The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Sperg Coalition]

Shlack is Russian noun for something shitty.
Literally shitware.

If you meant derived distributions then yes.

 

[Ayana Otonashi]

Still debating whether I wanna stick to SUSE Tumbleweed or switch to Debian, Endeavour or Fedora/Nobara.

 

[Betonhaus]

Still debating whether I wanna stick to SUSE Tumbleweed or switch to Debian, Endeavour or Fedora/Nobara.

1. Why use Enveavor when you can just learn to install Arch linux
2. Debian. Switch to Debian. Debian 11 not 12, as things are just a bit more stable.

 

[Ayana Otonashi]

1. Why use Enveavor when you can just learn to install Arch linux
2. Debian. Switch to Debian. Debian 11 not 12, as things are just a bit more stable.

1. Fair, Arch has been on my mind as well lmao
2. I'm fine with either Debian install, I'm mostly between Debian and Tumbleweed

 

[Dirty Harry]

All I want for Christmas are real NVIDIA open sourced drivers

I fully understand, I wish they would also but I also understand their position, if they made drivers open source, the Chinese would clone their video cards and other technologies driving down their sales on a massive level.

Linux Mint is on the fence about completely switching to Debian?

Sorry I am responding 2 post in a row but Clem, the lead developer and dictator of Linux Mint has said there are no plans to switch to Debian for their flagships. LMDE only gets attention when it first comes out, then not used much.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I fully understand, I wish they would also but I also understand their position, if they made drivers open source, the Chinese would clone their video cards and other technologies driving down their sales on a massive level.

That's a bullshit excuse. China is more than capable of reverse engineering microchip architectures and microcode and has already done so in the past. They could just buy a bunch of reference boards and work backwards from there. The main barrier they face isn't the architecture, but the manufacturing process.

NVIDIA just hates open source. It's as simple as that.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Sorry I am responding 2 post in a row but Clem, the lead developer and dictator of Linux Mint has said there are no plans to switch to Debian for their flagships. LMDE only gets attention when it first comes out, then not used much.

It also serves as a test bed for porting Linux Mint related tools to other distributions, to ensure that compatibility and quality is consistent within and without the distribution.

I'm currently giving LMDE 6 a spin, and it's as solid as I expected, being based on Debian rather than Ubuntu.

 

[Betonhaus]

I fully understand, I wish they would also but I also understand their position, if they made drivers open source, the Chinese would clone their video cards and other technologies driving down their sales on a massive level.

Has that proven to be an issue with Amd or Intel chips?

 

[Susanna]

NVIDIA just hates open source. It's as simple as that.

They're really petty about it as well. In the HDMI consortium they pushed through a rule saying that HDMI2.1 isn't allowed to be implemented in anything open source. As a result, AMD GPUs on Linux aren't able to do 4k@120 or 8k@60, they're limited to 4k@60 or hideous and absolutely unusable chroma 42 4K@120. I have to do DP output over USB-C to get 4k@120 on my HDMI-only TV.

I've yet to see a single good argument why HDMI2.1 should be closed-source only.

 

[Creative Username]

I've yet to see a single good argument why HDMI2.1 should be closed-source only.

money

 

[attractive_pneumonia]

I fully understand, I wish they would also but I also understand their position, if they made drivers open source, the Chinese would clone their video cards and other technologies driving down their sales on a massive level.

I would suspect that Nvidia's drivers have a lot of skeletons in the closet just like AMD's did. When AMD first tried going open source and merging into the Linux Kernel one of the Kernel devs did a review and blew his top, in about an hour the guy apparently removed a thousand lines of dead code before he ragequit the process and denied the merge request and fired off a scathing email to AMD's crew. I can certainly see why Nvidia wouldn't want to get involved with doing open source drivers, it requires a higher level of professionalism because you can't play ghetto games over bugs and security issues, its either done right the first time or you get absolutely fucking wrecked.

