The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Actually, not too long ago there was a major issue where Windows couldn't update because the recovery partition was full.
If you're talking about KB5034441 there was also apparently an issue where it'd fail if your WinRE partition was over 900MB. Resize your recovery partition to fix it but not too much! At least they seem to have fixed whatever Pajeet horror birthed that update.

Linux will fuck you sometimes but at least it has the decency to tell you what's going on so you can fix it.
 
at least it has the decency to tell you what's going on so you can fix it
Tell you how? By spitting out some log file that one of the thousand components that could be at fault spits out God knows with technical data meant for developers and not end users? If something deeper in the OS fails because of bad code, it fails, and you're at the mercy of the developers to figure out what went wrong and fix it.
 
This last line is killer. So many electron apps that are poorly optimized, buggy and crash prone but hey at least we have more soy devs to make more shitty memory hungry apps right.
The problem with making something easy to use is you open it up for shitdevs to flood the space with shitapps.
 
Actually, not too long ago there was a major issue where Windows couldn't update because the recovery partition was full. That's when I decided to delete my old one with gparted and I bricked my install so I had to reinstall on a spare SSD that I thankfully had, lesson learned to not fuck with Windows partitions and to make sure it throws the recovery one at the end of the disk on a fresh install
That was an incredibly dumb issues. The only two solutions were to upgrade to Windows 11 or follow a guide that had you disable the recovery environment, delete that partition, shrink the neighboring partition by a mere 250mb, then recreate the partition with the same UUID and enable it. It has to be done on every computer in my house running Windows 10
 
This last line is killer. So many electron apps that are poorly optimized, buggy and crash prone but hey at least we have more soy devs to make more shitty memory hungry apps right.

I remember when Discord first started out, they actively advertised how well their app ran. Now they've gotten rid of that line of advertising completely in place of a generic corporate slogan that tells you nothing about the program.

JavaScript and its children in general make me MATI. It is a fucking plague. Years ago we built a programming langauge that can't:

* reliably execute code in order
* reliably check if a number is odd or even
* reliably check the type of a variable or function
* reliably compare two values

And we still made it not only the backbone of the internet, but the backbone of a bunch of cancerous libraries that are used to build buggy, slow crappy webapps for desktops. Ugh.
 
I remember when Discord first started out, they actively advertised how well their app ran. Now they've gotten rid of that line of advertising completely in place of a generic corporate slogan that tells you nothing about the program.

JavaScript and its children in general make me MATI. It is a fucking plague. Years ago we built a programming langauge that can't:

* reliably execute code in order
* reliably check if a number is odd or even
* reliably check the type of a variable or function
* reliably compare two values

And we still made it not only the backbone of the internet, but the backbone of a bunch of cancerous libraries that are used to build buggy, slow crappy webapps for desktops. Ugh.
It also has the best package manager npm where it breaks when someone decides to unpublish(That concept it's self being insane in the way it works) a critical package. What does this package do? Some complex database indexing, low level memory hacking? Nah it fucking left pads a string. As someone put it when talking about JS/NPM: "There is no fix for this issue" says the only package manager that has this issue.

The problem with making something easy to use is you open it up for shitdevs to flood the space with shitapps.
The older I get the more I yield to this logic. As a young sysadmin I lost my temper at an old salt when he told me "The code is the documentation" but the older I get the more I realize how valid that can be as a gate to filter soy devs.
 
All this talk about code makes me fear whatever unholy abomination I may unleash as I learn Emacs Lisp for my first choice at trying to break into the programming hobby.
Please tell me this is a joke. If it's not then please tell me what the fuck you plan to build that you picked that thing as your starting point.
 
Please tell me this is a joke. If it's not then please tell me what the fuck you plan to build that you picked that thing as your starting point.
honesty, not a damn single idea. My computer is just a gaming device at this point in my life. I want to pick up a computer skill of some kind and so far the book "An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp" sits well with me so far as it assumes I know nothing about programming.
 
honesty, not a damn single idea. My computer is just a gaming device at this point in my life. I want to pick up a computer skill of some kind and so far the book "An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp" sits well with me so far as it assumes I know nothing about programming.
tbh I would start with python if I had no idea what I wanted to do with coding due to it being easily readable and very newb popular. As it stands I started with C++ with dreams of working on some opensource projects and I've still written more useful stuff in python than cpp.
 
