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Said the stupid retarded nigger bringing back a retarded drama from a few pages ago.
The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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Fraygorryt The Wise
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My bad for not checking the threads I watch at every waking hour, some of us have things to do.
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I rather like making it look like Windows 95.
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And then get an eyesore when some piece of software doesn't follow the scheme or is missing an icon, try to make everything as uniform as possible, give up and go back to modern themes. Usually that's how using those retro themes ends up, be it Linux or Windows.
You just can't wind the clock back.
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If you live in your text editor anyway, you can let your eyes rest on ChicagoFLF.
random github source
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If Linux ever gets a proper analogue to the "Classic" theme on Windows 7, it will forever be superior to modern M$ slop. Unfortunately, IceWM scratches the itch but stops shy of getting rid of the itch entirely.
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My point is that you can do this sort of retro theming to an extent on Windows as well, and both that and Linux suffers from the same issue: modern software with modern aesthetics that doesn't hook into the same Win32/GTK/Qt/whatever UI library will look out of place, and the more you try to make everything look consistent the more tedious it'll get until you decide to give up on nostalgia and just stick to the modern themes where they won't clash as hard.
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You can probably get around a lot of it by setting themes with environment variables alongside the normal methods.
The main issues will be things like obs though. I guess they do it the way they do because they want it to look consistent cross platform. But it makes it a pain in the ass to not have it standout amongst everything else on the system that does follow the themes you set like they should.
The other place i could see it being an issue is using gtk4 apps. But thankfully you can pretty easily avoid those. Since they tend to just feel like the other alternatives, but with less functionality.
The main issues will be things like obs though. I guess they do it the way they do because they want it to look consistent cross platform. But it makes it a pain in the ass to not have it standout amongst everything else on the system that does follow the themes you set like they should.
The other place i could see it being an issue is using gtk4 apps. But thankfully you can pretty easily avoid those. Since they tend to just feel like the other alternatives, but with less functionality.
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I like Denshi's stuff. He makes guides for a lot of random software, mostly server stuff. You really don't need much to install most of these things. Set up an XMPP server and pester your friends to move from der 'cord and then try to stop them from uploading warrior.png
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Slav Power is his name
Shilling Microsoft is his game
Copes and about to rope like a tinker tranny all the same
I'm James, grew up in Miami-Dade
These WinCUCKS are gonna fade
Proprietary software, they've got no clue
Jeets shat up the NT kernel, Windows is through
Shilling Microsoft is his game
Copes and about to rope like a tinker tranny all the same
I'm James, grew up in Miami-Dade
These WinCUCKS are gonna fade
Proprietary software, they've got no clue
Jeets shat up the NT kernel, Windows is through
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Pretty decent options for this if you go full kde plasma ecosystem. Daily drove the seven or vista theme for a couple months. Was nice.
Back to the best OS UI theme currently, Windows 2000 Professional.
Kiwifarmsname
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It's alone on the disk. I tried booting into recovery mode but that didn't do anything for 15 minutes so I just left it. No error messages though. The last thing I did install some games to steam and change my desktop background.
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With all due respect, homie: you need to give us more information on the circumstances leading up to you ending up in busyshell (isn't that part of busybox?). You literally go from "should I delete Mint and start over?" to "mint won't boot on my PC."
Looking over your post history, it seems like you weren't getting bottlenecked by anything beyond user application woes before you came to this thread saying your Mint install won't boot. If you're unable to fill in the gaps that your short, uninformative posts leave wide open, I'm afraid we can't help you. We really do need more information than you've been giving us thus far.
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Fair enough - these utilities can still be further improved and you and I both know that porting to Rust isn't part of that. But where you say you don't see anyone sensible alleging that it is, well, the "sensible" part gives you a get-out but right on the project page they do say that improved performance is one of the goals of the project. It's easy to read that and imagine they mean Rust helps there, because if that's actually your goal, you can just do it in C.
Speaking to that, one person on Phoronix made a good point that without the shared library base there'd be much more bloat to the Rust utils, to which someone replied with their bare face hanging out that they had "solved" this by just having one binary. So all the core utils in the Rust version are actually just one binary with lots of hard links to it under every name. Call it
sort and it will behave like sort. (Hopefully)TBF, in this day and age I don't have a problem with them being larger in exchange for better performance, though.
