The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

Mikhail Tukhachevsky said:
Debian Sid is closer to Arch when it comes to the frequency of updates (I'm still really annoyed at how Debian separates headers into -dev packages and for all I've searched there seems to be no option to automatically install headers? It's really annoying if you have a system where you constantly compile stuff from source and are always missing a couple of header files).
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Yeah. The same thing annoys me when I use void. Nearly every time I build something from source I end up having a number of dev packages I need to install.
 
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Debian followed RedHat's lead with their -devel packages, didn't they? So we can safely blame RedHat for all this bullshit?
 
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analrapist said:
Debian followed RedHat's lead with their -devel packages, didn't they? So we can safely blame RedHat for all this bullshit?
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No, IT'S CHIN-AH. CHIN-AH's fault!!! I'm telling you if it wasn't for CHIN-AH this wouldn't of had happened and redhat would be BASED!
MAKE REDHAD BASED AGAIN!
 
analrapist said:
Debian followed RedHat's lead with their -devel packages, didn't they? So we can safely blame RedHat for all this bullshit?
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Debian released first, but you'd have to look at the package lists of the time to see who came up with the package layout first.
 
Kiwi & Cow said:
If you can handle linux you can totally handle gimp, c'mon dude. They even went the extra mile to sort each tool into its own category. Like the pens use the same slot as the pencils in the toolbox, that sort of thing.
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Worst thing about gimp is the ass simplified interface icons which are harder to discern, but gimp is neither the first nor last app to use shitty simplified flat icons and the devs' obsession with not adding a fucking shape tool when even fucking mspaint has one.
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Yeah, it really seems that GIMP is one of those linux programs that a windows user can just intuitivly... use. Krita, Kdenlive, libreoffice. It's not that linux devs can't do proper UI, it's more that they most of the time do not have an incentive to. The big reason why there's genuine effort put into user friendliness,is because it's also marketed as a free alternative to photoshop on windows, and, unlike on linux, you are not, infact, expected to have end stage autism, be terminally online and also a smartass in computer sciences to use windows.
 
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Eternal Spirit of Light said:
... and are replaced by other issues like - not being able to customize the UI beyond changing the color of the taskbar, horrendous bloat, general slowness, glownigger spyware, one app freezing causing the whole computer to freeze (in DWM I can just 'MOD + Shift + C' and the unresponsive program is immediately closed), incredibly slow bootup times (up to two minutes on my i7 pc, compared to 13 seconds when using runit), updating behind your back (I deleted the program responsible for system updates, disabled updates in the control panel, killed all processes which check for updates, and yet.... it would still update, quite jewish, no? Oh and after an update the system was incredibly slow for whatever fucking reason.), I could go on and on.
But of course, the biggest downside is using something made by Bill "Eat the bugs and live in the pod" Gates.

The REAL reason you don't want to use linux is because you're a retard who can't use a CLI.
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I love it when linux users being up all these problems with windows, and it's some shit no one gives a shit about or is fixed with a restart.

I'll let you in on a secret: no one gives a shit about bloat. Not in a world where boot time is >1 min, programs opening are >15 seconds, and you can buy an extra 1TB hard drive for like 50$. These things would have to he 10x the issue for anyone to even care.

They do care when they get flat out told a perihperal they bought or a program the want to use needs flat out doesn't work unless they start digging into command lines they don't understand, and even then they should flip a coin. That greentext about gimp in the college class is too accurate. I could learn the CLI eventually, but do I want to worry about it while downloading zoom in the middle of a college lecture, some propietary software while working at a job, or be the one friend in the group that can't play redout 2 while epic games is letting people play it for free? I have a life outside the computer, and I don't want it getting in my way while I am trying to live it.
 
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xXthrowawayaccountXx said:
I'll let you in on a secret: no one gives a shit about bloat. Not in a world where boot time is >1 min, programs opening are >15 seconds, and you can buy an extra 1TB hard drive for like 50$. These things would have to he 10x the issue for anyone to even care.
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unless you're using the wrong math symbols, i think most people would be annoyed if it took over a minute for their computer to boot and over fifteen seconds for a program to launch
 
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Frederica Bernkastel said:
Using CLI isn't even required. I was able to replace Windows 10 on a laptop for a family member of mine, and they never really had problems with KDE. The average person who browses the internet doesn't need much out of Linux.
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This is also true, after being frustrated with having to constantly fix my grandmas win10 installation I changed her over to mint. She likes it better and actually hasn't been able to break it yet even though it was maybe 2 years ago!
 
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Is there a way to config emacs to enter wdired instead of dired by default? I don't think I ever used the directory editor and not wanted to edit the directory. But then, what I am currently doing is stripping extra chars from the name (Why is the filename for almost all songs I download "<Artist> - <Album> - <Track Id> <Song>"?? All of that is in the metadata...) So maybe I could just write a script that looks for the last pattern of "- \d\d " on a given line and strip it and everything before it.

Edit: for the regex renaming thing, there already exists a rename command, so that's that lol.
 
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xXthrowawayaccountXx said:
If you actually want to draw or edit just use krita.
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Krita is late stage homosexual and overrated. I use Fire Alpaca and Paint.net to draw and Gimp to edit.

I don't even want to defend Gimp because it is the typical GNU UI/UX autism that I fucking hate about linux and FOSS projects like it, Krita, Inkscape, LMMS and Blender (well not anymore), but you give me no choice there broski. Gimp has a legit use esp when I tried out Linux for the first time I obviously couldn't install Fire Alpaca and Paint.net on it, so I used the factory default drawing app and it is powerful enough to be worth learning. Why do you bring up random weeks old comments anyways?
 
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xXthrowawayaccountXx said:
I'll let you in on a secret: no one gives a shit about bloat.
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my android tablet has 64gb of space, 23gb is taken up by "the os" (i.e Android and whatever preloaded app came with the damn thing that you don't want and can't uninstall.)
thats bloat, shit you don't want, that you can't remove, taking up space. every main stream device I've dealt with has bloat. (removable or not)
it does slow shit down, if you're trying to get work done, having to wait 15 seconds each time you open a new program adds up. even your argument for getting more storage is laughably stupid.
if bloat didn't exist, you'd be able to store more of what YOU want and not have to pay an extra $50 for more storage that should've been accessible to in the first place.
every person I've every talked to about this, hates bloat. every one. i don't care if i get top hatted, go stick a large wooden spike up your arse and die on it.
 
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