The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Jeff Q. Anime]

Hard drives have a single arm with multiple fingers that all seek to the same point on each of their respective platters. They all record one part of the same data block at once and read parts of the same data block at once.
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that's not true at all. only a single head is active at a given time. blocks are resident on a single side of a single platter only. they are not split among platters. you do not gain r/w speed by adding more platters, only by increasing density of a single platter or increasing rpm.

only the dual actuator drives mentioned above are an exception, but each half-actuator can still only access a single side of a single platter, like any normal hdd.

YOU, sir, are the retard. rescind that dumb sticker.

 

[Betonhaus]

Very well I was mistaken on the hard drive thing. But SSDs are not RAID.

 

[Jeff Q. Anime]

Very well I was mistaken on the hard drive thing. But SSDs are not RAID.

No, they're not "RAID", but they can access multiple chips simultaneously, and NVMe-tier controllers are not performing at their full potential if they only have access to a single chip...

 

[Dill]

Does anyone know a good video editing software for Mint preferably one that’s similar to Premiere Pro

 

[dec05eba]

Does anyone know a good video editing software for Mint preferably one that’s similar to Premiere Pro

davinci resolve if you want professional grade or kdenlive if you want something that is free but also good depending on what you use it for

 

[HootersMcBoobies]

Only you and your poor people hard drives.
Seagate and WD are doing dual actuator drives.

I think individual head actuation existed decades ago too, but they ended up being too complex and impractical without enough benefits. It's interesting this is coming full circle, but I think it's still just some enterprise SAS drives and nothing consumer yet.

 

[Jeff Q. Anime]

SATA versions of the dual actuator drives exist. Obviously you can only address it as one drive logically, but if you split it into two partitions you can practically address the heads individually and get more bandwidth.

 

[Baraka Obama]

Very well I was mistaken on the hard drive thing. But SSDs are not RAID.

It's effectively the same thing. The risk of a RAID0 with two NVME drives with 1 chip each is about the same as a single NVME drive with 2 identical chips and the speeds are correlated to the speed of the chips themselves, only bottlenecked by the controller. Only difference is you're not going through a RAID controller and separate drive interfaces.

 

[Slav Power]

Does anyone know a good video editing software for Mint preferably one that’s similar to Premiere Pro

What dec05eba said, DaVinci Resolve. Give them trash registration info on the download page and you're off to the races, a fully professional video editor that works on Windows, Linux and macOS. Obviously you'll have to adjust a bit, but remember: once you adjust to Resolve that's one, or even two Adobe products less in your life.

Don't install Kdenlive, Kdenlive is hot shit.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

I'm sure you guys may have heard about this already. I've been seeing it make the rounds with all the Linux tubers.

For those that haven't Firefox added a tos basically. Saying they have a non-exclusive, right to your data. Something along those lines. In this video he goes over a few other interesting things. Like them removing the language in their FAQ, and update messages, saying they won't sell your data.

The reason I'm sharing this here though, was the line right near the end saying to maybe go try out ladybird because it's the only "non pozzed" browser left. Was pretty funny hearing that for me.

 

[Local Trash Enthusiast]

who says you can't run windows without a license? hell there are activators on github if you don't want to pay a cent.
people run linux because they WANT to. or maybe they're tired of dealing with windows and want to try an alternative.
seeth at the fact that others don't agree with you, we'll just stand here and laugh at your anger.
Linux chads stay winning.

Its super weird to me that people are such OS supremacists. I dick around with a lot of obscurer OSes for fun to see what exists beyond the current NT/Unix duopoly, and its sad that people would rather pick teams instead of seeing the values of each system.

-NT (Windows) is great for basic users, office stuff, gaming, etc. IoT LTSC and Massgrave have saved me from having to migrate over to Linux for a long long time on my main rig. Windows has a HUGE library of obscure and exotic devices that don't really have drivers in the Linux kernel (Yet, hopefully!) and rock solid backwards compatibility. But dear GOD I cannot fathom how any normie deals with cucked non-Enterprise versions of windows.

