The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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ToroidalBoat said:
I don't even know what the mystery data is, much less where it's saving to.
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check if clearing your browser data clears it or go to the directories in about:profiles and see if it's updating one of those files (probably cache or other site data)
 
Judge Dredd said:
Some don't want to learn. Fuck them.
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No. It's not fuck them, if they don't want to learn.

If they don't want to learn they are wasting THEIR time. And they might as well just turn back sooner than later. Because at some point for some reason. They will have to learn something new.

Even if they don't run into some weird edge case problem. They will have to learn, because Linux is fundamentally different than how windows works.

Snackbarism said:
What's the best out there these days worth trying for regular general usage and game playing too?
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Depends what you want. Linux mint is one of the easiest recommendations.
 
Just a brief aside, I dual boot both of my normal computers for werk reasons, and of all things, Apple Inc. is saving my ass with allowing me to use .local on Windows via bonjour, so rare apple W.
 
Snackbarism said:
I'm thinking about giving Linux another go given Microsoft's best attempts to force Windows 11 down peoples throats (last Linux usage was about a decade ago).

What's the best out there these days worth trying for regular general usage and game playing too?
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Try out some distros using virtual machines to find one you like. It might be that you can stick with the virtual machine for a week or month once you find a distro you like before doing a full install to your computer.
I recommend Mint for people going from Windows to Linux. EndeavourOS is the best Arch distro to hop into without needing to learn much but you do software management through the terminal so it may be off-putting initially.
 
volatile puar said:
check if clearing your browser data clears it or go to the directories in about:profiles and see if it's updating one of those files (probably cache or other site data)
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I already disabled caching, forced medias to not be cached via private browsing (browser.privatebrowsing.forceMediaMemoryCache true), installed profile-sync-daemon, and even after all that, there's still that periodic mystery writing when I'm online. Dunno if it's really the drive or maybe RAM, but it seems it's drive. Free space doesn't change.

At least with all the steps I've taken -- like not having a tab of GMail open in not private browsing nor any YT tab open -- the mysterious writing has been greatly reduced.
 
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Akerman said:
In completely unrelated news, according to Phoronix, Steam usage on Linux reached a recent high of 2.69% in May. Arch Linux now makes up 10% of those Linux users. THE YEAR OF LORNIX IS HERE!!!!1 (it is not) I fully expect a Jeetahar video on this shortly. "Michaelsoft is TREMBLING, guys n gals". - In all seriousness, I am actually shocked at how CachyOS have made such strides among Linux users on Steam. Anyone here actually use it?
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I use it sometimes. I ended up going back to my Arch SSD today because CachyOS seems to have decided that my Steam gaymes would have no audio when my system is set to 5.1 surround,
I have the arch-gaming-meta package on my Arch system anyway so CachyOS is kinda useless to me.
As for the Steam survey, I wouldn't trust the results since it's opt-in.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
I already disabled caching, forced medias to not be cached via private browsing (browser.privatebrowsing.forceMediaMemoryCache true), installed profile-sync-daemon, and even after all that, there's still that periodic mystery writing when I'm online. Dunno if it's really the drive or maybe RAM, but it seems it's drive. Free space doesn't change.

At least with all the steps I've taken -- like not having a tab of GMail open in not private browsing nor any YT tab open -- the mysterious writing has been greatly reduced.
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You can keep track of what firefox does with your storage using fatrace. (sudo maybe) fatrace -ct -f "CW+" | grep ".mozilla" and it'll show you all the Change/New/Write operations pertaining to Firefox's antics. > mozillabullshit.log to keep the results for later.

From running this on my system, Youtube is saving site data to its sqlite db very often. More disturbingly, Glean (Firefox's telemetry engine) is still saving shit into its internal DB as well. Arkenfox profile or Tor Browser, it's still going. That aside, if you've done the profile-sync-daemon install correctly, all those file ops in the profile directory should be happening in /tmp on your RAM.
 
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Slav Power said:
I don't know why the status quo with Linux distros was to cut out an entire partition for it.
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Speed and stability. A file doesn't have to be contiguous so it has to do a lookup to see where the block is before it can write. In extreme memory pressure(in the good old days) there may not even be enough memory to look up the inode data to figure out where it can write. On a partition all you need is a block number and you can write there. Obviously things are better now than 1.2.13
 
Herman Throwaway said:
Linux is just a clone of Minix
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The source for "linux is a minix clone" is the retarded "samizdat" hit-piece, which produced during the whole SCO fiasco in an attempt to bolster the claim that Linux was actually stolen from SCO Unix... somehow. Tanenbaum, who wrote minix, is on record saying this entire claim is bullshit. Anyone who believes otherwise should have their intelligence and judgement questioned, because just looking at the design of the two kernels (minix is a microkernel, linux definitely is not) would show it to be a complete and utter lie.
 
teriyakiburns said:
Anyone who believes otherwise should have their intelligence and judgement questioned, because just looking at the design of the two kernels (minix is a microkernel, linux definitely is not) would show it to be a complete and utter lie.
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Yeah, didn't Tanenbaum and Torvalds famously have some massive disagreement/debate over this? How can anyone believe it's a direct clone? I tried understanding their arguments in this debate and I gave up, shit's way too nerdy for me. It's obvious they have fundamental disagreements on core aspects of operating systems, though.
 
Akerman said:
Yeah, didn't Tanenbaum and Torvalds famously have some massive disagreement/debate over this? How can anyone believe it's a direct clone? I tried understanding their arguments in this debate and I gave up, shit's way too nerdy for me. It's obvious they have fundamental disagreements on core aspects of operating systems, though.
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People at the time minix started thought microkernels were going to be the next big thing. And monolithic kernels were outdated.

Gnu Hurd was going to be a microkernel also. Looks like it didn't work out as well for the microkernel people.
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
People at the time minix started thought microkernels were going to be the next big thing. And monolithic kernels were outdated.

Gnu Hurd was going to be a microkernel also. Looks like it didn't work out as well for the microkernel people.
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Unix was an academic project and moving to a microkernel architecture made sense for that project. In the end you could argue microkernels won because NT and Darwin both use a microkernel inspired arch with some tweaks to be more flexible.
 
Betonhaus said:
QNX was a microkernel, right? Shame it was bought out by BlackBerry which promptly collapsed.
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Yes it is. QNX is still around, and still made by Blackberry.
You may not see it but it runs many embedded systems, it especially seems to be popular in cars.
I read somewhere that all the major car brands except for Tesla use QNX for their infotainment screens, so its far from dead.
 
Judge Dredd said:
Linux users seem to forget that the challenge was to use Linux with only the resources a normie would have access too, and document the experience. And to a new user, even one who works with computers, it looks like a bunch of word vomit, and when he googled the error, the solution he was told to use to type "do as I say", which uninstalled his desktop. At what point did he do something unreasonable?
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Linus isn't a 'normie'. He's subnormal. He's a retarded nigger who should be ritually slaughtered for the good of the species.
 
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