The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Alright, so after fucking with this computer for 3 hours, and saying "fuck it". I've reinstalled the OS and it actually fucking works. it installed the network driver I needed and it works perfectly fine.

Thank you to the people helping me and the countless hours I've spent Googling. I can finally enjoy Linux now.

@Coon1488 you're a real nigga
 
Osama Bin Laden said:
Alright, so after fucking with this computer for 3 hours, and saying "fuck it". I've reinstalled the OS and it actually fucking works. it installed the network driver I needed and it works perfectly fine.

Thank you to the people helping me and the countless hours I've spent Googling. I can finally enjoy Linux now.

@Coon1488 you're a real nigga
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so, what did you change? or what did you do to break it in the first place?
 
ZMOT said:
so, what did you change? or what did you do to break it in the first place?
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Reinstalling Linux Mint fixed it. My theory is that I installed the wrong driver for the network adapter and was too retarded to configure how to uninstall/blacklist the wrong ones so I can use the right one.

But I'm not completely sure. The drivers are supposed to come automatically installed so I wouldn't have to manually install drivers. So, I don't know. It works and that's all I give a shit about.
 
i feel like giving the actual errors that the program you were trying to use to actually connect to the internet, instead of looking at the kernel/driver/module output would have saved you some time and effort.

I still don't know what tools you were actually trying to use to connect. Network manager? wpa_supplicant? The reason I asked in the first place was because it said wifi was enabled, and I have see in my own output when checking things, that something was down, but wifi was enabled. and I just wasn't actually using the tool to connect to the internet correctly messing with drivers had nothing to do with it.

also, I'm hoping you tried rebooting during all of that. because that itself could have been all you needed to do to fix it potentially.
 
Does Linux Mint have enough support for NVIDIA drivers?
Specifically RTX 4070.

I tried booting it live but it was noticeably lower resolution and the display scale was twice as smaller than it was on Windows.
 
Kiwi2Shoes said:
Does Linux Mint have enough support for NVIDIA drivers?
Specifically RTX 4070.

I tried booting it live but it was noticeably lower resolution and the display scale was twice as smaller than it was on Windows.
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The live distro likely used nouveau or vesa. These are open source drivers with poor support for modern hardware. Once you install the distro properly you'll be able to choose the proprietary Nvidia drivers, which work just fine. Linux performance in games and AI is generally a bit higher than Windows performance, because it's a more optimised operating system, but support for proprietary features like DLSS can be hit or miss, since some games will only support DirectX or OpenGL, and OpenGL hasn't really been kept up to date. Anything that supports Vulkan or DX11 will work just fine on Linux, the former natively and the latter through a software layer in Wine or Proton that automatically translates it into Vulkan for a minimal performance penalty (still generally outperforms Windows even with this translation, that's how good it is).
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
I still don't know what tools you were actually trying to use to connect. Network manager? wpa_supplicant? The reason I asked in the first place was because it said wifi was enabled, and I have see in my own output when checking things, that something was down, but wifi was enabled. and I just wasn't actually using the tool to connect to the internet correctly messing with drivers had nothing to do with it.
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Network Manager wasn't working, I've reinstalled it several times and have restarted the service. The tools just refused to acknowledge my wifi as something to connect. It showed up on the network list, but refused to connect. My guess is maybe I accidentally corrupted something during the Live USB install.

I posted those because I assumed it would tell you guys better than me (plus I see people on the Linux Mint forums be super anal about it). However, in the end, a clean reinstall worked so fuck it.

I wanna say that trying to get yt-dlp working on this computer has been a pain but I did it. Turns out that Kick is the only browser I am aware of that I can only run in a pip virtual environment.
 
Kiwi2Shoes said:
Does Linux Mint have enough support for NVIDIA drivers?
Specifically RTX 4070.

I tried booting it live but it was noticeably lower resolution and the display scale was twice as smaller than it was on Windows.
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You need to install the driver
 
Betonhaus said:
Command prompt is a Windows thing. Linux uses a bash shell accessible through a terminal.
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old school unix admins would argue that it should be called a console.
it doesn't matter, call it what you want, it's just another way of saying cli.
 
TheDataHorder said:
old school unix admins would argue that it should be called a console.
it doesn't matter, call it what you want, it's just another way of saying cli.
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Console often meant the specific main keyboard input to the machine, at least originally, usually a physical keyboard actually connected to the computer, usually an admin with root access. Other lesser keyboards were often called "tty," I'm pretty sure standing for Teletype, originally a physical keyboard where the actual output was on a dot matrix printer on the same device, either directly or remotely connected to the machine. I remember old "minicomputers" (not "personal computers") would sometimes fail out to the point they could only be accessed through such a device.

