The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Ferryman said:
Obarun Linux
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Looks to me like their web site is made by AI, I wouldn't be sure the distro itself isn't either.
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RGBCube said:
Hyprland
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Don't they use discord and have some anime girl as the default wallpaper? I remember wanting to try wayland out, friend recommended me hyprland and it completely turned me away. On a usability note: Why does everything nowadays have to move around and make sounds?? DWM is still the best WM from a usability perspective, none of that obnoxious chrome than only gets in your way!
Banana Hammock said:
Is Mint still the best distro for people coming from Windows?
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Not sure about "best" as that is going to be individual, but it's what I usually recommend and I've heard no complaints. Although one guy chose to jump straight into gentoo and loves it LOL! Good thing about the linuxes is that you can easily try a live boot USB and play around for a bit before installing (or choosing a different distro).
 
ToroidalBoat said:
I went to https://on.quad9.net/ and it said I wasn't using quad9, though I entered the IP address listed into the Firefox preferences.

wat
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Huh. Apparently I'm not using quad9 either, even though I changed my IPv4 properties months ago. That's a bit concerning. Thought it might have been my VPN, but turning it off didn't fix the issue. Good thing Proton has a DNS included.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
I went to https://on.quad9.net/ and it said I wasn't using quad9, though I entered the IP address listed into the Firefox preferences.
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Firefox is using your system DNS, which is presumably set by your router. You can change that in the router settings.

I generally don't like using the browser's own DNS settings. It breaks shit in unpredictable ways and completely bypasses my own private DNS server.
 
Zeftax said:
Looks to me like their web site is made by AI, I wouldn't be sure the distro itself isn't either.
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They've been around since 2015/16 so I don't think that's the case. The art on their homepage is definitely AI, but the distro itself is a tiny, but seemingly legit project. Will see for myself soon enough.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
I went to https://on.quad9.net/ and it said I wasn't using quad9, though I entered the IP address listed into the Firefox preferences.

wat
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Checked and it also said no, event though I have Quad9 set pretty much everywhere; apparently an update reset my resolv.conf to Google DNS. Changed that and now it says yes, so I guess some queries were leaking.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
How do I change that in Firefox?
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On a normal computing system, there is a file, resolv.conf, which will be in the /etc/ directory on any Unix system, BSD, Mac OS, or Linux, or somewhere in C:\windows\system32\drivers\config\etc\didwegetto255charsyet on a Windows system, which gives a list in descending order of DNS servers to use for lookups and some other shit (like default 'suffixes' if you just use a single domain name without a dot).

This never used to be a problem. Here's how things USED to work, and work fine:
  1. if you used wicd or Network Manager or whatever to connect to a wireless network, then it would temporarily put the DNS suggested by the wireless network up top, with comments surrounding them so it could easily remove them on disconnect. This meant everything worked just fine on captive portal wireless networks that force you to fill in some bullshit form where you tell them your name is Osama Bin Laden and your email address is osama@binladen.sa
  2. If you connected to a VPN, whether through Network Manager or straight from a command line client like 'openvpn' or 'openfortivpn', it would do the same. So everything worked JUST FINE
HOWEVER. You may be encountering behaviour where a malicious program created by a suspected nonce, Lennart Poettring, who works for Microsoft, has taken over managing your resolv.conf file through the 'systemd-resolved' virus. If this is the case, your entire system has been infected, and your best recourse is to back up your files and install a pro-human distribution of Linux that is free of systemd particularly systemd-resolved, then change all your passwords because god only knows what systemd-azurepasswordd has been doing with them.
 
Slav Power said:
idk try looking into C:\Windows\WinSxS, that one's closer to 255 characters than the "where the fuck do we put this Unix networking crap in NT" path.
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I would have guessed that the Windows champions would have been the GAC_MSIL/other shit with several different GUIDs in the path, but it turns out they managed to go even more retarded:
The longest path on a clean install of Windows XP is 152 characters.
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSAS-1-5-18d42cc0c3858a58db2db37658219e6400_89e7e133-abee-4041-a1a7-406d7effde91
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OK.. That's not COMPLETELY unreasonable, I guess.
The longest path on a semi-clean install of Windows 8.1 is 273 characters:
c:\Users\wumpus-home\AppData\Local\Packages\WinStore_cw5n1h2txyewy\AC\Microsoft\Windows Store\Cache\0\0-Namespace-https???services.apps.microsoft.com?browse?6.2.9200-1?615?en-US?c?US?Namespace?pc?00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000?00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000.
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Every user gets a file/directory in their home directory which has two blank GUIDs in it. A folder that 99% of Windows applications won't be able to touch on account on its length exceeding that which most Windows filesystem APIs can handle. AMAZIN'. And that's even before Windows 10 & 11.
 
The arguments I've seen in this thread on the wayland vs xorg debate, are some of the most retarded I've come across on the subject. I can't tell if people are just pretending to be retarded to try to make the other person mad. I hope so for everyone's sake. It's sad otherwise.

I don't feel particularly devoted to either. Because both of them have problems, and both have things they do well.

Vesperus said:
Isn't that more or less what's happening? This isn't an attempt to re-write X11 from scratch, just to get some changes in. That this goes against "the agenda" is why it was necessary to fork it. Unless I've missed it, there no requirement to actually be anti-troon.


Gnu is probably a fringe case, because it has its own purity death spiral over (for lack of a better word) "freeness".
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The reason it was necessary to fork didn't have much to do with that specifically, at least as far as I know. I feel like people aren't understanding what my point is when I said that earlier. Its not about what they actually meant when they said non dei. It's about how that will be used against the project. I feel like people on this site, and probably people in this thread specifically should know what I mean by that. I think coc shit is gay and bad, (though really. CoC's aren't actually a big deal. The actual issue is how they're used.)


and on gnu. they in my opinion are a necessity for the foss world. At least people like them. That absolutely only care about the idea of freesoftware. Not because I expect everyone to care about that. But without people like them, I think free software wouldn't be alive, and in the state it is in today. If not companies like microsoft killing it (and they absolutely would have), more recently things like the "ethical software" movement would have. Which actually ties into all of this. Because those are the far left freaks to have been fucking up foss over the last few years. Were the people that wanted RMS removed from his position, did a lot of the gay shit. Or were involved in it. And they are part of the reason I actually have a problem with distros starting to move away from the gnu core-utils. For people that care about free-software. If there aren't people that are not willing to give an inch on this. Companies like Google Microsoft Apple IBM etc. etc. etc. will absolutely take everything they can get.

Basically, yeah maybe the gnu people are a bit unreasonable in some cases about free software. But we need those people, and people like them.
 
Agent Snigger said:
I find it the most ergonomic when I'm doing development stuff, but with something like a file or web browser open, I find it a lot less comfortable to use, and the clashing of styles between different programs is a lot more noticeable.
Am I getting filtered or is there something I could do about this? I do genuinely like it when I have just a bunch of terminals and an editor open.
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Gaps waste a bit of space but give a less cluttered look.

Putting major apps like browsers or Emacs on separate workspaces also helps. Just bind workspace-back-and-forth to something convenient like Mod-Tab. There's also a command to jump to the next window of a particular app.

 
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prollyanotherlurker said:
The arguments I've seen in this thread on the wayland vs xorg debate, are some of the most retarded I've come across on the subject. I can't tell if people are just pretending to be retarded to try to make the other person mad. I hope so for everyone's sake. It's sad otherwise.
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Sir, this is the Linux thread.
 
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