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Phoronix: Aeryn OS Continuing To Focus On Tooling & Infrastructure In 2026 (archive)

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Speaking of which, in checking what the current meta for duplicate file finding was, this week I had a look at Jdupes, which I ended up using. It's been mentioned previously here.

What I didn't expect was the main page of the site to be filled with memes trying to be offensive to chase snowflakes away from his software. That's kind of refreshing.
 
Update my computer yesterday
Finally reboot it today
Computer comes back on but my nvidia driver is fucked up
Switching from nvidia-open to nvidia-open-dkms fixed it for now
Was freaking out for a second there I thought I was gonna have to hop

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Bruh wtf is wrong with Ikey everything he touches turns into vaporware
If he died tomorrow the projects he works on might have a fighting chance in hell to ship something
 
Mikoyan said:
Speaking of which, in checking what the current meta for duplicate file finding was, this week I had a look at Jdupes, which I ended up using. It's been mentioned previously here.

What I didn't expect was the main page of the site to be filled with memes trying to be offensive to chase snowflakes away from his software. That's kind of refreshing.
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I stumbled onto his youtube channel.a few weeks ago. And posted it in the open source thread. Definitely has some gems on it.

Although he gets into the third rail territory of libertarian thought. And I think for his own good, to make his points he should probably just drop that subject all together. At the very least, he doesn't go full retard with it compared to what I've seen some lolberts argue for. But at the same time he could make the same arguements with subjects that aren't going to make you look bad by just bringing them up.

Overall, idk I give him a pass on it. But still.

wafflesies said:
Update my computer yesterday
Finally reboot it today
Computer comes back on but my nvidia driver is fucked up
Switching from nvidia-open to nvidia-open-dkms fixed it for now
Was freaking out for a second there I thought I was gonna have to hop
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What card? If it's something older you have to move to the 58xxx driver now. Or if its never than the 10 series, then you can use the open driver thats recommended or the mainline proprietary driver. Depends on the card.
 
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Bruh wtf is wrong with Ikey everything he touches turns into vaporware
If he died tomorrow the projects he works on might have a fighting chance in hell to ship something
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Reminder that Ikey ghosted his main project for two years leaving his crew to pick up the pieces which barely moved the needle on releases and several things broke in the process putting them at a standstill. Do not trust this man for lasting commitment.

It's a damn shame because riffing on what Linux Mint does but entirely independent was a victorious path, squandered for Wayland-only and a lack of trust.
 
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What card? If it's something older you have to move to the 58xxx driver now. Or if its never than the 10 series, then you can use the open driver thats recommended or the mainline proprietary driver. Depends on the card.
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3090, for some reason artix isnt on 590 yet

between grok generating literal csam and ricky berwick zootopia ai kissing videos idk if im as excited for 2026 as before
 
I switched to Linux Mint on my PC back in November because Microsoft's push towards this "agentic" nonsense was the final straw.

When or if should I distro hop? Would I get significantly more performance out of, say, CachyOS with my Ryzen 7 7735HS and Radeon RX 7700S? Or should I have installed Cachy or something else Arch-like in the first place?
 
Nickel Silver said:
When or if should I distro hop? Would I get significantly more performance out of, say, CachyOS with my Ryzen 7 7735HS and Radeon RX 7700S? Or should I have installed Cachy or something else Arch-like in the first place?
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Anything different would be placebo
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
I assumed everyone in the thread has already heard the details of what the status is on them. As in the headers were the thing that was fully open sourced. It's a lot like intels stuff. You still need proprietary binary blobs for them, but the kernel also has support for their hardware with what it can handle.
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Referring to them as "the open source drivers", implying the driver is fully source-available, is still grossly inaccurate. Most people don't or won't care but truth matters and good shouldn't be the enemy of perfect.
 
Nickel Silver said:
I switched to Linux Mint on my PC back in November because Microsoft's push towards this "agentic" nonsense was the final straw.