 

[std::string]

I would suspect that Nvidia's drivers have a lot of skeletons in the closet just like AMD's did. When AMD first tried going open source and merging into the Linux Kernel one of the Kernel devs did a review and blew his top, in about an hour the guy apparently removed a thousand lines of dead code before he ragequit the process and denied the merge request and fired off a scathing email to AMD's crew. I can certainly see why Nvidia wouldn't want to get involved with doing open source drivers, it requires a higher level of professionalism because you can't play ghetto games over bugs and security issues, its either done right the first time or you get absolutely fucking wrecked.

Remember when NVIDIA kept getting caught cheating at 3DMark? Pretty sure there's a lot in there they'd rather keep secret.

 

[RedMage]

1. Fair, Arch has been on my mind as well lmao
2. I'm fine with either Debian install, I'm mostly between Debian and Tumbleweed

After distro hopping around I settled on Debian 12 for my laptop. Works fine and nothing has broken.

For my gaming PC, I decided on Chimera OS (Arch) as I pretty much exclusively use it for gaming and they ported Steam Deck's game mode to it. So far games have ran perfect and the weird stuttering issues I would sometimes get on Windows 10 were no longer happening as I honestly think Microsoft was trying to push me to install Windows 11 by making my experience awful with recent patches.

Other distros I've used in the past and liked:

Mx Linux (Debian)
Mint Debian Edition
Cachy OS (Arch)
Garuda Linux (Arch)
Pop! OS (Debian)
Zorin OS (Debian)

There are others but I didn't stick with them for long or just didn't like them.

I may eventually move to Pop! OS once they release their new COSMIC desktop as I really liked what they do with their current set up of GNOME.

 

[AnOminous]

There are others but I didn't stick with them for long or just didn't like them.

I really like Peppermint OS for an old laptop. I've had it work really well on absurdly shitty Compaq laptops as well as very elderly Apple laptops (elderly to the point Apple stops even providing security updates).

Also just being Xfce for the DE is always good in my book.

Because GTK=good. GNOME=FUCK YOU.

 

[RedMage]

I really like Peppermint OS for an old laptop. I've had it work really well on absurdly shitty Compaq laptops as well as very elderly Apple laptops (elderly to the point Apple stops even providing security updates).

Also just being Xfce for the DE is always good in my book.

Because GTK=good. GNOME=FUCK YOU.

There are other cool lightweight distros I haven't tried as I had not found the need to like Puppy OS.

As for XFCE, I never gave it a fair shake because of how ancient it looks. I think you can customize it to make it look a little bit more fresh but it isn't something I delved into. I know it's Mx Linux's flagship desktop environment though.

 

[AnOminous]

As for XFCE, I never gave it a fair shake because of how ancient it looks.

That's actually a plus for me. I utterly hate how shit looks now.

 

[Saddam Hussain Obama]

there was a linux linkup of abunch of linux youtubers

did anyone watch this?

 

[2ndBest]

I know this has probably been asked before, but does anyone have any good recommendations for screenshot software? I am looking for something akin to Lightshot on Windows but so far a lot of what I found on the Archwiki is a hassle to setup or doesn’t have an option to hit print screen, select an area, and then auto save without having to specify what kind of selection I want every time I hit print screen.

 

[std::string]

I know this has probably been asked before, but does anyone have any good recommendations for screenshot software? I am looking for something akin to Lightshot on Windows but so far a lot of what I found on the Archwiki is a hassle to setup or doesn’t have an option to hit print screen, select an area, and then auto save without having to specify what kind of selection I want every time I hit print screen.

Shift+PrintScreen on GNOME (which uses screenshot) or Win+Shift+PrintScreen on KDE (which uses spectacle)

If you're using something else just install spectacle I guess. You can change the hotkey to be just PrintScreen in the config menu.

 

[BMO_]

I know this has probably been asked before, but does anyone have any good recommendations for screenshot software? I am looking for something akin to Lightshot on Windows but so far a lot of what I found on the Archwiki is a hassle to setup or doesn’t have an option to hit print screen, select an area, and then auto save without having to specify what kind of selection I want every time I hit print screen.

open your keyboard settings
delete default bind
make a custom bind that selects an area (command depends on your DE, on XFCE it's xfce4-screenshooter -r)