The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Frederica Bernkastel]

Void is kinda what gentoo was originally. I will never stop giving them shit over loosing control of their infrastructure cause the team lead just DFE'd (after having a nervous breakdown one day while being shitfaced drunk), and loosing their original domain by letting it lapse. Mainly because it was way too funny to be true.

They share devs with the Alpine folks, and it is more or less the same. Thankfully, I don't have to interact with them to use their software.

so carefully read through what lsblk tells you.

Sometimes it is better to use dmesg because lsblk won't pick up slower drives at times

 

[Akerman]

I just noticed that XLibre has become one of the most popular packages on the AUR when sorted by popularity:



It just passed over 3 thousand stars on github too.

 

[Miller]

BalenaEtcher is the easier one if you don't have mintiso or mintusb or whatever it's called

mintstick

Also don't use Balena Etcher, that shit is spyware.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

i ran cp <iso> /dev/<disk> and nothing happened. i unplugged and plugged back in the usb and now it shows it as bootable. okay i guess

cp works. dd works. Also cat works and you can pipe that through pv to get a progress bar.

For all of them. You can completely fuck your shit up if you're a retard. So just let that be known.

just with kernel commands

Kernel commands?

 

[The Saltening]

cp works. dd works. Also cat works and you can pipe that through pv to get a progress bar.

For all of them. You can completely fuck your shit up if you're a retard. So just let that be known.

Kernel commands?

im retarded. i meant konsole commands

 

[jeff7989]

I just noticed that XLibre has become one of the most popular packages on the AUR when sorted by popularity:

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It just passed over 3 thousand stars on github too.

Don't get too excited, 30 users bothered to use vote function, pic related.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

im retarded. i meant konsole commands

Oh shit! you misspoke. Kys retard. RIP

Don't get too excited

I just hope the project actually keeps the momentum and things don't die in a few months. With these kinds of things there is always a high possibility it could go either way.

 

[Akerman]

Don't get too excited, 30 users bothered to use vote function, pic related.

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Ah, disregard my original post as foolish optimism then. I guess it's probably more of a troll op to piss off the usual suspects. I suspected this, but I didn't see the seething in the comments that I expected, which led me slightly astray. I thought popularity had something to do with a mix of comments, activity, and/or page views, but I guess I was wrong.

I just hope the project actually keeps the momentum and things don't die in a few months. With these kinds of things there is always a high possibility it could go either way.

Right now it appears most of contributions are done by just one guy, so unless that changes I suspect it sadly could very well happen.

 

[The Saltening]

ive been waiting like 10 minutes for this usb to eject after copying 2 iso files to it

smh

 

[DavidS877]

ive been waiting like 10 minutes for this usb to eject after copying 2 iso files to it

smh

Here's a quarter kid, buy a USB 3 stick.

I never use the gooey file managers, I wonder if any of them have decided to give 'real' progress bars and do synchronous copies where it says how long until it's really copied.

 

[The Saltening]

Here's a quarter kid, buy a USB 3 stick.

I never use the gooey file managers, I wonder if any of them have decided to give 'real' progress bars and do synchronous copies where it says how long until it's really copied.

im starting to think i did something wrong and might need to start over

 

[Betonhaus]

ive been waiting like 10 minutes for this usb to eject after copying 2 iso files to it

smh

In the terminal run $ sync
After a bit when it's finished the usb drive is safe to remove

 

[DavidS877]

im starting to think i did something wrong and might need to start over

Does the stick have an LED, is it blinking?
If you have "iostat" installed you can run "iostat 5 /dev/sdX" and see if it's still showing writes, control-C to exit.
(The first report will be average up till now, then every 5 seconds the current amount written and read.)

 

[The Saltening]

In the terminal run $ sync
After a bit when it's finished the usb drive is safe to remove

how long should the sync command take?

took a while but its all good

 

[Betonhaus]

how long should the sync command take?

took a while but its all good

It takes as long as it needs to.
There's another command that lets you see how much data is left to sync among all devices but I forgot what it's called and you have to search for the relevant information on the big data dump it prints

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

When the hero finally meets the final boss.

 

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Is jumping headfirst into Linux a bad idea? I've never used it before but I'm building a new pc and I'd just rather not deal with Windows 11. If I should make the switch which distro is the best for beginners? I'd need something I can do gaming on. I've heard good things about Pop!_OS, would you guys recommend it?

 

[jeff7989]

I'd say dual-boot, but it's up to you. Better be a stubborn fuck., Prepare for things to be different, Pop OS is totally fine, it has recovery option if you let it partition the drive by itself, so pretty idiot-proof solution. Keep Mint in mind as well.
GUI is just a bolt-on on Liinux, so you'll end up using terminal for something eventually, there's nothing scary about it though,

 

[Dick Lickieta]

Is jumping headfirst into Linux a bad idea? I've never used it before but I'm building a new pc and I'd just rather not deal with Windows 11. If I should make the switch which distro is the best for beginners? I'd need something I can do gaming on. I've heard good things about Pop!_OS, would you guys recommend it?

1. Get a AMD gpu if you don't need Nvidia proprietary features, Nvidia isn't nearly as bad as it used to be but AMD will give you less problems
2. Pop!_OS is just a Ubuntu fork, besides the fact it includes certain packages to make setup more smooth theres no real reason to use it over stock Ubuntu inherently besides it's custom desktop environment, but that's still very much alpha software.
3. Most people will generally recommend Linux Mint as a beginner distro, as for the most part it just werks

 

[Cranjis McBasketball]

I'd say dual-boot, but it's up to you. Better be a stubborn fuck., Prepare for things to be different, Pop OS is totally fine, it has recovery option if you let it partition the drive by itself, so pretty idiot-proof solution. Keep Mint in mind as well.
GUI is just a bolt-on on Liinux, so you'll end up using terminal for something eventually, there's nothing scary about it though,

I already use terminal for yt-dlp. I don't like using terminal, but if I have to it's not too hard to figure out.

1. Get a AMD gpu if you don't need Nvidia proprietary features, Nvidia isn't nearly as bad as it used to be but AMD will give you less problems
2. Pop!_OS is just a Ubuntu fork, besides the fact it includes certain packages to make things more smooth theres no real reason to use it over stock Ubuntu inherently besides it's custom desktop environment, but that's still very much alpha software.
3. Most people will generally recommend Linux Mint as a beginner distro, as for the most part it just werks

I already have a Nvidia gpu that I'm going to use. I might upgrade to a different one eventually but that's what I have right now and I can't really afford an upgrade at the moment.

Also should I just use Mint instead? A lot of people recommend it but when it comes to gaming Pop usually tops the list. If it's easier to use and set up I'll probably just go for that. Zorin is another name I've seen thrown around. I kinda like how it looks and how it come with libreoffice right out of the box. But some people say it's no good for gaming.