The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

analrapist said:
As of Debian 12 Bookworm, this is unnecessary, as non-free-firmware--forked off the old non-free--is now included in the base install.

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I think you still have to install Nvidia drivers manually? Or it's been a while since I used Debian.
 
i noticed on openmandriva the proprietary driver would work with things like the gpu/117hd plugins in runelite but the open driver did not.
open driver otherwise worked about as well as proprietary driver in all the stuff i was doing, with some quirks here and there.
i hope nvidia's actually onboard with their open kmods. you can tell their drivers have gotten no love from linux devs and some distros like fedora and opensuse are openly hostile towards nvidia and refuse to support them well.
once you find a distro that works nvidia isnt so bad but it really makes me rethink recommending linux to new users that aren't willing to put in the effort like i am. the few people i talk to now that are new linux users have nvidia gpus and they've run into way more problems than i have, but they run legacy cards pre-turing that won't get the open kmods.
 
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Sad- it appears that OBS have cucked to the Poettring-lovers at Fedora.
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They claim that the SDK version has been bumped to the new one that fixes the regressions they've experienced. Not bad news for the users. In related news, Appimage has been getting a bit of slow progress as well. Some guy's working on a package manager for it with some bwrap integration and his portable program curation page lists over 2000 Appimages now.
 
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GNU Abyss said:
They claim that the SDK version has been bumped to the new one that fixes the regressions they've experienced. Not bad news for the users. In related news, Appimage has been getting a bit of slow progress as well. Some guy's working on a package manager for it with some bwrap integration and his portable program curation page lists over 2000 Appimages now.
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The idea of a 'package manager' for these static binaries with extra steps is so funny. It just illustrates how far back things have declined since Loki Games was releasing ports of Civ 2 or Alpha Centauri and spergs were developing tools to patch them to use the system version of libx11 to increase performance.
 
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dec05eba said:
I dont get it, what type of issues did people have? I used nvidia on linux from 2012 to 2023 and it was working well even back then. It was fine as long as you didn't use wayland meme (or a laptop with switchable graphics with an nvidia gpu). I have an amd gpu right now (rx 7800xt) and even my cursor lags when I move it around and my system randomly freezes with a gpu driver bug or the system crashes (all which have been reported as amd issues for years). Most of these amd issues are related to terrible gpu power management/scheduling design in amd gpus.
AV1 video encoding on amd gpus even has a hardware issue that cant be fixed in the gpu driver (it adds black bars at the bottom/side depending on the video resolution).
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My experience with Nvidia and Linux back then was my developer workstation and engineering laptop I had when I worked at a research lab, and this was in the early 2010s time frame and running CentOS 6 on them. Running system updates with kernel updates would kill the driver and I would have to reinstall the driver through a TTY session because Xdesktop wouldn't work. Minor hassle looking back but it did cement myself in the AMD camp for nearly a decade because my home machine ran CentOS 6 with an AMD card and the kernel updates would kill the driver but leave X working, albeit not smoothly. Other than kernel updates, the driver worked fine. I think with non-enterprise distros, the driver wouldn't work as well and I can't comment on that because I had AMD at home (plus the only distro hopping I did was to Fedora) and the Ubuntu boxes we had contained AMD cards. I remember people complaining on Ars Technica about lack of Wayland support back then but I didn't give a shit because X worked fine for what I was doing.

Nvidia had their business reasons to change their attitude because CUDA was facing competition from the industry consortium of OpenCL. If the distro support was limited for Nvidia cards, then OpenCL was going to eat CUDA's user share.
 
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De_Generic said:
Serious question, why not just use dd? Does Ventoy use anything else than dd for writing bits of data to the disk?

I love DWM, I love having to fuck around with manually installing 100+ patches just for the Suckless terminal to STILL lose the text after scrolling back up again and ocasionally crash while resizing VirtualBox.

>Just patch it yourself
Cool I don't have time for that currently
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St-flexipatch is an easy way to have at with everything you want. https://github.com/bakkeby/st-flexipatch

you can use the tool tool they made flexipatch finalizer, to remove all the extra stuff once you have it how you want it.

Or you could choose the even easier route of using an st fork. Like luke smith's, or one of the many, many, others that are already out there, and probably have everything you would want to do patched in already. Though the reason flexipatch is good, is they have a couple patches specifically made to deal with the text getting erased when the terminal is resized. There is one on the suckless site, but st-flexipatch has that, but I believe a little modified, and another that goes with it.

I probably would just use xterm, but xterm and urxvt always seem like they are missing the thing's I do want, or they behave in way's that are weird to me. It could just be all the legacy stuff those are built around, that I just don't understand. I just feel a lot more comfortable using st for a lightweight terminal.
 
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An interesting surprise: PewDiePie (former YouTuber and current filthy weeb) uses Linux. This information, announced via a NordVPN sponsorship.
Specifically, he uses Linux Mint.
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According to him:
Loving it so far, the fact that you can game on Linux now is amazing. Literally no point in using window
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Fellow penguin bros, is it... The Year of the Linux Desktop?
 
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Well here you go. If you care about what the people that make your distro believe Debian does look like they're coming out and saying they don't have a CoC. Which basically sums up the video. They are saying basically the same thing as open mandriva. They don't care about your politics, and they don't have a crazy CoC.

I agree with the thought. Still isn't going to be enough for me to actually use it tbh. I also like having a choice of init system. I've already explained why I just don't use Debian. But for people that don't have any issues already running Debian. Seems like a good choice. Just make sure what you use doesn't rely on systemd.
 
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Belisarius Cawl said:
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I honestly had no idea what Eric S Raymond looked like before seeing this photo, apart from that he's a middle aged white guy, but I recognized the tone of the sentence having read one or two of his short form articles and yup, that is indeed what he looks like.
 
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I honestly had no idea what Eric S Raymond looked like before seeing this photo, apart from that he's a middle aged white guy, but I recognized the tone of the sentence having read one or two of his short form articles and yup, that is indeed what he looks like.
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Short on patience and quick to temper, ESR is known to be a harsh master to the millions he holds as employees in his Gas Barony. Public executions and gas chambers are a standard part of his disciplinary model, and ESR tries to push as much of it as he can on those he doesn't (yet) control.
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The ESR Match.com profile is pretty good too:
Chewing on his tongue and squinting, Eric pushed his mind into overdrive and produced a beauty of a riddle on the spot:
Windeth I towarde the skye
I haveth eye but blinde am I
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Pleased with his linguistic talents, undoubtedly matched by no one, Eric then asked his potential love-conquest:
Can you guess the answer to that? In case you can not, the correct answer is "my erect penis." I hope you enjoyed that; I do this sort of thing all the time.
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Eric exhaled slowly and rubbed his belly. It was growling and no doubt wanted its nightly bottle of Jägermeister. He decided to finish up the email in anticipation of the coming alcoholic stupor.
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