The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

Sperg Coalition said:
the majority of people just do not care if it's Windows, Mac, Linux, <insert obscure os here>. They care if the tool lets them get the job done
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Speaking from my own radical view of computers and technology in general I do care what os is used as i believe people using computers as just tools and not thinking about the machinations of modern technology has brought us to where we are now in terms of os's and software alike, and because i wish not to support the way technology continues to "progress"
i.e., spyware and proprietary programs being commonplace, I will continue to not tolerate usage of such dehumanizing operating systems and by extension the software peddled by them.
Sperg Coalition said:
  • Try to expand your horizons when it comes to using technology but still keeping yourself grounded within realistic expectations.
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Personally, I'd rather have unrealistic expectations or ideals than to settle for less. I know that windows will most likely reign supreme because of your average pc user being familiar with it and by proxy being unfamiliar with linux, however i wish not to live in a world of such drudgery for the common man so I will continue to denounce Windows. (mac is horrible but i prefer to pretend it does not exist for my own sanity)
On another note im not sure where you got the idea im parroting some youtubers opinion tho i suspect that was more meant for general advice to all. Hell i cant even think of many linux youtubers but some that come to mind are luke soi and that one black grifter with the cute cat channel icon, those people are worthy of a hearty laugh but not much else.
 
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Vesperus said:
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Slav Power said:
I'm sorry, I thought we've abandoned jumper pins with IDE. Now new are those drives exactly?
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Granted the server itself is from 2011, and the problem was the sas/Sata backplane's exposing 3.7v on pin 3 which is now used to remotely reset the drive
the proper way to fix this is to use a molex power adaper or get some specialty tape to cover the offending pin. the wrong way is to break off the pin
 
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Sperg Coalition said:
To be honest, I do not know but I think it handles drives fine.
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It seems to me to run into more situations than Windows where it fails to sync before shutting down, resulting in the need for a fsck. That said, fsck seems to handle it a lot better than Windows chkdsk. I've had some fairly gnarly crashes resulting in a long fsck-time, but without any lasting ill effects, but it seems every Windows installation lasts a couple years at most before shit starts going wiggy and it needs a reinstall.

I almost never have to reinstall a Linux unless I personally did something super retarded.
 
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Sugriva said:
I fell for the meme and installed Arch. How do I make the default GNOME desktop not shit?
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There's a reason why gnome is not very popular among Arch users. In fact there's several, but one of the main ones is the severe difference in philosophy. Another one is that gnome is very, very ridged and that extends to its dependencies. You'll probably have to install half an os again just to run gnome.
 
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Betonhaus said:
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Granted the server itself is from 2011, and the problem was the sas/Sata backplane's exposing 3.7v on pin 3 which is now used to remotely reset the drive
the proper way to fix this is to use a molex power adaper or get some specialty tape to cover the offending pin. the wrong way is to break off the pin
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When disabling pins became necessary, there was a huge controversy and youtube spergout vids about certain molex adapters especially multi drive ones with a certain kind of construction. They can certainly catch fire especially in a home server so its best to avoid them alltogether wherever possible.

The nutcases in the shucking community starting destroying pin 3 because you cannot see what is happening to the tape as you slide the power adapter over it. It's possible, depending on how shitty your tape/taping job that the tape moves, slides off or is abraised in some way. This would have the drive intermittently or constantly power cycling on and off until it dies. So pin breaking became the coin of the realm to solve the problem for certain types of people. I'm an over taper and I've never had it happen but it's possible, just like a plastic molex fire.
 
Slav Power said:
Add non-Steam game. Done. Your non-Steam game now can enjoy all the goodness of the Steam client, such as Steam Input, Proton and all other good stuff. I've added the Xenia emulator that way so I can use Steam Input to add a temporary remap for Saints Row 1 to have a more sane way of drive-by shooting. It's not on Steam but it has the Steam features, weird isn't it? Almost as if it was designed for that.
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Some games require tinkering to even run, how is adding to Steam going to help, you'd have to use protontricks and shit anyways.
 
I listened to you guys and installed KDE instead. It is so much better than gnome, holy shit.

However, it did completely break my arch install the first time. I have no idea how. It was a huge pain in the ass too because I had to redo all the weird fixes to get my wifi card and bluetooth working again. Crossing my fingers that nothing breaks again.
 
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Most likely what broke it was not installing KDE, but uninstalling GNOME. A DE is a huge and complicated piece of software, and it vomits dotfiles all over your ~ the first time its run, making a huge mess.
 
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Most likely what broke it was not installing KDE, but uninstalling GNOME. A DE is a huge and complicated piece of software, and it vomits dotfiles all over your ~ the first time its run, making a huge mess.
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Yeah had this shit happen before when I was a noob, if youre not careful it will take out a bunch of core packages and fuck you without you realizing
 
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snov said:
Most likely what broke it was not installing KDE, but uninstalling GNOME. A DE is a huge and complicated piece of software, and it vomits dotfiles all over your ~ the first time its run, making a huge mess.
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It's something that I really hate about the apparent freedom Linux gives me to change my DE. I can't DE hop because installing any DE will lead to a shitton of packages to be spewed out by installing a single package, but it won't ever work the other way, even when choosing to remove unused ones.

It's also what makes me interested in TWM's like i3, because Linux at it's core is just a CLI OS, the GUI stuff is slapped on top of it, I don't really need a full graphical suite, just a workspace to run software of choice on, and the idea of my desktop being used for using windows and nothing more is very compelling.

My current Windows desktop setup is very basic, there are some Rainmeter widgets on the second monitor, and a taskbar with no start menu button that I would get rid of if I had an alternative way to access the system tray icons, so if I were to move to Linux I'd see myself just manually installing X11, i3 and going from there. It's easy to do and it fits my idea of an OS being just a place to run my software and do nothing more.

Unfortunately I use software that doesn't have a good Linux counterpart, and I don't want to deal with relearning everything for Linux, so I'll still be dealing with Windows since I know how to get it to where I want it to be. But for dual booting or a secondary machine, yeah I can see myself doing that. Maybe I'll reinstall Linux on my tinker ThinkPad again to switch from Mint to Debian and do just that someday.

My only real issue is that I don't know any good CLI alternatives for the usual GUI elements like sound mixer, network management and things like that. I'd be fine with it being a CLI interface, as long as it's more like nano in usability and not vi if that makes sense, and it'll replace the need of learning a bajillion commands to do basic shit.
 
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Is there a way to do snapshots of before/after installing a de and uninstall only the packages installed between those two snapshots, with waringings about packages installed later that have dependencies?
 
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