The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Aidan said:
I've never even heard of micro. You use nano or vim as defaults. Those are your only choices until you grow up and use GNU Emacs.

GNU less ps vim also supports mouse scroll
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It won't let me Ctrl+_ though, and exiting vim is tedious when switching between modes. Emacs nearly made me fail a course once so I have Emacs trauma.
 
Nothing Is Written said:
It won't let me Ctrl+_ though, and exiting vim is tedious when switching between modes. Emacs nearly made me fail a course once so I have Emacs trauma.
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You could macro that and exiting is mindless. If you learned vim you'd realize it's not that bad but I get it seems unintuitive initially, Emacs is genuinely insane, I could never get into the default keybinds and I tried.
gg in vim to jump to a line. gg30 to jump to line 30.
 
Aidan said:
You could macro that and exiting is mindless. If you learned vim you'd realize it's not that bad but I get it seems unintuitive initially, Emacs is genuinely insane, I could never get into the default keybinds and I tried.
gg in vim to jump to a line. gg30 to jump to line 30.
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I suppose I can download the vim-motions plugin for vscode to begin with. I do like nVim, and I'm a sucker for ricing.

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Like... Mac OS X?
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Or windows, when you think about it. What do they think mounting a usb to a drive letter is, if not a mount point? It's just a different way of presenting the same information.

All the problems people have with linux boil down to "it doesn't work exactly the way I'm used to", which is just silly. The transition from 3.11 to 95 (or NT 3.5 to NT 4), swapping program manager for explorer/start menu, was a much greater culture shock for most people and caused no end of complaint at the time. People given a demo of a KDE desktop and told it's a new version of windows are usually very positive about it. In most cases, all they'll use it for is opening a browser anyway.

Anyhoo...

In an entirely unrelated thought: never try to mount an NFS share into a k3s deployment when that share is shared from the same machine hosting the pod that mounts the mount. It gets exciting.
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
Is this the mac and windows thread?
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Every OS thread is for every OS.
Nothing Is Written said:
I suppose I can download the vim-motions plugin for vscode to begin with. I do like nVim, and I'm a sucker for ricing.

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Whenever I have to use vscode I use the VSCodeVim plugin and it's close enough. Back to your original point about a default editor and jumping to specific lines though, vscode is pretty heavy for that. Any text editor worth a damn can do that, even less can do it by typing the line number and g. For example, 30g to jump to line 30.
 
Nothing Is Written said:
you'll end up with hundreds of dot files, configs for things you've tried once and forgotten, and in the end the ecosystem is hostile
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Ah, so just like my Windows install after I bumblefucked with various bullshit, leaving a trail of dead folders, files and registry keys that linger around and do fuck-all? That's just par for the course with operating systems, uninstallers aren't as good at cleaning up after the program as they should be.
Nothing Is Written said:
"advanced user" in Windows
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Oh fuck off with your high horse quotation marks. People who act like Windows is a baby box where you can't do anything are the same type of people that act like Linux is an OS that you have to always use a command line for which is really difficult. Dunning-Kruger retards that didn't spend the time to learn the OS thoroughly that start spewing opinionated bullshit online once they hit a wall and get angry at their own skill issue.

For the average user, Linux Mint is just like Windows 11. The average user does fuck-all on their computers, they launch their web browser, maybe write some documents and that's it. Most people don't even use Pivot Tables in Excel so LibreOffice will be sufficient for them. Give them Firefox and they won't care as long as it launches websites, which Firefox does. Oh wait, Mint comes pre-installed with both, and by default it's less asinine to use than Windows 11, so it'll be a major step-up for them.
YoRHa No. 2 Type B said:
The license cost is a bit steep in my opinion
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The ridiculous pricing of DOpus is the sole reason I don't want to give it a try. This sort of pricing segmentation is a gigantic red flag and I don't care if DOpus can give me some sloppy toppy on the side of file management, they can get fucked by a kangaroo for this type of fuckery on principle. Total Commander all the way. Solo dev from Switzerland, over 3 decades of development, same one time payment perpetual license that is backwards compatible all the way back to version 3.0 from 1996 that you can use on however many machines you want, and you don't have to pay for updates. Those are the types of devs you want to financially support, perfected Swiss precision. Not this Aussie cuntshit fuckery.
 
teriyakiburns said:
an entirely unrelated thought: never try to mount an NFS share into a k3s deployment when that share is shared from the same machine hosting the pod that mounts the mount. It gets exciting
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What exactly happens, does it get stuck in a mounting loop or something?
 
