The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[SCV]

see. the problem is i have a bunch of drives. all for my old windows install. and because im a data hoarder i refuse to change them. i have no more space for drives.

i will probably need to remedy this because im sure my linux drive will fill up eventually.

i guess i could buy a big ass ssd and transport all my windows things onto one drive. We are talking terabytes of data. mostly steam games tbh.

my main thing is i want my windows to be untouched. but its spread across like 5 drives. maybe i will transport my windows into a completely different pc idk.

TL: DR i have no more expansion room unless i start reclaiming windows drives.

i tried isolating my windows install to one drive and then installed everything else everywhere else. and id order them by importance. so stuff i use a lot got the good drive and then stuff i rarely use or downloads got sent to the bulk hdd.

games got the SSDs with my favs being on an nvme and then stuff i played frequently but less often were on a sata ssd.

its a fuckin mess.

This is fucking lunacy. Hey, retard, when one of these drives die what's your plan? You don't have to tell me you don't have a backup because it's obvious. On top of that you're hoarding steam games on a filesystem without checksumming so it's basically the lowest value hoarding I could imagine. I also really doubt you can notice a difference between an NVME and SATA ssd unless you're doing huge bulk file operations so moving things between them is probably a waste of time and just another chance to fuck up.

is it possible to install windows onto a portable ssd and then boot that into a VM? I wan to access windows for a few specific programs but i dont want to use my actual drive space for it

something like this

alternatively how safe is it to pass my current windows ssd into a VM? i dont want to bork my windows install.

Passing an entire disk to a virtual machine is easy and you can boot windows from it, you can even still boot that copy of windows normally if you don't change anything. You should not do this with "portable [USB]" drives because usb controllers are shit and will break things. If you want 3d acceleration however you either need a 2nd gpu that you pass through or something that supports SR-IOV and then some way to actually see the output like looking glass (win10+) or directly attach a monitor.

Sort of unclear on your requirements (do you need to boot windows on bare metal? do you need 3d acceleration in windows?) but I would say you should consolidate all your windows drives into one VM image on top of a checksumming filesystem (be that on top of a big HDD or some type of raid across your other faster storage) and then get a usable back up.

However if we're being honest given this shitshow I think your data is basically as good as gone anyway so idk if it's worth the effort + chances you make a mistake (no backups meaning any mistake is fatal). Then again you seem to live dangerously so #YOLO.

 

[Slav Power]

Where vim really gets good isn't the hjkl movements. Those are nice, and like someone else mentioned they become muscle memory on which way they move, rather than actually remembering. But where you really see the benefits of vim is when you start getting into text objects, and doing things like dap yap diw using the { and } to move around full paragraphs, using f to search forward for a character or F to go backwards then you can use ; to repeat that motion, and one of the biggest things is cntrl+v for visual block.

And the more you learn about it, the faster you get. It starts to really compound how much time you save doing editing work. And if people are spending time in editors for work that really adds up. Something I just learned recently. is when you do visual select more. after you highlight something, you can hit :s/foo/bar then do the normal sed style search and replace, for the instances of foo in the text you selected, and replace them with bar. like you might do for a full buffer using :%s/foo/bar. There are so many things you can do with vim to save time. It's crazy what it can do.

And for development work, if someone takes the time to set up an lsp, like they may be using in another ide. but also know, and can take advantage of all the other time saving things vim has. It's really hard to go back to any other editor, you just won't get the things you can from vim from almost any other editor out there

That's true, but my issues is that I keep forgetting about various macros, and my J and K confusion is still in the muscle memory, and I have issues with doing certain things that come easy in GUI editors like Notepad++ like saving files in different encodings or doing Regex replacement as Bram for some God forsaken reason decided that it would be a good idea to use his own syntax conventions and rarely do I find vim more efficient than a GUI editor, it feels like I'm more often fighting it than flowing with it. Probably skill issue, but still. I went through the entire vim tutorial, I get the hang of some of it's features, but I still don't want to use it as a be-all-end-all of text editing. I still prefer it over nano when SSHing into Linux containers to edit configs and whatnot. Recently I switched to Sublime Text and I've been liking it a lot for the general use.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

Seems to be happening a lot recently
Happened a couple of days ago too

 

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LMAO. Tried this with Devuan. At around 38 minutes of install, it asked me to choose my init system. I chose Runit. It told me to insert the medium I was using. I will not be attempting this again. Sorry for the bad crop, but this shit pissed me off so much you just get my Artix crop parameters.

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Huh. It's almost like Devuan doesn't need to be reinstalled every ten minutes like Arch et al do.

 

[The Realest of Ducks]

is it possible to install windows onto a portable ssd and then boot that into a VM? I wan to access windows for a few specific programs but i dont want to use my actual drive space for it

something like this

alternatively how safe is it to pass my current windows ssd into a VM? i dont want to bork my windows install.

You can install Ventoy onto a USB and use their VHD persistence feature.

Disclaimer: You must agree to give daddy Xi all of your data.

 

[analrapist]

Devuan doesn't need to be reinstalled

You missed the part where Devuan needed to be reinstalled after 38 minutes of installing.

 

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You missed the part where Devuan needed to be reinstalled after 38 minutes of installing.

Because you somehow managed to skip adding any repo that you could use to install from the internet? OK, retard

 

[analrapist]

Because you somehow managed to skip adding any repo that you could use to install from the internet? OK, retard

Wrong, but by all means, speculate more. Just shows how witless you are, how desperate for a W. I've got the whole 38 minute install video sitting right here.