When or if should I distro hop? Would I get significantly more performance out of, say, CachyOS with my Ryzen 7 7735HS and Radeon RX 7700S? Or should I have installed Cachy or something else Arch-like in the first place?
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Don't give into the distro hopping bug when you're still green around the gills. Acclimate yourself to Linux Mint for a few months, learn the ins and the outs, actually daily drive your Mint setup. Distro hopping's only worth engaging with if you have an external drive to boot off.
 
Nickel Silver said:
I switched to Linux Mint on my PC back in November because Microsoft's push towards this "agentic" nonsense was the final straw.

When or if should I distro hop? Would I get significantly more performance out of, say, CachyOS with my Ryzen 7 7735HS and Radeon RX 7700S? Or should I have installed Cachy or something else Arch-like in the first place?
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Linux Mint is an excellent all-rounder distro. While it's possible that you will find something that suits your needs better, unless there's something specific you find lacking in Linux Mint you will likely end up going back to it.

Generally you can think of Linux in five layers:
  • update frequency and age
  • package management
  • desktop environment/window manager
  • apps and tweaks
  • support and community

99% of all differences between different distros will be experienced this way, which lets you break down what you're looking for.
  • do you want your system to have the latest packages as soon as possible? Are you willing to wait a few weeks for the packages to be tested for stability? Are you willing to forgo using the latest and greatest features if it means your system stays rock solid?
  • do you prefer apt, pacman, rpm, flatpack, or something else? Do you want your system to be a flat level with packages replaced individually in updates and installs, or do you want a immutable system where apps and updates get layered on using fuse moiunt wizardry?
  • do you prefer the look and feel of Cinnamon, or KDE Plasma or Gnome? Or do you want to use something more exotic or obscure, or more bare bones?
  • are the default apps preinstalled acceptable, or do you find you have to switch out many of them?
  • does the distro have a large community of users and maintainers that quickly find and fix issues as the crop up? Or is there like one guy that you have to talk to directly to figure out any bugs you come across?
Generally Mint tries to strike a balance where everything is approachable for the user, with a stable and intuitive system that operates in a predictable manner while still supporting the latest apps and features with minimal difficulty. While it's possible that balance isn't for you, there will generally be tradeoffs with any changes that need to be accounted for.
 
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Linux Mint is an excellent all-rounder distro. While it's possible that you will find something that suits your needs better, unless there's something specific you find lacking in Linux Mint you will likely end up going back to it.
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Please do listen to this @Nickel Silver . If you installed Linux Mint for the first time 2 months ago, you are still firmly in the realm of “Linux beginner”. You have zero business distro-hopping right now.

Stick with what you have for the next 6-12 months. Familiarize yourself with how your computer works as is.

If after that time has passed you still feel a desire to distro-hop, there are a few exercises you should master first.
* Back up your entire Linux system. Delete your Linux partition(s). Completely restore your Linux Mint system to the same state it was before you deleted your Linux partitions. If your PC is configured to dual-boot with Windows, confirm that you didn’t hose your Windows install in the process. (Maybe back up your Windows data too before attempting any of this.)
(Hint: a good Linux backup for a beginner consists of the contents of /etc and /home/yourusernamehere, plus a list of all of your installed packages.)
* Figure out how to change your current desktop environment or window manager (which statistically is most likely Cinnamon) to another DE or WM supported by Linux Mint. (At time of writing, these are XFCE and MATE.). This should be achievable without downloading another Linux Mint installer and starting from scratch again.
* Figure out how to change your current DE or WM to something a bit more obscure, like sway.

After you’ve succeeded at all of these exercises, you might try distro-hopping to Omarchy. It’s a nice intermediate distro.

