The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

davids877 said:
These days secure boot isn't a problem. Most Linuxes have shim loaders for Grub which already are signed by MS. You might run into issues with 'special' hardware like Nvidia which requires a couple extra steps to approve the locally compiled DKMS modules, but it's usually automated.

Bitlocker isn't a problem if you don't want to share the data between Linux and Windows.(Or just make an unencrypted drive for that) I did try that once and it blew the heck out of the Bitlocker drive, maybe better now.

My main recommendation is shrink the Windows drive first using Windows tools(especially with Bitlocker) and be very careful about what you tell the Linux partitioner.
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Actually, I have drives coming out of my ears. I'm entirely happy to use one of the NVME drives on the motherboard as the Linux disk if that's simpler. In fact, it would be my preference. Reformat one of the SSDs in the box, install GNU/Linux on it leaving other drives as they are and then set it up somehow to have it ask me on boot which OS I want (and a nice countdown for if I just want the default, please Santa!)

Is that possible? Without messing up my Windows install? I'm thinking Mint as I'm a Debian person. Or even Debian! Though I'm slightly Arch-curious.
 
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Actually, I have drives coming out of my ears. I'm entirely happy to use one of the NVME drives on the motherboard as the Linux disk if that's simpler. In fact, it would be my preference. Reformat one of the SSDs in the box, install GNU/Linux on it leaving other drives as they are and then set it up somehow to have it ask me on boot which OS I want (and a nice countdown for if I just want the default, please Santa!)

Is that possible? Without messing up my Windows install? I'm thinking Mint as I'm a Debian person. Or even Debian! Though I'm slightly Arch-curious.
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I can’t tell you about bit locker but I run win 10 off my SSD and Linux on my old HDD. It asks me which one I want to boot to (30 secs) then boots to Linux if I don’t pick. I didn’t have to do anything besides change my BIOS.
 
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Overly Serious said:
Actually, I have drives coming out of my ears. I'm entirely happy to use one of the NVME drives on the motherboard as the Linux disk if that's simpler. In fact, it would be my preference. Reformat one of the SSDs in the box, install GNU/Linux on it leaving other drives as they are and then set it up somehow to have it ask me on boot which OS I want (and a nice countdown for if I just want the default, please Santa!)

Is that possible? Without messing up my Windows install? I'm thinking Mint as I'm a Debian person. Or even Debian! Though I'm slightly Arch-curious.
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This is entirely possible. Just make sure the grub bootloader is installed on the same drive as the Linux installation, and that that drive is set as boot in the BIOS.

If you get all that right, it should even just revert to exactly how it was before the install and boot Windows normally if you just disable that drive and set the other active again.
 
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Overly Serious said:
Actually, I have drives coming out of my ears. I'm entirely happy to use one of the NVME drives on the motherboard as the Linux disk if that's simpler. In fact, it would be my preference. Reformat one of the SSDs in the box, install GNU/Linux on it leaving other drives as they are and then set it up somehow to have it ask me on boot which OS I want (and a nice countdown for if I just want the default, please Santa!)

Is that possible? Without messing up my Windows install? I'm thinking Mint as I'm a Debian person. Or even Debian! Though I'm slightly Arch-curious.
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Yes, totally doable. You can either install the Grub EFI bootloader on the existing Windows EFI partition or make a shiny new EFI partition on the new drive. I'm not 100% sure if Grub will detect the other EFI and give you a menu or not for the second case. If you put Grub on the main EFI partition on install it will detect Windows and give a countdown, etc.

In either case you'll probably have to tell your BIOS to prefer the GRUB bootloader and it can give you the menu. (EFI bootloaders each install to their own directory on the EFI partition so they won't stomp on each other, you'll always be able to just tell the BIOS to boot the Original Windows bootloader.)
 
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Anyone have experience with recompiling the kernel? I'm interested in trying out but not only do I not know where to start I'm not sure if it would be worth the effort in the end
 
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kūhaku said:
Anyone have experience with recompiling the kernel? I'm interested in trying out but not only do I not know where to start I'm not sure if it would be worth the effort in the end
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Which distro are you on? There are two basic ways to compile the kernel. The vanilla way that you can do on every distro (well it's the same after you install the compiler and things), OR you can build a package and that method will vary depending on your distro.

Are you just wanting to learn about compiling the kernel or are you hoping for some performance improvement?
 
kūhaku said:
Anyone have experience with recompiling the kernel? I'm interested in trying out but not only do I not know where to start I'm not sure if it would be worth the effort in the end
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Must be ten years since I did that. Was to get some realtime driver for audio production.

I was lucky, but if you aren't you can fuck it up and make everything unbootable.
 
Basil Julep said:
Which distro are you on? There are two basic ways to compile the kernel. The vanilla way that you can do on every distro (well it's the same after you install the compiler and things), OR you can build a package and that method will vary depending on your distro.

Are you just wanting to learn about compiling the kernel or are you hoping for some performance improvement?
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I'm running artix, will probably swap back to void in a few months. I'm mostly interested in learning how it works, I run fast already.
 
Saw this in another thread and it made me laugh boys.

Kiwi & Cow said:
To all the people suggesting me to either debloat 10 or get LTSC, I already debloated Windows 10. I also disabled the update center because I didn't want it to brick my computer. I will consider LTSC if I'm building a new gaming PC from scratch, so thanks for the suggestion.


