The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Betonhaus]

I have another question about video player recommendations. I currently have the computer set up so that streaming services like Disbey+ or Paramount+ are accessible by PWAs favourited to the taskbar. I want to set up the same thing for browsing and playing videos in the media partition, but I haven't found a solution that isn't janky. I jjust want an applicatiob that when launched launches as a full screen window that lets me browse through the folders without being clogged up by.srt files and other non-video files (possibly with view options like by series or what's new), sort of like VLC for Google TV when connected to a network drive. Something themeable or at least a modern theme with dark mode would be appreciated

 

[DavidS877]

I have another question about video player recommendations. I currently have the computer set up so that streaming services like Disbey+ or Paramount+ are accessible by PWAs favourited to the taskbar. I want to set up the same thing for browsing and playing videos in the media partition, but I haven't found a solution that isn't janky. I jjust want an applicatiob that when launched launches as a full screen window that lets me browse through the folders without being clogged up by.srt files and other non-video files (possibly with view options like by series or what's new), sort of like VLC for Google TV when connected to a network drive. Something themeable or at least a modern theme with dark mode would be appreciated

Kodi

 

[Betonhaus]

Kodi

When I tried Kodi it tried to force an all or nothing ui instead of being a to-the point full screen window that lets me use the favourites bar to switch to different apps. But I'll check if it can be pared down in settings to only do what I need it for.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

When I tried Kodi it tried to force an all or nothing ui instead of being a to-the point full screen window that lets me use the favourites bar to switch to different apps. But I'll check if it can be pared down in settings to only do what I need it for.

Is your media partition a disk on your computer? You could try running a local podman instance of jellyfin and connecting to your media partition through that.

 

[Betonhaus]

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Is your media partition a disk on your computer? You could try running a local podman instance of jellyfin and connecting to your media partition through that.

I just got a prettier video player. The videos are just dumped in a downloads folder and all the fancy sorting just causes overhead and ckunkyness

 

[std::string]

A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model

Summary is that Red Hat is compliant with the GPL because it only applies to customers that you distribute to. If you violate their licensing agreement by creating a clone you are no longer a customer and they boot you. Red Hat's argument is that GPLv2 doesn't force them to maintain a business relationship with anyone who violates their own licensing agreement.

Obviously against the spirit of the GPL but I guess it flies legally.

 

[AnOminous]

Obviously against the spirit of the GPL but I guess it flies legally.

Or nobody's willing to take them on about it and end up in some interminable SCO/IBM type standoff.

 

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Obviously against the spirit of the GPL but I guess it flies legally.

It's kind of a dick move, yeah, but we are talking about a company that probably paid Lennart Poettering at least a million dollars to make Linux worse, even before their acquisition by IBM.

 

[Betonhaus]

Linux is definitely getting more user friendly since I used it last - except the support isn't. I was trying to make the keyboard sleep button turn off the screen without going to sleep, and when I asked for help I was sent down rabbit holes of messing with xrandr and xkeymapper and making the changes persistent - when I could've just gone to settings > shortcuts and unchecked the sleep shortcut for sleep and map it to lock screen, then use notification to make the screen turn off when locked after a 2sec delay (so that releasing the key doesn't just turn the display back on)
Still haven't gotten pin unlock working, as seems kscreenlocker is different from sddm but seems to use common-auth and i don't know what else that will break if I add pin unlock. But I set up a second account that's admin and demoted the main account and changed its password so...

 

[Neil McCauley]

Got me a new PC, Ryzen 5 7600, 32GB of DDR5 6000MHz and a RX 6700. Using Windows LTSC 2021 and of course this sloppy ass pajeetshit has 142 processes idle wasting power and performance.

So does anyone know if Cachy Linux is any good? The fact it heavily encourages x86_64-v3 and has a KDE option gives me a good feeling. I wonder if it has support for other init systems than systemd.

 

[Betonhaus]

Got me a new PC, Ryzen 5 7600, 32GB of DDR5 6000MHz and a RX 6700. Using Windows LTSC 2021 and of course this sloppy ass pajeetshit has 142 processes idle wasting power and performance.

So does anyone know if Cachy Linux is any good? The fact it heavily encourages x86_64-v3 and has a KDE option gives me a good feeling. I wonder if it has support for other init systems than systemd.

What brought Cachy Linux to your attention?

 

[Neil McCauley]

What brought Cachy Linux to your attention?