Advanced Linux users tend to end up along one of two paths:
* The stability of Debian
* The infinite flexibility of Gentoo or Guix or NixOS
 
Telling him to master linux is well intentioned but naive, if he wanted to do all that he would've done it on his own initiative beforehand. He's clearly a gaymer because all he seems concerned about is optimizing his gayming performance, in that case Linux Mint is not a good option and better ones exist for gaymers.
 
blackshirt said:
Telling him to master linux is well intentioned but naive, if he wanted to do all that he would've done it on his own initiative beforehand. He's clearly a gaymer because all he seems concerned about is optimizing his gayming performance, in that case Linux Mint is not a good option and better ones exist for gaymers.
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Anything he would get from switching is marginal and at best placebo.
 
blackshirt said:
Telling him to master linux is well intentioned but naive, if he wanted to do all that he would've done it on his own initiative beforehand. He's clearly a gaymer because all he seems concerned about is optimizing his gayming performance, in that case Linux Mint is not a good option and better ones exist for gaymers.
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It’s not that naive. Metaphorically, choosing to install Linux Mint in the first place is like Henry Rollins obtaining his first set of weights, and learning the exercises I listed is like when Henry finally gets to remove his shirt.

IRON AND THE SOUL
by Henry Rollins

I believe that the definition of definition is reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself.

Completely.

When I was young I had no sense of myself. All I was, was a product of all the fear and humiliation I suffered. Fear of my parents. The humiliation of teachers calling me “garbage can” and telling me I’d be mowing lawns for a living. And the very real terror of my fellow students. I was threatened and beaten up for the color of my skin and my size. I was skinny and clumsy, and when others would tease me I didn’t run home crying, wondering why.

I knew all too well. I was there to be antagonized. In sports I was laughed at. A spaz. I was pretty good at boxing but only because the rage that filled my every waking moment made me wild and unpredictable. I fought with some strange fury. The other boys thought I was crazy.

I hated myself all the time.

As stupid at it seems now, I wanted to talk like them, dress like them, carry myself with the ease of knowing that I wasn’t going to get pounded in the hallway between classes. Years passed and I learned to keep it all inside. I only talked to a few boys in my grade. Other losers. Some of them are to this day the greatest people I have ever known. Hang out with a guy who has had his head flushed down a toilet a few times, treat him with respect, and you’ll find a faithful friend forever. But even with friends, school sucked. Teachers gave me hard time.

I didn’t think much of them either.

Then came Mr. Pepperman, my advisor. He was a powerfully built Vietnam veteran, and he was scary. No one ever talked out of turn in his class. Once one kid did and Mr. P. lifted him off the ground and pinned him to the black board. Mr. P. could see that I was in bad shape, and one Friday in October he asked me if I had ever worked out with weights. I told him no.

He told me that I was going to take some
of the money that I had saved and buy a hundred pound set of weights at Sears. As I left his office, I started to think of things I would say to him on Monday when he asked about the weights that I was not going to buy. Still, it made me feel special. My father never really got that close to caring. On Saturday I bought the weights, but I couldn’t even drag them to my mom’s car. An attendant laughed at me as he put them on a dolly.

Monday came and I was called into Mr. P.’s office after school. He said that he was going to show me how to work out. He was going to put me on a program and start hitting me in the solar plexus in the hallway when I wasn’t looking. When I could take the punch we would know that we were getting somewhere. At no time
was I to look at myself in the mirror or tell anyone at school what I was doing. In the gym he showed me ten basic exercises. I paid more attention than I ever did in any of my classes. I didn’t want to blow it. I went home that night and started right in.

Weeks passed, and every once in a while Mr. P. would give me a shot and drop me in the hallway, sending my books flying. The other students didn’t know what to think. More weeks passed, and I was steadily adding new weights to the bar. I could sense the power inside my body growing. I could feel it.

Right before Christmas break I was walking to class, and from out of nowhere Mr. Pepperman appeared and gave me a shot in the chest. I laughed and kept going. He said I could look at myself now. I got home and ran to the bathroom and pulled off my shirt. I saw a body, not just the shell that housed my stomach and my heart. My biceps bulged. My chest had definition. I felt strong. It was the first time I can remember having a sense of myself. I had done something and no one could ever take it away.

You couldn’t say s–t to me.

It took me years to fully appreciate the value of the lessons I have learned from the Iron. I used to think that it was my adversary, that I was trying to lift that which does not want to be lifted. I was wrong. When the Iron doesn’t want to come off the mat, it’s the kindest thing it can do for you. If it flew up and went through the ceiling, it wouldn’t teach you anything. That’s the way the Iron talks to you. It tells you that the material you work with is that which you will come to resemble.

