The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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

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The Saltening said:
im retarded. i meant konsole commands
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Oh shit! you misspoke. Kys retard. RIP

jeff7989 said:
Don't get too excited
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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.
 
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jeff7989 said:
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.

prollyanotherlurker said:
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.
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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.
 
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The Saltening said:
ive been waiting like 10 minutes for this usb to eject after copying 2 iso files to it

smh
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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.
 
DavidS877 said:
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.
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im starting to think i did something wrong and might need to start over
 
The Saltening said:
im starting to think i did something wrong and might need to start over
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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.)
 
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?
 
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,
 
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Cranjis McBasketball said:
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?
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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
 
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jeff7989 said:
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,
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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.
Dick Lickieta said:
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
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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.
 
Get Pop image for Nvidia, that way you won't have any trouble with builtin kernel drivers shitting themselves during installation process.
Pop, Mint and Zorin are pretty much same shit, all based on Ubuntu.
As for gayming, performance difference should be minuscule, unless you want to dive into the rabbit hole of custom kernels, don't, there's no point for beginner

Cranjis McBasketball said:
. 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.
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Most distros with live image ship libreoffice as part of standard software package, it would be weird if they didn't.

As for setup, it's same as with WIndows, on bare drive it's a matter of clicking Next until you are booted into your OS.
You should disable Secureboot in BIOS before installing, you can enable if afterwards.

If you go with Mint and your Nvidia GPU is recent then "nomodeset" kernel parameter for the installation media is your friend, that skips shitty unreliable reverse-engineered nvidia drivers that live in kernel, but don't worry, if you have internet working during installation process then you should have proper drivers from Nvidia on your fresh system. This applies to any distro that doesn't advertise having proprietary driver on live media.
 
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Cranjis McBasketball said:
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.

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.
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I would say go with Mint just because it's VERY beginner friendly. Can't really speak for the Nvidia side but it should reasonably work. Apparently it will shit itself if you try to install another desktop environment but Cinnamon is enough like Windows XP/7 where you probably won't even bother looking to install anything else.
 
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