-Linux is what I run on all my servers, Its lean, reliable (depending on distribution) and secure for the most part. Its open sourced, has very low amounts of sketchiness and there's tons of purpose built images and distros for all sorts of wacky hardware. Its a tinkerer/ poor mans dream, and taught me a lot about command line interfaces and I wished I learned it when I was younger. I plan on teaching my son Linux once he's old enough to use a PC.

-Haiku is a fun sort non-Unix like that is great for teaching kids how to use a really simple environment with near 0 chance they'll fuck it up. Is it practical as a daily driver? Kinda? I wouldn't advise it, but it runs on even the weakest e-waste!

-AmigaOS and its derivatives (AROS, MorphOS etc) are a lot of fun if you were too young to have experienced thee old days of the demo scene and BBSes, and the fact that they REQUIRE PowerPC or x86 non x64 architecture stuff makes them great for unused PowerMac systems etc.

-BSDs are weird, they're very similar to Linux, but lacking in a lot of functionality by design, their main benefit is that their documentation and manpages ESPECIALLY in openBSD are unmatched.

-MacOS is strange and I don't use it a lot due to its inherently locked down and pay to play nature, I used to do Hackintosh NUCs with a buddy, but with x86 MacOS on death row, its not worth exploring unless you're an ARMfag.
I may be overly optimistic, but I feel if people understood that your OS and your hardware matter a lot less than your intentions/use case, that maybe, just maybe, people would actually enjoy using their computers again. Sorry for the wall of text, its 4am where I live and I felt like ranting.

 

[Ahriman]

https://x.com/Pirat_Nation/status/1895765034632167723

 

[jeff7989]

But the most important question is, did he follow the guide or did he use the installer?

 

[jipjap]

If you guys are using nix, I wanna point out that you can declaratively install extensions for Firefox/Chromium and define policies.json and user.js through nix. I grabbed this snipped from the nixos discourse thread on the topic. It de facto pins you to the specific extension version that you define in your declaration, though, but I've found this to be very useful. I don't think you can change the search engine through policies anymore, though.

Spoiler: nix snippet

{
 programs.firefox = {
  enable = true;
#  package = pkgs.firefox-beta;
  package = pkgs.librewolf;
  preferences = {
    "browser.aboutConfig.showWarning" = false;
    "browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser" = false;
    "browser.startup.homepage" = "about:blank";
    "browser.newtabpage.enabled" = false;
    "browser.newtab.preload" = false;
    "browser.theme.content-theme" = 0; # dark mode
    "browser.theme.toolbar-theme" = 0;
    "browser.search" = "";
    "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.telemetry" = false;
    "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.telemetry" = false;
    "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.telemetry.ping.endpoint" = "";
    "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.snippets" = false;
    "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.providers.snippets" = "";
    "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.section.topstories" = false;
    "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.section.highlights.includePocket" = false;
    "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored" = false;
    "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.discoverystreamfeed" = false;
    "geo.provider.ms-windows-location" = false;
    "geo.provider.use_corelocation" = false;
    "geo.provider.use_gpsd" = false;
    "network.trr.mode" = 3;
    "extensions.pocket.enabled" = false;
    "browser.search.geoip.url" = "";
    "browser.search.geoSpecificDefaults" = false;
    "browser.search.geoSpecificDefaults.url" = "";
    "toolkit.telemetry.unified" = false;
    "toolkit.telemetry.enabled" = false;
    "toolkit.telemetry.server" = "data:,";
    "toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabled" = false;
    "toolkit.telemetry.newProfilePing.enabled" = false;
    "toolkit.telemetry.shutdownPingSender.enabled" = false;
    "toolkit.telemetry.updatePing.enabled" = false;
    "toolkit.telemetry.bhrPing.enabled" = false;
    "toolkit.telemetry.firstShutdownPing.enabled" = false;
    "toolkit.telemetry.hybridContent.enabled" = false;
    "toolkit.telemetry.coverage.opt-out" = true;
    "toolkit.coverage.opt-out" = true;
    "toolkit.coverage.endpoint.base" = "";
    "datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled" = false;
    "datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled" = false;
    "app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled" = false;
    "browser.ping-centre.telemetry" = false;
    # "extensions.formautofill.addresses.enabled" = false;
    # "extensions.formautofill.available" = "off";
    # "extensions.formautofill.creditCards.enabled" = false;
    # "extensions.formautofill.heuristics.enabled" = false;
    "browser.urlbar.suggest.history" = false;
    "browser.urlbar.suggest.openpage" = false;
    # "browser.formfill.enable" = false;
    "privacy.clearOnShutdown.history" = true;
    "browser.startup.page" = 0;
  };
  policies = {
    DisableTelemetry = true;
    HttpsOnlyMode = "enabled";
    DisableFirefoxAccounts = true;
    DisableFirefoxScreeshots = true;
    DisableFirefoxStudies = true;
    DisableMasterPasswordCreation = true;
    DisablePocket = true;
    SearchSuggestEnabled = false;
    OverrideFirstRunPage = "about:blank";
    DisplayBookmarksToolbar = "never";
    PasswordManagerEnabled = false;
ExtensionSettings = {
    # "*".installation_mode = "blocked"; # blocks all addons except ones declared