That which you work against will always work against you.

It wasn’t until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking, I know more about myself. When something gets bad, I know it can’t be as bad as that workout.

I used to fight the pain, but recently this became clear to me: pain is not my enemy; it is my call to greatness. But when dealing with the Iron, one must be careful to interpret the pain correctly. Most injuries involving the Iron come from ego. I once spent a few weeks lifting weight that my body wasn’t ready for and spent a few months not picking up anything heavier than a fork. Try to lift what you’re not prepared to and the Iron will teach you a little lesson in restraint and self-control.

I have never met a truly strong person who didn’t have self-respect. I think a lot of inwardly and outwardly directed contempt passes itself off as self-respect: the idea of raising yourself by stepping on someone’s shoulders instead of doing it yourself. When I see guys working out for cosmetic reasons, I see vanity exposing them in the worst way, as cartoon characters, billboards for imbalance and insecurity. Strength reveals itself through character. It is the difference between bouncers who get off strong-arming people and Mr. Pepperman.

Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity. Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it comes from the body and the mind. And the heart.

Yukio Mishima said that he could not entertain the idea of romance if he was not strong. Romance is such a strong and overwhelming passion, a weakened body cannot sustain it for long. I have some of my most romantic thoughts when I am with the Iron. Once I was in love with a woman. I thought about her the most when the pain from a workout was racing through my body.

Everything in me wanted her. So much so that sex was only a fraction of my total desire. It was the single most intense love I have ever felt, but she lived far away and I didn’t see her very often. Working out was a healthy way of dealing with the loneliness. To this day, when I work out I usually listen to ballads.

I prefer to work out alone.

It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me. Learning about what you’re made of is always time well spent, and I have found no better teacher. The Iron had taught me
how to live. Life is capable of driving you out of your mind. The way it all comes down these days, it’s some kind of miracle if you’re not insane. People have become separated from their bodies. They are no longer whole.

I see them move from their offices to their cars and on to their suburban homes. They stress out constantly, they lose sleep, they eat badly. And they behave badly. Their egos run wild; they become motivated by that which will eventually give them a massive stroke. They need the Iron Mind.

Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts. Time spent away from the Iron makes my mind degenerate. I wallow in a thick depression. My body shuts down my mind.

The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found. There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it’s impossible to turn back.

The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you’re a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds.

This article originally appeared in Details Magazine
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EDIT: or put much more simply,

 
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Nickel Silver said:
When or if should I distro hop? Would I get significantly more performance out of, say, CachyOS with my Ryzen 7 7735HS and Radeon RX 7700S? Or should I have installed Cachy or something else Arch-like in the first place?
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You could consider using Distrobox and making an Arch container to get any binary files that Mint doesn't have.

I'd recommend trying out some distros in a VM before you distrohop. You should probably stick with Mint for now, as it's the most beginner-friendly, just works distro.
 
blackshirt said:
Telling him to master linux is well intentioned but naive, if he wanted to do all that he would've done it on his own initiative beforehand. He's clearly a gaymer because all he seems concerned about is optimizing his gayming performance, in that case Linux Mint is not a good option and better ones exist for gaymers.
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All gaming optimized distros are garbage. either you can get the exact same results by installing Steam and/or Heroic launcher on Mint or you get maybe 1fps improvement from newer drivers at the tradeoff of having your system needign a clean reinstall after a year because of immutable nonsense.
 
Nickel Silver said:
I switched to Linux Mint on my PC back in November because Microsoft's push towards this "agentic" nonsense was the final straw.

When or if should I distro hop? Would I get significantly more performance out of, say, CachyOS with my Ryzen 7 7735HS and Radeon RX 7700S? Or should I have installed Cachy or something else Arch-like in the first place?
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Computing is about having fun :)
Do as your heart desires. Most distros are almost exactly the same, the differences are usually minor and it’s often possible to just reconfigure them away without much trouble (and always possible to reconfigure them away if you’re willing to endure a bit (or a lot) of pain). You should, instead, learn how to program Forth. It’s a lot of fun, which is the point :)
 
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