The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Baguette Child]

I threw Debian Bookworm on the latter and it's been fun.

As a lifelong Debian sperg, welcome to the party. We may be a boring distro but we're consistently usable.

 

[wafflesies]

That's what I get for being curious.

I didn't know shit about funtoo other than a passing moment where the project suddenly got discontinued, but those commands are probably a good explanation in of themselves.

Got reply bugged. Fuck.

lol ive talked to the devs theyre all in on xlibre
they got this tool called MARK too
sadly im on nvidia and it wasnt working well on nvidia

 

[Slav Power]

Wait until you find out that there are people who "manage" files by dragging pictures of them around, and they have flame wars about which picture dragging file thingy is the best. The rest of us just use the shell and have flame wars about which shell is best.

And then come the OFMchads, that do more work within the same timespan that GUIcucks and CMDcucks do as they bumblefuck around to drag things onto the right spot or type out the right command exactly. Just a few memorized keystrokes and the job's done with the same accuracy and speed every time, zoop zoop zoop. Not only that, they do it on Windows, Linux, Mac, both in GUI and CLI, all in the same way.

OFMchads triumph over every other ass backwards method of file management and that's an objective fact.

 

[DavidS877]

OFMchads triumph over every other ass backwards method of file management and that's an objective fact.

Wake me when you can do this:
find photos -type f -iname '*.jpg' -print0 | xargs -0 -I _ bash -c 'if [ $(gm identify -format %w _[0] ) -gt 1024 ] ; then mv _ bigphotos/ ; fi '

 

[Slav Power]

Wake me when you can do this:
find photos -type f -iname '*.jpg' -print0 | xargs -0 -I _ bash -c 'if [ $(gm identify -format %w _[0] ) -gt 1024 ] ; then mv _ bigphotos/ ; fi '

Then I save it as a predefined search if I have to do it often, hit Num+, select it, then F6, type "bigphotos\", hit Enter and I'm done. If I really need to do it often then I can save it as a predefined command chain so it's one mnemonic keystroke sequence to find, select and move the files. If I need to do it occasionally, manually doing a plugin search and then operating on the results will still be faster than typing out that entire sequence from memory, making sure that it's right and that I haven't forgotten some esoteric character that breaks the whole pipe.

Or, you know, you define that shit as a script and invoke it however the fuck you want to from your preferred file management method of choice like a sane person. If God didn't want the command line to be abused by scripting and not manual typing, He would not have created .cmd, .sh and .ps1 file types.

Still, nothing beats having an extensible framework for all kinds of metadata, archive management and file viewing from within your file manager instead of having to rely on Bash pipe voodoo magic, or not being able to do certain things in the first place without extra bulky software since 99% of GUI file managers suck nigger cock, as they are designed for nigger cattle to do nothing but sit around and shit.

 

[The Noise]

As a lifelong Debian sperg, welcome to the party. We may be a boring distro but we're consistently usable.

People say Debian is boring and less featureful but I never understood what they meant by that. It does all the things Fedora and Mint did for me, minus corrupting my driver partition (which Fedora did on a fresh install.) Do they just offer less packages or something?

 

[Slav Power]

Do they just offer less packages or something?

Basically. Less packages to pull from the get-go, and the Stable branches should be called Stale branches with how out of date it's packages are. It's a make or break of distros really, how many packages do you have available in the package manager OOTB and how up-to-date they are. It's a big reason why people suck off Arch so much, since it always has the newest packages and pacman by default has a metric fuckton of them compared to apt, and that's without adding the AUR into the mix.

 

[DavidS877]

99% of GUI file managers suck nigger cock

But.... your screenshots show a GUI file manager.

 

[Slav Power]

But.... your screenshots show a GUI file manager.

Because it's that 1% of GUI file managers that doesn't suck nigger cock.

 

[DavidS877]

In other Linux news, I may finally have corralled the crashing problem on my Ryzen 5900HS based gaming laptop with newer kernels. Basically 6.12 and newer are all crashing at random, some more, some less but always within a couple hours.

I'm running the newest firmware and everything else but the thing that finally got it to seemingly stabilize was to disable the AMD Pstate driver with amd_pstate=disable.

I should test other kernel power options to see if there's a less aggressive way to get it to not crash but I suspect the fact that the BIOS is a couple years old and no upgrades means I may have to just deal with it.

Edit: seemingly... for a while, until it didn't.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

I'm running the newest firmware and everything else but the thing that finally got it to seemingly stabilize was to disable the AMD Pstate driver with amd_pstate=disable.

Recent AMD cards have a nasty bug on laptops if they have a high refresh rate that causes them to freeze up after a while. It is apparently a mainline bug, but not on LTS. There's another one too.