    # Floccus
    "floccus@handmadeideas.org" = {
        install_url = "https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/4431645/floccus-5.4.4.xpi";
        installation_mode = "force_installed";
    };

    # Consent O Matic
    "gdpr@cavi.au.dk" = {
        install_url = "https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/4362793/consent_o_matic-1.1.3.xpi";
        installation_mode = "force_installed";
    };

    # uBlock Origin
    "uBlock0@raymondhill.net" = {
        install_url = "https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/4412673/ublock_origin-1.62.0.xpi";
        installation_mode = "force_installed";
        adminSettings = {
            userSettings = rec {
                cloudStorageEnabled = false;  # ???
                importedLists = [
                    "https://filters.adtidy.org/extension/ublock/filters/3.txt"
                    "https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/raw/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt"
                ];
                externalLists = lib.concatStringsSep "\n" importedLists;
            };
            selectedFilterLists = [
                "CZE-0"
                "adguard-generic"
                "adguard-annoyance"
                "adguard-social"
                "adguard-spyware-url"
                "easylist"
                "easyprivacy"
                "https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/raw/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt"
                "plowe-0"
                "ublock-abuse"
                "ublock-badware"
                "ublock-filters"
                "ublock-privacy"
                "ublock-quick-fixes"
                "ublock-unbreak"
                "urlhaus-1"
            ];
           };
         };
       };
     };
}

 

[The Gulf Of America]

It's Linux Mint that came preinstalled. Instead of switching to Windows immediately I decided to try it and it's... interesting.
Desktop environment is MATE. I have not seen this stuff happen in video games.
I found a better example of how it looks. Left is a preview, right is full screen.
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So it looks like either something is wrong with the depth buffer or the order in which the draw calls are done is being reversed. Maybe a weird driver bug?

If it doesn't happen in games then I wouldn't worry about it too much- that screensaver is old as dirt and things have changed a lot since then.

but yeah it's drawing everything just fine- it just looks weird because the order it's drawing them in is wrong and that breaks the illusion the screensaver is aiming for.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

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https://x.com/Pirat_Nation/status/1895765034632167723

And hyprland.

 

[Slav Power]

great for basic users

I'd argue Mint is much better for "basic users". In my understanding, a basic user only needs a web browser, and at most something to write documents for printing. Firefox and LibreOffice come preinstalled and will be fine for this sort of basic use. It just works, it's easier to install than Windows, it's less annoying to use than Windows when you do zero tweaking, and rarely do those types of people end up needing to do something that'd require Windows. I doubt most people work on Office work files at home to need it for example.

Windows can be a pleasant experience for advanced users if you know your OS. If you don't, even Linux will be a chore, because if you don't know what the fuck you're doing, you're gonna have a bad time. If you know what the fuck you're doing, you'll be able to hold control over your OS where it serves you and not the other way around. The other edge of this sword is that once you get too deep in knowing your OS, you'll end up relying on software and tricks that only exist under that OS, but you can't live without, so migration to any other OS and a different software ecosystem will be a painful sacrifice.

