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Looks really comfy, I must say.
And speaking of comfy, Elementary OS looks really slick as well.
The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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Looks really comfy, I must say.
And speaking of comfy, Elementary OS looks really slick as well.
malt ipecac
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I do have to give credit to the Linux community for being so wack yet so based.
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Figures the distro that tries to mimic everything about MacOS, but on a free platform would fall victim to the troonenings.
In other news, if any of you are looking for decent thinkpads to use as evergreen shitposting machines that won't have a part randomly die in a year, the T470S models are now going for like 350 on ebay used.
In other news, if any of you are looking for decent thinkpads to use as evergreen shitposting machines that won't have a part randomly die in a year, the T470S models are now going for like 350 on ebay used.
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I had a spare burner ASUS laying around for emergency purposes that hasn't had updates for more than two months of its entire year of ownership, went ahead and installed Linux Mint MATE. I dunno. It feels satisfying just installing Linux on shitty hardware to make it less aggravating to deal with.
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Pardon the double post.
So I found out how fuckawful the situation was with my parents PC, to the point they weren't ecstatic about using it ever, of course they never shut the thing down at all, so its paged memory was probably bursting through the metal. I decided to go ahead and install the same MATE edition of Linux Mint, since that's the version I demonstrated to them. I found a way to deal with WiFi that refuses to stay awake or change after standby, though for the case of their PC, it was shitty DELL firmware that doesn't play nice with any OS.
Use the terminal for this:
Reboot, and if your WiFi drivers cooperate, this should work.
So I found out how fuckawful the situation was with my parents PC, to the point they weren't ecstatic about using it ever, of course they never shut the thing down at all, so its paged memory was probably bursting through the metal. I decided to go ahead and install the same MATE edition of Linux Mint, since that's the version I demonstrated to them. I found a way to deal with WiFi that refuses to stay awake or change after standby, though for the case of their PC, it was shitty DELL firmware that doesn't play nice with any OS.
Use the terminal for this:
Reboot, and if your WiFi drivers cooperate, this should work.
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Okay so I'm playing with Manjarro again and I'm just wondering if anyone can help me with 2 issues:
1. What can I do to make the desktop smoother when opening a program? Whenever I open something my system stutters. It's visual only but it's annoying because the youtube video I'll have on the other screen will stutter. My PC is plenty beefy so I don't think it's a hardware issue.
2. I'll ask around other places for this one, but Lutris sometimes won't install certain games. I was trying to install Thief 2 and while it pops up in the community installers but nothing happens when I select to install.
1. What can I do to make the desktop smoother when opening a program? Whenever I open something my system stutters. It's visual only but it's annoying because the youtube video I'll have on the other screen will stutter. My PC is plenty beefy so I don't think it's a hardware issue.
2. I'll ask around other places for this one, but Lutris sometimes won't install certain games. I was trying to install Thief 2 and while it pops up in the community installers but nothing happens when I select to install.
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Is this a clean install? Could it just be the included open source video driver being crap?
You might be able to install drivers from a non-free repository for your distro in what ever package manager Manjaro uses but those drivers are sometimes out of date. The benefit to doing this being that they have already been compiled and tested on the distro you are using and they often install automatically without any additional fuss.
The other option would be to go to your video card manufactures website and download the driver package from them. In the past when I have done this they usually complain that the graphical window manager is still running so what I do is switch over to tty1 using alt + ctrl + f1 and then use init 3 to reboot the system without the window manager running. From there you can just install the package you downloaded using bash.
Bongocat
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Despite popular belief, autistic people are not, in fact, immune to propaganda.
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we been knew that they're more susceptible to it if anything
malt ipecac
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People with low self-esteem are susceptible to propaganda. If we're using "autism" in reference to an obsession with some esoteric hobby, then it makes sense that people who are insecure about the validity or usefulness of their obsession would have low self-esteem.
It's plain that "elementary OS" is not, as its name indicates, an OS. The only people who will take that claim seriously are those who don't yet know what a desktop environment is, and for the most part those people would rather just use Mac OS or Windows. It isn't respected in the way its founders wish it would be, and it isn't respectable in that it claims to be more than it is.
A counterexample would be the OpenBSD autists. They product software that much of the world uses, including the big proprietary vendors. Programs like OpenSSH are the standard. They're respected. Its developers (rightly) have high self-esteem.
