The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Frederica Bernkastel said:
Anyone using Linux here remember their first time using it? Why did you switch and what was it like?
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First time using it was ages ago, it was actually Mandrake back in 2000 or so, but it was really just out of curiosity, then quickly went back to Windows, still used Linux from time to time but never as a main OS up until Windows 11 released and I realized it was nothing but indian code slop bullshit made exclusively so that the ux and scrum master hordes at MS can justify their jobs with a hefty helping of non-redeemable spyware.

So at that point the switch was just inevitable, Windows 10 was already such a downgrade from Windows 7 (best desktop environment ever created, better and more usable than any Linux DE or WM, better than anything Apple has ever done) I just couldn't stomach doing it again.
 
I was thinking of reinstalling Debian and trying to do the Xlibre port work to Debian packaging, but I gave Artix's s6/MATE spin a try before that and brothers, I been sleepin' on MATE. But I'm gonna call it "mate", not some Spanish wannabe-coffee word.

So yeah, the Bicha BS means one more reason to leave Debian behind like GNOMEfags are trynna do to X. But Artix is the chud Linux you've been looking for, or close enough as makes no difference.

God willing, I plan to be off-grid starting some time this year, which means that easy electricity stops being a thing, and three hours of PC time to rebuild Chrome will cost gasoline soon. So I've been scouting binary distroes for that time. Artix was installed and running faster than the first apt update after installing Debian, and that was all running on my spinning rust drives under Qemu.

Frederica Bernkastel said:
Anyone using Linux here remember their first time using it? Why did you switch and what was it like?
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Redhat 5.2, sourced from a friend. A couple months later, there was a RedHat 6 installation party via a local Linux Users Group at a local mill's conference room one weekend. I was too young to make much of it at the time. Lasted only a short while, then I was back to Windows for gay-ming. Late 00s, I bought my first VPS. Was going to be Gentoo, but the VPS was too tiny for that to be reasonable. Tried Debian next. It stuck. I've had a DIY web presence on Linux since. Mid 10s, had a house fire. The insurance cleaners got my PC, so I was stuck with my laptop, which was a cheap netbook. Windows didn't run great. GNOME 3 was dog slow. But it ran great on the console. I'd been tinkering, but that was when I went full time and turned my back on Windows. Ended up causing conflict with my boss as we were a Windows office but I insisted on running Linux stuff.
 
1337 Guide to Linux Distros 4 Noobs

- Do you want to tune and tinker with your computer like it's a race car? Arch

- Do you want to act like you're tuning your computer, but not do any of the work? EndeavourOS

- Are you a troon, bromy, or an ally? RedHat

- Do you want to use your computer instead of configuring it? Mint
 
is there a home use docker image that provides an andoid compatible printer proxy for network printers? like say a webpage i can open on my phone, upload a pdf or link to a webpage, and it'll send it to an AppSocket or LPD printer on the network, without having to give the docker image it's own exposed IP address or have it be on host?
 
Banana Hammock said:
God damn it. Apparently the screws are attached to my mobo's heatsinks, and I bought an nvme with a built-in heatsink (Samsung 990 Pro). Plus, my M.2_1 slot is blocked by my CPU cooling, so it'll be a pain in the ass to install even after I return this and get a new one.

Edit: Oh, good. Looks like you can buy replacement screws online.
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Apparently I'm retarded. I spent like 20 minutes trying to get at the M.2_1 slot between my CPU cooler and GPU. I unscrewed the mobo heatsink, picked it up with the big tweezers from my toolset, and struggled to try and reach it to get the SSD in. I was about to give up when I realized that I could just pull out my GPU.
 
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I've been having some video and audio trouble for the past few idk weeks?
Any video i try to play from my file browser using vlc it does this playpauseplayplause stuttering thing. until i hit the space bar and it stops it and plays the video normally. i also tried to play a video in the brave browser and it does the same thing.

audio is some kind of ticking? coming though the speaker. it's not the speaker (polk audio sound bar and woofer) and it's not showing in the audio output thing form the settings menu.

Ubuntu 24 on a System32 built computer. the tower is a few years old, so i know it's not that. and i had ubuntu 20 on it last year. it literally started up a few weeks ago and i can't diagnose it.
 
gampboonerisms said:
I've been having some video and audio trouble for the past few idk weeks?
Any video i try to play from my file browser using vlc it does this playpauseplayplause stuttering thing. until i hit the space bar and it stops it and plays the video normally. i also tried to play a video in the brave browser and it does the same thing.

audio is some kind of ticking? coming though the speaker. it's not the speaker (polk audio sound bar and woofer) and it's not showing in the audio output thing form the settings menu.

Ubuntu 24 on a System32 built computer. the tower is a few years old, so i know it's not that. and i had ubuntu 20 on it last year. it literally started up a few weeks ago and i can't diagnose it.
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I had that problem a couple years ago, though not on linux. IIRC, it was something to do with the caching? It's in the Input/Codecs section of the preferences (set Show Settings to All in the bottom corner). Try setting it to 10000 and see if that fixes it.
 
gampboonerisms said:
I've been having some video and audio trouble for the past few idk weeks?
Any video i try to play from my file browser using vlc it does this playpauseplayplause stuttering thing. until i hit the space bar and it stops it and plays the video normally. i also tried to play a video in the brave browser and it does the same thing.

audio is some kind of ticking? coming though the speaker. it's not the speaker (polk audio sound bar and woofer) and it's not showing in the audio output thing form the settings menu.

