The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Susanna]

It's the masterrace, forreal I use it even more than gimp and Fire Alpaca. Can't Wine run it?

It probably could, but then I’d be stuck messing with that each time it gets another pointless update. It’s less hassle to just spin up gimp, the new UI is less awful enough I can get most basic tasks done with it.

 

[Betonhaus]

The Quadro p400 for my server came in the mail and I just finished installing drivers following the Debian guide. Now to enable video decoding in jellyfing and hope for the best

 

[Slav Power]

Just use Tux Paint. https://tuxpaint.org/
I assume the Shape menu will do circles.

Wait, they're still developing it? Last time I used it was maybe in primary school.

It’s a shame paint.net is a windows exclusive, I find it bridges the gap between “lightweight basic editor” and “photoshop” rather well.

Yep, paint.net is what GIMP should've been. And Pinta fails miserably in making a FOSS clone of it, much like Double Commander is failing miserably to be a FOSS clone of Total Commander. Not in the sense that Linux fails to be a clone of Windows, but in a sense that whoever is working on it gets the general idea but bumblefucks all the details and the software ends up dysfunctional. Having to use Double Commander for a while assured me that what Christian Ghisler made throughout the last three decades is irreplaceable.

 

[Gatdam Animal Person]

It's the masterrace, forreal I use it even more than gimp and Fire Alpaca. Can't Wine run it?

Unless you want to use an older version of Paint.NET, the software depends on many Win32 API calls which aren't implemented yet. I believe there's Pinta which is based on the last released FOSS version, it works well but lacks the new quality of life improvements.

 

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[peachlover669]

It’s a shame paint.net is a windows exclusive, I find it bridges the gap between “lightweight basic editor” and “photoshop” rather well.

i thought this at first too but i started using krita as a replacement and i believe its much better and obviously more supported if you can get around the fact its a kde program, id give it a try if your looking for something to fill the void tho it is more art centered than image manipulation

 

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Brodie Robertson mentioned kf

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[jonahgoldberg]

The Quadro p400 for my server came in the mail and I just finished installing drivers following the Debian guide. Now to enable video decoding in jellyfing and hope for the best

why does your server decode videos when you stream them to your client?
what the actual fuck did jellyfin developers do?
i just mount my data hoarding server's directories using sshfs

sshfs -o ServerAliveInterval=15 chud@server:/data $HOME/data

Wait, they're still developing it? Last time I used it was maybe in primary school.

Yep, paint.net is what GIMP should've been. And Pinta fails miserably in making a FOSS clone of it, much like Double Commander is failing miserably to be a FOSS clone of Total Commander. Not in the sense that Linux fails to be a clone of Windows, but in a sense that whoever is working on it gets the general idea but bumblefucks all the details and the software ends up dysfunctional. Having to use Double Commander for a while assured me that what Christian Ghisler made throughout the last three decades is irreplaceable.

lunix is a kernel, and assuming that you are talking about GNU, it isn't a clone of w*ndows. it isn't even supposed to be similar to it in any way because it's a clone of UNIX.
heck, it's more related to macOS than to windoze.

double commander

i use cp, mv, rm, cat, emacs, xdg-open, chmod, chown, and all the other nice stuff wintoddlers don't have and wouldn't know about (or know how to use anyway), file managers are overrated and i literally never use one unless it's a file picker in a web browser or for shitposting using https://git.dec05eba.com/QuickMedia
QM's file picker is better than anything else i have ever seen, aside from the fact that it requires some hacks to make it work with bloated garbage like firefox or other web browsers and can only select 1 file at a time (for now)
it just throws the selected file into stdout as a total file path so it's easy to use in scripts.
*insert more shilling*
it's also a native (webshit/js free) client for jewtube, peertube, LBRY, 4cuck, pornhub, soundcloud, and a ton of manga/tranime sites (as well as a plugin for local files to keep track of what you watched to what point, finished watching, plan to watch, etc)

Brodie Robertson mentioned kf

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gayland shills are among us, tread carefully.

