The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[WhiteNight]

Tenacity has the contributor's covenant CoC so it's hardly much better than audacity, I think it's still pozzed.

Many open source projects adopt the covenant CoC because they simply don't know any better, because other projects adopt it, and because to them it looks harmless. Certainly it's not as bad as for example the geek feminism CoC. That is to say, I wouldn't reject a project as pozzed only because of this CoC, even though it's a poor choice.

If the maintainers are insane troons, or their feeds are filled with woke lunacy, or they ban anyone who expresses any difference of opinion anywhere on the Interwebs, then sure it's best to steer clear. I don't think that's the case for Tenacity (but I could be wrong).

 

[Baguette Child]

why did Audacity need to be sodomized like this instead of making something new?

For the same reason troons skinwalk as every other project and franchise they've defiled over the years: Name recognition.

They want attention and to force others to give it to them. Gutting an established entity and wearing its name brings more eyeballs to them than if they made a new and obscure project that does what they actually want the software to do.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

No need to run the entirety of neovim, and all your plugins, as root.
You also keep clipboard integration that way, if you have it enabled.

I can't remember if sudo -e acts exactly like sudoedit. I believe it does which is why I don't use it.

Because there are a lot of times I want to write the file without actually closing it. And sudoedit acts a bit different than a normal neovim buffer. I can't remember the exact way it does it but basically from what I recall it doesn't write anything to disk until the buffer is actually closed.

Before I realized what was happening I remember editing files writing without closing. Then running commands that were going to be effected by that. Only to not have my changes take effect.

Also I do like having my plugins. But that isn't the main reason.

Edit to avoid a double post.

How have I never seen this? Lmao

 

[Vesperus]

Courtesy of Lunduke, here's a tracker for where distros stand on Xlibre:
Are we Xlibre yet?

 

[Legalize Asbestos]

It begs the question: why did Audacity need to be sodomized like this instead of making something new?

'The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own.'

 

[YoRHa No. 2 Type B]

Courtesy of Lunduke, here's a tracker for where distros stand on Xlibre:
Are we Xlibre yet?

The big one to watch will be what Debian thinks.
I think they will put it in eventually (and especially if its better then Xorg in technical merit), but they generally aren't in a rush to get stuff done.
XLibre is still in its very early days, give it a few months and see what happens.

 

[Vesperus]

The big one to watch will be what Debian thinks.
I think they will put it in eventually (and especially if its better then Xorg in technical merit), but they generally aren't in a rush to get stuff done.
XLibre is still in its very early days, give it a few months and see what happens.

Given that Debian powers a chunk of enterprise stuff, I think things like Xnamespace will make it too important to ignore.
At least I hope so, the seethe will be glorious.

 

[Croco]

What the hell is going on with Audacity?

Audacity was bought by Muse Group. They suck. The opposite of suckless. Musescore is now 'Musescore Hub.' Sneedacity is the new audacity.

Is Artix Linux, due to default OpenRC, not overbearing corporate systemd, while also taking the pro-supportive XLibre stance, make Artix the new clear winner of the distro wars?

 

[Vesperus]

Audacity was bought by Muse Group. They suck. The opposite of suckless. Musescore is now 'Musescore Hub.' Sneedacity is the new audacity.

Is Artix Linux, due to default OpenRC, not overbearing corporate systemd, while also taking the pro-supportive XLibre stance, make Artix the new clear winner of the distro wars?

Sneedacity seems to be a bit dead, unless I'm missing something: It's not been updated for 3 years... Tenacity might be a better option (although if sneedacity does everything you need then then go for it)

Artix is certainly looking rather tempting right now.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Tenacity has the contributor's covenant CoC so it's hardly much better than audacity, I think it's still pozzed. Sneedacity is based (its CoC is a parody) but has stalled at the state it was in 3 years ago with no development happening after that.

Sneedacity is dead because the guy who forked it only did so for the notoriety and the social acclaim of "fighting back" in a culture war battle. He had no interest in actually maintaining the software.