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ive been using linux something like 8 months, been trying all the DE's and here's my general thoughts:
KDE is the best one by a pretty wide margin. it's immediately apparent from using it for 1 minute that it blows windows and macos the fuck out. Krunner alone, just by itself separated from the rest of the DE, Krunner is an honest argument why people should be using it full-time. there's krunner alternatives and slightly similar programs you can use on other DE's, like Rofi, but none of them are a fraction as good as krunner. Learning Rofi is like being tortured and krunner is just good out of the box.
MATE is so shitty im not sure why any distro would take them seriously and offer them as an official spin and want them on their website. what Red Hat does is just above being associated with the MATE guys. half of the programs it ships with by default don't work, at all, so you have to spend a lot of time cleaning out unusable bloatware. your customization options with mate are about zero unless you can code styling themes for yourself. This is also the only DE that ever crashed on me, or have bugs like the screenshot manager and a bunch of application menus stop working because I changed a theme setting.
i have a bias towards XFCE because of its more customizable panels and it's receiving what I perceive to be the highest amount of support on customization websites. i think it's slightly inferior to KDE and wayland in ways that don't bother me that much. i've put XFCE on my devices for what I think is permanently.
GNOME is what i would recommend to a guy that's aged under 14 and over 50 years old, or suffering from a similar handicap. or i would want it on an iPad or something retarded i barely use.
KDE is the best one by a pretty wide margin. it's immediately apparent from using it for 1 minute that it blows windows and macos the fuck out. Krunner alone, just by itself separated from the rest of the DE, Krunner is an honest argument why people should be using it full-time. there's krunner alternatives and slightly similar programs you can use on other DE's, like Rofi, but none of them are a fraction as good as krunner. Learning Rofi is like being tortured and krunner is just good out of the box.
MATE is so shitty im not sure why any distro would take them seriously and offer them as an official spin and want them on their website. what Red Hat does is just above being associated with the MATE guys. half of the programs it ships with by default don't work, at all, so you have to spend a lot of time cleaning out unusable bloatware. your customization options with mate are about zero unless you can code styling themes for yourself. This is also the only DE that ever crashed on me, or have bugs like the screenshot manager and a bunch of application menus stop working because I changed a theme setting.
i have a bias towards XFCE because of its more customizable panels and it's receiving what I perceive to be the highest amount of support on customization websites. i think it's slightly inferior to KDE and wayland in ways that don't bother me that much. i've put XFCE on my devices for what I think is permanently.
GNOME is what i would recommend to a guy that's aged under 14 and over 50 years old, or suffering from a similar handicap. or i would want it on an iPad or something retarded i barely use.
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You understand that MATE is literally just Gnome 2, deprecated in 2010, kept updated by spergs that really, really hated Gnome 3 right? It's not a corporate sponsored corporate maintained environment, it's old code kept running by the grace of god by a really stubborned programmer or 3.
XFCE has always been a lightweight, feature light environment. Years ago I used to run it on a Pentium 3 way past it's prime and I've always liked how snappy it is on modern hardware, because unlike KDE & Gnome the developers didn't rewrite the entire thing every time they got bored so it's really the same core code I ran 20 years ago.
Current Gnome is highly recommended for anyone with a lobotomy that doesn't mind everything being shit.
Kiwifarmsname
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Well see that's the thing. I don't actually know what I'm doing wrong. I didn't do anything really on this Mint install outside of installing Nivida drivers to get my second monitor to work and fiddling switch steam to try to get some games to work. Outside of that this is a completely new Mint install. I can't tell you what you need to know because I don't know what it is you need to know.
Or if you use a touchscreen device for some reason, as far as I know its still the only DE with the most refined touchscreen support
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If you need more than XFCE for a DE, you're doing something wrong. XFCE reminds me a lot of Windows 2000 with how simple and utilitarian it is, and it really should be the best choice for most people. You can move the taskbar to the bottom, set it up like it is on Windows, and then not think about the DE at all.