These distinctions are fairly meaningless these days especially on Linux systems where there's basically one user treating it as a desktop or a server where most of the people accessing services on it don't even have terminal access.
 
analrapist said:
this is a bit of a neologism, og teletypes worked like a typewriter, with separate letter forms
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The later ones were dot matrix. I'm not old enough to have ever dealt with the typewriter versions.

I think the variant I dealt with was the DECWriter, when 300 baud was a normal rate. The typewriter variants could only handle about 110 baud, which is why that's one of the earliest baud rates (before I ever used a modem).
 
Osama Bin Laden said:
Network Manager wasn't working, I've reinstalled it several times and have restarted the service. The tools just refused to acknowledge my wifi as something to connect. It showed up on the network list, but refused to connect. My guess is maybe I accidentally corrupted something during the Live USB install.

I posted those because I assumed it would tell you guys better than me (plus I see people on the Linux Mint forums be super anal about it). However, in the end, a clean reinstall worked so fuck it.

I wanna say that trying to get yt-dlp working on this computer has been a pain but I did it. Turns out that Kick is the only browser I am aware of that I can only run in a pip virtual environment.
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I had something similar happen on my new Endeavour OS install. Dunno what the issue is. KDE Wayland btw as that's default.
 
currently using Garuda w/ KDE Plasma on my laptop and Kinda want to switch to something else, was debating NixOS but they seem to have been having a DEI tism fit. Any good suggestions or should I just bite the bullet and install arch and a tiling window manager?
 
Autism Contractor said:
currently using Garuda w/ KDE Plasma on my laptop and Kinda want to switch to something else, was debating NixOS but they seem to have been having a DEI tism fit. Any good suggestions or should I just bite the bullet and install arch and a tiling window manager?
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If you know enough about Linux to not get discouraged setting up a window manager for the first time. I say do that. Just definitely be willing to read the documentation. And probably start with something that has good documentation, like i3 if you want x11, or hyprland if you want Wayland.

Qtile, awesome, and xmonad have good docs too, but the config files for those are in the language they are written in. So they are a lot more complicated to set up, particularly if you don't code. And the documentation only helps if you understand what they are saying. Also of the three (and any other window manager I have tried) xmonad is the hardest to configure, purely because of Haskell. From someone that doesn't know the language. I could still get qtile and awesome set up by learning as I went.

Dwm, and bspwm both really don't have good documentation. But dwm is actually pretty easy to configure if you can learn how to patch it. Bspwm is similar in difficulty to i3. However because if you don't set it up properly first. You boot into a black screen and your keyboard doesn't work. And the only way to get out of it is rebooting your computer, along basically a single man pages to explain things. I recommend going with the ones I mentioned in the beginning. If you want autotiling and use I3 you can install the autotiling package and autstart it in your config.

For installing arch because of the arch install script. That's easy. Though if it's your first time using arch, I think doing it manually is a good idea. For a few reasons.

Sorry for the double post
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
Chat. Is this autism or schizophrenia? https://youtube.com/watch?v=H7RQYREJO98
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This might be the most queer person I have ever seen.


prollyanotherlurker said:
If you know enough about Linux to not get discouraged setting up a window manager for the first time. I say do that. Just definitely be willing to read the documentation. And probably start with something that has good documentation, like i3 if you want x11, or hyprland if you want Wayland.
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I've been running various distros on my laptop or dual boot for a while now so I guess I'll try hyprland out. I heard some shit about hyperland but cant remember why it was catching shit. I'll have to get those fuggly ass thigh highs too now since I'll have the thinkpad arch BTW loadout.
 
Autism Contractor said:
currently using Garuda w/ KDE Plasma on my laptop and Kinda want to switch to something else, was debating NixOS but they seem to have been having a DEI tism fit. Any good suggestions or should I just bite the bullet and install arch and a tiling window manager?
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I'm a NixOS apologist. Yes, there's a lot of cringe people, and yes they will divert resources to DEI tism fits.

However, most of the output I've seen from them has been pretty good. They typically keep things pretty professional when there isn't an active chimp event going on. You can also keep in mind that its core is just the nix language. If you don't like any given decision that they make, you can overrule it by forking their monorepo.

I pray for the day that the hobbyist software scene is not completely infected by political nonsense, but I don't think it's coming any time soon. You're simply going to have to ride the tiger no matter what choice you make as an end user.
 
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