The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[seri0us]

1. usually the 1tb ssd drive is only about 10% used unless I'm doing a major download. According to my web panel yesterday I downloaded 1.6tb of files, which get moved to the hard drives after downloading.
2. ext4
3. I don't think so...

I'm wondering if trim hasn't been able to keep up with the downloading... maybe I should pause downloads and run fstrim

...oh that's so much better. I added "/usr/sbin/fstrim /" as a custom command in webmin so I have a one button click if it happens again.

Gay erotica overload
You need to stop writing so much

 

[419]

Well, in the end I caved in. Rather than using the X11 session for KDE Plasma, I've swapped over to the Wayland session just to see if some applications I was using would stop somehow permanently losing focus and being unable to ever re-focus without a restart, as they were doing on X.

It seems as though this has stopped now under Wayland, and further to that, nothing else feels... particularly different, thankfully. Maybe this isn't so bad after all.

 

[Betonhaus]

Gay erotica overload
You need to stop writing so much

No the problem was downloading over the course of a single day:

Agatha Christie's Poirot (still downloading)
Batman: The Animated Series
Black Mirror
Breaking Bad (still downloading
Downton Abbey
Futurama
Gravity Falls
House
House of Cards (US)
Justice League
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Naruto
Naruto Shippuden
One Piece (this was a big one, still downloading)
Sherlock
South Park
Succession
Ted Lasso
The Expanse

all in all over 1,152gb of stuff imported, plus 440 of 801gb of the other three series downloaded. the drive usually only has about 830gb of free space so no wonder why it needed to be trimmed so badly.

 

[Slav Power]

Just make some new hacky workaround.

So in the end Linux is very much like Windows.

No more brother wars.

 

[Creative Username]

So in the end Linux is very much like Windows.
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No more brother wars.

linux on the right

 

[Susanna]

Well, in the end I caved in. Rather than using the X11 session for KDE Plasma, I've swapped over to the Wayland session just to see if some applications I was using would stop somehow permanently losing focus and being unable to ever re-focus without a restart, as they were doing on X.

It seems as though this has stopped now under Wayland, and further to that, nothing else feels... particularly different, thankfully. Maybe this isn't so bad after all.

I’m getting this on wayland too, and I switched from X years ago. I’m pretty sure it’s just a plasma6 bug. Seems to happen at random during normal use, but also every time after I play a fullscreen game, such as Starfield.

 

[419]

I’m getting this on wayland too, and I switched from X years ago. I’m pretty sure it’s just a plasma6 bug. Seems to happen at random during normal use, but also every time after I play a fullscreen game, such as Stellaris.

Fuck.

 

[Creative Username]

Thankfully you can restart KDE processes like KWin and Plasma Desktop if they fuck up violently. I have noticed that Plasma 6 hasn't really fucked up for me yet, though... Maybe my computer is just weird.

 

[std::string]

People need to embrace the Slackware way of doing things: install everything so that you don't need to care about dependencies at all since they are all always satisfied.

Also makes compiling from source easy because you have all the development libraries installed already.

Too bad it pretty much died. The old heads know about darkstar.

 

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Too bad it pretty much died. The old heads know about darkstar.

and good places to buy LSD

 

[Sperg Coalition]

Too bad it pretty much died.

If you mean died, as in, not widely used then maybe... But it's still being developed to this day since 1993, which is amazing in itself.

 

[Battlefield42]

@Betonhaus you only have one watchable thing in the list everything else is waste of storage/bandwidth

 

[Heliantheae]

@Betonhaus you only have one watchable thing in the list everything else is waste of storage/bandwidth

Poirot (with David Suchet) is a masterpiece. Older Futurama and South Park is good. MPFC is good. You are mostly correct but if you're dissing Poirot then you're as retarded as your avatar.

 

[Kiwi2Shoes]

This question has probably been asked a gorillion times already but what's the best brand of laptops to install Linux on? (Linux Mint XFCE to be exact.)

 

[Kosher Dill]

what's the best brand of laptops to install Linux on

The kind that the developers used.

So you know, get some old corporate castoff Thinkpad from Ebay for $25.

 

[Betonhaus]

This question has probably been asked a gorillion times already but what's the best brand of laptops to install Linux on? (Linux Mint XFCE to be exact.)

The one where they offer a version pre-installed with Linux
Usually you should be fine with a ThinkPad as it'll have native support, and there's usually a lot of focus on making Surface laptops work well

 

[Belisarius Cawl]

The kind that the developers used.

So you know, get some old corporate castoff Thinkpad from Ebay for $25.

eBay can be pretty sketchy. I've had much better luck with refurbished equipment from Newegg.

 

[Miller]

Thoughts on Bazzite?
I saw that Chris Titus made a video about it:

 

[Slav Power]

Seems like a good way to make every Steam Deck competitor at the very least usable on the software side. Still not the Windows killer some want to make it out to be.

 

[Kosher Dill]

eBay can be pretty sketchy. I've had much better luck with refurbished equipment from Newegg.

That may be, but you're not getting the full Linux developer experience unless your Thinkpad has a cracked wrist rest and a sticker saying "PROPERTY OF SOYCORP ASSET TAG #9842982" on the underside.