The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

AmpleApricots said:
I tried to read reddit for my fix of "misc. linux news" and I wanted to strangle a redditor after the second day.
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Reddit's really bad lately. Every now and again I find an actual answer to some search engine query in a reddit thread, usually on some technical or game issue, and invariably, it's from 2017 or something. I seriously think at least half the content there these days is bots because only bland inhuman content from bots doesn't trigger some autistic janny predditor to freak out and delete everything.
 
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burntwater said:
I've been trying out Fedora 36 with KDE lately and checked the memory usage after your post. On a reboot it starts out at 900MB but with Firefox with a few tabs and the TOR browser open it had ballooned up to 4.5GB of memory used.

I'm not too familiar with it but does using GTK applications on KDE add a lot of bloat?
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Using a lot of memory does not mean something is bloated, unless it also runs slowly.
 
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SSF2T Old User said:
I had xfce issues as well on my distro (Devuan Chimera). I remember I had to open up a terminal once it booted up to the desktop with Ctrl+Alt+T and type "xfwm4 --replace" and that magically made everything come back up, only my desktop icons were kinda fucked. I remember one day after a reboot that it just decided to work normally again, idk why.
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Holy shit it finally let me reply. But I finally got the issue resolved. I got errors from the command you gave me (wanted me to specify). So I looked it up and it turns out all I had to do was go to ~/.cache/sessions and delete any contents in there. And suddenly it works. I can't believe it was that fucking simple. God I love Linux, but shit like that really gets to me.
 
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According to a recent survey 41% of Arch Linux installations die.
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AmpleApricots said:
I tried to read reddit for my fix of "misc. linux news" and I wanted to strangle a redditor after the second day.
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I stopped using reddit for linux advice a long time ago. unironically /g/ is a good first resource for basics, as they were the first people to teach me how to compile things in depth (check friendly linux general thread). If you want more specific advice I'd use the classic linuxquestions.org website. Theres this really insufferable cunt named ondoho ( Profile ) which I suggest to ignore as he only acts snarky, and provides reddit tier advice. Just ignore him as he's only trying to ruin the platform. Everyone else should be really well versed and there are guides that go all the way back to the early 2000s (i think like 2002) so you can get some advice on ancient abandoned programs too which is pretty cool
 
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AnOminous said:
Reddit's really bad lately. Every now and again I find an actual answer to some search engine query in a reddit thread, usually on some technical or game issue, and invariably, it's from 2017 or something. I seriously think at least half the content there these days is bots because only bland inhuman content from bots doesn't trigger some autistic janny predditor to freak out and delete everything.
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The worst thing about current Reddit is that after a google search they promise an answer with a "view whole discussion" button and when clicking there is nothing more. Unless I'm really bad at reddit, which I am, but it's among the worst clickbait I've ever seen.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 said:
The worst thing about current Reddit is that after a google search they promise an answer with a "view whole discussion" button and when clicking there is nothing more. Unless I'm really bad at reddit, which I am, but it's among the worst clickbait I've ever seen.
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That's the cancer of New Reddit. You want the Old Reddit design, which you can get by going to old.reddit.com
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 said:
The worst thing about current Reddit is that after a google search they promise an answer with a "view whole discussion" button and when clicking there is nothing more. Unless I'm really bad at reddit, which I am, but it's among the worst clickbait I've ever seen.
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I believe plebbit throws a bunch of bullshit into metadata that isn't in the actual content so you often get these search results for threads with nothing actually useful in them that don't even have your search terms. Google used to have a + operator so you could demand that the search term ACTUALLY FUCKING SHOWS UP in the content, but no more.
 
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Markass the Worst said:
Nobody fucking uses Asahi. Why buy an overpriced computer if you're going to install a Linux distro on it anyway, just save your money and buy a freer computer instead.
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I mean thats just the nature of linux, hacking. If you buy any device it damn better have the ability to run linux or you've got planned obscelescense from the getgo. Additionally the new apple silicon chips are pretty quick, and as many know macos isn't built for speed but ease-of-use. So having an os on it like Asahi that allows you to turn the machine into a performance centered monster (soon) would be ideal. Plus those new imacs have a pretty clean color pallette
 
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