The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

It's because everything got sucked into the blob known as systemd and of course your init system should do task scheduling, what a ridiculous question nobody asked! I think the problem with crontabs for these people was that you actually had to RTFM to how to set them up or something, I don't know. I've been using fcron for years now. I don't know if it's the best or something else would do the job better since I didn't need to think about it in years. This is actually a sign of good software and a very stable system. If the basic parts of your system have noticeable bugs, get "updated" and reinvented every other week sending you scrambling through configuration files to the point you give up and just let distro maintainers and upstream make the choices of what happens on your system because it became a fulltime job even keeping up, that's actually not progress but a red flag. "But AmpleApricots, what if there are important security updates?" If your task scheduler is reachable by processses/users that shouldn't reach it and can even cause any damage that way or, god forbid, has by itself (or is reachable) through your network/the wider internet in a direct way I think you have bigger problems and your shit's all retarded.
 
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I started using notifications for a lot more since I heavily stripped down my graphical environment, cronjobs (insert sex joke here) really do make a difference, especially if you get lazy with trash deletion or have to use some bloaty garbage dumping program that leaves a sweltering cache of junk. If I have the rare doctors appointment days down the line, set a cronjob to remind me 'X' amount of times. It's great.

Edit: in spite of any systemd fuckery, of course.
 
TsundereDev said:
Going off of my prior post, I am quickly becoming an addict. When I'm using Windows, I'd rather be using my Linux laptop. The problem is, I'm kind of a retard despite being moderately intelligent, and can't exactly explain why Linux is so much better. I love the FLOSS/FOSS philosophy, but I need technical language for what I feel.

How can I go deeper? How do I become a true Linuxfag?
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YW
AmpleApricots said:
Get into scripting and light programming.
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>telling tsunderedev to l2code
next level bantz. are you part strayan?
 

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Seasoned News Reporter said:
Ah so github is retarded & microsoft by extension since they own github. Why the fuck hasn't this problem been fixed if fucking ycombinator talked about it over a year ago?
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The retardation extends into git itself. What you're seeing is someone random simply spoofing Linus because he can for the lulz. It's not really fixable without substantial effort and backwards-incompatibility.
 
Rusty Crab said:
I knew something was funny because the commit wasn't actually part of the master branch. I thought maybe it was Linus pulling an early April Fools joke.
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Doesn't sound like his style. As far as I'm aware Linus is not known for the april fools joke. If anything he'd be more likely to tell you to eat shit if you were making jokes instead of writing good code.
 
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TsundereDev said:
Going off of my prior post, I am quickly becoming an addict. When I'm using Windows, I'd rather be using my Linux laptop. The problem is, I'm kind of a retard despite being moderately intelligent, and can't exactly explain why Linux is so much better. I love the FLOSS/FOSS philosophy, but I need technical language for what I feel.

How can I go deeper? How do I become a true Linuxfag?
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I was in the same boat as you last year. Installed it on my laptop and preferred to use it over my desktop. I think part of it is that when you use Windows you kind of have the user layer where problems can happen on the backend and you just sort of poke and prod on the user end until something works and you don't know why but it did. Also probably because Windows is built around you being a fucking idiot too stupid to know anything about computers. This is opposed to Linux which feels like it's something you can conquer, master. It's your computer and you can rule it if you just know how to. Plus you feel better than everyone else while you're at it.

Just install it on your main computer already, buy an xbox if you want to play fortnite or w/e
 
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I'm thinking about switching to Mint since Windows 11 has all these stupid fucking hardware parameters. I know Mint has a Windows-esk GUI for sped folks like me, that's the only reason I picked it. Otherwise I honestly know nothing about the different Linux-s. What's the consensus on Mint here?
 
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Dr. Octogonapus said:
I'm thinking about switching to Mint since Windows 11 has all these stupid fucking hardware parameters. I know Mint has a Windows-esk GUI for sped folks like me, that's the only reason I picked it. Otherwise I honestly know nothing about the different Linux-s. What's the consensus on Mint here?
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Cinnamon (the Desktop Environment developed for Mint) will be more familiar to Windows users than the more popular DEs in other distros (Gnome and Plasma). Most people will be able to just boot it up and find their way to whatever they need without any online help required. I'd say it's a good place to start for anyone looking to make a switch after the latest Windows overreaching bullshit.
 
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Dr. Octogonapus said:
I'm thinking about switching to Mint since Windows 11 has all these stupid fucking hardware parameters. I know Mint has a Windows-esk GUI for sped folks like me, that's the only reason I picked it. Otherwise I honestly know nothing about the different Linux-s. What's the consensus on Mint here?
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Personally I fucking hate ubuntu based distros, I've never had a good experience with them. For me arch based stuff has been far better. My suggestion would be to try manjaro. If you have pretty decent specs you can try the kde version for a more modern windows fell. IF you want something lighter XFCE should hit the windows xp feel. If you suck apple dick then gnome is there for mac fags.
 
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Dr. Octogonapus said:
I'm thinking about switching to Mint since Windows 11 has all these stupid fucking hardware parameters. I know Mint has a Windows-esk GUI for sped folks like me, that's the only reason I picked it. Otherwise I honestly know nothing about the different Linux-s. What's the consensus on Mint here?
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Mint always ran fine for me, with the exception of one install, which I bungled up, so it doesn't count. IMO if you are looking for something in the Debian family, something like MX Linux would be a better choice. MX uses XFCE by default, which is slightly different from Cinnamon, but it's nothing a new immigrant from Windows cannot handle.
 
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