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Ruined by the Rain said:
I just moved to Linux and it's insane how many programs support it now. Back then I remember it being a pain to install shit lol
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Welcome aboard. If you have old or low spec PC's laying around Linux mint will run on it and bring it to the current decade.

EDIT: This sounds like an ad lol it's not. I just love Mint, not so much for gaming though.
 
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Savage Randy said:
Welcome aboard. If you have old or low spec PC's laying around Linux mint will run on it and bring it to the current decade.

EDIT: This sounds like an ad lol it's not. I just love Mint, just not for gaming.
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I use mint. The few games I play run great tho
I'm barely tech literate but I jumped because no way I'm using win 11
 
Ruined by the Rain said:
I just moved to Linux and it's insane how many programs support it now. Back then I remember it being a pain to install shit lol
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No. Trust me. It's a baren wasteland. There is nothing to use on Linux.

That's what I'm told at least. Even though I haven't had that problem, and the other people I know using Linux haven't had that problem. It's probably just because we aren't using it to do real work™.
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
No. Trust me. It's a baren wasteland. There is nothing to use on Linux.

That's what I'm told at least. Even though I haven't had that problem, and the other people I know using Linux haven't had that problem. It's probably just because we aren't using it to do real work™.
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It was true 5-10 years ago tho. There's really nothing back then and what there is fucking sucks at least to casual users
 
Ruined by the Rain said:
I use mint. The few games I play run great tho
I'm barely tech literate but I jumped because no way I'm using win 11
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Mint runs a lot especially with Lutris! The drivers can be spotty or outright unusable in some games. I game on Manjaro it's been very easy to get around things like Battle.net fuckery with wine compared to Mint. At least in my experience. Sorry I'm rambling. The great thing about linux is you can pretty much make it how you want it.

And yes Fuck windows.... all the way to 11.
 
Ruined by the Rain said:
It was true 5-10 years ago tho. There's really nothing back then and what there is fucking sucks at least to casual users
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5-10 years ago was 2015 to 2020. The application landscape for Linux was virtually no different then, to today.
 
The Gentoo on PS3 project is back, apparently:

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Dick Lickieta said:
as cool as that is, what can you really do with 256MB of ram these days in a full fat desktop OS
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And the RAM is soldered on too IIRC so you're fucked. But remarkably, apparently the kernel still have some PS3 specific drivers that might help with other stuff though. For example a post highlighted a driver that allows the offloading of VRAM to SWAP. It exposes a chunk of the GPU’s video memory as a block device. You can format that as swap and give the kernel a higher swap priority for it, so it is used before disk. At least someone will be using these drivers now that this project exists again.
 
Savage Randy said:
Welcome aboard. If you have old or low spec PC's laying around Linux mint will run on it and bring it to the current decade.
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Unless you have old nVidia GPU which drivers are obsolete and thrown into nouveau.
Unless you have high resolution monitor and want to try older applications from Windows.
Unless you want to easily access shared Windows location over LAN.

Besides, welcome.
 
Today I am MATI. Poettering fucking did it. I could tolerate most of the other bullshit, but my system not booting at all is the last straw.

So what happened? Poettering currently has a massive hard-on for everything secure boot and TPM. While fixing some TPM shit for ARM VMs with broken firmware, one of the other contributors added a call to GetActiveBanks() in systemd-boot. So far so good, ARM garbage fixed. Too bad this call doesn't fucking exist on older x86 UEFI implementations, and because UEFI is a great standard, this hangs the machine.

This gets noticed while systemd 258 is in RC phase. Normally, one would assume this would be a massive release blocker. There's probaly lots of Linux users with old Thinkpads which are not getting UEFI updates. Unfortunately, systemd 258 gets released without a fix.

Yesterday, I update my laptop, reboot and boom: Nothing. Black screen.
So I start digging, and find these issues/PRs:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/38932, archive
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/39034, archive
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/39089, archive

At first they deny even causing this, ignoring that systemd 257 works and 258 does not. After finding out it is their fault, they come up with a workaround: Disable TPM. How one is supposed to find out about this workaround without their machine booting is beyond me. Then a systemd contributor comes up with a fix and opens a PR. Poettering steps in. Struggle sessions ensues. Poettering fixes it himself.

His fix? It fucking breaks TPM on affected machines.

At least it boots.
 
Hot take: being an XLibre cultist is just as bad as being a Wayland one.
The Big Bad D said:
At first they deny even causing this, ignoring that systemd 257 works and 258 does not. After finding out it is their fault, they come up with a workaround: Disable TPM. How one is supposed to find out about this workaround without their machine booting is beyond me. Then a systemd contributor comes up with a fix and opens a PR. Poettering steps in. Struggle sessions ensues. Poettering fixes it himself.

