The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Betonhaus]

I gave my room mate a linux tour. I dont think he will use it but he is also dreading windows 11.

I would like to thank microsoft for forcing me to use linux

Just do what I did and get him to try it for a week or a month or so and if he hates it he can go back. Just replace libreoffice with onlyoffice and maybe install Edge if he uses it

 

[Croco]

Just do what I did and get him to try it for a week or a month or so and if he hates it he can go back. Just replace libreoffice with onlyoffice and maybe install Edge if he uses it

People that use the operating system like Windows should just use Windows. If you use KDE plasma or Gnome, or whatever bloated shit DE then why bother. If you embrace bash/zsh to manage your system then yes Gunew + Linux is much more fun. Basically if you use the mouse then fuck off back to microsoft.

 

[HalHalliday]

staggering improvements

>make a custom laptop with a trackball (finally someone has a brain)
>put it in front of the keyboard
Can someone please make a laptop with a trackball that isn't in front of the fucking keyboard? Do none of these niggers type?

Otherwise, it's good to see someone is at least trying to make a decent laptop without all the hardware fuckery.

 

[YoRHa No. 2 Type B]

If you use KDE plasma or Gnome, or whatever bloated shit DE then why bother.

>Most people want a desktop, with a full ecosystem of packages that integrates nicely, with all features working out of the box just like Windows
"Bloat!!!"

Basically if you use the mouse then fuck off back to microsoft.

This mindset is exactly why Linux users are seen by others as NEET losers who think they are better then everyone else because they use something like Arch. You are a walking stereotype, please go back to r/linux if you want to join the circlejerk of fuckhead Linux users who want to keep its use to "elite computer users only".

 

[Betonhaus]

>make a custom laptop with a trackball (finally someone has a brain)
>put it in front of the keyboard
Can someone please make a laptop with a trackball that isn't in front of the fucking keyboard? Do none of these niggers type?

Otherwise, it's good to see someone is at least trying to make a decent laptop without all the hardware fuckery.

...does anyone else make a laptop with a trackball in the past ten years? There's the thinkpad trackpoints that are awesome but that's different.

 

[Slav Power]

please go back to r/linux

Not even, he should fuck back to /g/ and keep ragebaiting there.

"Bloat!!!"

Yes, the /g/tard Dunning-Kruger types truly believe that if your OS is more than 1GB in size then it's "bloated", and they feel like doing everything in the command line makes them superior to everybody else. People with zero skills that adopt a terminal OS as a replacement for their lack of personality.

Meanwhile normal people just use ""bloated"" Windows, Mint, Fedora, and frankly, any OS that is preloaded with every library that assures you can run the software that you need to run to do your work on your computer, which is the entire point of an operating system. Besides, how many of you went back to a Windows-like DE after ricing it out with dwm/i3/hyprland or whatever the fuck? Ricing is fun, but by the end of the day you just want to use your computer instead of reinventing the wheel. A good keyboard oriented file manager and a keyboard launcher on a traditional desktop environment do more for productivity than debloatmaxxing and using TWM's.

 

[Hellwalker]

If you use KDE plasma or Gnome, or whatever bloated shit DE then why bother.

Basically if you use the mouse then fuck off back to microsoft.

You are a faggot.

 

[YoRHa No. 2 Type B]

Besides, how many of you went back to a Windows-like DE after ricing it out with dwm/i3/hyprland or whatever the fuck?

I concur, I moved back from bspwm to KDE after a year or so.
The only Linux users that seem to stick with tiling window managers really long term are the users who 100% match the "Arch Linux User" stereotypes.
Edit: Looks like the Arch fags came out in force and saw this post, you will never be real women and should go out and get a job.

 

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I concur, I moved back from bspwm to KDE after a year or so. I just wanted to get shit done without fucking with a config file all day.
The only Linux users that seem to stick with tiling window managers really long term are the users who 100% match the "Arch Linux User" stereotypes.

nah, just use i3 you silly nigger. customizing things or using KDE after KDE 3 is too much effort

 

[Ferryman]

>make a custom laptop with a trackball (finally someone has a brain)
>put it in front of the keyboard
Can someone please make a laptop with a trackball that isn't in front of the fucking keyboard? Do none of these niggers type?

Otherwise, it's good to see someone is at least trying to make a decent laptop without all the hardware fuckery.

AFAIK you can also get it with a trackpad built in or as a separate swappable module. Never used a trackball myself so that freedom of choice is a huge plus in my eyes.

The only Linux users that seem to stick with tiling window managers really long term are the users who 100% match the "Arch Linux User" stereotypes.

I feel called out. Jokes aside, the beauty of Linux is that there's something in it for everyone. Eternal September came and went more than 30 years ago, elitism nowadays makes us all poorer by driving people back to telemetry shitboxes.

