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Is Devuan the least troon infested linux distro? I don't care about systemd, but I'd like to stay as far away from degenerates as possible.
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That's weird. Debian, and I assumed Ubuntu and the derived distributions have had DKMS working with secure boot for years, absent a couple months when they broke it. Load a MOK into the secure store and then DKMS will sign the out of tree modules.
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Hmm, I got home, created a live usb, relevant to the discussion here - windows overwrote the boot order to put itself on top 
, decrypted and mounted my root partition just fine, mounted boot and chrooted, updated all my packages and restarted, and it still gets stuck. Well, at least the data is okay - but this is perplexing. At least I have some fun for the evening.
, decrypted and mounted my root partition just fine, mounted boot and chrooted, updated all my packages and restarted, and it still gets stuck. Well, at least the data is okay - but this is perplexing. At least I have some fun for the evening.
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I'll check it out tonight.
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Artix dev has YWNBAWed troons. I'd argue Artix.
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You're triggering my ptsd from the time I updated a machine remotely, and that machine didn't have a keyboard attached, so the update didn't bother to include keyboard drivers with the kernel (!). I went onsite to reboot the machine, and it wanted a LUKS password, but it wouldn't allow keyboard input even after I plugged one in. That was neat. Luckily, I was able to get back in with a live distro. Remember you can always install packages into the live environment if it doesn't ship with LUKS or LVM or whatever you need.
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If it ever comes up I can't remember which is up/down but if my brain is turned off and I'm typing away then none of it even crosses my mind.
Any data you care about should always be backed up somewhere. At the very least, get an external hard drive and periodically move everything over, easy to alias/script with rsync.Fucking shit. So I turned off the computer yesterday. Today it got stuck right after decryption. The hardware for my server onto which I intended among other things to do more regular and complete backups will arrive tomorrow. I think some of the more important data is backed up on other computers, but some data that has only sentimental value isn't. Well, I hope a live boot will still be able to fix this. The timing at least makes for a funny story if nothing else...
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Sick of Windows and I'll be switching. Did a little research and Fedora KDE seemed like a nice sweet spot. Why does Fedora get hate besides the gay name? And are the troon allegations just the typical tranny - software dev correlation?
Seems like Red Hat packages have good support, and otherwise Fedoras a good mix between configurable/modern and usable/stable. Is upgrading kernels really a nightmare, or would that only be the case if Im fucking with the kernel all the time?
I just built an amd system with a 9070 and other newish parts, and I read that Mint might have problems with that. I also need Wayland since I have monitors with different refresh rates. Would Mint still be a better option even with my hardware reqs? Any insight would be appreciated.
Seems like Red Hat packages have good support, and otherwise Fedoras a good mix between configurable/modern and usable/stable. Is upgrading kernels really a nightmare, or would that only be the case if Im fucking with the kernel all the time?
I just built an amd system with a 9070 and other newish parts, and I read that Mint might have problems with that. I also need Wayland since I have monitors with different refresh rates. Would Mint still be a better option even with my hardware reqs? Any insight would be appreciated.
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it will depend on hardware on how fast or slow it is. Since, iit's basically loading a filesystem in memory, and then you are running on that while using it. If you barely have enough memory to handle whatever you are using, you will probably see some lagging. For me, it tends to be pretty fast on a system with 16gb or more of memory. 4gb, depending on the distro, and desktop, might be starting to cut things a bit close since everything is getting moved there.
All that said. it not being persistent, and not being, and not dealing with vm's is the exact reason I think it's great for this use case. Since it's a new user wanting to just play around with linux. It's simple to set up, you don't have to worry about ruining anything. And for me it performs better than a vm. Which whatever I do, vm's have always felt laggy and wierd. Maybe if I do hardware passthrough. But that's a lot of set up to just play around with linux. When they can get that by design from just plugging in an iso.
Go has had a real problem over the last few years. With malicious packages getting added. It seems like it's happening constantly. And with the way go, and these other languages work, people could be pulling those in accidentally for normal non-malicious programs, that used those libraries before they were altered to contain the malicious code.
Hopefully that's what they are addressing when they are saying "supply chain attacks" because it's a big problem for anything using go, that uses outside libraries.
Where vim really gets good isn't the hjkl movements. Those are nice, and like someone else mentioned they become muscle memory on which way they move, rather than actually remembering. But where you really see the benefits of vim is when you start getting into text objects, and doing things like dap yap diw using the { and } to move around full paragraphs, using f to search forward for a character or F to go backwards then you can use ; to repeat that motion, and one of the biggest things is cntrl+v for visual block.
And the more you learn about it, the faster you get. It starts to really compound how much time you save doing editing work. And if people are spending time in editors for work that really adds up. Something I just learned recently. is when you do visual select more. after you highlight something, you can hit :s/foo/bar then do the normal sed style search and replace, for the instances of foo in the text you selected, and replace them with bar. like you might do for a full buffer using :%s/foo/bar. There are so many things you can do with vim to save time. It's crazy what it can do.
