The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Niggergante]

>Fedora 38
I don't know why I chose fedora because people seem to love .deb and hate appimages or rpm for random shit I find interesting.

To be specific, a bunch of things on GitHub list the apt repos for requirements but never anything else. It's annoying how I had to fish up which package the dev wanted because it's just *slightly* different in dnf.

 

[Betonhaus]

>Fedora 38
I don't know why I chose fedora because people seem to love .deb and hate appimages or rpm for random shit I find interesting.

To be specific, a bunch of things on GitHub list the apt repos for requirements but never anything else. It's annoying how I had to fish up which package the dev wanted because it's just *slightly* different in dnf.

You can also use alien to convert rpm packages to deb. Debian is superior if you're not writing everything in-house or paying a fortune to software companies.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

>Fedora 38
I don't know why I chose fedora because people seem to love .deb and hate appimages or rpm for random shit I find interesting.

To be specific, a bunch of things on GitHub list the apt repos for requirements but never anything else. It's annoying how I had to fish up which package the dev wanted because it's just *slightly* different in dnf.

I like Fedora for having the most up to date version of podman ready to go in its repos. I'm a big fan of running containers in user mode vs sudo as Docker requires.

 

[Miller]

Dying off? It's perhaps slipping from being one of the most popular distros towards being a middling to big one, but even that is an achievement in the crowded Linux distro field. It's still #5 on Distrowatch, above Ubuntu:
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I expect Manjaro will be with us for a long time to come.

EndeavourOS gang gang

 

[Betonhaus]

Playonlinux turned out to be more unsatisfying then I expected. I was trying to install Space Cadet pinball using it on Zorin OS, and the installer kept on hanging. turned out it was using a very old version of wine and i didn't see a way to upgrade it

 

[trardokont]

Playonlinux turned out to be more unsatisfying then I expected. I was trying to install Space Cadet pinball using it on Zorin OS, and the installer kept on hanging. turned out it was using a very old version of wine and i didn't see a way to upgrade it

That's odd. You should be able to install different wine versions under the Tools -> Manage Wine Versions section. And you should be able to change the wine version used for the virtual drive where you are installing it from Configure you select the Drive Name and in the general tab select it from the available installed ones from the drop-down.

 

[Betonhaus]

That's odd. You should be able to install different wine versions under the Tools -> Manage Wine Versions section. And you should be able to change the wine version used for the virtual drive where you are installing it from Configure you select the Drive Name and in the general tab select it from the available installed ones from the drop-down.

Realistically it was probably just that easy and I was too unfamiliar with the software to find those settings

In the meantime, since its a computer none of us will be using I just put windows 7 on it and installed the drivers and updates. I figured that if we ever end up using that computer, it would be less of a hassle to wipe and install linux then it would be to install Windows if it turned out we needed a different os on it.

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

Tried installing Linux Mint EDGE and it would straight up not boot. No error message or anything. It did boot up in compatibility mode though.

I just have to chuckle that the only distro that I have had no issue with is the one everyone says not to touch (Manjaro)

 

[Betonhaus]

Tried installing Linux Mint EDGE and it would straight up not boot. No error message or anything. It did boot up in compatibility mode though.

I just have to chuckle that the only distro that I have had no issue with is the one everyone says not to touch (Manjaro)

what's your hardware? Did you try LMDE?

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

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what's your hardware? Did you try LMDE?

I'm going to try LMDE another day.

My hardware is relatively modern. I wanted to try the Edge version because I had an issue with regular mint that would stop my computer from shutting down. I could never figure out what the issue was, even with the help of the cool guys on here. Was hoping this would've fixed my issue.

 

[Betonhaus]

I'm going to try LMDE another day.

My hardware is relatively modern. I wanted to try the Edge version because I had an issue with regular mint that would stop my computer from shutting down. I could never figure out what the issue was, even with the help of the cool guys on here. Was hoping this would've fixed my issue.

And naturally you neglected to mention that, only saying that you tried the unstable version and it was unstable.

