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The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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The Microsoft
Windows 
distro shits its pants with such frequency pretty much everyone who uses computers has a nightmare story about it. No one bats an eye.On Linux you can pretty much always rectify it yourself and overtime you just know what to do and know what the cause was. Not a Mac user but as far as I know it's pretty stable and Mac users so used to it all that any nuance is just whatever to them as well.
edit: The frequency with which you hear it regarding linux is often because people are exploring new territory and things went awry. then they calmly mention it and set off fixing it.
It's also terrible to control out of the box. Needs a lot of tweaking to be acceptable to use.
I was looking for something that is just lightweight and nice to rice, but XFCE4 is seriously not it. No binds, font inconsistency, no good themes in general… It was very mouse heavy by default and I just felt like I was essentially torturing myself because "that's what Linux is” and shunning myself away from full time desktop Linux (use it exclusively on laptop though).
I just went on to use something else. There must be better DE's to use with more sane defaults, I thought to myself.
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It's a Cinnamon problem, not a Mint problem, easily avoided by using something more stable but not as pretty.
In this case I'd done nothing to it, other than install NVIDIA drivers (ha ha). So it could very well easily be that.
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I've tried using its window manager standalone before giving up and going to OpenBox. You need to daemon the settings manager independently from the window manager itself for it to commit settings to memory. You can see that bullshit in the autostart options... So it's very hard to enjoy even that without some weirdness getting in the way. I have a soft spot for XFCE4 being my first desktop environment, but my standards have changed considerably in just a year. I also don't care for most DE-specific terminals either. GTK theme choosers is one thing, the UI telling me I am missing vital components to use the terminal to its fullest potential is a whole other level of obnoxious.
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oh hai
New jerb, finally a Linux PC. Last job was remote and I used my laptop with its preinstalled Windows I decided not to fuck with, and the job before that was for a Microsoft Platinum Partner (press F).
For the first time in my life, I'm in a real industrial software development team, and I've never been less productive. The sheer amount of retarded songs and dances they have is astounding. Linux makes it significantly easier (no fucking Docker, no Visual Studio garbage). It works and I don't need to think about how it works. I look up command snippets online and things just work. I never ever want to sit around for hours waiting for the Visual Studio installer to download this or that to stop some basic software from throwing up pages upon pages of digital entrails and then it doesn't work anyway.
but HOLY FUCK. Being unproductive is EXHAUSTING. I love(d) sperging about programming, now I only do it on the clock. On my own, I don't want to see a computer. Video games make me sick. On a good day, I might watch a movie on it (I eat bugs and live in a pod without a tv). And I don't even have children yet, when I do, I probably won't even turn it on.
So that's reason one for why there are no women like this in tech: women don't have time for this shit.
Reason two, and what should've tipped everyone off, is that coders share expertise through code. A true and honest woman who made a technical thing would write an article with code snippets, a git repo link, and embeds of short screen capture clips if necessary. A "woman" who makes a video with his face in it is, and learns video editing for that purpose, is an attention whoring tranny doing it for the coom.
Anyway Linux gud. For over a decade, I'd been dreaming of buying a good desktop PC and putting an autistic Linux distro on it as its only OS (Arch at the most recent). These days, I'd rather buy a drone and go shoot some ruined churches in the countryside.
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Big companies and retarded management; there is a special place in hell for SAFe shills.
I share that pain. It sucks waiting around for information while all you can do is fuck all. One sunny day I'll bunk off and go fishing.
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Nobody does. My usual work-around is not turning on my camera so I can just listen to the meeting from across the room, where I'm doing something productive. Back when I was in an actual office, there were at least nerf guns to shoot at one another with.
I get what you mean about not wanting to see a computer off the clock, too. I've been teetering on that point for a while, though a lot of my leisure time still rotates around the damn thing. It ain't healthy.
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"Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it. Please send me any relevant notes from the meeting."
This is how we do it in medicine.
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Gay shit like this makes me glad I work blue collar. All my meetings ever amount to is "please don't get hurt and sue us" or "Don't call the public faggots while in public"
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That's why I dropped out of that entire industry pretty early on, probably in a time when most of the posters here still were kids or worse. It was a PITA. From things I hear now, it was quaint when I dropped out. I can only imagine how bad it is now, especially now that work is political for some reason and "I just come here to work, I don't have an opinion" is apparently not enough anymore.
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This is why I have thought about doing actually serious shit on YT in the past that gets to the fucking point heh.
Also regarding the main point of your post, I never really saw it that way, but now I think about it it works quite well in cases such as libretro (retroarch being a piece of festering shite, while other libretro front ends - such as OpenEmu - being much nicer).
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I didn't take the time to read through possible responses to your post (when coming across it just now). I will say that I have bought one systemd laptop, the ryzen based named pangolin (series) laptop and I do very much like it. I will say that they do seem to have friendly, somewhat useful, largely useless customer service that gives prompt attention to whatever you bring to them. They have decent documentation on their products. Here is the thing tho, they basically are just tweaked and or rebranded clevo laptops, so you could probably just save a lot of money buying clevo laptops. There might be some kind of edge case senerios I don't have in mind where buying from systemd makes sense.
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I should point out the most annoying thing about System76 laptops (clevo based laptops in general) is that they have a really bad reputation for noisy, above average, cpu fans. I can't verify if the reputation is deserved or not, since I've only owned one system76 laptop (clevo based laptop), but my experience with this laptop indicates that the bad reputation is deserved -- this laptop is a bit too noisy, its rather annoying. The keyboard is rather nice. System76 laptops have or at least this system76 laptop also has the option to have a mechanical keyboard installed. I bring up the keyboard stuff, because to me its rather important. I hate crappy keyboards, and when I saw that post about the pop_os based HP laptop, my first thoughts were "the keyboard on that is going to suck".
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I guess this counts as a Useless Use of $x. Very guilty of cat misuse, personally.
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Leave your
cat alone, you monster.
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It's been almost two weeks after nuking my Win11 install and replacing it with Fedora 36. I'm still satisfied with my decision and have no desire to go back. The biggest problem I've faced is that Rhythmbox does not play well with how I have my music library tagged. In particular it doesn't acknowledge the Album Artist tag, something that has been filed as a bug going back 11 years now. If anyone has a recommendation for a music player that works, acts and looks like foobar2000 and integrates well into the GNOME UI I would very much appreciate it. Or maybe I'll just write my own...