The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Betonhaus]

Is there a way to uninstall steam without uninstalling my video drivers and desktop environment? I installed the flatpack steam before realizing that steam was pre-installed but I prefer to use the flatpack version of steam. Uninstalling steam brings up a list of things it'll remove and there's a lot of key components there.

 

[Civillian 18]

Is there a way to uninstall steam without uninstalling my video drivers and desktop environment? I installed the flatpack steam before realizing that steam was pre-installed but I prefer to use the flatpack version of steam. Uninstalling steam brings up a list of things it'll remove and there's a lot of key components there.

sudo dpkg -r --force-depends package

 

[morto di figa]

I use nginx proxy manager. It automatically renews the certificates. I know cloudflare stopped protecting kiwi, but you can also use them for certificates(and add them to nginx proxy manager) that last a really long time so you don't have to worry about renewal. Their protection is actually good regardless of their practices, just stick to the free plan.

Do the certificates on the free plan do wildcards like *.domain.com? And can you download them to use with other servers like dovecot and postfix? Was looking for this on their website the other day and couldn't find anything.

 

[GNU Abyss]

Is there a way to uninstall steam without uninstalling my video drivers and desktop environment? I installed the flatpack steam before realizing that steam was pre-installed but I prefer to use the flatpack version of steam. Uninstalling steam brings up a list of things it'll remove and there's a lot of key components there.

There's clearly something wrong with your distro's packaging if that's your only option. Don't pull a Linus now, inspect what exactly it's trying to remove and what your system is actually using.

 

[morto di figa]

Serious answer, but I'd say Debian, not because I like it if you go into linux no experience it's fucking annoying as hell to use, but it's the distro everyone else copies and I mean debian is pretty solid.

Everything else is just a meme distro or this "beginner-friendly" piece of shit that's literally worse than Debian in every way. Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Manjaro, Gentoo, Elementary OS, Fedora, fuck all these bitches.

Gentoo is the autists distro of choice because it's the only one that lets you specify whether you'll get a gtk or qt dialogue when you open files in gvim.
Everyone who answered Debian to this question needs to take the cock out of their mouth and look at the release names. I don't want to remember which gay character from toy story I have to type in when I'm adding a repository.

 

[Mikoyan]

any distros that work on tablet? I was gifted a bloatware lenovo and half the memory is used up by junk

My work laptop is technically a tablet and straight out the box Ubuntu seemed to have okay support.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

any distros that work on tablet? I was gifted a bloatware lenovo and half the memory is used up by junk

I think pop!_os could be a good one for a tablet. I know they send out ones with it already installed.

Also maybe Ubuntu, or fedora.

Pop! Is the one I'm pretty confident will work well. Fedora might be my next choice.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

Gentoo is the autists distro of choice because it's the only one that lets you specify whether you'll get a gtk or qt dialogue when you open files in gvim.
Everyone who answered Debian to this question needs to take the cock out of their mouth and look at the release names. I don't want to remember which gay character from toy story I have to type in when I'm adding a repository.

The real autists do Linux from scratch.

 

[0gh]

Do the certificates on the free plan do wildcards like *.domain.com? And can you download them to use with other servers like dovecot and postfix? Was looking for this on their website the other day and couldn't find anything.

Yeah, you need the domain using their nameservers already to see the menu. After you add the domain to CF, manage it and it's under SSL/TLS -> Origin Serveer -> Create certificate. I have a *.mydomain.com wildcard cert until 2038, and you can make other certificates for specific subdomains if you want.

When you create it I think either it was download buttons, or it just shows you the text for the cert&key to copy&paste

 

[DavidS877]

Do the certificates on the free plan do wildcards like *.domain.com? And can you download them to use with other servers like dovecot and postfix? Was looking for this on their website the other day and couldn't find anything.

Just use letsencrypt like a normal person.

 

[The Ugly One]

Gentoo is the autists distro of choice because it's the only one that lets you specify whether you'll get a gtk or qt dialogue when you open files in gvim.

I thought Gentoo was supposed to be a serious distro, and it has gvim for the GUIcucks?

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

The real autists do Linux from scratch.

In fact this is the type of thing that uses Linux from scratch.

 

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In fact this is the type of thing that uses Linux from scratch.

I think this user did 'her' own 'voice training' as well. JFC

 

[Betonhaus]

There's clearly something wrong with your distro's packaging if that's your only option. Don't pull a Linus now, inspect what exactly it's trying to remove and what your system is actually using.

 

[DavidS877]

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So? They were auto-installed and now they're not needed.
Hopefully your flatpak includes all the libraries it needs.
Looks like for steam they may be the i386 versions anyway. Not that the gui tells you important things like that.

 

[Battlefield42]

Uninstalling steam brings up a list of things it'll remove and there's a lot of key components there.

Please do it and tell us what happened.

 

[Betonhaus]

Please do it and tell us what happened.

Nothing visible. However during the transfer I discovered that the flatpack version doesn't reliably read the steam library on the data drive so I uninstalled the flatpack and reinstalled the native one. The flatpack version when I close and reopen it thinks the library on the second drive is empty, except for anything freshly transferred to the second drive before rebooting. The native version sees all games installed on the second drive fine so it wins.

 

[Fcret]

Nothing visible. However during the transfer I discovered that the flatpack version doesn't reliably read the steam library on the data drive so I uninstalled the flatpack and reinstalled the native one. The flatpack version when I close and reopen it thinks the library on the second drive is empty, except for anything freshly transferred to the second drive before rebooting. The native version sees all games installed on the second drive fine so it wins.

flatpak is sandboxed to hell so I'm not surprised that it can't get access to an external drive.

I wouldn't bother with steam flatpack tbh - Most of the stuff Steam requires is stuff you'll want anyway if you want to use wine standalone for win32 slop and Steam itself is actually pretty good at managing the dependencies of stuff it installs. I've never had a problem with native Steam.

EDIT: Apparently this is common enough to have a github issue. There's a pretty easy override you can use for flatpak Steam. My opinion remains the same that you should probably just stick with native steam.

 

[TheDataHorder]

any distros that work on tablet? I was gifted a bloatware lenovo and half the memory is used up by junk

linux on mobile devices is still very early days. most mobile focused distros dont have a lot of supported devices and the devices they do support, often dont have essential shit working.
if you're looking for an android replacement then you'll be waiting a good few years since there's a lot of work that needs to be done.
honesty, you're better off finding if your tablet is GSI compatible then using a GSI image from your fav third party android os dev's. (some have images, some dont, go google some)

 

[Kiwi & Cow]

Gentoo is the autists distro of choice because it's the only one that lets you specify whether you'll get a gtk or qt dialogue when you open files in gvim.
Everyone who answered Debian to this question needs to take the cock out of their mouth and look at the release names. I don't want to remember which gay character from toy story I have to type in when I'm adding a repository.

All distros are shit, but debian is the least shitty that's why I picked it.
I'm sure your fav distro is a massive piece of shit that's unusable and extremely autistic to use. Which one is it? Arch? Artix? Nixos?

Atleast they didn't deserve a mention 'cause they're not offshoots of debian and they're not meme distros unlike Ubuntu. So they're slightly better, but like not by much.

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I swear the jokes writes themselves.