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Many such cases.
The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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Sake Ojone
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Devuan also defaults to OpenRC and is also supportive of XLibre, though they don't package it yet.
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The TRIM command is counted as a write by the kernel or io profiling tools (not sure which) but is not a write at the SSD level, the SSD marks those blocks as free to use, which will make it perform better and do less flash writes with future host writes. So it's beneficial and you don't need to minimize it, but trimming more than maybe once a day is overkill for a desktop workload.
Edit: if you have the discard mount option turned on, it will trim in real time. This is not recommended as it will cause lags when the TRIM command is ran. Best to remove that mount option if it's enabled (or use the nodiscard option if for some reason it defaults to on)
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Depends on what you use the drive for, but the trim command only trims recently deleted or modified sectors. If your drives' contents is largely static then you could probably go a month or a year without trimming as long as you have enough free space. If you regularly write and delete files you'll want to do it more often. But if the trim command is run more frequently, it'll do less work anyways - you could set it to run every minute and 99% of the time it would self terminate without doing anything to the drive. So there's no reason not to just leave it at a day.
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Yeah, Devuan's my choice for systemd-less distros because you can sidestep the whole Arch and/or Arch-alike business and use the same .deb packages that everyone else publishes. Particularly with non-open-source third parties I'd rather just use their official packages than a repack by some guy.
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I've seen a couple of videos referencing this, and I'm tempted to print it out and frame it.
(On a discussion as to why Wayland has no mechanism to define a primary monitor)
It really does sum the attitude up nicely.
(On a discussion as to why Wayland has no mechanism to define a primary monitor)
It really does sum the attitude up nicely.
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Tell me why a niche (Wayland users) of a niche (Linux users) now get to dictate how applications are written?
If I made apps, this is a great sign to pull Linux support.
At least X is comparable to how Windows works with graphics.
Wayland is closer to how mobile phones like Android render graphics. And people wonder why its not perfect on the desktop!
If people want to argue that X is broken because its 40 years old now, Wayland is reaching 20 years old fast, and has only just gotten usable for basic needs (outside of kiosks) in the last year or so...
Total Red Hat/freedesktop death. Ruining the Linux desktop.
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this comment thread is kin dof thought provoking from a few different angles
the first thing i thought of was a gardiner bryant video where he made a joke about a stereotypical vocal minority linux user that says "if linux goes too mainstream i'm gonna move to freebsd!"
now personally i've never met that user. i do know some linux users that have tried freebsd or jerk themselves off for using all suckless software on their corebooted x220 with linux-libre
but generally if you asked them "should a new user stick to windows or install ubuntu/mint/cachyos/whatever noob friendly distro" they'll say noob friendly distro like
artix is decent but i run into too many artix specific issues to run it on multiple devices
love the work they do, especially supporting modern inits like s6, and i like their arch base, but i have a really hard time recommending it because it's a coin flip on if the user i recommend it to can run it or not
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Funnier when you realise this has been working right in Windows since multi monitor support was introduced with Windows 98.
But not Wayland? The "modern" display system?
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No you see, it makes perfect sense. This "feature" has been added to m*crosoft w*indows back in the 90's, therefore it is not only outdated, but also proprietary evil, so Wayland not having this functionality is actually intended. Same goes for X11, which is not only ancient, but also evil as it is not Wayland.
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Didn't Valve fork Wayland? Steamdeck has primary/secondary monitor for dock/handheld mode. And there's this:
"When you switch to Desktop Mode (for running non-Steam software), the Steam Deck switches to X11/Xorg." /sneed
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I'm generally ignorant in this area (a man's gotta know his limitations) so I can't argue when I see far more informed folk say Wayland is the future. But when I see Wayland I see corpo stunts, troons and the worst standards of dogmatic cult like behaviour. It may be the future but I remain to be convinced that it's a good future.
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wayland protocols into "frog protocols" [a] IIRC, because wayland is run by a bunch of faggots and troons, ironic that the forkers are also apparently troons.
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People have been saying Wayland is inevitable since at least 2015, but it never happened. Wayland is both more ready than ever since basically it's baseline usable now, but less inevitable than ever because X11 got revived.