The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

ItCouldBeWorse said:
>want to make a meme to post on the forum
>need to remove some element and realize i don't have resynthesizer in GIMP on my laptop
>decided to fuck around AUR to find the GIMP plugin pack I used last time
>build fails
>"huh, whatever"
>decide i don't need it anyways
>suddenly no other program wants so open
>reboot
>[ERROR] Failed to start Simple Desktop Manager
>try to fuck around
>glib missing
>barely anything works anymore systemwide
>a solid Manjaro system ruined by some retards shitty build script
I'm gonna murder someone tonight I swear

EDIT: Had to reinstall the system so this time I hopped to Fedora🎩
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Speaking of SDDM alone it can be a pain in the ass to set-up(gentoo) or fix. It ocasionally freezes itself given if machine was suspended to RAM or some flatpak app freezes it.
Maybe that's just me, I don't know. I generally like KDE and I have no issues krashes aside.
 
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Speaking of SDDM alone it can be a pain in the ass to set-up(gentoo) or fix. It ocasionally freezes itself given if machine was suspended to RAM or some flatpak app freezes it.
Maybe that's just me, I don't know. I generally like KDE and I have no issues krashes aside.
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Since a ${number} of versions ago, SDDM requires entropy source to start. So what seems like a soft lockup may be caused by blocking on /dev/random or something like that. Try moving the mouse frantically OR installing one of the suggested randomness-generating packages OR reconfiguring the kernel (enable "trust the CPU to init the randomness properly" option).
 
ItCouldBeWorse said:
>want to make a meme to post on the forum
>need to remove some element and realize i don't have resynthesizer in GIMP on my laptop
>decided to fuck around AUR to find the GIMP plugin pack I used last time
>build fails
>"huh, whatever"
>decide i don't need it anyways
>suddenly no other program wants so open
>reboot
>[ERROR] Failed to start Simple Desktop Manager
>try to fuck around
>glib missing
>barely anything works anymore systemwide
>a solid Manjaro system ruined by some retards shitty build script
I'm gonna murder someone tonight I swear

EDIT: Had to reinstall the system so this time I hopped to Fedora🎩
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Does chrooting from a live ISO still work if the target system is missing its glibc? I normally keep 2 USB sticks for unexpected fixes like this, but I've never had some mongoloid's script wipe the one library everything depends on before.

Shit like this is why I still think Gentoo is a good option. There seems to be no distro out there that provides a statically compiled base of software for maintenance the way BSDs do, only one you make yourself.
 
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Frail Snail said:
I've never had some mongoloid's script wipe the one library everything depends on before.
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It was fucking bizzare, it errored out halfway through the install process and suddenly everything not in RAM ceased to work and started erroring the fuck out until I restarted. After the reboot the system completely collapsed.
I've never been so MATI over Linux before, this is the first time anything of this sort happened to me. My Manjaro PC has been going strong for almost a year and the laptop had no problems before this.
 
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Frail Snail said:
Does chrooting from a live ISO still work if the target system is missing its glibc? I normally keep 2 USB sticks for unexpected fixes like this, but I've never had some mongoloid's script wipe the one library everything depends on before.
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It would shit itself as soon as you tried doing anything after you chrooted into it.

You could possibly repair it from the live ISO using pacstrap but I have no idea what the fuck that build script could have done.
 
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agripipina said:
I know a few people that have run their bspwm setups on debian unstable but if you're going to try to avoid the non-free repos ten you're stuck with nouveau and god forbid if you have a wifi card with proprietary drivers. Really I just broke down and installed arch on my system and learned to deal with the binary blobs nvidia provides for my GTX 960 (they do break occasionally forcing me to rollback). Also fair warning about dual booting in windows, there's a feature involved with shutting down Windows that locks up your ntfs partitions when you then boot into linux. It had something to do with hibernate but I had to go into service manager to turn it off. I would only try a FOSS stack on something like a thinkpad but it's your call.
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It's very likely that it's Fast Startup being enabled in your power option settings if you personally face that issue. At least for me, since I have it disabled, I can hibernate Windows and boot into Linux Mint via grub, mount and unmount secondary NTFS drives (wouldn't recommending that for the boot drive where your hiberfil.sys is probably in tho) and other stuff, shut down Mint and boot back into my hibernated Windows session just fine. However, I once tried doing the reverse or both and had problems with loss of sessions, and I don't typically update Mint without a fully shut down Windows because I can see it sometimes does changes to grub or boot files or something, so your mileage may vary.

