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I use it mostly but I do use xfs on a ssd where I'll be constantly moving large files on and off it, as xfs handles concurrent data streams better
The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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16 view video with no comments. I've never seen this guy before. No clue what his normal videos are like.
I do think we might actually see more people continue moving to Linux. I don't think Windows is going away. And I don't think Linux is going to likely ever become the number one OS for the desktop. But their does really seem to be a trend of people moving to it finally.
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No, Grub is just an overcomplicated mess. Even experienced users just run grub-install, grub-mkconfig, and pray. Or switch to efistub.
Btrfs works fine outside certain RAID configurations and subvolumes can be used as a simpler LVM. But if I wasn't using subvolumes, I'd stick to ext4, too. It has become a lot faster with kernel 6.16, and fscrypt is pretty convenient.
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Yup. GRUB is probably better for complicated installs with multiple kernels, but for single kernel systems where the name of the kernel file doesn't change (like is the default in Arch), EFI stub is an upgrade and it should only take one command to set up. You just have to know what kernel cmdline params you need.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/EFI_stub
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I'm one of those trying to switch to Linux full time, but I know I'm gonna need to keep a Windows system around as a just in case. Plus incase I'm playing games (with friends) that might only work on Windows. Plus some of the Proton products isnt quite updated on Linux yet. VPN and Pass (unless I've completely missed that).
I've been enjoying Linux Mint despite it obviously being the go to for beginners, but all us novice learners need to start somewhere and still have functionality. Just to challenge myself, I do just want to practice Arch on a VM and just see if I can do a whole install, break something, fix it, etc.
My coworkers are switching to Linux as well. Windows 11 has really turned them away.
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I feel like people have been saying this every year I have been alive. I'd like to believe it, sure, but I just don't think a noticeable population is going to change to Linux.
Cattle will continue to eat the cattle slop that windows provides, even if they claim to hate it.
残念。
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I have run into a few instances of compressed files that for whatever reason fail to extract in linux mint, whether I use 7z from the command line or the archive manager. I move the files over to the windows machine and 7zfm just extracts them without question or fault. Has anyone run into this before?
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I like grub because it makes trying to write your own bootloader/kernel a fair bit easier. You create a pretty standard assembly stub for _start, a short linker file, and then you can get it up and running in qemu fairly quickly. You can very easily get into protected mode this way, which gives you VGA and 16MB to test out stuff like mmap_entry_t.
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ProtonVPN has official Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora packages, unofficial elsewhere, and OpenVPN/Wireguard config support. Pass has a browser extension and phone app.
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Yep. Gotta run grub-mkconfig separately to update grub.cfg. IIRC, Arch behaves this way too. Debian updated grub.cfg every grub update, in accordance with grub.d and /etc/default/grub
I tried xfs for a while, but ext4 is more recoverable, more straightforward, and the tooling for it is more mature... compared to XFS! F2FS and other filesystems have been even worse for me. I'm not experimental enough any more to use anything but ext4. I don't enjoy when it's a challenge to access my data, and ext4 gives the lowest barrier there.
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Why did he do that btw? I thought Canadians were hecking wholesome?
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I think he was supposed to be on-screen "talent" that refused to go on-screen because the last shred of dignity and self respect he had wouldn't let him.
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> You’re a KDE fan
lmao.
> You get excited about modern technology like Systemd, immutable OSs, containerized apps, and Btrfs
I don't get "excited" about technology, and I think Systemd and containerized apps are retarded.
> You don’t have an NVIDIA GPU that’s over 6 years old
9 years old, baby!
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I find KDE to be a solid starting point for an installation. I know it has a litany of problems, but I always go back to it
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Yeah, no matter what you think about systemd specifically, being excited over what your system uses under the hood is retarded. Also shows what kind of user they're going for, in which case, they probably wouldn't get excited over you doing the exact same thing that everyone else is doing.
KDE is alright. Their problems really come down to size, in software, scope, and organization. Also moving fast and breaking shit, but that's just software in general.
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the deeper i go into trying to make gnome more accessible the more gaping holes i find in gnome
weve had so many fucking crashes and glitches its insane
so far weve just been slowly replacing gnome components with kde components for touch accessibility reasons but as soon as kde puts out their osk we're jumping ship to kde immediately, where we will probably find 100 bugs in their software too lol
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Are they .rar files? The only time I've had this problem (neither 7z, unzip, LXQt File Archiver could extract them on Lubuntu) was with .rar files I got have manga piracy sites, and I found unrar extracts them just fine. They always have some message put by the piracy group that displays in command line at the start of extraction, so my only guess is they're doing something fucky with the metadata that other programs besides unrar don't know how to handle.
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No, but I use either tar, or unzip depending on the format. I don't use 7zip.
Meanwhile people being excited about xlibre.
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What's wrong with Cinnamon for your use case?
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so i decided to check out commodore os cause of this video
its pretty interesting, based on debian stable (mx linux) but on boot it says its using antix patches
im mostly trying it because i read on the forum it should work on a core 2 duo but not a mac, so i decided to try it on a core 2 duo imac 8,1
36gb iso took fucking 4 hours to write to a usb 3.1 flash drive, so installation on my machine from 2008 is probably gonna take a few hours lol
xorg is a non-starter. need waydroid for android apps cause this is gonna be used by like quadriplegics, so everything needs to be a touch friendly application
i dont even use cinnamon on my main desktop because i found it pretty buggy and clunky, despite the mainstream claims to the contrary