The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

My Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 11e arrived. It has the old Thinkpad logo and no branding despite being a tablet laptop like the Yoga line. It was like $94 and is touchscreen. It had some uefi boot protection so I installed Fedora like 4 times and the boot menu just kept showing the windows boot manager lol. I then had to muck around in the bios settings until I could remove it. Can confirm GNOME actually works if you use a touchscreen/trackpad but it's still just a poor man's MacOS with even less customization. I also wish there was a tiling window manager like stage manager on GNOME since it's a nice on MacOS. As a Mac fag id still probably stick with KDE or any other DE or i3 or some shit on a normal ass PC idk how anyone uses GNOME without a track pad lol. Even on Mac Mini's and iMacs I just get the stand alone track pad lol.

I ended up going with normal fedora and not bluefin just because the Fedora Atomic system is not mature enough. I think a lot of the ideas its doing have been shown to work in MacOS (like having all my command line tools installed to one opt/homebrew folder I can just nuke if things go wrong is cool) but the ecosystem isn't built around it. Theoretically Linux could do the MacOS stuff better than Apple. Flatpaks are actually containerized and dont less trash in ~/application support and ~/library like .apps do, and the KDE/GNOME stores actually have apps in them since they dont have insane anti developer policies like the Mac App Store. It's just that when an App has no flatpack, app image, or cant be built from source easily. You have to use distobox which just ends up breaking anytime a system d change happens.

Also the guy behind universal blue Jorge whatever is obnoxious retard. People dont use ChromeOS over Linux because "it's so stable" they use it because chomebooks are cheap POS which have like 4gb of ram and are hard to install any OS on. Plus most people don't even know what linux is. Side note Google jews out so hard on Chromebooks. People just let it slide because they are "cheap" but it doesn't change the fact a chomebook 5 years ago was like $250 for 4gb of ram 64gb of storage and a Chromebook today is like $250 for 4gb of ram 128gb of storage. All just so Google can keep pumping out e-waste that forces you to use cloud storage and you need to manually swap wires around and do stupid firmware flashing shit just to get mx linux on it.

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GoodWinSon said:
Windows XP and 7 were excellent operating systems. Mint is great, it reminds me a lot of Win7.
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You can skin KDE to look like win 7. I used to have mine themed to Windows Longhorn
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Outer Space Traveller said:
Code...
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BERG. (Then again, the photo of a mountain is there, so codeberg may be "codehill").

"HAYTURD-ED", fuck off. I hate how every company is against "hate". Are they against the hatred of what is evil? No, they aren't. So they should STFU.
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It's called ((Codeberg))) for a reason. Bunkertroons run that shit hole.
 
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Cool kitties club said:
Also the guy behind universal blue Jorge whatever is obnoxious retard.
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I agree the guy is a faggot.

I don't like the atomic systems for completely different reasons than you though. Well it sounds like you do like them, but don't think they're ready.

I think they're ready to use now. I just think it's absolutely a worse way to run an os than just the normal Linux way. Ads unnecessary complication, makes everything harder than just the normal way you install things on Linux.

I have a hard time thinking of real benifits to it. That some normie using Ubuntu or mint would get from an atomic distro.
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
I just think it's absolutely a worse way to run an os than just the normal Linux way. Ads unnecessary complication, makes everything harder than just the normal way you install things on Linux.
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Id rather have everything be flatpaks then having normal ass linux package management where stuff is just everywhere and every app has its own unique special place to drop a config file. You can install anything you want via distrobox but the issue is distrobox doesn't consistently work. I just come from an environment were I learned to use Linux on enterprise machines without root access so im just used to containerized solutions like conda rather than full system package managers, but I understand its a preference thing. Its also why I hate Jorge acting like traditional package manager setups need to be replaced with atomic systems.
 
Just promote competent and sane maintenance that isn't a hodgepodge of different package managers with scope creep and read-only roots.

RPM-Ostree has a metric ton of utilities nobody uses and what little documentation available is horribly inconsistent, an absolute black box of bullshit.

Atomic is cope for "let's solve the issue of retarded package manager designs by replacing every bone and organ in a baby's body", or turning package management into another systemd level mess.
 
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Frederica Bernkastel said:
It's called ((Codeberg))) for a reason. Bunkertroons run that shit hole.
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IMOGINE MOY SHAWK - when you have evil people standing against hatred.

This would be akin to having Sodom and Gomorrah being "Love is Love", "Sodom against hate". Yeah, real good record. I know I'm exaggerating, yet these are the people who truly believe in crap like "Right side of history ™️ "
 
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I've never used Rust before. Could someone explain to me what technical advantages Rust have over C? What's the justification for pushing it into linux?
 
To any windows and linux crossbooters; is it worth buying a new harddrive to crossboot or can i just allocate space on my SSD/Hard drive im running windows on now? This might be a dumb question, i literally just started messing with linux like a month ago so spare me.
 
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Switzing said:
To any windows and linux crossbooters; is it worth buying a new harddrive to crossboot or can i just allocate space on my SSD/Hard drive im running windows on now? This might be a dumb question, i literally just started messing with linux like a month ago so spare me.
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No need for a separate drive. Pretty much every Linux installer will help you resize partitions and make a little niche for Linux to live in. 64GB is a LOT of space for Linux, and you can set it up to save files in the Windows partition, so you can economize on how much HDD is spent on Linux.
 
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To any windows and linux crossbooters; is it worth buying a new harddrive to crossboot or can i just allocate space on my SSD/Hard drive im running windows on now? This might be a dumb question, i literally just started messing with linux like a month ago so spare me.
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It definitely has been for me. I'm still new to Linux and having not only a separate drive for OS but also for Timeshift snapshots has made me feel a lot safer about risking breaking it to learn it properly.
 
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