The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

demicolon said:
Why is PulseAudio bad?
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Pulseaudio never quite worked for me, I don't hear any sound at all. The configuration is hell. It also forces itself onto ALSA applications assuming it knows better. When I switched to using pipewire as a PulseAudio server replacement, everything just worked, ALSA, PulseAudio and Pipewire apps can all play at the same time.
 
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2022 Linux Desktop Environments System Usage (Gnome, KDE, XFCE, LXQT, Cinnamon, Mate)

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Interesting results. I like how KDE Wayland is slightly more efficient than its Xorg version.
 
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Knight of the Rope said:
>be Lennart Poettering
>get put in charge of Linux software project
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He wasn't just "put in charge". He started the whole thing himself, because he couldn't be fucked learning how to configure multiplexing in ALSA. It's literally just a needlessly complicated wrapper around ALSA.

Now, in fairness, out of the box, ALSA doesn't have a sane default config, but it only takes a couple of lines to get it to multiplex. If the big distros - or the ALSA project itself - had just set it up and documented it correctly, pulse would never have been necessary. Hell, Poettering himself could have pushed for it, but "fixing documentation" doesn't have the same cachet as "lead developer on the big new audio system".

Fucker's going after boot partitions now. He won't be happy until his software owns everything outside of the kernel address space.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
Fucker's going after boot partitions now. He won't be happy until his software owns everything outside of the kernel address space.
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Conjecture: to any question about Linux of the form "Why does X suck," there is an answer involving this dude.
 
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The strength of linux userland is simple software with simple configuration files, and all scriptable via sh. ALSA goes into that category. I started my asound.conf somewhen in the 00s and have been changing and copying it to new computers ever since. Hell, it wasn't too long ago when I threw out the commented-out references for floppy disk drives from some of my config files for good. If you actually know your system that way it also all becomes very low maintenance and things like what distro you use don't even really matter (as long as the distro doesn't shove garbage software down your throat, that is) I switched my convertible from my self-built linux setup to alpine. I accomplished that by just deleting every folder except /home and copying the rest from the alpine installation I prepared via rsync from my desktop. As simple as it gets. The Skylake Core M boots into X in 2ish seconds maybe 3? It is hard to measure.

All these soyfags want the windows/mac experience but aren't even good at creating it, mostly because they're too strongly opinionated, don't really understand what they're working with and also don't listen to feedback. I'm not interested in that experience myself at all (it would take away too much of my freedom) but how they're approaching it they'll never get there. It'd be funny if they wouldn't be shitting up so many things in the process.

(also aforementioned alpine system uses about ~80 mb of RAM all booted up. I know. I blame the 64 bit nature of things for this memory-gobbling and to be fair I do have quite a few services in the background)
 
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Ahriman said:
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I think even if I knew all the techniques covered in the video I would have just scripted this and maybe hand over the script(s) to the guy I'm helping. Perhaps he couldn't use it but if he asks some grad student for help maybe they could.
Did learn some interesting vim tidbits so that's nice.
 
Deanco said:
Hey! I'm building a new computer and installing a Linux distro onto it (probably Mint). I have an AMD graphics card and I'm wondering if the driver is good! I'll mostly be playing easy to run games like FTL and Minecraft.
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I don't see why there would be any issues, especially for games like those. Have fun!
 
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Deanco said:
I have an AMD graphics card
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AMD GPUs are king in Linux, pretty much every distro's stock kernel has the drivers for AMD cards ready to go, so unless you're compiling a kernel yourself whatever distro you choose unlike NVIDIA you shouldn't have to do anything. Also I have never had issues with the driver once so enjoy the ease of use! :)
 
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HRT Heisenberg said:
AMD GPUs are king in Linux, pretty much every distro's stock kernel has the drivers for AMD cards ready to go, so unless you're compiling a kernel yourself whatever distro you choose unlike NVIDIA you shouldn't have to do anything. Also I have never had issues with the driver once so enjoy the ease of use! :)
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Since EVGA is dead I will be moving to AMD and I cannot wait. Tired of dealing with Nvidia's shit on Linux. The only issues I had last time is that playing vidya and videos at the same time caused the video to stutter. Never had that issue with Nvidia. But this was a problem on Wangblows as well. Hope they fixed it.
 