I have a Puppy Linux fossapup64 live ISO flashed to a pen drive when I am away from my house/primary computer and I want to use a computer without bothering with Windows (my dad has an old computer and laptop with godawful (probably) 5400 RPM HDDs for boot drives but ok CPUs and it would be insane for me to try to use them if I just want to browse and chill instead of dicking around with slowass updates and installs.). It's quite good to have that kind of live ISO around if you want to use an oldass laptop/PC quickly. I tend to use portable builds of Ungoogled Chromium or regular Firefox for browsing and I connect via VPN using a very handy tool by OscarTalks called vpn-onoff (though in case of breaking or leak I double condom with a VPN extension from a Windscribe subscription that I personally pay for).
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Dork Of Ages said:
It's very likely that it's Fast Startup being enabled in your power option settings if you personally face that issue. At least for me, since I have it disabled, I can hibernate Windows and boot into Linux Mint via grub, mount and unmount secondary NTFS drives (wouldn't recommending that for the boot drive where your hiberfil.sys is probably in tho) and other stuff, shut down Mint and boot back into my hibernated Windows session just fine. However, I once tried doing the reverse or both and had problems with loss of sessions, and I don't typically update Mint without a fully shut down Windows because I can see it sometimes does changes to grub or boot files or something, so your mileage may vary.

I have a Puppy Linux fossapup64 live ISO flashed to a pen drive when I am away from my house/primary computer and I want to use a computer without bothering with Windows (my dad has an old computer and laptop with godawful (probably) 5400 RPM HDDs for boot drives but ok CPUs and it would be insane for me to try to use them if I just want to browse and chill instead of dicking around with slowass updates and installs.). It's quite good to have that kind of live ISO around if you want to use an oldass laptop/PC quickly. I tend to use portable builds of Ungoogled Chromium or regular Firefox for browsing and I connect via VPN using a very handy tool by OscarTalks called vpn-onoff (though in case of breaking or leak I double condom with a VPN extension from a Windscribe subscription that I personally pay for).
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Yeah I did turn off fast boot but my windows partition no longer could install updates after I installed ubuntu on top of arch. I decided to just roll with it and stay with a 2019 version of windows 10.
I am unprotected but that is for the best, it forces me to use linux.
 
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Moved to Linux (Mint) recently. Definitely a fan, the modular nature and high-customization is really appealing and I plan to build a newer computer with a more advanced and tweak-able distro (more than Mint but probably not as complex as Gentoo from what I've heard of it) once I get a good grasp of how it works and can use bash for the stuff I'll need.
Anyone have suggestions for good guides concerning intermediate-level use and understanding of Linux? ExplainingComputers had a good beginner's guide but it wasn't the sort of deep dive I was looking for.
 
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Considered HARMful said:
Since a ${number} of versions ago, SDDM requires entropy source to start. So what seems like a soft lockup may be caused by blocking on /dev/random or something like that. Try moving the mouse frantically OR installing one of the suggested randomness-generating packages OR reconfiguring the kernel (enable "trust the CPU to init the randomness properly" option).
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Thanks,I will try. It's probably a thing I will have to add to my genkernel config,if it isn't there in the first place.
 
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Or just use xdm, like a white man. Or hell, run the X server directly as root, no manager necessary if there's only one user. I mean why *wouldn't* you? Don't you trust your own decisions? Setting some single user up who is root-but-not-quite without really understanding the implications of that isn't really any safer to begin with and the most bitch-made thing there is.

I am kidding, but only kind of
 
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xX_squalltenmyouji_Xx said:
(more than Mint but probably not as complex as Gentoo from what I've heard of it)
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Memes aside Gentoo isn't that complicated to install. It's probably memed to be the "impossible" distro because manual partitioning and setup takes a lot of time when it's your first try.
"Installing Gentoo" is more of a test that you can actually follow the manual instructions,considering how well the Gentoo wiki is generally written. They've even followed Archlinux and added a LiveGUI for installing it if you are not white enough to use the command line.

Having said that,compile times can be really long on older machines. And portage will crash if you don't give it enough memory.
(both can be fixed with distcc distributed compiling but it's a huge pain in the ass to setup,don't bother - gentoo binaries exist)
 
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I need to transfer some files from an old-ass laptop to my newer PC, and my external HDD is kaput. x11vnc to the rescue:


EDIT: like the dude said on the video, the old 2.4Ghz Wifi connection makes it damn near unusable. Guess I'll drop some money on an external HDD after all...
 
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remote desktop for x11 is incredibly slow because most implementations don't compress well and for a networked X application the X spec can really only "accelerate" GUI elements for network rendering made in basic shape elements that 99% of programs written after the 90s don't use anymore. (everything else is a bitmap for all intents and purposes)

The most efficient way to do it nowadays is using ffmpeg to employ video encoding hardware to create a stream of your desktop and open that stream fullscreen on the other machine, employing it's video decoding hardware. I can stream games from a Ryzen 4650G Pro to an Celeron N4020 this way, at 30 FPS. Keyboard and mouse forwarding can be resolved in other ways.

not sure why you'd need any of this to transfer files from computer A to computer B though.
 
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byuu said:
Add this to your xinitrc to make Linux even more sexy:
Bash: 
for i in `seq 1 $(xrandr | grep -c " connected")`; do
    mpv -fs -screen=$(echo $i - 1 | bc) "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xbyJGM1iUY" &
done
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Always nice to see something a little more subtle than "open ur terminal and run 'sudo rm -rf /' "
 
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