You need not even guess which project's goals page the following was taken from.
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The Linux Distributions of 1992
The modern Linux distros owe their existence to those early releases, back in 1992.
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Pretty cool article. The top minds over at HN discuss.
These fuckin' people. Never change, HN.
Also,
Good ol' DT is gonna make his own distro!
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Glad to see DT getting his own "product" in the ecosystem out there, I found his compositor configuration very helpful in dealing with egregious screen tearing.
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Poor Lunduke. He just wanted to be a nerdy liberal Jew and everyone went insane around him. Made him slightly more conservative, which isn't bad in and of itself, but they certainly made things difficult for him. He's the only tech reporter I've seen calling attention to insane content in conferences, statements by companies, and absolutely puts his ass on the line every time. And he fucking stood by The Daily Stormer when they were kicked off everywhere.These fuckin' people. Never change, HN.
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PROOF that Debian Founder Ian Murdock was MURDERERD by US GOVERNMENT to INSTALL SYSTEMD
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Ian Murdock, founder of Debian Linux, was murdered so that RedHat could insert a backdoor called SystemD - Ruqqus
BACKDOORS or DEATH. Ian Murdock did not commit suicide, the fake narrative of Ian's "suicide" has been manufactured to cover up Ian Murdock's ASSASSINATION. WHY WAS IAN MURDOCK MURDERED BY THE POLICE? So that RED HAT LINUX, a software contractor for the US Government and National Labs, could...
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Arch is NOT a server distribution, its a desktop distribution. Debian is your server distribution, stable and the packages release slow enough that you're not going to get smoked when doing an upgrade, deploy the services and come through once every 3 months to do updates and fiddle with configuration files to tweak preformance. Arch on the other hand is fantastic to develop and operate from, it has fresh packages for all of the meme languages and frameworks and if it does not have them -- they're on the AUR -- which makes installation a breeze. Hacking together scripts and doing minor projects is effortless under Arch but on Debian is a fucking nightmare. I was running Debian 10 on my server and I wanted to rotate Nitter from a docker image to metal and this required nim, problem is, nim was version 0.14 and Nitter wanted something like >1.14 and installing this was a huge pain in the fucking ass because even when you download the tar file it didn't install nimble which is what you use to build projects. By chance I realized Debian had a new version this summer and just upgraded to that and it resolved my version issues, but it just shows what kind of irritation you would get if you were actually trying to develop from Debian. Though some actually recommend developing for Debian stable's package versions because its the most likely set of packages you'll be deployed against in the wild.
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youre going to reeeeeeeeeeeeeee the fuck out, if you ever see my arch server stack
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Its possible to run an Arch server. I have a few VM running Arch but any time I update it I have to scrutinize the package list carefully. The frequency of updates isn't good for things like running postgres, constantly updating it is not a good thing to do. With Debian I can just apt upgrade -y and go away and reasonably expect it not to each shit. With Arch I have to carefully monitor stuff and when it breaks its not a good thing. Whenever you do an update on services you want up 24/7 you do not want to have this look:
And its just more likely under Arch than Debian.
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So I decided to be fully autistic and I installed Ubuntu to my main PC. This is not my first time toying around with Linux, but I'm planning on fully replacing Windoze 10 with it.
Soo, any tips and tricks for a noob like me?
I don't really game that much nowadays so I don't care about performance and shit like that.
I'm going to use it for normie shit like browsing and light office usage, nothing more nothing less. Is this distro good enough for me? Is there anything I should know? Thanks!
Soo, any tips and tricks for a noob like me?
I don't really game that much nowadays so I don't care about performance and shit like that.
I'm going to use it for normie shit like browsing and light office usage, nothing more nothing less. Is this distro good enough for me? Is there anything I should know? Thanks!
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I'll double that autism with some choice advice, avoid snaps. This is the reason why the Ubuntu-based Linux Mint is superior to vanilla, because you won't have a locked down bottlenecking container that runs in the background yet takes forever to start up properly. Oh and apps running as snaps are thematically inconsistent, which has caused me some bugs that resulted in breaking the entire snapd framework. Flatpaks require a bit more resources than say something like say deb packages but from what I gather, less hard on the CPU and runs more consistently than snaps ever will.
Either way you go, you're going to be a lot happier as a normie with Linux, just know all OS's come with their unique pain points. If you run into problems that require a reinstall, make sure to keep that live media around!