The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

Sperg Coalition said:
Correct me if I am wrong but X11 also supports fractional scaling per monitor, the problem are the toolkits that either do support it (like QT) or don't because of autistic reasons (like GTK).
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AFAIK, on X11 you cannot set monitor A's scaling to 100%, and monitor B's to 125%, etc. I'll be surprised if they added this feature recently.
 
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Gatdam Animal Person said:
Had a very similar issue, found out it was a faulty SATA cable. The drive was 100% fine though.
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I had something like this recently where all my browsers stopped working and everything else was also acting flaky. I thought my SSD had to be failing or something. On a hunch (one of the other issues was janky scrolling), I swapped out the HDMI cable. Amazingly that was what did it.

I usually do start with stuff like that, though, not because it's often the solution but I'd rather just start with really easy stuff that doesn't involve screwdrivers. I also generally have a one or two hour patience limit for diddling around with OS stuff before saying fuck it and reinstalling. Unless I've put some level of serious effort into customizing it (which I rarely do other than maybe changing the default DE), SSDs are so blindingly fast that a reinstall is trivial.

ObLinux content: this started on Windows 10 but when I switched over to Mint and it was still doing it, that made it obvious it was a hardware issue of some kind. Another reason it's always good to have more than one OS on a system because it makes sussing out hardware v. software problems pretty much instant.
 
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Organized Derailment said:
I use the non brokie version of Linux aka MacOS. See ya losers later.
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MacOS isn't remotely Linux because it was based on BSD, not the pasteurized process mutant SysV shit that Linux was based on.

Fun explanatory infographic.
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Sperg Coalition said:
That title is for Asahi Linux, nigga :tomgirl:

This seems to answer my doubts I guess because it also mentions scaling on X11
Using Multiple Monitors with Different Resolutions on Xorg (X11) Linux
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Yes, I specifically had to do this for my current setup. I wanted to get a big main monitor and then maybe a long thin monitor next to it, that I could stack a few terminals and browsers for just reading text.

Although I couldn't finagle the Xorg config to do it right, I legit just have a script that I run by hand whenever I restart my desktop.

Looks like this:
Code: 
#!/bin/sh
xrandr \
  --dpi 157 \
  --output DP-4 --primary --mode 3840x2160 --pos 0x0    --rotate normal \
  --output HDMI-0         --mode 1920x1080 --pos 3840x0 --rotate left --scale 1.7x1.7 \
  --output DP-1 --off --output DP-3 --off

kquitapp5 plasmashell && kstart5 plasmashell
 
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Free Download Manager backdoored – a possible supply chain attack on Linux machines (A)

TL;DR some shady crossplatform download manager has been redirecting only some Linux users to a malicious domain serving an infected .deb package for years, people saw the suspicious files and services, completely ignored them. Tutorials on Youtube exist that show video authors installing the infected version.

Things of note:

Their shitty Wordpress website got compromised, surprise surprise.

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They didn't even bother to check if anything is wrong when people were commenting this on their official blog posts.

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Linux can't possibly have suspicious programs, better switch my brain off (one of the virus binaries used the very trustworthy path of /var/tmp/crond).

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Weird censorship of malware code.

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From the post they screencapped:
# слава Украине!
# rel 20200126 15:15
# rel 20200126 15:46 добавил ubuntu 19.10 дякую москали
# rel 20200127 02:46 убрал upx падает часто, распакованная версия только теперь
mtime () {
LC_ALL=C stat "$1" 2>/dev/null | grep Modify | tr ':' ' ' | tr '-' ' ' | tr '.' ' ' | awk '{print $2""$3""$4""$5""$6"."$7}'
}
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GNU Abyss said:
Linux can't possibly have suspicious programs, better switch my brain off (one of the virus binaries used the very trustworthy path of /var/tmp/crond).
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This is only the case because most Linux users install from their distro’s repo, which is only very rarely compromised since most of the time the people maintaining it compile from source directly. If you download random binaries off the internet you’re considerably less secure than on Windows, because Linux isn’t supposed to be used that way and you don’t have any sort of malicious code protection unless you yourself set it up, which you didn’t because it’s a huge hassle. On windows on the other hand, running random binaries from the internet is the standard, so the OS has a service that checks the signature of everything you do against a quite decently up to date database. It’ll also tell you you’re being an idiot when you first try to start the program. MacOS goes a step further by both having sort of a repo, and making you jump through hoops to run unsigned binaries each time, and limiting what applications can access without asking the user for permission through the OS first, which is an even better approach.
 
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snov said:
MacOS goes a step further by both having sort of a repo, and making you jump through hoops to run unsigned binaries each time, and limiting what applications can access without asking the user for permission through the OS first, which is an even better approach.
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The most obnoxious aspect of this is every time you update, MacOS overrides your previous settings and sets them back to default so you have to do this every time to tell it to knock that shit the fuck off:
Code: 
sudo spctl --master-enable
 
Organized Derailment said:
I use the non brokie version of Linux aka MacOS. See ya losers later.
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macOS can’t handle fractional scaling correctly even when you have two of the same screen (unless they’re overpriced Apple screens) making fonts render like either a shit smeared blur or jaggedy crap. To add insult to injury. application windows don’t span properly across two separate displays either, meaning they still can’t do basic dual screening properly.

Apple does do hardware decoding of video better than everyone else though, at least for the very few formats they support.
 
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Its not unusual that Muta disappoints me, however this really does. I wanted to see him torcher himself installing Gentoo, but nah curry man only uses loonix for gayming.
 
Maoilios9210 said:
Its not unusual that Muta disappoints me, however this really does. I wanted to see him torcher himself installing Gentoo, but nah curry man only uses loonix for gayming.
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I couldn't make it past the 10 minute mark, is it really just "so now you're going to enter this command with these flags, not giving you an explanation as to why but here's the result" all the way through? What a retarded way to demonstrate things.
 
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Maoilios9210 said:
Its not unusual that Muta disappoints me, however this really does. I wanted to see him torcher himself installing Gentoo, but nah curry man only uses loonix for gayming.
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Installing arch with the wiki is practically just a pop quiz that checks if you're >100iq and capable of seeing a shell without shitting yourself. You don't even have to understand what you're typing it's literally step by step.
 
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