 

[daffodils]

tiling window managers

On a laptop screen, I either want to view one window fullscreen or two windows side-by-side per workspace. Tiling is the quickest way to get there. Stacking WMs are designed for desktop computers with relatively large screens and a mouse. They aren't a natural fit anywhere else. Way too fiddly.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

I concur, I moved back from bspwm to KDE after a year or so. I just wanted to get shit done without fucking with a config file all day.
The only Linux users that seem to stick with tiling window managers really long term are the users who 100% match the "Arch Linux User" stereotypes.

why do you need to fuck with a config file all day to use bspwm? you can just copy the example config and use it basically like that. and be fine. install something to launch programs, and whatever else. its. not something you need to spend hours or days on. And if you do put the time into setting things up for what you actually plan to use it for. you can just save the config file(s) to a git repo or to some backup. and you literally never need to do it again.

 

[Ferryman]

Speaking of tiling WMs, I'm considering splurging on one of those huge 34" KVM switch integrated curved monitors. Been using one at work quite a bit and going back to a DELL P2312H at home makes the difference pretty jarring. Anyone got any suggestions?

 

[niggerjew]

is endeavourOS any good? a lot of people say to stay away from arch based distros and just use base arch if wanted, but the installation for that seems really gay and i didnt like the other non-arch distros that i've tried (ubuntu, mint, fedora)

 

[Hellwalker]

nah, just use i3 you silly nigger. customizing things or using KDE after KDE 3 is too much effort

I use KDE. I get shit done with it just like I did on Windows. It's not that big of a deal. There's nothing that is "too much effort", whatever that means.

I've spent my time customizing it but I've decided to just keep things simple and use the default shit with only a custom color scheme.

 

[Greg3659]

is endeavourOS any good? a lot of people say to stay away from arch based distros and just use base arch if wanted, but the installation for that seems really gay and i didnt like the other non-arch distros that i've tried (ubuntu, mint, fedora)

Should be good, seeing as it's basically Arch but with GUI installer. Base install will just make you waste a few hours of your life, you won't be missing much.

 

[Elysian]

Anyone who knew his history from pulseaudio

The buggiest most unreliable piece of shit ever.

I got to experience this first hand recently. Pulseaudio would randomly throw a tantrum and start using 100% of my RAM (and occasionally also killing the HDMI signal to my monitor as well, for some unfathomable reason). Luckily switching to Pipewire was really easy since the config files had already been written for you so all I had to do was change the extension on the end of them and then remove the Pulseaudio ones. I'm not sure if that's a Slackware thing or if all Linux distros make it that easy to do, but it was very convenient.

People that use the operating system like Windows should just use Windows. If you use KDE plasma or Gnome, or whatever bloated shit DE then why bother. If you embrace bash/zsh to manage your system then yes Gunew + Linux is much more fun. Basically if you use the mouse then fuck off back to microsoft.

Luv me XFCE deskbar, simple as.


And in other news, look what I got running! : DDDDDDDDDDD

 

[The Saltening]

People that use the operating system like Windows should just use Windows. If you use KDE plasma or Gnome, or whatever bloated shit DE then why bother. If you embrace bash/zsh to manage your system then yes Gunew + Linux is much more fun. Basically if you use the mouse then fuck off back to microsoft.

well excuse me for wanting to get away from windows spyware and forced ai submission. Even with KDE linux is too hard/much work for the average person. I have spent a combined 20+ hours trying to get features working that just work on windows.

That also leads me to a question. Why is linux so far behind for things like HDR? I understand why FSR4 isnt out yet but HDR? Hasn't windows had HDR for a long ass time now? HDR was in my windows settings minimum 5 years ago.

 

[Susanna]

well excuse me for wanting to get away from windows spyware and forced ai submission. Even with KDE linux is too hard/much work for the average person. I have spent a combined 20+ hours trying to get features working that just work on windows.

That also leads me to a question. Why is linux so far behind for things like HDR? I understand why FSR4 isnt out yet but HDR? Hasn't windows had HDR for a long ass time now? HDR was in my windows settings minimum 5 years ago.

HDR is predominantly a cinema thing, so TVs got it first. Consoles plug into TVs, so they got it. Since consoles have it, games started using it. Windows is the operating system people use on gaming computers, so it got it too.
Linux on the other hand is primarily developed by companies in the datacentre and server markets. Linux on desktop PCs is an afterthought, and Linux gaming is a minority within the desktop Linux minority, so things that are "nice but not necessary" fall very low on the priority list. X11 development is effectively deprecated and Wayland has had a very troubled start, so luxuries like HDR weren't a priority until recently.

 

[The Saltening]

HDR is predominantly a cinema thing, so TVs got it first. Consoles plug into TVs, so they got it. Since consoles have it, games started using it. Windows is the operating system people use on gaming computers, so it got it too.
Linux on the other hand is primarily developed by companies in the datacentre and server markets. Linux on desktop PCs is an afterthought, and Linux gaming is a minority within the desktop Linux minority, so things that are "nice but not necessary" fall very low on the priority list. X11 development is effectively deprecated and Wayland has had a very troubled start, so luxuries like HDR weren't a priority until recently.

oh okay. Yes this makes sense. Thank you for a clear and simple answer. I guess I didn't really think of it that way.