 

[GNU Abyss]

Is Artix Linux, due to default OpenRC, not overbearing corporate systemd, while also taking the pro-supportive XLibre stance, make Artix the new clear winner of the distro wars?

If you do hop over, I suggest learning how to package programs so you can contribute to their repos. They're comparatively barren if you're coming from a big distro.

 

[monk]

Is Artix Linux, due to default OpenRC, not overbearing corporate systemd, while also taking the pro-supportive XLibre stance, make Artix the new clear winner of the distro wars?

I prefer Gentoo but it does have a steep learning curve, and it's designed for compiling all packages from source, although you can use the precompiled binary packages but you have to use the default USE flags so you kinda lose the customization power that Portage gives you. In either case it takes more time to install and maintain than other distributions, but the customization USE flags give you and ease of adding your own ebuilds makes it worth it IMO.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Found out that it's this "fstrim" contributing to the bulk of the remaining mystery writing, at a rate of hundreds of MB of day, and also all at once. Hopefully it's normal.

 

[Baguette Child]

Found out that it's this "fstrim" contributing to the bulk of the remaining mystery writing,

In case you aren't aware; It discards or trims unused blocks that the filesystem doesn't need anymore so they can be reused. So in this case, yeah, those are valid writes that you probably want to happen so that your drive isn't filled up with garbage scrap data.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

In case you aren't aware; It discards or trims unused blocks that the filesystem doesn't need anymore so they can be reused.

So it's sorta like an "srm" on that data?

And it acts daily even though the thing seems to say it's scheduled for weekly. Hopefully there's nothing going on wrong there either.

 

[Croco]

If you do hop over, I suggest learning how to package programs so you can contribute to their repos. They're comparatively barren if you're coming from a big distro.

But does Artix Linux not use pacman? I see that it does, and has that modified Arch logo, giving the impression it's an Arch fork just forgoing systemd for OpenRC. For us normalfags package management would be as simple as $ sudo pacman -S cowsay

 

[Rust Troony]

But does Artix Linux not use pacman? I see that it does, and has that modified Arch logo, giving the impression it's an Arch fork just forgoing systemd for OpenRC. For us normalfags package management would be as simple as $ sudo pacman -S cowsay

It uses pacman, but it uses its own repository, which has vastly less packages than arch does. You can technically remedy this by adding in archs' [extra] repository, which shouldnt have packages that rely on systemd, but you'll probably end up running into issues with updates when software inside the [extra] repository needs a newer version of a dependency that hasnt made it to artix yet, or hasnt been packaged inside artix to begin with, hence why if you have an application that you need that isn't packaged in artixs' repositories you should learn to help package it for artix.

 

[Lone Wandering Courier]

I recently added the cachyos repos to my endeavouros install and switched to the cachyos kernel. I can't really tell the difference to be honest.

 

[Rust Troony]

I recently added the cachyos repos to my endeavouros install and switched to the cachyos kernel. I can't really tell the difference to be honest.

CachyOS is a placebo distro. It used to be good when the standard linux kernel was using CFS which sucked, but since it switched to EEVDF most of the performance improvements of CachyOS withered away.

The packages it ships with more up to date intruction sets only really improved performance outside a margin of error for a few packages.

For most users the performance improvement would only be maybe 1-2% better.

 

[Ferryman]

Has anyone successfully ran Free/OpenBSD on a W541? I am becoming increasingly more interested in becoming a BSDnigger but I'm hearing a lot of people report that, since *BSD ignores the Nvidia GPU in the W541 for lack of drivers, it just kinda runs super hot despite going unused. Can't find anyone saying they've managed to circumvent this as of yet. Also, thoughts: think its worth shilling out 100$ for a T480? Its pretty barebones but I have compatible RAM and an NVMe sitting around so its no bother. Recently gave away my X230 and I'm really itching to fill the void.