The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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Idk how much people will care actually. At least for gparted.
for debian. I mean, I could see some of them. I feel like that's the kind of distro some people would be running on some ancient hardware.
Where I feel like people really will start caring is anything that fucks up their gaming.
Well. unless by dropping i386, that means they are dropping the bios partitioning ability of gparted.
I'm sure some people are going to be pissed about it. But idk if it's going to be as controversial as fedora's proposal to stop offering 32bit libraries.
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Why the fuck would anyone use 'GParted live' in the first place?
A liveCD, primarily dedicated to some application that has had literally no actual features added in a decade.
Oooh, I can edit a partition table. Oooh, I can define LVM volumes. Oooh, I can use slightly newer versions of utilities for shitty third-rate file systems like bcachefs to format those volumes in such a way that the actual distro that I would be installing if I intended to USE THE FUCKING COMPUTER FOR SOMETHING CANNOT UNDERSTAND THEM WITHOUT A KERNEL UPDATE.
LITERALLY ANYTHING THAT ANYONE WANTS TO DO TO PARTITION A LINUX SYSTEM CAN JUST BE DONE FROM THE TEXT-BASED DEBIAN (or better, Devuan) INSTALLER.
Or maybe Steven Shiau just has a hardon for inflicting WORSE versions of GParted based on GTK4, the even shittier version of GTK3 (even shittier than GTK2 (even shittier than GTK))) on the world. In which case he should die in a fire.
Steven Shiau is a stupid fucking chigger who lives in american occupied Taiwan province. I hope when the PLA liberates Taiwan they rape him to death.
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No lsfg-vk
lsfg-vkStalker GAMMA
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Guys, for small office work (Excel, Word, browser, banking stuff) you would go for openSUSE or Ubuntu iteration? Windows 10 is going to die soon, my subscription to MS365 ends nearly at same date, I don't use Exchange (I wanted to but too much hassle in case of migration to non-Outlook email application).
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Linux Mint
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lsfg-vk at 4x Frame gen, previous photos were 1x. Using low performance mode for all pics.
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Bravo to whichever janny decided to merge two duplicate posts instead of deleting one.
woowie queen
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so, decided to give another chance to linux and grabbed my usual usb with endeavouros in it (with the last iso they did release), installed it with kde and... when the (online) install is done, it's insanely laggy. if i do install it with the offline option, it's snappy like it should be, but after updating (and doing the linux-firmware fix), it goes back to be laggy.
what they even did (outside nuking the x11 session, have to get that separately now) for make the system this slow?
edit: it was the missing nvidia drivers... now it's snappy again with them.
what they even did (outside nuking the x11 session, have to get that separately now) for make the system this slow?
edit: it was the missing nvidia drivers... now it's snappy again with them.
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It doesn't technically need an antivirus because, unlike on Windows, the normal way to install programs for your system is through a central repository that the developers of your distro control and (hopefully) vet. If somebody decides to infect the ~1% of desktop users worldwide, an antivirus likely isn't going to stop it because of how lax overall security is on your average Linux user system. Don't install random software from the Web and be careful with third-party repositories.
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Except there's also Flatpak. I don't know if Mint offers it through its package manager GUI, but most distros that do just point it to Flathub instead of maintaining their own repo, and Flathub is entirely community-managed. Still unlikely to catch anything malicious, I'm just being a sperg.
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Why would I use gparted over cfdisk or fdisk? Even on LMDEs expert installation you don't get directed towards the gui; you have to set the partitioning and mounts through the terminal for that.
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Wait, what? LMAO. Debian's installer's had "graphical" partitioning tools for 15 years at least; that's just how far back my own memory of it goes.
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I know JDownloader 2 has a docker image available that is still maintained: https://github.com/jlesage/docker-jdownloader-2
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That jdownloader hurts my head. So you guys legitimately install some bloated docker nonsense to do shit sane sysadmins would do by sshing into a system and running wget? What am I missing?
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Gparted just werks. No need to wonder which live boot distro env has it preinstalled if you want to do partitioning.
Gparted is comfy. TUI software should parrot it's partition visualization instead of using magic numbers to say "this partition starts and ends on this sector" as if that's of any fucking use to you when you just want to split it 50/50.
Interesting how the frametimes seem to get more shaky when LSFG is activated, on Windows it doesn't even register LSFG being active and RTSS displays raw game stats. Do test the latency with and without LSFG, it's known to add it on Windows due to it's nature of essentially being a window cloner, so I wouldn't be surprised if it exists under lsfg-vk as well.
Also
>gaymma
JDownloader 2 is very handy for mass downloading shit from various places. It has good link parsers, it effectively cuts all the bullshit on those warez download sites that have like five different download buttons, even handles captchas on them, and is overall more oriented for daily downloads rather than doing CLI sysadmin work. As the name implies it's Java based so you can give it a whirl without really having to install anything.
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I needed a tool that would manage multiple downloads from the same site, which automatically throttles downloads when there's more then two at a time. I needed to enter a custom filename for each download, and I needed an interface that lets me see the status of all downloads and lets me quickly restart failed downloads.
I was using uGet, but it requires me to keep my desktop on for days to complete the downloads and uGet is abandoned so I really shouldn't be using it. Something I am run on my server and check on remotely would be nice, and if it can also handle YouTube videos that would be a bonus. I was looking at this but it seems overcomplicated and unwieldy for what I want https://github.com/wahyd4/aria2-ariang-docker
How difficult would it be to compile Xlibre into a .deb that can be installed on Linux Mint systems?
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If you asked this because you've been told by your boss that the distro needs corporate backing, OpenSUSE is better than Ubuntu, but update times will be slow if you live in America. Otherwise, corporate backing is not actually a benefit, and any distro can do what you're asking for, and start using Libreoffice before switching to Linux to make the transition easier.