The fact people claim the packages are compiled all for x86_64-v3 and use modern instruction set operations in the compilations making them faster, I'd like to know if it makes a difference.

 

[Susanna]

The fact people claim the packages are compiled all for x86_64-v3 and use modern instruction set operations in the compilations making them faster, I'd like to know if it makes a difference.

So basically it’s Gentoo with -march=native and -mtune=native? Depending on the specific thing you’re becoming the change will range between slightly worse and somewhat better. Generally speaking optimising binaries for a specific platform offers almost no tangible benefits. Case in point Clear Linux, optimised for Intel CPUs, is regularly out-benchmarked by Arch Linux, which is agnostic.

 

[std::string]

Generally speaking optimising binaries for a specific platform offers almost no tangible benefits.

This is true. Your best "goes faster" upgrade is just switching to zenkernel because it's simply designed to be more responsive for desktop usage. My CPU is usually between 95%-98% idle while just browsing the internet, so it's not like compilation optimizations are going to do shit.

Clear Linux is significantly faster than Arch though for CPU-bound tasks. Not sure where you got that from.

 

[Epoch]

I installed Arch on a spare machine after finding it quite nice on my Steam Deck, I know SteamOS is made simpler but I figured I could manage. After trying to get Blender to run with HIP support on my Vega56 by installing the relevant driver described on the Arch wiki and Blender documentation it now crashes when I render, and now Steam wont even open. Year of the Linux desktop my ass, I'm convinced Linux is like this so that autists/retards can spend all day fixing a mundane problem and it looks like they are doing work instead of actually doing work. Call me retarded or whatever, I'm following the wiki, using AUR, and googling every issue.

Just a little vent, at least its not my actual PC.

 

[guiltyspark85]

I installed Arch on a spare machine after finding it quite nice on my Steam Deck, I know SteamOS is made simpler but I figured I could manage. After trying to get Blender to run with HIP support on my Vega56 by installing the relevant driver described on the Arch wiki and Blender documentation it now crashes when I render, and now Steam wont even open. Year of the Linux desktop my ass, I'm convinced Linux is like this so that autists/retards can spend all day fixing a mundane problem and it looks like they are doing work instead of actually doing work. Call me retarded or whatever, I'm following the wiki, using AUR, and googling every issue.

While I myself don't think Linux is all that good on the desktop, I'm not sure vanilla Arch is a very wise choice of distro to try Linux out. You've chosen a distro that's aimed at experienced Linux users and has a reputation for breaking with updates. Not sure if that reputation for breaking is warranted or if it's just a meme - Linux users frequently downplay issues with Linux, so I assume it's more than a meme. I assume with SteamOS, Valve aren't following the rolling release model that Arch uses and instead bundling up a snapshot of updates. They'd then put those through testing before pushing out to Steam Deck users.

Might be better to judge desktop Linux on one the easier to use distros, such as Fedora, Mint or Ubuntu. In theory, they're going to be more stable and easier to configure. But if you're deadset on using Arch, you might have more luck with EndeavourOS or Garuda. These distros are likely to give you a better out of the box experience than vanilla. But my understanding is all they're adding to Arch is a user-friendly installer and a pre-configured environment. So they're still basically Arch under the hood and pulling their updates from its repositories, so updates breaking your system would still be an issue.

 

[Gatdam Animal Person]

Next time you should absolutely install Timeshift for whenever you have these problems, since you can restore your system.

Though I remember the last time when I used EndeavourOS on a BTRFS partition, though the boot partition was ol’ regular EXT4. Whenever I did a kernel upgrade, and restored to a earlier snapshot, the kernels snaps and goes to rescue mode. It attempts to load a kernel from the boot partition that no longer exists on the system part.

My advice is you should add a subvolume for /boot within BTRFS. Saves a lot of trouble.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Not sure if that reputation for breaking is warranted or if it's just a meme

Why not both?

Arch gets that rap because in the systemd transition days they also merged /usr and that was a fucking shitshow. That and the retards (Just knowledgeable enough to be dumb) don't read the fucking warning telling them to commit X manual mitigation step.

I have fully "broken" Gentoo once. Once because I forgot about updating the system until I tried to go from kernel 2.x to 6.x because several packages literally no longer existed to complete the upgrade.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

To be fair Arch isn't really what people think of when they say "Year of the Linux Desktop" but instead they think of something like Mint or Ubuntu.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Arch is the new trick to play on people just savvy enough to know "Install Gentoo" is a troll.