Edit: Attached. By all means, tell me what I did wrong. (Spoiler: I said "Yes" to "Scan extra installation media?" once, oops. It told me it had registered it already. Network was up, worked fine, installer downloaded from it.) It's not like I haven't installed Debian a bajillion times, using it continuously since 2007 and installed Armbian-x64 on my laptop like a month ago.

 

[SCV]

Huh. It's almost like Devuan doesn't need to be reinstalled every ten minutes like Arch et al do.

I've had my arch et al install for like 5 years at this point. If I had debian et al I would've been forced to reinstall for new release once or twice already. Just sayin'

 

[DavidS877]

Spoiler: I said "Yes" to "Scan extra installation media?"

So, it ejected the CD so you could put a different CD in, just put it back in. For a USB stick it might have found it again if you unplugged and replugged it, or not, just go to the command line and remount it. Probably a 15 year old bug opened in some repo saying "don't do this"

I've had my arch et al install for like 5 years at this point. If I had debian et al I would've been forced to reinstall for new release once or twice already. Just sayin'

Why would you have to reinstall?
It's very easy, https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html it's only like 20 pages of instructions.
And you do typically get 5 years if you switch to LTS.

Personally I just ignore upgrades until there's a good reason. Like Octoprint dropping support for Python 3.8.

 

[SCV]

Why would you have to reinstall?
It's very easy, https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html it's only like 20 pages of instructions.
And you do typically get 5 years if you switch to LTS.

Uh, asckually sweaty I said "debian et al" and was in part referring to MX linux


Maybe if they spent more time on an upgrade path and less time botting their distro watch rank this wouldn't be the case.

 

[analrapist]

So, it ejected the CD so you could put a different CD in, j

Nope. There was no eject. You can see that the iso is still mounted in the console at 36:56. I fucked around in the console for a while trying to see if I could do something that would make the installer finish, but no.

 

[SCV]

An interview with the xlibre dev. It was from 4 weeks ago. I was wondering how I missed it. The. I saw it has 300 views.

How the fuck did you even find this? This guy literally barely meets the qualification of "dozens" of subscribers with 26. How or why did Enrico even end up doing this interview (he says he's been completely swamped since he forked Xorg)? Truly bizarre.

So I listened to this and honestly between Enrico's bad mic and his accent it really feels like der Furher is talking about FOSS from the 1930s. He even jokes about writing a book and says it might be time to move into management. Jokes aside it was interesting and it sounds like Enrico is the one sane man in FOSS development (the host didn't add much). Also why is a german named Enrico?

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

. It being written in C++ makes it at least serviceable, but for many other popular apps, e.g. Groomcord, that's just not the case.

There are quite a few ways to bridge Discord with an IRC client, that work, but they are all really clunky.

 

[Betonhaus]

How the fuck did you even find this? This guy literally barely meets the qualification of "dozens" of subscribers with 26. How or why did Enrico even end up doing this interview (he says he's been completely swamped since he forked Xorg)? Truly bizarre.

So I listened to this and honestly between Enrico's bad mic and his accent it really feels like der Furher is talking about FOSS from the 1930s. He even jokes about writing a book and says it might be time to move into management. Jokes aside it was interesting and it sounds like Enrico is the one sane man in FOSS development (the host didn't add much). Also why is a german named Enrico?

it looks like it's actually a podcast reposted to jewtube https://packetsandbolts.libsyn.com/interview-with-enrico-weigelt

 

[analrapist]

This is how it looks to install xlibre on artix. You don't even need to add a special repo. I realized I hadn't done it yet. Video is sped up by dropping duplicate-ish frames. I didn't crop, so you get my seconds-clock in the top-right so you can see how long things take. Left three numbers in my slstatus are various temperatures if you're curious. Bonus features include me forgetting how to pacman and some other miscellaneous fuckups/features. Enjoy.

 

[Betonhaus]

Turns out there's a problem with the version of Xlibre on the AUR as it's created by a third party that is negligent to the point of sabotage. They're trying to gain control of the repository but it seems to be difficult to find the person and get them to give up the keys

 

[analrapist]

Turns out there's a problem with the version of Xlibre on the AUR as it's created by a third party that is negligent to the point of sabotage.

Can you elaborate on this? I'm looking over the two PKGBUILDs and I'm not seeing anything particularly sus, but I'm not the most learned on xlibre's build mechanics.

 

[ZMOT]

Sick of Windows and I'll be switching. Did a little research and Fedora KDE seemed like a nice sweet spot. Why does Fedora get hate besides the gay name? And are the troon allegations just the typical tranny - software dev correlation?

as @SCV mentioned redhat-adjacent and thus kinda annoying.

if you want a (somewhat) bleeding edge kde distro without arch autism or veering too close to footfaggotry from redhat which "just werks" (ymmv) I can recommend opensuse tumbleweed.
it's somewhat overlooked and sure the people in charge are leftards, but that's kinda unavoidable these days. just cuck them by using their software without them able to do anything about it.

 

[Betonhaus]

Can you elaborate on this? I'm looking over the two PKGBUILDs and I'm not seeing anything particularly sus, but I'm not the most learned on xlibre's build mechanics.

Slow build and shit like recursive dependencies. Apparently if you check the comments for the packages everyone is posing how to unfuck the packages, something that is unnecessary for the Xlibre repository version.