 

[DavidS877]

Recent AMD cards have a nasty bug on laptops if they have a high refresh rate that causes them to freeze up after a while. It is apparently a mainline bug, but not on LTS. There's another one too.

Yea, that one didn't help, and disabling the pstate driver didn't help, now on to limiting cstates. Eventually my kernel command line will have every possible option on it disabling stuff.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

Dvorak sisters. Keep coping. I'm sure your gay layout will take off eventually.

driver partition

Driver partition?

Anyway. How much it matters if you are getting updated programs, will depend on what you are using.

Also how you are installing them. If you use flatpak. You are going to be getting up to date packages on any distro, provided the package maintainer is staying up to date. Because they're basically installed into a container that runs its own version of all the dependencies of the program. And connects to the rest of the system through portals.

 

[Betonhaus]

I know JDownloader 2 has a docker image available that is still maintained: https://github.com/jlesage/docker-jdownloader-2

https://github.com/jlesage/docker-jdownloader-2

fuck, late and gay

after trying it I see that it uses an x11 wrapper to make it a web site, however that makes it extremely cumbersome to copy and paste a large series of files and new filenames for them as i have to enter it in that little box in the wrapper every time. I just need something that I can just copy the direct download path for a specific file, while changing the name the file downloads as. right now uGet does that better, but I would rather have a docker image with a web interface

 

[Belisarius Cawl]

Basically. Less packages to pull from the get-go, and the Stable branches should be called Stale branches with how out of date it's packages are.

Mint has been a happy medium for me. I had to install Vim from source (before I switched to Neovim) and it looks like the only other major thing I had to compile from scratch right now has been R.

 

[snowdunes]

OnlyOffice is close enough in UI that I'm surprised Microsoft hasn't sued over it

It just had an overhaul update (OnlyOffice 9). It now has markdown support and it's even more similar to Microsoft, enough for me to download all the installers in case they sue them for it and force them back to use ugly FOSS UI's again. I simply refuse to use LibreOffice again because it's so ugly and janky, especially Calc.

God I hope that one day FOSS software is made by some professionals and not larping nerds who don't know shit about what computers are actually for; To assist you IRL and not be busy work that takes longer time to fix/maintain than the actual task..

 

[Belisarius Cawl]

It just had an overhaul update (OnlyOffice 9). It now has markdown support and it's even more similar to Microsoft, enough for me to download all the installers in case they sue them for it and force them back to use ugly FOSS UI's again. I simply refuse to use LibreOffice again because it's so ugly and janky, especially Calc.

The last time I used a spreadsheet it was actually just Gnumeric and all I was doing with it was previewing the content of a GeoPandas GeoDataFrame. I'll bite; why does Calc suck?

 

[Slav Power]

Mint has been a happy medium for me. I had to install Vim from source (before I switched to Neovim) and it looks like the only other major thing I had to compile from scratch right now has been R.

I'd like for there to be an in-between of Debian and Arch, which has the stability and overall structure of the former but the relative freshness and availability of packages of the latter. Debian with a desktop environment is a very clean base without too many extra packages preinstalled where Mint has too many, but Arch has too little and you have to fuck around with it more to get it to that "just works" state. Plus, Arch is Arch, and Debian is Debian. Shame they actively defend a chomo but hey, at this point you might as well go full Ted K with how fucked software is nowadays.

Anyways, lsfg-vk got some official recognition from Lossless Scaling's dev in the recent patchnotes:

 

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I just need something that I can just copy the direct download path for a specific file, while changing the name the file downloads as

Do you? I haven't used it for a while, but I believe the MyJDownloader browser extension allows loading up files to download.

As for changing file names.. JDownloader's pretty flexible. You can't cover things off by setting up rules to direct your YT video rips into one directory, and your porn into another?

 

[yydszmiteg2]

I'd like for there to be an in-between of Debian and Arch, which has the stability and overall structure of the former but the relative freshness and availability of packages of the latter. Debian with a desktop environment is a very clean base without too many extra packages preinstalled where Mint has too many, but Arch has too little and you have to fuck around with it more to get it to that "just works" state. Plus, Arch is Arch, and Debian is Debian. Shame they actively defend a chomo but hey, at this point you might as well go full Ted K with how fucked software is nowadays.

Anyways, lsfg-vk got some official recognition from Lossless Scaling's dev in the recent patchnotes:
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I mean I use Debian testing with flatpaks for anything I need to be fresher. I know it's less than ideal but it works okay. I've contemplated running my own apt repo for some of the apps I need to be on more recent version of/can't get via Debian repos, might actually bite the bullet on that one day if my flatpak fatigue gets too high. Ultimately unless you want to make your own packages or add another persons repo you're doomed to a dual package manager solution for this mix of stable and fresh I think, since they're antithetical. Either that or use nixOS where the cure is worse than the disease.