And for development work, if someone takes the time to set up an lsp, like they may be using in another ide. but also know, and can take advantage of all the other time saving things vim has. It's really hard to go back to any other editor, you just won't get the things you can from vim from almost any other editor out there
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I hope you vim users are using vimium or tridactyl
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If you need Wayland mint might not be the best place yet. Most of their desktops are pretty new to Wayland support. You will probably be better off using kde or gnome's Wayland sessions.
Which one between kde and gnome will depend on what you prefer. Generally kde is more flexible and configurable, and a bit more bleeding edge. So if you care about that. Pick kde. If you want something simpler, with a lot less choice out of the box. with a different UI than the windows style way of doing things use gnome.
As far as distro. Anything supporting those will be fine. Fedora gets shit because it's basically ran by redhat. But if you just want a working system. I say try that. Make sure the drivers work correctly with your hardware, and if so. You should be fine to just stick with it.
If you end up having a weird issue from the beginning with your hardware. It might be easier as a complete new comer to just move to a different distro, before sinking time into fixing things. Depending on what the problem you have is.
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Just a heads up that X11 can technically handle multiple refresh rates, but only if they are multiples of each other (eg 60hz and 120hz). That's probably not the case in your setup
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Its still janky compared to Wayland in my experience, but you can usually get it working with xrandr moon runes.
The best reason to switch to Wayland if you use dual monitors is to use individual scaling, rather then a single scaling option.
Thankfully almost every Linux distro has a live environment you can play around with, which includes Fedora and Mint. So you can give both distros a test drive before picking one to install.
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Play around with Mint, Fedora KDE and anything else in a virtual machine or on a spare computer. Whichever one you like the most is probably the one to install.
No, upgrading the kernel isn't a nightmare, on most distros, it takes care of itself. If you manually switch kernel versions or configs then you might have issues but you can switch between kernel versions so it's not a big deal.
I'm not aware of Mint having issues with modern AMD hardware but I haven't looked around either, I'd be surprised if that was the case.
If you decide you don't like the distro you chose, you can pretty much copy everything out of the home directory (
/home/username) and place it back on a fresh install of anything else and more/less be back up and running.
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I'm more familiar with Debian-based distributions but have experimented with CentOS (now CentOS Stream), another Red Hat derivative, in a VPS setting and it was fun. The good news is that, the more you learn about Linux fundamentals including the shell (by default typically bash but I now use fish + oh-my-fish), the easier it will be to move from one system to another.
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just learned that hyprland premium is a thing. I found it funny because a lot of people seemingly misunderstand what licenses like BSD actually allow. It’s also a great reminder of why UNIX philosophy is so important. You don’t see the suckless people selling a “dwm premium” (even though they could), because their code is so simple it doesn’t require a full-time job to maintain.Hyprland, on the other hand, is a bloated mess for the sake of being one.
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And X protocol parity will soon be reached, but locked behind Wayland Pro Plus subscription. Source: crackpipe.
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The only things it unlocks are a forum (read: circlejerking zone) and some pre-made "official" configurations. It's far from necessary... or useful. Just a way to capitalize on all the traction it is currently getting. Personally I used hyprland for a bit out of curiosity: It does the job but it's not something I would willingly subject myself to daily. The animations do nothing for me, they're just distractions, so I disable them. What's left is a bog-standard tiling window manager, with support for a bunch of other eyecandy applications I won't ever use. For me i3 works better, partially because it's more familiar, but also because it has the 3 things I actually care about (tabbed layouts, tiling, run-or-raise - raiseorlaunch in this case).
I think customization/ricing has its place. Better navigation and faster app switching, for example, make interfacing with the steel behemoth on my desk less cumbersome. But Hyprland seems to be emblematic of this widely popular "style over substance" (ricing) culture. If I fullscreen their website so much shit is happening that my web browser begins lagging. It being written in C++ makes it at least serviceable, but for many other popular apps, e.g. Groomcord, that's just not the case. I'm not saying that we should go back to exclusively using cli tools, but most developers now use so much memory and processing power that I might as well fry an egg on my computer's heat sink. A lack of gradients never killed anybody, but at this point it seems that the price we paid for gradients is about to kill my computer.
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Saw a guy on #artix/Libera claim faster boot with Runit than S6 in particular. On my test config, just got 16 seconds (Mate-S6) vs 18 seconds (Mate-Runit), so I don't agree. In the process, I generated a brief (little over 3 minute) video of an artix-mate-runit install. Figured I'd share that here. This is from an ISO on an SSD onto a RAID1 pair of spinning rust drives on QEMU-KVM, so your install is likely even faster.
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