The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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glicko45 said:
its not really archs' fault its more of the community of bullshit elitists that think their distro of choice is better because it is from scratch, like you dont even see the Gentoo community be that fucking rude and their os is truly from scratch. im fed up with this fuckery
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None of those are from scratch.
 
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byuu said:
Because minimal install? It's weird that it's so strongly associated with Arch.
You could do that with Debian long before Arch even existed.
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Exactly thats why i have distanced my self from that side of the arch community because they either spit bullshit or tell you to read the wiki
 
glicko45 said:
Exactly thats why i have distanced my self from that side of the arch community because they either spit bullshit or tell you to read the wiki
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I don't post on arch forums in any capacity because given how they are as community I'm likely to get banned because I told some shithead that his sister will cheat on him & his brief lack of presence online will make the internet a better place.
 
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Pushing Up Tiddies said:
I see you are a man of culture.
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Through ixemul.library you can achieve some unix compatibility in AmigaOS and I even got my favorite text editor running on it, a simple shell like kornshell should also be possible and there are versions around. One of these days I'm going to make the effort to build a very basic linux system for 68k Amigas, the kernel has drivers for the chipset. There's also Amix which is a SysV Unix port which has a version of X11 which should allow to stream X programs from faster X-equipped computers. (don't imagine this to be fast or work on anything but the most basic X programs, the Amiga does not have that kind of bandwidth at any part in the chain, but e.g. xterm should work if the computer is fast enough) One slow day. I don't think any *nix will be a better experience than vintage AmigaOS though. (Which has still a suprisingly tight and good user experience with some fiddling and a modern keyboard and optical mouse, kinda sad isn't it)

I've spend the last few days with expanding on parts of kiss linux and shoving off complicated parts of my software stack into an alpine container, usable via namespaces configured via bwrap. It's basically like flatpack application containers, just competently configured and easily update-able. Sequestering dependency hell and complicated sofware away into it's own file tree and have the distro jannies deal with it for free while having a very basic but reliable almost-from-scratch setup for some core software I want to be able to control fully with minimal dependencies that don't need to be changed and updated all the time and without having suddenly some package manger wanting to install systemd (which I somehow have the feeling is something right around the corner with gentoo) one day works really well for me and my workflow.
 
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Hey guys, I am not great with linux, but I need some help and maybe this can be here. So I have an OLD (like 06) ass mac gifted to me and it's in my garage for mostly music and YT. But enough of my faggot blog. So, this PC runs (at best) 10.6.8 OSX.

Problem is it's not able to use a lot of websites anymore like even fucking wiki.

I want to figure and swap probably mint on it, the USBs and CD drive work fine. But I'm ok killing off or dual boot, can I go to mint? It looks like it could.. and from what YT told me I need to dual boot (install windows) and install off that and hope? Seems wack.

So is there a linux distro I can DL or something? I have back ups so I'm ok wiping anything on this?

It doesn't have to be mint or anything, it's just what I saw was best for older macs, (granted I couldn't do this myself so maybe I watched people who dont' know this stuff) but really all I want to do is hit wiki use the net and play music (has a great stereo hooked up).

Thanks so much.
 
Bassomatic said:
Hey guys, I am not great with linux, but I need some help and maybe this can be here. So I have an OLD (like 06) ass mac gifted to me and it's in my garage for mostly music and YT. But enough of my faggot blog. So, this PC runs (at best) 10.6.8 OSX.

Problem is it's not able to use a lot of websites anymore like even fucking wiki.

I want to figure and swap probably mint on it, the USBs and CD drive work fine. But I'm ok killing off or dual boot, can I go to mint? It looks like it could.. and from what YT told me I need to dual boot (install windows) and install off that and hope? Seems wack.

So is there a linux distro I can DL or something? I have back ups so I'm ok wiping anything on this?

It doesn't have to be mint or anything, it's just what I saw was best for older macs, (granted I couldn't do this myself so maybe I watched people who dont' know this stuff) but really all I want to do is hit wiki use the net and play music (has a great stereo hooked up).

Thanks so much.
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A couple of questions:

1. Do you know if it's a PowerPC Mac or an Intel Mac? If it's a PowerPC Mac, your only option for a binary distro (i.e. a distro where you won't have to compile all your applications from source) would be Debian itself, which isn't exactly newcomer friendly.

2. If it's an Intel Mac, do you know whether or not it's 32 bit or 64 bit? This is incredibly important, because most Linux distributions are gradually phasing out support for i386/486/586/i686. Distros like Debian, Ubuntu, and LInux Mint still support 32-bit Intel/AMD processors, but they explicitly require PAE support to be enabled in the BIOS.

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Assuming you have a 64-bit Intel Mac, I'd probably recommend Rocky Linux if you want a stable, well-tested, and ultimately incredibly long lasting distro. It's a rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which with some tweaks becomes quite a robust desktop system (I know the tutorial I linked is technically for CentOS, but 99% of the tweaks should still apply to Rocky Linux as well because Rocky Linux is made by the same developers as CentOS).

