The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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GrimPortents said:
Can't really speak for the Nvidia side but it should reasonably work
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The only Issue I had installing mint were the drivers shitting themselves upon startup. not really sure what happened but I booted into recovery mode and installed the drivers with the driver manager and its worked fine since.
 
Manjaro Troonix working out-of-the-box™ let me down once again
Linuxbros... I'm getting heckin' desperate...
 
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I think endeavor is really the recommended easy to use arch distro. Manjaro will give you problems because of how they manage packages. Artix is fine if you actually know what you are doing with your init systems. But if you don't, and you want arch, without actually learning about how to install or use arch. Endeavor is probably going to be the best bet. Otherwise probably just install arch.
 
EndeavorOS is good, just remove the bloat they put into it which are all unnecessary. You do that by unchecking all the EOS stuff in the installer. It sets up an AUR helper for you and a firewall. The only issue with it is that it uses dracut, though for some that is a plus. They really should just go back to mkinitcpio to stick with Arch defaults, I think the reason they went with dracut was that mkinitcpio had issues back when they started the project.

Frederica Bernkastel said:
Distros like Mint use older kernels, like 6.12, so they don't have NTSYNC yet. You could try adding it with DKMS, but the maintainers said they won’t backport it. Even on Arch, you still have to run modprobe ntsync to make it work. You can check if its working using mangohud (export MANGOHUD_CONFIG="winesync"), and run mangohud before the .exe. I don't use Steam, or Lutris, but there should be launch options.
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100% I added NTSync to my EOS install with modprobe and an udev rule for permissions. Games run literally as fast now on Linux as on my Windows partition, some even a little bit better actually. It's pretty cool. I got it working on ProtonGE. I think the Liquorix kernel has compiled NTSync into the kernel and it's also build off the latest stable kernels, so no need for modprobing and since Mint is built off of Ubuntu I would imagine it would be compatible.
 
Damn idk what's going on. But on mobile all the normal tools you have at the top of the text box aren't working at all.

I wanted to post this link to the new mental outlaw video.


I don't remember the format to embed it myself and those just aren't working right now on my phone.

Cranjis McBasketball said:
Will I need an antivirus on Mint? I've heard some people say Linux doesn't need antiviruses.
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Almost no one uses that on Linux. That said there are some tools you can use for scanning your system. Like one for checking for rootkits. I can't remember any of their names though. But if you search for it you can find them.

Like other people mentioned. Really if you just have good practices you won't have any issues. And try using secure software. In secure ways can help also. Like following the principle of least privilege, sandboxing, containerizing. Etc. Some of it can get pretty advanced though.
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
Damn idk what's going on. But on mobile all the normal tools you have at the top of the text box aren't working at all.
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You probably hit the toggle bb code button.
Banana Hammock said:
I'm going to be buying a new SSD when I get my next paycheck (I wanted to upgrade anyway, so I might as well install Mint on it). Windows 10 support ends in October, so I figure I can use it for the next three months (if I last that long) and decide if I want to switch or stick with Windows.
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God damn it. Apparently the screws are attached to my mobo's heatsinks, and I bought an nvme with a built-in heatsink (Samsung 990 Pro). Plus, my M.2_1 slot is blocked by my CPU cooling, so it'll be a pain in the ass to install even after I return this and get a new one.

Edit: Oh, good. Looks like you can buy replacement screws online.
 
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I know its not Linux, but does BSD get much love around here?

I've got a freebsd server I run a zfs NAS off of. I don't really do anything fancy or complicated with it. But anytime I ssh in to do some maintenance, I remember how much I like BSD, and that I should figure out a project I can do to have an excuse to play with it more.

I can't quite put my finger on what it is I like so much about it. They've got great documentation, and that's definitely part of it.
 
KillaSmoke said:
I know its not Linux, but does BSD get much love around here?

I've got a freebsd server I run a zfs NAS off of. I don't really do anything fancy or complicated with it. But anytime I ssh in to do some maintenance, I remember how much I like BSD, and that I should figure out a project I can do to have an excuse to play with it more.

I can't quite put my finger on what it is I like so much about it. They've got great documentation, and that's definitely part of it.
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I think freebsd is probably one of the better options for a server. Everything it does seems like it would be useful for an efficient and secure server.

But I will die on the hill of it being absolute shit for desktop, and probably by extension workstation stuff. Depending on what that is. But 100% is just a worse experience on the desktop than Linux.

All that said. The reason I have a strong opinion about that. Is because I've really wanted to make it work as a desktop OS. And even when I did get things technically working. Everything was just worse than Linux. It made everything more tedious. The tools it offers are really powerful, but the benefits aren't really seen on a desktop. And I would have just been coping with any justification I came up with to try to keep using it for that.
Banana Hammock said:
You probably hit the toggle bb code button
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Yeah this was it. I must have pocket dialed it or something, at some point.
 
How to piss off linux autists, any% run
Items of note include:
  • Only amd64 (x86-64 bit) images are available going forward:
    As mentioned in the Debian release mailing list:
    Dropping i386 kernel packages
    The i386 Linux kernel packages were dropped in our upstream, Debian, Sid repo. Hence i686/i686-pae GParted live will be no more in the future. From this release, only amd64 (x86-64) release will be available.
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Hello all,

This is a heads-up that the kernel team is planning to stop building
i386 kernel packages shortly (probably starting with Linux 6.11).

As this was previously discussed at last year's Cambridge mini-DebConf
and announced in
<https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/12/msg00003.html>,
I hope this doesn't come as much of a surprise. :-)

Ben.

--
Ben Hutchings
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. - John Lehman
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Gparted decided i386 wasn't worth supporting.

How to piss off linux autists, any% run
Items of note include:
  • Only amd64 (x86-64 bit) images are available going forward:
    As mentioned in the Debian release mailing list:
    Dropping i386 kernel packages
    The i386 Linux kernel packages were dropped in our upstream, Debian, Sid repo. Hence i686/i686-pae GParted live will be no more in the future. From this release, only amd64 (x86-64) release will be available.
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Hello all,

This is a heads-up that the kernel team is planning to stop building
i386 kernel packages shortly (probably starting with Linux 6.11).

As this was previously discussed at last year's Cambridge mini-DebConf
and announced in
<https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/12/msg00003.html>,
I hope this doesn't come as much of a surprise. :-)

Ben.

--
Ben Hutchings
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. - John Lehman
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