The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Car Won't Crank]

I was hoping this would be an epic, multi page spergout.

 

[notafederalagent]

After reading the last few pages, I have a feeling that some of us probably have strong opinions on which regional RR has the best livery.

Shitpost tax: Want to make a copy of a file and add an extension like .bak to it? cp filename{,.bak} is a tip I wish I knew when I first started using linux.

 

[AnOminous]

I was hoping this would be an epic, multi page spergout.

It was just a guy shitposting cause he got @ed.

 

[He Who Points And Laughs]

Does Windows need the command prompt to function properly? Thought so. Read the whole thread that's not the only issue with Linux.

If you work in IT you need to use the Windows command line to keep endpoints functioning properly. Just like any *NIX system, the command line is often the best way.

To fix CVE-2022-30190 before Microsoft makes a proper patch, you need to open an administrator terminal and input : reg delete HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ms-msdt /f

No need to further point out how incredibly misguided your understanding of Linux is, the farmers have done an excellent job in pointing out your hot takes.

 

[Kiwi & Cow]

If you work in IT you need to use the Windows command line to keep endpoints functioning properly. Just like any *NIX system, the command line is often the best way.

To fix CVE-2022-30190 before Microsoft makes a proper patch, you need to open an administrator terminal and input : reg delete HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ms-msdt /f

No need to further point out how incredibly misguided your understanding of Linux is, the farmers have done an excellent job in pointing out your hot takes.

If you want my official answer to your elaborate retard comment, here it is: NIGGER

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

 

[Considered HARMful]

Nvidia in particular always causes problem to Linux setups, I repeat always.

Don't mean to interrupt the slapfight, but frankly I haven't had almost any problems with nvidia-drivers since GeForce 6 series.

Not saying that what you're saying is untrue, because many people stated repeatedly that they're having problems with nvidia cards, it's just that it has not been my experience for the past > 10 years.

Then again, I'm not doing the idiotic dual-GPU laptop fuckery.

 

[teriyakiburns]

If you want my official answer to your elaborate retard comment, here it is: NIGGER

First intelligent thing you've posted ITT.

Then again, I'm not doing the idiotic dual-GPU laptop fuckery.

The only dual-GPU laptop fuckery I've ever used has been AMD, but that's a pre-built system with a pre-installed distro (Neon, for the curious - I've made positive noises about it before, despite the systemd fuckery).

nvidia has been pretty reliable for me up to now. Last nvidia card I used with linux was a 1060 that I got cheap off a crypto bro (he was jumping off to go speculate instead) and that had no issues under devuan. Pretty tough card, all told. It's still chugging along in my wife's computer. Radeon cards have better drivers, but the proprietary nvidia drivers aren't half as bad as people make them out to be, so long as you use Xorg. Wayland is an entirely different barrage of monkey shit.

 

[Romper Stomper]

Microsoft has been getting so much more progressively shit that Windows has became utterly unusable for me. I've been using Linux for over a decade now and every time I've tried to use Windows for anything other than the occasional game it was a nightmarish and slow experience. I'm pretty sure even other Windows users acknowledge how much it sucks, why take time out of your day playing defense for it? lol
I mostly started with Arch but moved to Manjaro for convenience, it just werks and puts doing daily driver stuff on easy mode.
Also have to say that Windows 8.1 was probably the last tolerable version for me.

 

[Carpe Jugulum]

Don't mean to interrupt the slapfight, but frankly I haven't had almost any problems with nvidia-drivers since GeForce 6 series.

Not saying that what you're saying is untrue, because many people stated repeatedly that they're having problems with nvidia cards, it's just that it has not been my experience for the past > 10 years.

I’m a Linux new fag and my RTX 3070 has worked absolutely fine. Guess I been lucky so far.

 

[AnOminous]

nvidia has been pretty reliable for me up to now. Last nvidia card I used with linux was a 1060 that I got cheap off a crypto bro (he was jumping off to go speculate instead) and that had no issues under devuan. Pretty tough card, all told. It's still chugging along in my wife's computer. Radeon cards have better drivers, but the proprietary nvidia drivers aren't half as bad as people make them out to be, so long as you use Xorg. Wayland is an entirely different barrage of monkey shit.

I have a 1660 Super OC (whatever that means) which was one of the cheapest CUDA-capable cards I could get at the time, and it's been pretty rock solid. It's modest as a gaming card, but still way more than I need for the kind of games I play and could probably handle a AAA reasonably if I didn't insist on bleeding edge resolution/fps/etc.