 

[Betonhaus]

why does your server decode videos when you stream them to your client?
what the actual fuck did jellyfin developers do?
i just mount my data hoarding server's directories using sshfs

The computers in the house are fine with direct streams, but the phones have some difficulties with some formats and they don't like the super complex subtitles that some animes have
and some of the video files are extremely high bandwidth which made accessing the server remotely kind of painful.
The Server has a Xeon E3-1220 v1 and is a potato with no iGPU

 

[WinRAR Free Trial]

Can't Wine run it?

I've tried several versions of it, mainly some years old versions, and from what I've seen it's not running on Wine anytime soon. :/

It's a shame because it's way better than Pinta, I don't even care if it's proprietary (people who care too much about that are gay anyways) it's good software.

 

[Slav Power]

i use cp, mv, rm, cat, emacs, xdg-open, chmod, chown

file managers are overrated

Don't care, didn't ask. You're not impressing me, so don't bother.

i thought this at first too but i started using krita as a replacement and i believe its much better and obviously more supported if you can get around the fact its a kde program, id give it a try if your looking for something to fill the void tho it is more art centered than image manipulation

Krita is way more focused on painting though, paint.net is great for more technical edits, like GIMP, but is actually usable, unlike GIMP. There isn't a good FOSS alternative for it.

Brodie Robertson mentioned kf

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I love listening to a Wayland shill autistically ramble about something for 15 minutes, peak YouTube content.

 

[jonahgoldberg]

I've tried several versions of it, mainly some years old versions, and from what I've seen it's not running on Wine anytime soon. :/

It's a shame because it's way better than Pinta, I don't even care if it's proprietary (people who care too much about that are gay anyways) it's good software.

kf wouldn't exist without free software, because it would be taken down permanently by now if null used some proprietary backdoored garbage that can be controlled remotely by bill gates, the NSA, and satan himself.
(or it would simply break because winshit is a terribly unreliable operating system, especially for servers or anything else that has to work 24/7)
also, try winetricks and look up how to tweak a wine prefix to make it work

Don't care, didn't ask. You're not impressing me, so don't bother.

seems like butthurt

I love listening to a Wayland shill autistically ramble about something for 15 minutes, peak YouTube content.

same

 

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Brodie Robertson mentioned kf

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Notice how 100% of the pushback is coming from other gender freaks? Every time, without fail. TT fucking D

 

[WinRAR Free Trial]

kf wouldn't exist without free software, because it would be taken down permanently by now if null used some proprietary backdoored garbage that can be controlled remotely by bill gates, the NSA, and satan himself.
(or it would simply break because winshit is a terribly unreliable operating system, especially for servers or anything else that has to work 24/7)

I get that, but expecting absolutely everything to be open-source and accepting no substitutes is wildly unrealistic, not to mention that's an entirely different use case where stuff is reasonably expected to be secure and thus is usually vetted to be open-source.

 

[Betonhaus]

kf wouldn't exist without free software, because it would be taken down permanently by now if null used some proprietary backdoored garbage that can be controlled remotely by bill gates, the NSA, and satan himself

Reminder that the XZ backdoor was discovered by pure luck, and one of the things found is that the GitHub source code didn't actually completely match what the program did. So there were functions that were hidden from the publically available source code for XZ that was included in the application files that get downloaded by the OS.

I would like to hope you can understand the implications of that.

 

[seri0us]

@jonahgoldberg Hey Penaiple (or GNU/Chud, or whatever other stupid names you're using now) are you still spamming child porn wherever you go?

