The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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EFI is pure slop BIOS all the way
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Depending on what you want to do with this laptop, it might not be necessary. A barebones Linux install on a binary distro is about 2 GBs, give or take. With a weak CPU like that, I'd forget about fancy DEs and compositors. JWM, IceWM or Openbox (what I use) are your friends, unless you want to use tiling WMs.
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Agree with the assessment on Mint, it's darn good and probably the most flawless of all the Linux distros out there. I think Linux tards who move on to Arch or Fedora do so out of boredom, you can modify the hell out of Mint just like any other distro. You can always put Gnome or JWM or whatever on Mint and run it using those Windows Manager/environments. Change the kernel if you wish.
JWM is fun and I use it on my 21 year old laptop which still works. So many ways to tweak it if you get bored.
JWM is fun and I use it on my 21 year old laptop which still works. So many ways to tweak it if you get bored.
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Why would they though? ext4 is supported basically only by Linux, FAT32 is supported by absolutely everything including your smart blender and you don't need files over 4GB in your EFI partition, nor do you need any of the shit that file systems like ext4 or NTFS offer. If anything, ext4 EFI partitions is the type of purposefully incompatible bullshit I'd expect people accuse Microsoft of. Imagine if Microsoft forced it for ReFS to be the standard for EFI partitions to cut Linux out of the market.
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The primary difference is that in the end Linux Mint isn't really its own distribution, it's built off stable releases of other distributions. If you're using a full distribution like Devuan, there should be testing and unstable branches that let you use the latest software, like Arch, but more coherently.
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Yeah. Btrfs isn't worth using in my opinion. Nothing it offers, makes dealing with it worth it. And the snapshot thing. Isn't completely worthless, but using it to revert changes to the system to fix problems, at least when I tried using it. Was just a waste of my time, disk space, and CPU cycles. While getting worse performance.
The file system I've really grown to love, and in my opinion is really underrated is xfs. It's not new or fancy and it seems like not that many people know about it even though it's by no means new. The reasons I recommend it are:
it has even better performance than ext4. While still being just about as light. Some people say it's not as fast on smaller files, but that information is outdated, as far as I know even small files should be just as fast now.
It also takes advantage of copy-on-write, and it should automatically work with cp And it allows you to make copies within your file system super fast, without taking up extra disk space until the files actually start to change. (Just the normal CoW behavior).
And one of the most important things to me. Is it just works like a normal filesystem, not needing all the extra subvolume stuff.
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They may be stable, but they aren't necessarily user friendly and sometimes even makes user hostile design choices like Gnome or snaps. Linux Mint takes that stable base and strips out the garbage like snaps, then maintains their own desktop environment Cinnamon which was forked from Gnome but then actually made user friendly.
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If you like your Cinnamon you can keep it
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wdym? It's literally called "Better FS". How can you hate that?
It won't. There'll be some marginal gains, that's all. People bitch about Windows, talk about trying Linux, and in the end, they'll install 11. Then they'll bitch about 12 or whatever marking number/name comes after and talk about how great 11 was in comparison. Which, with all those pajeet code monkeys, will be true, but won't change anything. Hardware-wise, it doesn't matter at all. Cheap computers people replace when windows stops working anyways, and more expensive ones will work with 11.
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Its already not happening, people are just tossing out older machines that don't support 11 and buying new ones that can.
Year of the Linux desktop continues to be elusive.
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I want to be hopeful that more people would dump M$'s bullshit but we both know the vast swathes of niggercattle will accept Win11.
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I look forward to the X11 wars. Very excited to see who ignores this fork and who jumps in.
Not by a lot. My take on it, most people who absolutely refuse to run Win11 will:
- stay on Win10, updates be damned;
- move to macOS.
These are the two big groups of Win11 evaders. Linux newcomers won't even register by comparison.
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First one is the most likely.
Stay on 10 until their hardware gets too old/slow to run Chrome or whatever, then buy a new machine and deal with 11.
There's still people using Windows 7 and XP on the internet after all. I have a feeling people will still be seeing Windows 10 in a bunch of weird places in 20 years time.
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What? I thought it stood for "Butter FS" because sometimes it just melts and takes all your data with it.
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Do people actually use btrfs? I thought it was just a meme.
If I wanted to deliberately break a Linux system, would at least do something funny, like make PowerShell the default shell and NTFS the root filesystem.
If I wanted to deliberately break a Linux system, would at least do something funny, like make PowerShell the default shell and NTFS the root filesystem.
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There are still people using Win7/XP but not very many, the great majority of Windows users upgraded to 10. I admit that I don't really know what got people to upgrade, but we should not expect people to continue using Windows 10 forever just because 11 is 11.
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Linuxcast uses btrfs. What more endorsement do you need?
Not sure what his actual reason for using it is. But he does use it.
Not going to bother watching it. The thumbnail and title says enough.
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Saar it is actually the default for:
Opensuse
Fedora (RHEL as well)
It is the most beautifulest of file systems saar it has compression that doesnt work for a majority of things that take up a lot of space, you know, the thing you would actually want to compress, and snapshots saar! (I dont understand snapshots. Just chroot into your system and fix it.)
They're normies. Laptop breaks, buy new one, comes with newer windows, use it till it dies, repeat. A normal user never updates windows unless microsoft forces them to.
edit (i got sniped.
):Nicco is a faggot. That is all.