Aidan said:
Every OS thread is for every OS.
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This thread used to talk about Linux. It wasn't full of windows users that complain about Linux. Or people that use mac and windows comparing them. It was about the title of the thread. Linux, the autists choice of operating system.

If people like windows great good for them. Who actually cares about your opinion on why Linux will never be popular? before the thread was on topic. It wasn't a non stop gay argument comparing windows and Linux.

The people that were posting here 2 months ago. Will probably remember what I'm talking about. I don't care if people have retarded arguments. I'll take part in them. I'm tired of this thread being gay windows and Apple shit.
 
Aidan said:
I was shitposting because a lot of people crosspost in OS threads and it isn't unique to the Farms. Linux users have been particularly notorious for proselytizing for decades.
As they should.
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I mean. I probably agree but it would be gay for me to actually go, and do it.

Maybe if I really wanted to troll, and get responses I would do it. But at least at this point. My view is, I won't recommend Linux to anyone. But for the people that want to use it. I'll help them get acclimated or give them advice. IRL I have installed Linux mint on a few people's computers for them at this point. And, when/if they need help with anything I will show them what to do. But I never mention Linux even when I think it would be better for a certain person/situation.

Really surprisingly (I mean not too surprising for me, but maybe for some people). I've only had to help one of them once after doing the actual install. And that was a true non-computer using normie. That needed help enabling drm in their browser to watch Netflix (didn't know what drm even is, it's just a checkbox you have to click to enable it too) and they wanted me to let them automatically log in with no password, so I set that up for them. Otherwise no one has needed any help.
 
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I would actually strongly encourage discussions about Apple stuff, especially jailbreaking efforts. Damn fucking shame that the Asahi Linux dev was a disturbing manchild retard, any effort to liberate walled gardens is one worth supporting (with the caveat that the dev isn't a loony troon, which sadly, most of them are).
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
I never mention Linux even when I think it would be better for a certain person/situation.
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I do but more in real life when someone complains about Windows. I recommend they check out Linux Mint usually and then, like you, offer to help if they decide to install it and see how it goes. Everyone except gamers have minimal issue switching, gamers can't bear not playing certain games but they're also not addicted.

I've never seen a Mac user switch to anything and I get it, especially for people embedded in that ecosystem. There is a lot of overlap in Mac users who are comfortable in a Linux environment though.
Ferryman said:
I would actually strongly encourage discussions about Apple stuff, especially jailbreaking efforts. Damn fucking shame that the Asahi Linux dev was a disturbing manchild retard, any effort to liberate walled gardens is one worth supporting (with the caveat that the dev isn't a loony troon, which sadly, most of them are).
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There's a Mac thread, though. I never cared about Asahi Linux beyond "hey kinda neat." It's a hobby/enthusiast thing to do. A meme distro at best and now another example of why trannies are toxic and insane.
 
Aidan said:
There's a Mac thread, though. I never cared about Asahi Linux beyond "hey kinda neat." It's a hobby/enthusiast thing to do. A meme distro at best and now another example of why trannies are toxic and insane.
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Fair point, though to counter, Asahi Linux is a Linux distro, so I think it fits in both places. And yeah, sadly it is in a pretty dire state, but that's exactly why it should be getting talked about. Call me a FOSS idealist, but I will reiterate, anyone trying to FOSS captive hardware, from whole systems down to microcontroller firmware, are worth at least hearing out. Leave it to fucking trannies to ruin another thing I love.
 
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