Holy shit I'm going to get so much shit for it.

To all the people suggesting me Linux, I already have a dualboot, but I'm still going to stick with Windows. Linux is a convoluted shitstain that is so obtusely designed that I can't understand why would anyone use it on the daily basis. Everything on Linux is done via the Terminal and yes I said EVERYTHING, imagine if I had to change my computer's settings using command prompt or install literally anything via command prompt.

Every OS related to Linux suffers from an extreme unfriendly user experience because of that above and the dependencies, yes even the "user-friendly" OSes like Ubuntu. Although you can allegedly play Windows games on Linux I have never fucking figured out how to install Wine, it just won't work.

Also putting aside the stupid UX of Linux, it has its lots of problems, both internal and external:

And that's just on this website, on other sites I've seen plenty more of criticism against Linux.
https://medium.com/@ICTman1076/yeah-linux-sucks-but-the-alternatives-are-worse-fad3357908dc (The dude who wrote this literally hates Windows and he still agrees that Linux sucks)

Hell even the Macintosh is easier to deal with than Linux, it's obvious why so I won't get into that topic. Only problem is that Mac is overexpensive for no good reason, fuck Apple for their vanity garbage, I'd buy a SUPREME brick before I'd buy a Macintosh.


Though the operating system that is objectively superior in every way to Windows/Linux/Mac is Temple OS.
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Stabmaster Arson said:
Saw this in another thread and it made me laugh boys.
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@Kiwi & Cow lmao yeah bruh, imagine using the terminal to install things! Who can even figure out super basic functionality, right? Totally indecipherable! This totally isn't something that fucking teenagers can even figure out!
 
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@Kiwi & Cow lmao yeah bruh, imagine using the terminal to install things! Who can even figure out super basic functionality, right? Totally indecipherable!
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Imagine being both an outdated OS from the 90's and a total piece of shit all at the same time.

The only time Linux is good at something is when it does something Windows can't do like reading a broken ass USB stick.
 
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byuu said:
What major OS doesn't stem from the 90s?

"Modern" Windows is based on NT from '93, mostly based on ideas from 70s and 80s systems
"Modern" MacOS is based from NeXTSTEP from '89, which in turn is based on a 70s OS
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Does Windows need the command prompt to function properly? Thought so. Read the whole thread that's not the only issue with Linux.

Here's another red pill for everyone here. Ubuntu was coded by niggers and 1 honky from Africa. You're not based if you use Ubuntu. Also the whole Linux experience is gay and I say that literally, trannies from Github update your favourite distros to make them more bloated and less secure each time. Cope and seethe about those facts.
 
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byuu said:
How often do you use the command prompt on your Android phone? Clearly, Linux functions just fine without it.
And I'm not gonna read a fucking Newsgrounds thread. Now that's outdated.
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Oof to say that Android is Linux would offend any Linuxtard, now they're going to piss on you for hurting their fee-fees. Infact you'd offend them because Android is actually designed correctly with usability and user-friendliness in mind, something that most Linux distros will never achieve.

Perfect, just read this instead https://kiwifarms.net/threads/is-windows-11-worth-it.117124/post-11689973, read all the way to page 5 and we're good.
 
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Kiwi & Cow said:
Oof to say that Android is Linux would offend any Linuxtard, now they're going to piss on you for hurting their fee-fees. Infact that's because Android is actually designed correctly with usability and user-friendliness in mind, something that most Linux distros will never achieve.

Perefect, just read this instead https://kiwifarms.net/threads/is-windows-11-worth-it.117124/post-11689973, read all the way to page 5 and we're good.
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don't care + didn't read + ratio + i fucked your mum
 
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Oof to say that Android is Linux would offend any Linuxtard, now they're going to piss on you for hurting their fee-fees. Infact that's because Android is actually designed correctly with usability and user-friendliness in mind, something that most Linux distros will never achieve.
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Android is designed absolutely awful. But the point is it depends on what Linux distro you're talking about.
Did you try something like Mint? When did it make you use the command prompt?

And don't come with some super obscure use case or shitty hardware with no good support. Those can be a huge pain on Windows too, where you have to google arcane error codes and fuck around in cmd.exe and regedit.
 
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byuu said:
Android is designed absolutely awful. But the point is it depends on what Linux distro you're talking about.
Did you try something like Mint? When did it make you use the command prompt?
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Did some Google-fu.
Which yielded the following results on the first page:
Never touching that shit. I'm somewhat xenophobic and I either want the perfect Linux distro after Ubuntu or atleast Debian in terms of usability or it can go suck a fat one for all I care.

And also since someone else here simps Manjaro:
byuu said:
And don't come with some super obscure use case or shitty hardware with no good support. Those can be a huge pain on Windows too, where you have to google arcane error codes and fuck around in cmd.exe and regedit.
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Never happened to me, never happened to a bunch of people who use Windows. Hardware support on Linux is poor and several people actually made that exact complaint all the while saying that they had to switch back to Windows. Call it obscure, but it seems far more common than you think.


Here's another red pill: Regular posters on this thread have a 50/50 chance to be either autistic, schizoid, a mong a tranny or all 4 simultaneously because the only 2 groups of people that Linux really appeal to are the privacyspergs and the genderspecials.
 
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