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I wonder which linux distro are maintained or developed by more based people, or at least understanding Wayland is horseshit.

I feel saddened by the fact KDE 6 will remove X11 support in future.
 
I wonder which linux distro are maintained or developed by more based people, or at least understanding Wayland is horseshit.

I feel saddened by the fact KDE 6 will remove X11 support in future.
Probably Linux Mint. Wayland support is still "experimental" meaning that they're being pressured into supporting it but they do not make it part of the regular user experience
 
Bedrock is super neato, I'm currently fucking around with using some stable Debian packages on arch. Very rarely do I notice any issues.
Thank you for reminding me about Bedrock.

I was running into a situation with needing Plasma 5 packages, and I wanted some newer packages that weren't available via flatpak. Set it up with Debian stable then added some Arch AUR packages. Works way better than it should. Going to mess around with it more and different stratums.
 
I thought using a Debian package to make Discord work on Slackware was voodoo stuff...
It's peak voodoo shit. Want to run Gentoo, Arch, Void, Alpine, and Debian packages under one roof? Yeah bedrock can do that. I'm just amazed someone was able to create a competent solution. Saw it years ago but completely forgot about it.

Was in a weird spot for trying to get my needs met, it saved me from having to start manually building and maintaining packages.
 
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Then what should I use?
Might be interested in a Win9x clone or Common desktop environment...
If DE's are out of the question then you're in X11 window managers realm. A popular choice is a tiling window manager, which automatically tiles any window that you open, has separate workspaces and is controlled solely with keyboard shortcuts. For X11 you may try i3, since dwm is autistic, you have to manually compile it from source to use it and recompile it every time you change something, because the config is the code. You can install i3 from your package manager and it uses a config file, like any sane program should do.

Important note: without a DE, you essentially don't have things you take for granted in Windows or KDE or any other Linux DE such as a start menu, control panel, desktop icons or anything like that. You're in the hard mode now, a window manager is just that, a window manager, does the bare essentials a desktop UI should do. Perhaps if you try it for a while you'll get used to it and find it a better experience once you figure out how to adjust your workflow with the right additions.

Needless to say, if you're not going to go with a DE, your next stop is window managers, and you're in for a ride. dwm, i3, openbox, whatever you'll try, it'll be barebones and it'll be up to you to make it usable.
 
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If DE's are out of the question then you're in X11 window managers realm. A popular choice is a tiling window manager, which automatically tiles any window that you open, has separate workspaces and is controlled solely with keyboard shortcuts. For X11 you may try i3, since dwm is autistic, you have to manually compile it from source to use it and recompile it every time you change something, because the config is the code. You can install i3 from your package manager and it uses a config file, like any sane program should do.

Important note: without a DE, you essentially don't have things you take for granted in Windows or KDE or any other Linux DE such as a start menu, control panel, desktop icons or anything like that. You're in the hard mode now, a window manager is just that, a window manager, does the bare essentials a desktop UI should do. Perhaps if you try it for a while you'll get used to it and find it a better experience once you figure out how to adjust your workflow with the right additions.

Needless to say, if you're not going to go with a DE, your next stop is window managers, and you're in for a ride. dwm, i3, openbox, whatever you'll try, it'll be barebones and it'll be up to you to make it usable.
I already knew about i3, Suckless, etc.

I know people that emulate Luke Smith's workflow, but I am not as schizo to run everything in CLI and not use the mouse.
I might consider checking out i3 on a secondary device, or even old machine like a Pentium 2/3 (depends on what instructions the CPU needs), but this I will do in summer, not now.

KDE for me is probably the best DE I have used. Too bad they will get infected GNOME style and I don't understand why Pointieststick (https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/17/so-lets-talk-about-this-wayland-thing/) defends Wayland so much.

I know a lot of people shit on him, but he points valid reasons why it is fucked Wayland.

The devs responsible for Wayland are stubborn and refuse to implement anything against their bullshit philosophy.
I understand, it doesn't have 100% to be compatible with X11, but it is definitely a downgrade and it doesnt want to offer the same features X11 used to have. X11 offers an unniversal implementation. Now Wayland is just a guideline.

I heard a thing about Arcan which wants to make itself an alternative to X11 and Wayland.
 
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