 

[AmpleApricots]

Why do I have such a deep dislike for vim? I have no problem with modal editing (although I'm not entirely convinced it makes me more effective - the speed or amount of keypresses really doesn't have a lot of influence on my general output. It's certainly not the bottleneck - my brain is) I can do it fast, I know all the nice commands and I can navigate, replace text, etc. really quickly. I just don't like vim. Never did. I try using it occasionally (now I'm attempting nvim which wanted to get away from the bloat but seems to be shaping up to get quite bloated itself) and how it's so big and yet you still need plugins for some of the most basic stuff just really turns me off. That said, lua is a nice scripting language and a lot saner than vimscript. Actually a nice language, in general. I looked at variants like vis but they're often either really incomplete, poorly maintained or downright broken. There's always vi for a quick edit but it lacks a lot of really basic stuff.

I always tend to drift back to the simple editors who often have a lot of anachronisms and are actually kinda awkward to use, like joe or ne. (The latter claims being inspired by Amiga's TurboText, I personally don't see it on account of basically none of the TurboText keybindings working) I'm never fully happy with that solution and so my search starts anew.

I chanced upon micro the other day, and it's probably the first linux terminal editor I've encountered that comes with sane, non 80s application rooted keybindings from the get-go. Even has decent mouse support if you bring the right terminal emulator. It's very simple, yet still has lua scripting, too. It has a lot of small quality-of-life things others don't have, like comitting changes you do to the settings to it's config file automatically. I kinda like it. Maybe there's the big showstopper, but I haven't encountered it yet.

 

[Betonhaus]

I use nano because it comes with Debian, and all the shortcuts I need are listed at the bottom of the screen. If I needed to edit files from the command line often enough that I have those shortcuts memorized, I'd probably switch to a more advanced editor.

 

[Rozzy]

Want to rip some CDs to MP3 using Rhythmbox in Ubuntu or Linux Mint?
The rip settings don't work and the bitrate defaults to the lowest VBR quality.
After searching I found a solution which will allow you to edit the "Ubuntu" preset within the menu to your preferred bitrate.
The workaround it to edit this file and select "Ubuntu" from the rip settings menu.
GstLameMP3Enc.prs
Do my settings look okay for 320 CBR or is there something I should change?

Select "Ubuntu" from the menu.

Works okay but ripping is slow?

 

[Betonhaus]

Want to rip some CDs to MP3 using Rhythmbox in Ubuntu or Linux Mint?
The rip settings don't work and the bitrate defaults to the lowest VBR quality.
After searching I found a solution which will allow you to edit the "Ubuntu" preset within the menu to your preferred bitrate.
The workaround it to edit this file and select "Ubuntu" from the rip settings menu.
GstLameMP3Enc.prs
Do my settings look okay for 320 CBR or is there something I should change?
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Select "Ubuntu" from the menu.
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Works okay but ripping is slow?

Is it ripping at x1 speed? Read times are usually measured in multiples of the realtime speed. So if a song is 2 minutes long, ripping at 1x will take 2 minutes, 2x will take 1 minute, 4x will take 30seconds, and 8x will take 15 seconds. but not all disk drives can read that fast.
I could be mistaken, as I haven't had a computer with a disk drive for at least a decade.

 

[AnOminous]

Why do I have such a deep dislike for vim?

I don't deeply dislike it, it's just different from vi in trifling and annoying ways, but that makes me have to figure stuff out. And there's nothing it does I need. I don't really code, so the most I do with it is edit text files and shell scripts (basically text files as well).

 

[Susanna]

I just use nano.

 

[Betonhaus]

Or you could just use sed instead
REAL Linux users do everything from the command line

 

[Car Won't Crank]

Want to rip some CDs to MP3 using Rhythmbox in Ubuntu or Linux Mint?
The rip settings don't work and the bitrate defaults to the lowest VBR quality.
After searching I found a solution which will allow you to edit the "Ubuntu" preset within the menu to your preferred bitrate.
The workaround it to edit this file and select "Ubuntu" from the rip settings menu.
GstLameMP3Enc.prs
Do my settings look okay for 320 CBR or is there something I should change?
View attachment 5475352
Select "Ubuntu" from the menu.
View attachment 5475355
Works okay but ripping is slow?

Use an application called Abcde for ripping music CDs. It's a command line tool where you have a single config file that defines the formats and directories you want to rip to. It works great.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I use KDE's built-in audiocd KIO. Well, I say built-in, but apparently it isn't installed by default most of the time these days. Anyway, it lets you drag and drop from your cd in wav, cda, flac, mp3, or ogg and gives you a pretty intuitive configuration for all of them in the system settings app. Easy as piss. Which reminds me, I've got a few discs I need to rip...