 

[jonahgoldberg]

I get that, but expecting absolutely everything to be open-source and accepting no substitutes is wildly unrealistic, not to mention that's an entirely different use case where stuff is reasonably expected to be secure and thus is usually vetted to be open-source.

no. i expect everything to be free software, that means free as in freedom.
just think about it and realize what kind of a fucking dystopian world we live in where someone else can give our slaves instructions for what to do, and even tell them to actively harm, enslave, backstab, etc... their masters
it's not far fetched at all because computers are (or at least were meant to be) digital slaves for their users, but with proprietary software you become the slave, while the computer becomes the whip used by your jewish massa.
i'm living proof for using only free software being completely possible, even if it means that you have to use 12 year old server boards with 16 CPU cores and 64 gigs of 1600MHz ECC RAM while sucking 600 of power 24/7
i'm talking about the ASUS KCMA-D8 for example here, the KGPE-D16 can take 32 (or i think 64?) CPU cores and 128-256GiB of RAM, it's just a KCMA-D8 but a bit better, and each one of them costs around 200-300$ each including RAM, CPUs, a cheap PSU, and some duct tape because i was too lazy to find a chassis that could fit the weird EATX-like +1cm form factor.
along with that, throw in a GTX 780ti and you have a nice workstation, or just use a 20$ thinkpad.
all of the things i listed obviously support coreboot/libreboot without binary blobs, but you will have to keep things like CPU models on the server boards and wifi cards in the thinkpads (as well as GPUs, soundcards, ethernet controllers, etc...) in mind to make sure that everything works with free software.
tl;dr, GTX 780ti, soundblaster audigy 4, opteron 4284 (x2), some 8GiB 1600MHz ECC ram that's confirmed to work well with coreboot memory init (or just working with the board in general, the chance is 90% that it will work fine with coreboot as well if you don't pick weird chinesium crap)
throw this into a KCMA-D8
or get a thinkpad X200, clean up the thermal paste and replace it, clean up the dust, replace the (g)intel(e) wifi card with an ath9k (ideally AR9382) one, throw in a new SSD and 8GiB (2x4) of RAM (the right one, specifically 2Rx, and maybe get a new battery if your old one is dead.
if you want to, you can get a dock and use it as a desktop hybrid like one of those wintendo snitch game consoles, that's what i'm doing btw.
you could also throw in an expresscard to usb or m.2 adapter to get 2/3 more USB 3.0 ports or another SSD (you could use the SATA port for a big hard drive and the SSD as boot drive), maxing out your thinkpad.
of course, don't forget to compile and install coreboot or libreboot (without blobs), you need an SPI flasher (e.g. raspberry pi pico, ch341a, any other raspberry pi, etc..) to initially install it thanks to israel (((write protecting))) the intel ME region if your bios chip to prevent you from removing it.
remember kids: intel inside, means israel inside; and intelligence agencies inside.

Reminder that the XZ backdoor was discovered by pure luck, and one of the things found is that the GitHub source code didn't actually completely match what the program did. So there were functions that were hidden from the publically available source code for XZ that was included in the application files that get downloaded by the OS.

I would like to hope you can understand the implications of that.

it wasn't luck, it was a random guy who - like every other sysadmin or security researcher and a lot of other people - just looks at what happens on his system once in a while, and saw that something wasn't right. i recommend everyone to do the same and watch what actually happens, because you never know what could happen while you're not looking.

 

[jonahgoldberg]

@jonahgoldberg Hey Penaiple (or GNU/Chud, or whatever other stupid names you're using now) are you still spamming child porn wherever you go?

i have never posted 'p anywhere on the internet, but keep making up random shit about me, it's funny to watch you make up shit due to your lack of any actual arguments against me.

 

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i use cp, mv, rm, cat, emacs, xdg-open, chmod, chown, and all the other nice stuff wintoddlers don't have and wouldn't know about (or know how to use anyway),

Are you fucking retarded? cp, mv and rm are a nigh-universal standard for any command interpreter, UNIX or not. Windows has the equivalent "type" command that does the exact same as "cat", and the rest exists purely on UNIX out of necessity since Windows doesn't need them and doesn't have the same permissions/ownership system to begin with.

Please fucking kill yourself so we don't have to be embarrassed that you're still trying to play for our "side" and suffer through your poorly-formatted drivel.

 

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kf wouldn't exist without free software, because it would be taken down permanently by now if null used some proprietary backdoored garbage that can be controlled remotely by bill gates, the NSA, and satan himself.

lol it's literally on XenForo.

Without an ongoing support contract.

The only thing better than free software is proprietary software you aren't paying for.