The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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The ESR Match.com profile is pretty good too:

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For whatever reason the author took down some of his articles and you have to go digging in the Wayback Machine to recover them. Ex:
A few hours ago, I learned that I am now (at least in theory) absurdly gay.

I was at my machine, my 386 with 4 megs of RAM running Linux, masturbating to pictures of RMS, when I got an email congratulating me on the success of VA Linux Systems IPO. I was working on my latest small project -- a clever little text parser that takes input from the user and puts it in a little cartoon-style word balloon coming out of a giant, erect ASCII penis's bulging head! Hahaha! It's called COCKSAY.
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Speaking of Linux:
[A Linux developer nicknamed "Rasputin"] cried out like a little girl in ecstasy. “Oh god, I'd been waiting for that all night! This party fuckin' roxorz my coxor!”

Now it was my turn, it seemed, as all four started tearing my pants down. Chunks of vomit-piss-semen fell on my back and soaked through my t-shirt. It was revolting. I shuddered as I felt their cold, clammy hands in my ass-crack and a very indelicate reacharound on my ball-sack. At this point I had no idea who was doing what, and I was just praying that I'd wake up and realize I was drunk and dreaming.

Just then I heard the door boom open and my boss's voice fill the air. The stall door was open and he saw right away the turgid scene transpiring in front of him. His voice was immediately followed by two others, XML developers I knew, and they flew into the stall as best they could and began a fight to save my asshole. The poor guy underneath me had just woken up and started struggling and the extra weight of eight other bodies in the stall must have been suffocating.

“It'll be all right, buddy,” I said to him.

Within thirty seconds I was to my feet and was delivering the most heart-felt kicks to the guts of the rapist faggot Linux coders. Between me, my boss, and the two XML developers, we had the gang of four knocked out in a sloppy, excrement-filled pile of hairy body.
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LMAO "rapist faggot Linux coders"
 
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Belisarius Cawl said:
For whatever reason the author took down some of his articles and you have to go digging in the Wayback Machine to recover them. Ex:
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Probably because claiming ESR is an AIDS-ridden rapist could, in theory, be considered a little defamatory. Great stuff though.
 
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Probably because claiming ESR is an AIDS-ridden rapist could, in theory, be considered a little defamatory.
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I was imagining that was the case but imagine the legal proceedings if it actually went to court
Eric began shitting the largest turd Linus had ever seen in his life. It was a reddish brown clay color with streaks of blood and mucus. It slipped from Eric's ass with ease even though it was already nearing a foot long and had to be as big around as Eric's wrists, which were straining to hold his ass-cheeks apart.

"Oh my god," Eric cried as the last of the dark beast left his ass. He turned to look at Linus and saw him against the wall, eyes rolled back in his head, with the turd halfway down his throat. He was convulsing, trying to breathe—or was he trying to inhale it? Eric watched in a mixture of shock and arousal for a second before stepping toward the beaten Linux developer.

"No you don't, not today, Linus," Eric said as he kicked Linus in the diaphragm with his good foot. "No suffocating yourself so you can get out of being my sex slave. No siree bob!"

Linus vomited the turd back up along with dinner from earlier. His hot wet sick smelled like an untended portable toilet that had seen use during an attack of dysentery. Linus was sobbing now between coughs, wishing for more than anything to die.

"Okay, Linus, you're done for now," Eric said. "Get upstairs and modify my privileges in the Linux Git server."

Linus looked at Eric with weary eyes. After days of shit and rape and Linux, he was finally broken. He would give Eric what he had been after for so long and had finally earned by pooping in Linus's mouth: root privileges on the Git server that maintained the Linux kernel source code.
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"Days of shit and rape and Linux"
 
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PotatoInMyAss said:
Best part about Suckless is that they trigger the right people

bUt ThEy want mE dEaD

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This is the standard link that gets posted by the soy brigade when suckless gets mentioned. Key points on why they are Nazis:
Tepid posts by KF standards, but they are also German. Verboten, death by rainbow brigade.
 
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GNU Abyss said:
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that is unquestionably a legitimate death threat

and I support it being made and I support it being carried out
Belisarius Cawl said:
I was imagining that was the case but imagine the legal proceedings if it actually went to court

"Days of shit and rape and Linux"
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It makes me so happy that Trollaxor deliberately referred to the 'Colt 1991A1' (which I'm aware is some shitty Series 80 run that noone bought) just to make gunspergs angry and refused to give it up for years.
 
