of PAL content, like Amiga stuff) intelgpu drivers apparently are buggy somewhere and just won't allow for added modes that stray to far from the described pixel clocks in the EDID. Why? Do not ask me.

I managed to do this by pulling the EDID of the internal panel, editing it to include a 50 Hz detailed timing descriptor (by just changing the pixel clock a bit, an working 48 Hz mode was already in there for movies, threw some manufacturer info out of the EDID to fit this additional mode in) and loading it on boot via kernel parameter. (loading an EDID for a connected screen on the fly via /sys/kernel/debug interface didn't seem to work either) Funnily, with this 50 Hz mode added and working, suddenly I can also on-the-fly add reduced blanking time modes via xrandr, which also would not work before. I found a long-standing (3 year old) bug that kinda goes into the same direction and was marked fixed but is apparently not really. This is apparently something exclusively affecting intel. If you have one of these incredibly high-refresh panels in your mobile PC and linux refuses to uses that high refresh, editing the edid to outright spell-out that high refresh timing might work.

I have room in the EDID for another descriptor. I'm sorta tried to try overclocking the panel to reach 70 Hz for DOS stuff. Not sure if I should though.

 

[Ahriman]

What the fuck is his problem?

 

[Aidan]

Don't know who that is but I have noticed a recent trend of saying VPNs suck because they don't actually make you anonymous. It's like they're trying to dispel the bogus VPN ads that are rampant without saying what VPNs are actually useful for.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

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What the fuck is his problem?

Some asshole who makes himself sound oh-so important because he dislikes Tiling Window Managers, that's the first I've ever seen of his shitty ass safety-padded takes. Also, of all the faces to make, why look like a slack jawed trailer trash retard?