The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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A pig by Jove! said:
Just rename the thread to SystemD and Wayland Seething General at this point, fucking hell.
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I’ll stop hating Wayland when lazy dicklickers stop using Xwayland’s low performance bullshit as a crutch and actually write native
 
What's the best Linux distro to run on an ARM laptop, if the first choices were Linux Mint and Solus?
 
Betonhaus said:
What's the best Linux distro to run on an ARM laptop, if the first choices were Linux Mint and Solus?
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Like he said it varies depending on hardware. If you have Apple silicon, I think the drivers are in other distros, but you'd be best off with Asahi (although you would probably be better off just using MacOS). In general Fedora or Armbian would probably be the best.
 
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"Printer drivers are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS"
lol wtf is this?

WHAT DOES CUPS EXIST FOR IF NOT TO USE PRINTER DRIVERS

If I wanted to use HP Smart Web Printing with my local printer I WOULDN'T NEED CUPS
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Looks like Apple is helping to Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

Even better, here's some crap you can use instead, it's in the snap store.
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YoRHa No. 2 Type B said:
Would it even be possible, even with unlimited time and effort?
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If your question allows infinity, the answer is yes. Would it be worth it to dedicate the time it would take is the real question. I actually think it would be. I don't want to hate Windows. I want it to be good, because the market leader is what drives everyone else to improve. As it stands, MacOS and Linux are just better experiences for all the purposes I've ever used them for. The only thing carrying Windows right now is inertia, but inertia runs out, no matter how much you started with.
 
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"Printer drivers are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS"
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Well that's a problem.
My current printer is a 20 year old Brother laser printer that works flawlessly, does need its own drivers to get going on Windows and Linux though. No plans to bin it with the state of the printer market nowadays.
Its so good I'm not going to buy a new printer to keep using printers on Linux, I will switch a machine back to Windows to keep using it.
 
YoRHa No. 2 Type B said:
Its so good I'm not going to buy a new printer to keep using printers on Linux
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I don't think you'll need to. I expect we'll see a cups fork in the offing like what happened with Xlibre. Corporations throwing their weight around and deleting features is the antithesis of how the Linux world works.
 
analrapist said:
I don't think you'll need to. I expect we'll see a cups fork in the offing like what happened with Xlibre. Corporations throwing their weight around and deleting features is the antithesis of how the Linux world works.
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Would it make sense to have a CUPS2IPP docker image that people can run to convert their old CUPS printers into compatible printers
 
Vesperus said:
CUPSLibre Let's Goooooo!

(Is it just me or is there an awful lot of retardation of late?)
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I personally don't keep up with the drama of what shit the linux community freaks out about personally. I'm just here with my CachyOS set up and just having a good time. As long as it works and I am not getting ads in my face. I am a happy camper.
 
Betonhaus said:
FAT32 is still used for EFI partitions so your computer knows how to find the bootloader. I'm not sure if any new computers can now handle a ext4 EFI partition yet.
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Some can't even handle ISO9660. I was confused why some laptops can't load the Windows 10 ISO dd'ed into a USB, but my desktop could. It worked after changing the USB to FAT32 and splitting the install WIM file because Windows is FAT and exceeded 4GB.
 
俺たちファームズでノッテる said:
I personally don't keep up with the drama of what shit the linux community freaks out about personally. I'm just here with my CachyOS set up and just having a good time. As long as it works and I am not getting ads in my face. I am a happy camper.
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Comfy Linux using is absolutely the way to go.
BUT: Are we truly Kiwi Farmers if we're not autisticly screeching about pointless drama nobody else even notices?
 
Does an SSD's internal SMART thing -- which can be checked with Terminal with sudo smartctl -- keep track of the TBW from any previous OS (even if the drive was reformatted)?

Also, what does 0x00 for "Critical Warning" mean? Everything OK?
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Does an SSD's internal SMART thing -- which can be checked with Terminal with sudo smartctl -- keep track of the TBW from any previous OS (even if the drive was reformatted)?
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Operating Systems, swap files, and 1TB of German midget porn are all just 0s and 1s to the drive: SMART data is handled by the controller hardware, and doesn't judge you.
Although it possibly should.
 
Vesperus said:
Operating Systems, swap files, and 1TB of German midget porn are all just 0s and 1s to the drive: SMART data is handled by the controller hardware, and doesn't judge you.
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wat

Anyway I take that as a yes, it does keep track of the TBW even if reformatted? Good to know if getting a used computer with Linux on.
 
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