I even was surprised to find that with my relatively cheap electricity, it was actually profitable mining, especially if I tweaked it and actually underclocked it a bit so essentially the miner would never turn on the fan, partly just for efficiency, to increase the amount of profit per kw/hr (it was about 3:1 when BTC was over 50), and partly because I hate the fan constantly spinning, especially because the machine is otherwise marvelously quiet (with only a few HDDs mostly for long-term storage). Not crypto tycoon by any means, but nice that the card paid for itself within three months.

(At the current prices and difficulty, I think it's essentially converting electricity bills to money 1:1 or so and I'm probably going to retire it for that purpose and do SETI or something instead.)

The proprietary binary blob nvidia drivers have been incredibly stable under Mint, although I'd rather have a comparable open source driver. I've also never had problems with it under Windows. The reason I'm going to nuke my current Mint installation is Cinnamon barfed up its own guts one day for no obvious reason after an update and I don't care enough to figure it out.

Whatever I do next, Cinnamon won't be the DE, although it's pretty.

I’m a Linux new fag and my RTX 3070 has worked absolutely fine. Guess I been lucky so far.

I think they take more care with their Cadillac products like that. I could never justify buying one of those and they were nearly impossible to find when they were top of the line for GPU mining.

 

[He Who Points And Laughs]

 

[Celebrate Nite]

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Unironically, based Terry has a point.

I've been using the terminal ever since I installed Ubuntu 12.04 many years ago. It's a minor learning curve, but not only do i find it a rewarding experience, but the codes are fairly easy if you're doing simple shit like "config, make, sudo make install" or "sudo dpkg -i"

To this day I still use the terminal, mostly for yotube-dl and updating my distro, but it comes in handy for shit like turning bin/cue files into iso (bchunk or ccd2iso), updating/running ClamAV with "sudo freshclam" and "clamscan" respectively, or even combining files with the "cat" command.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Awk, cat, grep, and sed are four big reasons to seriously consider using the terminal a LOT more.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

Awk, cat, grep, and sed are four big reasons to seriously consider using the terminal a LOT more.

I think there are now python wrappers for awk.

 

[Kosher Dill]

I think there are now python wrappers for awk.

Get on my level, I have a Node.js frontend for awk.

 

[Sicklick]

NetBSD gives an option of internet access through Ethernet via their portals and repositories. You just need an older PC that supports BSD OS with at least 3 different network cards, a properly configured pfSense router with maybe an RS232 modem and some kind of firewall (like Sophos UTM). No need for fiber. You can actually get similar speeds using this method, depending on the mbps of the cards used. You just shouldn't run certain programs that might be a bit too much for your PC, depending on its memory storage.

https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/testimonial.html

Linux is overrated. So are VPNs. No need for ISPs and paying millions of dollars for becoming one. NetBSD has done a lot more for decentralizing the internet than that Linus Torvalds faggot and his Jewish pedophile sidekick ever could, along with their entire tranny dev team.

 

[AmpleApricots]

That bottom line "runs on your toaster" hasn't been true for any of the BSDs for a while now. It used to be more true when the Linux kernel's hardware support was even poorer but nowadays Linux really does run on a toaster. I always look into *BSDs because of the infection of soyware in the Linux space and their resilience to it but always come to the conclusion that, while being a more coherent experience with sometimes better tools, the guts/kernels can't hold a candle to the linux kernel's versatility, plethora of (optional) features and hardware compatibility. I don't blame them for that but it is like it is. A custom-trimmed kernel with busybox and optionally a few select tools is a very lightweight setup that really does run on everything. It just requires yourself to put it all together. (most "lightweight" distros kinda suck because the tranny maintainer fears the unix experience)

 

[awoo]

I think there are now python wrappers for awk.

I know python string processing much better than sed/awk, so it's faster for me to write a python script. I'm not knocking people who can use those efficiently, but I haven't yet sat down and bothered to learn awk (or say perl for that matter which seems to be dying out.)

 

[DavidS877]

I know python string processing much better than sed/awk, so it's faster for me to write a python script. I'm not knocking people who can use those efficiently, but I haven't yet sat down and bothered to learn awk (or say perl for that matter which seems to be dying out.)

As someone who has written thousands of lines of Perl I have 2 major dislikes of Python: 1. whitespace, although modern editors make that slightly less annoying. 2. Regex not being a first class operator.

 

[eternal dog mongler]

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Wonder if that's a reference to that one Debian dev who went too deep and escaped into the woods.