The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

7he47r0n said:
I use my phone for making phone calls, messaging, and browsing the Internet. Any of those can be affected negatively without Google Services?
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no. there's a ton of apps that i've used that scream at me cause i don't have gservices installed but they seem to work fine after you get past the message.
malt ipecac said:
I think what you're describing has to do with subpixel rendering. At least, the "double vision in 3 directions" comment reminds me of that.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering

Some desktop environments expose options to customize this setting. Maybe see if that helps.
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that looks like my problem. i'll spend a little more time with it and see what i can figure out. Thanks!!
 
gampboonerisms said:
that looks like my problem. i'll spend a little more time with it and see what i can figure out. Thanks!!
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I know for sure you have access to relevant settings in KDE Plasma, but I don't know about other DEs. Best of luck -- let me know if it actually solves the problem.
 
gampboonerisms said:
no. there's a ton of apps that i've used that scream at me cause i don't have gservices installed but they seem to work fine after you get past the message.

that looks like my problem. i'll spend a little more time with it and see what i can figure out. Thanks!!
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Yes, I've finally took @malt ipecac advice to heart and read up on Lineage OS. Seems almost all of the necessary applications - phone calls, messages etc. - are already pre-installed. The only things I need to throw in is Kuraba, NewPipe, Tutanota, The Onion Browser - and maybe some nice theme to fit my soon-to-be Linux desktop.
 
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7he47r0n said:
Yes, I've finally took @malt ipecac advice to heart and read up on Lineage OS. Seems almost all of the necessary applications - phone calls, messages etc. - are already pre-installed. The only things I need to throw in is Kuraba, NewPipe, Tutanota, The Onion Browser - and maybe some nice theme to fit my soon-to-be Linux desktop.
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If you like to smoke dope, download Vector Pinball from F-Droid.
 
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7he47r0n said:
Yes, I've finally took @malt ipecac advice to heart and read up on Lineage OS. Seems almost all of the necessary applications - phone calls, messages etc. - are already pre-installed. The only things I need to throw in is Kuraba, NewPipe, Tutanota, The Onion Browser - and maybe some nice theme to fit my soon-to-be Linux desktop.
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I recommend DNS66 (f-droid) for whole device ad blocking. It works for game apps and for browsers that can't use UblockOrigin (gorhill). It doesn't work for instagram (oh well), but I've been using DNS66 for so long that I can't even tell you apps that do have ads. I love Newpipe and can't get enough of my friends to switch over to it lol!
 
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So, my phone has arrived, and I've been reading through instructions on how to install LineageOS on their official site... only the guide is forewarned with a notice that those instructions are auto generated. Are they still reliable?
 
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Anyone else think Pipewire fucking sucks dick? Because I was forced to upgrade to it on Manjaro. Just fucking sucks. I have to restart it all the time due to bluetooth speaker. I don't like it. Pulse was mature and just worked out of the box on manjaro.
 
7he47r0n said:
My good friends, after careful deliberation; reading through your advice, fasting and prayer, I am almost ready to take my first step into the world of Linux.
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Are you gonna be okay, bro? You say you're taking your "first steps" into Linux but you've already gone all in on a LineageOS phone when you've still barely even used Linux on a normal computer. You're absolutely diving into the pool at the deep end here.

Linux is great, but it's different at the best of times and flat-out broken at the worst of times. You should prepare yourself for shit to go wrong. Maybe your drivers won't work properly? (Note: @Kosher Dill told you before that the Oneplus packages in Lineage probably aren't stable yet, so it would be wise to go in expecting some issues.) Or maybe some program/workflow you have just isn't possible on Linux (yet)? And the list goes on.

You absolutely will have problems like these at some point, because we all did too. And it'll be demoralizing as fuck. But it'll be exponentially more demoralizing if every device you own has those problems all at once. I guess I'm a little confused at your endgame here, because your plan so far looks a lot like what I'd get someone to do if I actually wanted them to hate Linux for the rest of their life.
 
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Knight of the Rope said:
(Note: @Kosher Dill told you before that the Oneplus packages in Lineage probably aren't stable yet, so it would be wise to go in expecting some issues.)
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I was talking about the new Oneplus 9 that just came out. 8 I assume is pretty stable at this point.
Maybe we should move the phone talk to the phone thread so as not to annoy everyone else who wants to talk about actual Linux. Even if Android is a kind of Linux, God willing, you'll never need to get too deep into it.
 