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GNU Abyss said:
This is the standard link that gets posted by the soy brigade when suckless gets mentioned. Key points on why they are Nazis:
Tepid posts by KF standards, but they are also German. Verboten, death by rainbow brigade.
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Damn. I was expecting something really juicy. Nope just some old tired talking points about torches and "nazi" symbolism.
 
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Sperg Coalition said:
I would have never thought that PewDiePie of all people would start using Linux... Not bad at all I say.
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That can't be an easy switch for him, Linux has no good video editors. Either he completely trusts his editor, or he’s got a Mac he’s really working with.
 
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Susanna said:
That can't be an easy switch for him, Linux has no good video editors. Either he completely trusts his editor, or he’s got a Mac he’s really working with.
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James Lee recently made an entire video about how he moved his entire workflow over to non-Adobe software, that has also let him move to Linux as all of his new tools run natively on there so he no longer had a reason to stay on Windows.
Personally, I'm trying to do more and more occasional video editing on Resolve to ditch Premiere Pro, filling out a contact form with a bunch of garbage is much more convenient than pirating an invasive heap of shit. Resolve absolutely has the potential to replace Adobe tools like Premiere Pro and After Effects, there's basically nothing it has to offer in the paid version that 99% of people would need, and a modern PC will be able to handle 1080p/1440p editing just fine.

Proton already handles 99% of video games, Resolve is a solid alternative, so it must've been a piss easy switch for him given that's all he does with his computer, that and web browsing which obviously just works OOTB on Mint.
 
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You know, I never actually thought I'd ever look at Linux for home use, for the longest time, it was that OS for autists and people who work with computers to me, seeing it gain some pretty good mainstream rep like this is realy interesting.
To be entirely honest, I probably WOULD have sucked it up and got Windows 11 if it didn't pop up on my screen while I was busy on 10 to announce my computer couldn't upgrade to it. Even with people later going "Nooo, the actually lowered the requirements, and you actually can upgrade to it if you do this and that and this-" I realized I didn't have, nor want to jump through hoops just to go crawling back to them after they basically told me to fuck off.
 
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Marvin said:
Lol I used to enjoy the old Everyone Loves Eric S Raymond webcomic.
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Today I learnt that Linus wrote git so that people wouldn't call him a fag in a webcomic.

EDIT: I also learnt that ESR's official blog is rife with hidden links to webcam porn sites. Not even any referral codes, someone probably guessed his WordPress password was 'esradmin'
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Does anyone know what people mean when they say that Arch Linux can be difficult to "maintain"? I've seen this around sometimes as something that could dissuade a person curious about using Arch and I've never understood it. All I have to do to "maintain" my Arch install is to just run Sudo pacman -Syu, yay -yu, and Flatpak upgrade for my Flatpak software. It's that easy and I don't get why I see this comment. Is it some older quality about Arch that it was difficult to maintain?
 
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Does anyone know what people mean when they say that Arch Linux can be difficult to "maintain"? I've seen this around sometimes as something that could dissuade a person curious about using Arch and I've never understood it. All I have to do to "maintain" my Arch install is to just run Sudo pacman -Syu, yay -yu, and Flatpak upgrade for my Flatpak software. It's that easy and I don't get why I see this comment. Is it some older quality about Arch that it was difficult to maintain?
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I dunno man on Mint I just click click enter my password and boom.
 
Ryei said:
Does anyone know what people mean when they say that Arch Linux can be difficult to "maintain"? I've seen this around sometimes as something that could dissuade a person curious about using Arch and I've never understood it. All I have to do to "maintain" my Arch install is to just run Sudo pacman -Syu, yay -yu, and Flatpak upgrade for my Flatpak software. It's that easy and I don't get why I see this comment. Is it some older quality about Arch that it was difficult to maintain?
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It's almost certainly just that you have to open a terminal to do those things, rather than having an "Ubuntu Store" or whatever do it for you. Arch is one of the easier distros to live with, the userbase is huge so there are lots of guides, scripts, and utilities available, and it even has a proper installer these days. Distros like Fedora are more newbie accessible since they don't expect you to either know or be able to look up which commands or config files do what, but Arch is absolutely a decent newbie distro if you're willing to learn. My first Linux was Arch and I never struggled with it.
 