I reluctantly moved to Flow since all in all it's a better experience, but unfortunately there is no equivalent for it on Linux. KRunner has a plugin ecosystem, but it's tied to KDE, limiting your freedom of choice of desktop environments if you're looking for a good keyboard launcher. Rofi seems nice, but it looks even more hellish in configuration than Keypirinha. dmenu is a meme and a bare minimum. Looking at AlternativeTo there's also Vicinae which at a first glance looks like a promising contender for a Flow Launcher alternative.
I cannot understate just how lifechanging a good keyboard launcher is for desktop use. It completely replaces a need for a start menu, calculator, and makes your life a whole lot easier. Much like with Vim, you get the speed benefit of your touch typing muscle memory and simply typing out what you think to do it. Just to list some of my daily uses:
-launching programs and games
-looking up files, with Everything it's instantaneous
-doing calculations, unit and currency conversions
-translating words and phrases
-quickly killing stuck processes
-shutting down and restarting
Other plugins I don't use so often:
-switching between open windows
-looking up Vim commands
-converting strings like MD5
-adjusting screen brightness
-ejecting USB drives
And of course with plugins the possibilities are endless. It's why I believe a good keyboard launcher has a rich plugin ecosystem, as that's a make or break between an all-in-one launch box that you'll be invoking most of the time and a supplementary program launcher. Again, it cannot be understated just how much a good keyboard launcher reinvents the way you interact with a desktop environment. The second most important thing is a good file manager that's keyboard oriented, such as orthodox file managers.
Some people argue that there is nothing better than the command line, but I believe that there is nothing better than keyboard oriented controls. No need to think about where you're moving your cursor and where you're clicking, you just do. You create a direct pathway between your thoughts and your computer with your touch typing muscle memory and the keyboard being the high speed link between the two.
The state of keyboard launchers on both Windows and Linux is a sorry state. On Windows, the two main contenders are Keypirinha and Flow Launcher. The former is fantastically lightweight and fast, but it's been abandoned and has many issues. Flow Launcher on the other hand is actively maintained, blows Keypirinha out of the water in terms of features, usability and most importantly plugin ecosystem, but it's C# bloat and has some performance issues.
I reluctantly moved to Flow since all in all it's a better experience, but unfortunately there is no equivalent for it on Linux. KRunner has a plugin ecosystem, but it's tied to KDE, limiting your freedom of choice of desktop environments if you're looking for a good keyboard launcher. Rofi seems nice, but it looks even more hellish in configuration than Keypirinha. dmenu is a meme and a bare minimum. Looking at AlternativeTo there's also Vicinae which at a first glance looks like a promising contender for a Flow Launcher alternative.
I cannot understate just how lifechanging a good keyboard launcher is for desktop use. It completely replaces a need for a start menu, calculator, and makes your life a whole lot easier. Much like with Vim, you get the speed benefit of your touch typing muscle memory and simply typing out what you think to do it. Just to list some of my daily uses:
-launching programs and games
-looking up files, with Everything it's instantaneous
-doing calculations, unit and currency conversions
-translating words and phrases
-quickly killing stuck processes
-shutting down and restarting
Other plugins I don't use so often:
-switching between open windows
-looking up Vim commands
-converting strings like MD5
-adjusting screen brightness
-ejecting USB drives
And of course with plugins the possibilities are endless. It's why I believe a good keyboard launcher has a rich plugin ecosystem, as that's a make or break between an all-in-one launch box that you'll be invoking most of the time and a supplementary program launcher. Again, it cannot be understated just how much a good keyboard launcher reinvents the way you interact with a desktop environment. The second most important thing is a good file manager that's keyboard oriented, such as orthodox file managers.
Some people argue that there is nothing better than the command line, but I believe that there is nothing better than keyboard oriented controls. No need to think about where you're moving your cursor and where you're clicking, you just do. You create a direct pathway between your thoughts and your computer with your touch typing muscle memory and the keyboard being the high speed link between the two.
Roko's Succubus
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My brother in Christ, that's called a shell. Every WM has a keybind to spawn one, just `exit` when you're done, no mousing around required.