His fix? It fucking breaks TPM on affected machines.

At least it boots.
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Soystemd, not even once. The TMP obsession probably stems from all the talk about hardware attestation making the rounds, no wonder Poettering would jump on a bandwagon like that. If you want to look for actual M$ plants in FOSS, good luck finding any that are even close to being as niggerlicious as Poettering. What distro specifically are you trying to run btw? I've got a Radxa RK3588 in the mail and I'm thinking about what to use for a simple DAS storage box. The pickings for systemd-free ARM distros is even slimmer than on x86 though, I think only Alpine and Gentoo offer "proper" non-sysd ARM support. Interestingly enough both NetBSD and OpenBSD have Rockchips on their supported hardware list, so I might give one of them a shot instead.
 
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I'm fiddling with MPV on Linux Mint because I found out that SMPlayer's still in active development, and they now use MPV as a backend. My conception of local media players amounts to flipping between MPC-HC, SMPlayer, and VLC when watching pirated weebshit between 2010-2013. Celluloid, default on Linux Mint MATE, is also surprisingly robust. The MPV keyboard shortcuts take a while to get accustomed to, but I vastly prefer managing dual audio and subtitle tracks with the keyboard over fiddling with clunky menus in VLC. The layering with ffmpeg and yt-dlp also remind me that I have much to learn with robust CLI tools.
 
Dread First said:
I'm fiddling with MPV on Linux Mint because I found out that SMPlayer's still in active development, and they now use MPV as a backend. My conception of local media players amounts to flipping between MPC-HC, SMPlayer, and VLC when watching pirated weebshit between 2010-2013. Celluloid, default on Linux Mint MATE, is also surprisingly robust. The MPV keyboard shortcuts take a while to get accustomed to, but I vastly prefer managing dual audio and subtitle tracks with the keyboard over fiddling with clunky menus in VLC. The layering with ffmpeg and yt-dlp also remind me that I have much to learn with robust CLI tools.
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I've been pretty happy with Celluloid it's a pretty good video player with no garbage features tacked on front and center
 
Dread First said:
I'm fiddling with MPV on Linux Mint because I found out that SMPlayer's still in active development, and they now use MPV as a backend. My conception of local media players amounts to flipping between MPC-HC, SMPlayer, and VLC when watching pirated weebshit between 2010-2013. Celluloid, default on Linux Mint MATE, is also surprisingly robust. The MPV keyboard shortcuts take a while to get accustomed to, but I vastly prefer managing dual audio and subtitle tracks with the keyboard over fiddling with clunky menus in VLC. The layering with ffmpeg and yt-dlp also remind me that I have much to learn with robust CLI tools.
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Barebones MPV is the logical final-destination of media players on Linux. It doesn't have a pushy, over-the-top UI (like VLC) and isn't arbitrarily restricted to the point of lackluster streaming support (like Parole). I tried getting into MPD but since I am paring down the amount of redundant options in my desktop software I'm just piping all my media to MPV. Celluloid is fine but I'd rather avoid Libadwaita like the plague and just go with the GTK3 builds Linux Mint provides.
 
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Trans Fat 41g said:
Barebones MPV is the logical final-destination of media players on Linux. It doesn't have a pushy, over-the-top UI (like VLC) and isn't arbitrarily restricted to the point of lackluster streaming support (like Parole). I tried getting into MPD but since I am paring down the amount of redundant options in my desktop software I'm just piping all my media to MPV. Celluloid is fine but I'd rather avoid Libadwaita like the plague and just go with the GTK3 builds Linux Mint provides.
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This reminds me of when MPlayer and VLC used to offer browser plugins for video playback, except now the death of NPAPI means that we need to rely on the browser itself to decode video. I know that there are options to reroute video playback through MPV, but to that end? I have no fucking clue what the "best" option is. Looks like there are browser extensions that do the hard work for you, but on Firefox, they all seem like they haven't been updated since 2021-2022.
 
Dread First said:
This reminds me of when MPlayer and VLC used to offer browser plugins for video playback, except now the death of NPAPI means that we need to rely on the browser itself to decode video. I know that there are options to reroute video playback through MPV, but to that end? I have no fucking clue what the "best" option is. Looks like there are browser extensions that do the hard work for you, but on Firefox, they all seem like they haven't been updated since 2021-2022.
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The following code snippet can be used in a script to open a URL you have added to the clipboard:

Bash: 
#!/bin/sh

mpv "$(xclip -o)"

Bind to a key, press after copying URL. You of course do need yt-dlp.
 
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