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Ryei said:
Does anyone know what people mean when they say that Arch Linux can be difficult to "maintain"? I've seen this around sometimes as something that could dissuade a person curious about using Arch and I've never understood it. All I have to do to "maintain" my Arch install is to just run Sudo pacman -Syu, yay -yu, and Flatpak upgrade for my Flatpak software. It's that easy and I don't get why I see this comment. Is it some older quality about Arch that it was difficult to maintain?
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It really isn't that difficult, the most you'd need to do is to look out for any manual intervention updates and act on them when you need to. System breakages are super uncommon too unless you yourself were screwing with something deeper in the system that you weren't supposed to. Nowadays you can run and maintain Arch just as well as Debian without any issues.
 
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Belisarius Cawl said:
Speaking of Linux:
https://www.trollaxor.com/2001/12/the-linux-party.htm
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Little known backstory of drew devault. Before he went on to start working on sway. (He was the one giving the enthusiastic blowjob)

@Susanna
Arch is one of the easier distros to live with, the userbase is huge so there are lots of guides, scripts, and utilities available, and it even has a proper installer these days. Distros like Fedora are more newbie accessible since they don't expect you to either know or be able to look up which commands or config files do what, but Arch is absolutely a decent newbie distro if you're willing to learn
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One thing I like about arch, void, Gentoo, and in general distros that let you have a minimal install by default is, if you use the terminal, and end up actually messing around in places like /etc for your setup. Debian, Ubuntu, really any of the Debian based distros built around GUI's, as well as fedora from what I remember are a cluttered mess. Even with the. Barest install you can pull off are just jammed with a bunch of files, a bunch of extra unneeded stuff. Likely in the name of making it work out of the box for as many different situations as possible.

The problem I have with it, is it makes actually trouble shooting a bit more like finding a needle in a haystack. It's a lot easier if you know what's there, because you intentionally installed it. At least that's the way I prefer it. Its a lot less mental overhead.
 
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Ryei said:
Does anyone know what people mean when they say that Arch Linux can be difficult to "maintain"? I've seen this around sometimes as something that could dissuade a person curious about using Arch and I've never understood it. All I have to do to "maintain" my Arch install is to just run Sudo pacman -Syu, yay -yu, and Flatpak upgrade for my Flatpak software. It's that easy and I don't get why I see this comment. Is it some older quality about Arch that it was difficult to maintain?
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Every issue I've ever had with Arch was because I'm retarded and couldn't leave a working system alone. These days, any time I have to do a clean installation, I just run archinstall, pick the options I want, and add the packages I know I use regularly, namely Libreoffice. And then curse, because I forgot to add my secondary drives to fstab.
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I was imagining that was the case but imagine the legal proceedings if it actually went to court

"Days of shit and rape and Linux"
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What a fucking time I picked to check this thread.
 
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Ryei said:
All I have to do to "maintain" my Arch install is to just run
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Three separate update systems is exactly the kind of "high maintenance" that others kvetch about. It's not that bad, but it's really getting antiquated. Even Debian's extrepo system has eclipsed the Pacman/AUR combo now. There are folks who like the Arch/AUR distinction, but it's not fundamentally good, it's fundamentally overcomplicated for something that needs reliability like a package manager. I moved away from Arch because I was building too many of my own packages. Went back to Debian Bookworm because the few packages I still had to build were less headaches because no issues with rolling release dependencies. Ended up on Gentoo because I don't mind building my own packages, but I want them properly managed by my package manager when I do. I found AUR miserable for this kind of thing.

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One thing I like about arch, void, Gentoo, and in general distros that let you have a minimal install by default is, if you use the terminal, and end up actually messing around in places like /etc for your setup. Debian, Ubuntu, really any of the Debian based distros built around GUI's, as well as fedora from what I remember are a cluttered mess.
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Again, just a minor design difference. Arch and Gentoo tend to ship with what upstream has, Debian tries to add "universal" configuration stuff.

Distro differences grow less and less substantial with each passing year; the only complicating factor is the corporate Linux world trying to embrace, extend, and extinguish. I've had substantial self-destruction on every distro I've run, but this grows substantially less possible each year.
 
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