If you have a 32-bit Mac, I'd probably recommend Linux Mint Debian Edition. It's 100% binary compatible with Debian as a distro, but it's nowhere near as obtuse as Debian itself is. It basically does the Linux Mint shtick to Debian where it makes the entire operating system as accessible to newcomers as possible.
 
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Is there a way to change the default font of Xfce Applications menu title? I know you can do that for Whisker menu, but I couldn't find anything for Applications menu so far.

EDIT: apparently I had to edit gtk.css of my theme to do this.
#applicationmenu-button label{ font-family: "whatever the fuck" !important; }
Kinda weird that you can change the font family of Whisker menu directly in its settings, but nothing like this for Applications menu.
 
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Dread First said:
A couple of questions:

1. Do you know if it's a PowerPC Mac or an Intel Mac? If it's a PowerPC Mac, your only option for a binary distro (i.e. a distro where you won't have to compile all your applications from source) would be Debian itself, which isn't exactly newcomer friendly.

2. If it's an Intel Mac, do you know whether or not it's 32 bit or 64 bit? This is incredibly important, because most Linux distributions are gradually phasing out support for i386/486/586/i686. Distros like Debian, Ubuntu, and LInux Mint still support 32-bit Intel/AMD processors, but they explicitly require PAE support to be enabled in the BIOS.

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Assuming you have a 64-bit Intel Mac, I'd probably recommend Rocky Linux if you want a stable, well-tested, and ultimately incredibly long lasting distro. It's a rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which with some tweaks becomes quite a robust desktop system (I know the tutorial I linked is technically for CentOS, but 99% of the tweaks should still apply to Rocky Linux as well because Rocky Linux is made by the same developers as CentOS).

If you have a 32-bit Mac, I'd probably recommend Linux Mint Debian Edition. It's 100% binary compatible with Debian as a distro, but it's nowhere near as obtuse as Debian itself is. It basically does the Linux Mint shtick to Debian where it makes the entire operating system as accessible to newcomers as possible.
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It's an intel dual cor 2.16 ghz

Thank you so much I'll try it at home and assume when you don't hear back I bricked something because I'm medically retarded. Joking aside, seriously thank you all I want to do is take notes browse and use my stereo.

Frankly I'm not sure where to look even on the "about this" section about 32 vs 64 but I want to say 32 bit?

But again I'll mess around, and thank you so much.
 
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Is it T7400? If so, consider yourself lucky - it's a 64-bit Mac.
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Where could I find that I'm pretty handy till we talk about software side, I could open the case etc safely.

Also, again guys I LOVE this thing it's so easy to have a PC next to my toys I'd like to keep it and helping it stay useful, I want to share my whiskey or beer fridge with you all.
 
Got gentoo running on my main machine. Learned a lot about shit I've been avoiding - namely grub and EFI. Did a barebones minimal install, the most functional things I have are tmux, vim and bashtop right now.

Still have some problems I need to sort out before I start with X. My EFI partition isn't being mounted at boot for some reason, despite it being correctly described in fstab. The machine can still find the EFI partition and load it, but Linux aint mounting it.
I also used the binary dist kernel to remove guesswork if I fucked something else up during install. Now I have to get a functional compiled kernel working. Is there any tool out there that will scan my machine and make sure I don't miss any kernel options that will fuck my shit up?

All in all, I am pretty happy with it. Emerging @world takes only a few minutes, the system is fast as fuck, boots from BIOS to login screen in 4-5 seconds, probably due to there being no superfluous services needed to be started. I've added -qt -qt4 -qt5 -kde -gtk -gnome to my USE flags. I see others have more suggestions too, to make things even faster.
 
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Bassomatic said:
Where could I find that I'm pretty handy till we talk about software side, I could open the case etc safely.
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If you click the Apple in the upper left and pick "About This System," the first line will be the name of the system, something like MacBook1,1. The second line is the CPU. You can look up either of those and get the specs.
 
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If you click the Apple in the upper left and pick "About This System," the first line will be the name of the system, something like MacBook1,1. The second line is the CPU. You can look up either of those and get the specs.
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Model Name: iMac


Model Identifier: iMac5,1


Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo


Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz


Number Of Processors: 1


Total Number Of Cores: 2


L2 Cache: 4 MB


Memory: 2.5 GB


Bus Speed: 667 MHz


Boot ROM Version: IM51.0090.B09


SMC Version (system): 1.9f4


Serial Number (system): QP7030Q1VUV


Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-0017F2D05F5F

edit forgive reddit spacing but this what is needed? did I dox my old ass PC so bad the cyber hackers coming to my house?
 
Bassomatic said:
Serial Number (system): QP7030Q1VUV
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Congrats, it's a 64-bit Mac.
 
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