A basic, or an intermediate user however, could move from Windows to Mint, have a better experience and never look back. Like PewDiePie, where all that he'd need (web browser, OBS, Resolve, Steam) just works under Linux now.

But dear GOD I cannot fathom how any normie deals with cucked non-Enterprise versions of windows.

They don't know any better, had firsthand experience of that at a work gig. Plain Windows 10, with the stupid weather widget that shoves mainstream news in your face if you hover over it enabled by default. Would piss everyone off and they didn't even knew it takes two clicks to disable it. They just use it because that's what's given to them and they don't look past anything else, nor do they care to. If something's annoying them, they just accept it as the way it is, even if it's this obvious to fix to anyone else like that weather widget. You'd give them plain Mint w/ Cinnamon and they'd feel an instant improvement.

But the most important question is, did he follow the guide or did he use the installer?

Probably used the installer, otherwise he wouldn't bother with the Arch meme.

If archinstall could mimic Calamares and let you do more specific installations without a full disk wipe like Windows multiboot with UEFI partition reuse without shitting itself midway and leaving you with a broken install, it would have a much bigger userbase than it has now. But then obnoxious elitists wouldn't be able to rub their nipples about how superior they are for using Arch because it'd be "like the other distros" so that can't happen.

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https://x.com/Pirat_Nation/status/1895765034632167723

Then once he gets bored of LARPing as a hackerman and ricing the living shit out of Arch he'll go back to Mint.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

Its super weird to me that people are such OS supremacists

I do think Linux is better at this point. But the real hate I have is for Microsoft and apple. More than windows or Mac specifically.

Though even if I didn't hate the companies and the things they do. I don't think I could go to either at this point and be happy.

Probably used the installer, otherwise he wouldn't bother with the Arch meme.

I don't feel like a manual install is that elitist of a process. You partition the disks, mount them. Edit a couple files install some stuff and install a bootloader. That's it. It doesn't take a genius.

 

[Slav Power]

I don't feel like a manual install is that elitist of a process. You partition the disks, mount them. Edit a couple files install some stuff and install a bootloader. That's it. It doesn't take a genius.

The manual install is the epitome of "make it harder for yourself so that you feel smarter" elitism that permeates throughout the Linux community and makes people despise the idea of trying Linux. Every other distro has a guided installer that respects your time, gets all of the hard stuff done for you, and then leaves you with a working OS so you can start using it. It's a very simple concept: respect the end user's time.

Mint respects my time, it installs and it sends me to a clean DE that's humane.
Windows disrespects my time partially, after I install it I have to tard wrangle it into a usable base without any retarded annoyances that Microsoft forces by default.

Arch outright despises my time, it insists that I either I do every step of the installation manually, or use a half-assed script that'll shit itself and leave me with a broken install if I didn't do a clean disk wipe, but then I'll be treated as a second class citizen, as shown by the Arch Wiki where they say that if you used archinstall you have to state it when asking for support, and that archinstall profiles, AKA the shit that gives you a working DE from the get-go so you can just use your PC, are somehow different from what pacman can do so you get no support.

They're outright discouraging you from doing it the way that would respect your time, admitting that it's half-assed and that it doesn't replicate the manual install step-by-step automatically, which you'd think an Arch installation script would do, but no, somehow they aren't even able to do that. Manual Arch install absolutely is elitist. Arch users insist on it, and they suffer from some of the most severe Dunning-Kruger in the Linux community thinking that they're smarter because of it, while in reality they're more retarded by making their life more complicated for no reason, AND Arch Wiki itself implies that it's not "the right way" to install Arch.

tl;dr: fuck Arch, it's the epitome of "Linux is free if you don't respect your time". If you want to use Linux, install Mint and don't give two shits about "bloat" or ricing, just use your PC with something that just works.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I'm still really liking MX.