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I'm going in. Wish me luck, friends.

That ended rather anticlimactically. Despite doing everything according to the instructions, and triple-checking everything to make sure it's set-up properly, when trying to use the "fastboot devices" command, it simply won't recognise my PC.
 
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tehpope said:
Anyone else think Pipewire fucking sucks dick? Because I was forced to upgrade to it on Manjaro. Just fucking sucks. I have to restart it all the time due to bluetooth speaker. I don't like it. Pulse was mature and just worked out of the box on manjaro.
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They're both made by people who decided it would be easier to make a bloated mixer layer on top of ALSA instead of improving the documentation for dmix, or contributing improvements to ALSA would have mitigated the need for their vanity projects. The only possible advantage PipeWire could have over pulse is that it doesn't involve Poettering, but given it's being developed by a bunch of Pulse devs, I'm not sure it will actually be any improvement. It's pretty much just a case of "we want to capture the high-end audio scene but we made pulse too complicated for that use-case, so we're starting over from scratch". In other words, they're trying to steal JACK's market and roll it all into the same soggy bag of shit.

Quite honestly, the only reason Pulse won out over JACK for general use audio is because poettering leveraged his relationship with red hat to push it into mainstream distros. Same as he did with systemd a few years later.

tl;dr yes I do think it sucks dick, but probably not for the same reasons you do.
 
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I just started using Linux Mint Cinnamon and in kind of struggling. It's my first time using Linux after dabbling with it in a virtualbox, and I really wanted to get away from Windows products and especially Windows 10. I got a roomy new 2TB SSD and with a little effort got Mint running on it. I also actually kinda like doing stuff from the command line, when I was a kid my dad used MS-DOS for years so that was my first experience with computers until he upgraded to Windows 3.1.
The first thing I wanted to do was install a game. This is a game that's known to run well on Linux and has several different methods of installing and running it on Linux, you can do it through Lutris, Steam, etc. After several hours of trying different methods that didn't work I got it installed, but it runs like garbage, which isn't supposed to happen. I didn't expect everything to be ez pz but this was a little more of a struggle than I thought it would be and I spend a lot of time in this game so it's a big deal if it's not playable.

So originally I was going to keep my main hd with Windows 7 on it and boot Windows on that when I wanted it, and Linux on the 2tb ssd, and planned on that being my main os and only using Windows if I had to. But I discovered a weird issue which is that my windows 7 hd cannot be booted from unless a totally different hard drive is also plugged in. Something is wrong with the boot registry on the 7 hd and I think I could fix it with a windows 7 installation disk, but I don't have that. I want to rebuild my pc and don't want 3 hard drives plugged in at all times.

So now I'm wondering if I should partition the SSD and try to get Windows 8 running on another partition and just ditch both the other hard drives, stick with Windows for now, and dabble in Linux when I feel like it. Would this be the most reasonable thing to do? Or am I letting myself be too easily deterred?
 
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melty said:
So now I'm wondering if I should partition the SSD and try to get Windows 8 running on another partition and just ditch both the other hard drives, stick with Windows for now, and dabble in Linux when I feel like it. Would this be the most reasonable thing to do? Or am I letting myself be too easily deterred?
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Are you using UEFI? Multi-booting with multiple drives seems to be an absolute nightmare in my experience. I'd say do anything else but that. One drive with multiple partitions, one OS running in a VM inside the other, or just two completely separate computers.
 
melty said:
So now I'm wondering if I should partition the SSD and try to get Windows 8 running on another partition and just ditch both the other hard drives, stick with Windows for now, and dabble in Linux when I feel like it. Would this be the most reasonable thing to do? Or am I letting myself be too easily deterred?
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try it in a vm beforehand, use a throwaway computer for testing - i don't think installing gentoo and throwing yourself to the wolves without doing actual research first works well for most people. i'd also beware of installing windows 8.1 if you want everything to just work because i'm guessing most devs will drop support for it at the same time they break everything on windows 7, but if you're interested in using linux as a desktop os then you may not give much of a shit
 
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