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Has anyone ever cracked their knuckles and given Funtoo the old college try?

I recall being a wee lad autistically reading Distrowatch and coming across their Gentoo page which said the creator forked his own project and called it "Funtoo."
Unfortunately, it seems that finding anything about Funtoo remotely recent (i.e. after 2009) is a chore. Not impossible, mind you.

It's just sad that the lunatics at Gentoo have appropriated all the spotlight regarding source-based distros. Funtoo, Source Mage, CRUX... I wonder what they all play like?
 
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Dread First said:
I wonder what they all play like?
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Source based don't feel all that elegant in practice because nowadays, you need a ton of build-time dependencies and only select few software has a system of building I'd consider sane. As a rule of thumb (with exceptions!) as long as you stay with terminal-based software it's mostly ok and easy enough to maintain if you pick your software carefully. As soon as you move to anything GUI-based, sanity flies out of the window. A given gentoo installation, even with all the fat trimmed as much as possible, easily can weight in at up to ten times (and this is no exaggeration) the size of any given minimalist binary distro just because of the sheer amount of build stuff you need. I hope you enjoy compiling the five programming language toolkits and three different build systems because two packages require them. This is not a problem you'd resolve with moving to any *BSD either. It's just a modern userland software problem. If you actually get into the thick of compiling your own software, you learn quickly what an ugly and wobbly tower of cards it all is. I'm a MAJOR autismo and for large software, even I can't be bothered anymore. Something like the current modern browsers might as well be proprietary. They're so complex, it's impossible to tell what they do.

If you want truly minimalist machines/OSes where you know what every library does and why it is there (which for me, is the main reason to even bother with "source-based" distros) you need to get into retrocomputing or more modern, that smudged area between microcontrollers/CPUs and do your own thing. For everything else you have to just accept that at some level, your computer is a black box.
 
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Mister Uno said:
Since EVGA is dead I will be moving to AMD and I cannot wait. Tired of dealing with Nvidia's shit on Linux. The only issues I had last time is that playing vidya and videos at the same time caused the video to stutter. Never had that issue with Nvidia. But this was a problem on Wangblows as well. Hope they fixed it.
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I've pretty much only dealt with NVIDIA for the majority of my time on Linux, it was a complete nightmare, power management was abysmal on my laptops and most distros just blacked out my Xorg when the NVIDIA driver was being used. Only good part was on one of my laptops I could switch between integrated and dedicated graphics to save some battery power (using the GPU was still a power/heat nightmare though). Switched to AMD in 2020 and have never had a problem since.

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Has anyone ever cracked their knuckles and given Funtoo the old college try?

It's just sad that the lunatics at Gentoo have appropriated all the spotlight regarding source-based distros. Funtoo, Source Mage, CRUX... I wonder what they all play like?
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I installed Gentoo a while ago ironically because it gave me flexible tools such as crossdev or ports for easing cross-compiling and making other custom versions of GCC and build times don't bother me on desktop (still might switch though). Everything I've read up on Funtoo seems to be mostly the same but with much less documentation or support on doing most things. I'm curious as to what you mean by the lunatics at Gentoo, I knew there was some really autistic drama when the original creator tried to rejoin his project and thus started Funtoo, I'm interested to hear what went so wrong lol.
 
Sick, nice to see the xfce devs take prolonged work seriously. Thunar had always been a nice file manager, but glad to see some of the better modernization here and there.
 
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Like I said in a previous post, if I wasn't such a KDE fanboy I'd be running XFCE (I ran it on my workstation for 3+ years). It's comfy as hell and if you know how to rice it well, it can look really nice.

 
I was going to comment a similar thing, I like and respect XFCE but I still use KDE because of the features and customization. I also tend to use QT apps more than GTK apps and I have better luck getting GTK apps looking good under KDE than the otherway around.
 
Lone Wandering Courier said:
I was going to comment a similar thing, I like and respect XFCE but I still use KDE because of the features and customization. I also tend to use QT apps more than GTK apps and I have better luck getting GTK apps looking good under KDE than the otherway around.
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KDE Plasma is also really lightweight surprisingly, switched from Linux Mint to Kubuntu. It's system monitor is pretty cool with the layout too.

Glad Kali went with XFCE and moved from Gnome so that runs even better now.
 
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