Ubuntu 24 on a System32 built computer. the tower is a few years old, so i know it's not that. and i had ubuntu 20 on it last year. it literally started up a few weeks ago and i can't diagnose it.
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idk much about what versions ubuntu is going to be on or anything.

but what sound server are you using?

alsa (most people aren't using alsa directly unless they know what they are doing)
pulse-audio
or pipewire/pipewire-pulse/pipewire-alsa?

could maybe help track down the issues.

also. I'm curious if you notice it playing a video with mpv.

if it's not something going on with pulse or pipewire, my thoughts are it's something with a driver causing the problem. or with ffmpeg maybe.
 
Ahh, the jeetification continues. I've been using PrusaSlicer for a while for one of my 3d printers. Haven't used it in a while and decided I should update. Go to downloads, click button, get a timer, come back a bit later. Hmm, no file in Downloads/ and no file on the Download tab of the web browser. Notice the web browser is now on a page called "FlatHub". Go to Github for PrusaSlicer. "Linux builds are now only on FlatHub". Check for 3rd party AppImage, all out of date. Check for flatpak2appimage, still nothing. Do find a bunch of reddit tier takes on "But flatpaks update themselves and this is a good thing." Briefly consider wrapping flatpak in a podman container to run this one app. Say fuck it and download the latest OrcaSlicer AppImage and move the printer to OrcaSlicer using a different config directory so I won't accidentally stomp the other printer's settings.
 
DavidS877 said:
Ahh, the jeetification continues. I've been using PrusaSlicer for a while for one of my 3d printers. Haven't used it in a while and decided I should update. Go to downloads, click button, get a timer, come back a bit later. Hmm, no file in Downloads/ and no file on the Download tab of the web browser. Notice the web browser is now on a page called "FlatHub". Go to Github for PrusaSlicer. "Linux builds are now only on FlatHub". Check for 3rd party AppImage, all out of date. Check for flatpak2appimage, still nothing. Do find a bunch of reddit tier takes on "But flatpaks update themselves and this is a good thing." Briefly consider wrapping flatpak in a podman container to run this one app. Say fuck it and download the latest OrcaSlicer AppImage and move the printer to OrcaSlicer using a different config directory so I won't accidentally stomp the other printer's settings.
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Umm... Sweaty flatpaks are containerized. You don't care about security, biggot?!

Install flatpak chud, it's annoying to you that you have to have things separated into their own little runtimes, and separate directories in .var? But did you think about how the developer feels when they have to pick a distro to make a package for?
 
The Big Bad D said:
Why are you not using your distro packages?
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Just like flatpak I'd have to upgrade it on the 3 different systems I use regularly and keep them in sync. This way I just do ~/nfs/apps/PrusaSlicer_xyz.appimage and they all run the same software when I'm sitting at them. Also my distro doesn't package anything newer than 2000, this is a feature not a bug.
 
DavidS877 said:
Just like flatpak I'd have to upgrade it on the 3 different systems I use regularly and keep them in sync. This way I just do ~/nfs/apps/PrusaSlicer_xyz.appimage and they all run the same software when I'm sitting at them. Also my distro doesn't package anything newer than 2000, this is a feature not a bug.
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Just share your rootfs on NFS, what could possibly go wrong?
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
idk much about what versions ubuntu is going to be on or anything.

but what sound server are you using?

alsa (most people aren't using alsa directly unless they know what they are doing)
pulse-audio
or pipewire/pipewire-pulse/pipewire-alsa?

could maybe help track down the issues.

also. I'm curious if you notice it playing a video with mpv.

if it's not something going on with pulse or pipewire, my thoughts are it's something with a driver causing the problem. or with ffmpeg maybe.
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I didnt get a chance to check what sound server I'm using. But I can tell you the video thing going on happens no matter what player, VLC, MPV, and even when I try to play a local video in brave. I think I'm just gonna do a fresh install. Maybe switch to arch or something.
 
For anyone who isn't keeping up with the joy of linux audio, pipewire/pipewire-pulse/pipewire-alsa is the current thing (pipewire-pulse and pipewire-alsa are wrappers for the old API's). You'll want to install all three of these to have working audio in Arch, although you can probably use pulse or alsa if you really want to.
 
Nice Stick said:
For anyone who isn't keeping up with the joy of linux audio, pipewire/pipewire-pulse/pipewire-alsa is the current thing (pipewire-pulse and pipewire-alsa are wrappers for the old API's). You'll want to install all three of these to have working audio in Arch, although you can probably use pulse or alsa if you really want to.
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It says a lot that pipewire is an immense improvement over pulseaudio. Poettering needs to spend the rest of his life immersed in diesel.
 
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