The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Phoronix: Linus Torvalds Continues Using A Radeon RX 580 Graphics Card, Back On An Intel Laptop (archive)

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

From my experience with Devuan there's really no point in using anything other than the default Sysvinit as OpenRC is just there for compatibility with OpenRC scripts and cannot be used as PID1 for now. I found Runits implementation in Devuan really subpar and all the stuff that matters is handled the same way as the stock Sysvinit anyways. Unless you have some OpenRC or Runit specific scripts you currently use, don't bother with the Frankenstein way they are used in Devuan.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

I've got Artix running and installed xlibre.

Wayback works pretty well based on my testing. The documentation is hot garbage, but you run do anything with the commands wayback-session cwm, wayback-session dwm, etc.

 

[Ferryman]

He's a GNOME packager, which is the actual DE you want to avoid. KDE is fine from user perspective. Unless you're talking about politics, which, uh, good luck finding somehing at all then.

XFCE has been pretty clean afaik. Only ever used it in a kali vm but their spin on it at least seems quite nice.

 

[DavidS877]

It's finally happened, ok, maybe the 2nd time. One of my fleet of Pis has finally blown a Micro SD card. 5 years running in this system and maybe a 10 year old card total. Sandisk. It only went read-only so it was easy to copy it off. And it gets backed up too. It's an interesting failure all it does is print labels for packages every 3-12 months compared that some that get actual use. It's still a Pi 2b anyway.

 

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The systemd alternatives in Devuan are either old (sysv)

Good thing that 'old' is actually a good thing for the most important process on your system.

 

[Ferryman]

Thank you @SCV & co for suggesting Artix. I got gifted an empty IdeaPad 320 so I had the chance to drive it around for a couple of weeks, including using it for a small local CTF, and I gotta say, I loved it. OpenRC has surprisingly great compatibility with black arch pentest tools as well, pretty much everything worked right out of the box. Didn't quite get to try XLibre but zen kernel made the old SATA SSD it had plenty snappy. Definitely would recommend.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

Apparently there's a bug on btrfs that broke a bunch of peoples' systems

 

[DavidS877]

Apparently there's a bug on btrfs that broke a bunch of peoples' systems

So, the butter based filesystem melted again. Quelle surprise.

 

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Apparently there's a bug on btrfs that broke a bunch of peoples' systems

Wouldn't happen with reiserfs.

 

[DavidS877]

Wouldn't happen with reiserfs.

It might kill your wife but it will never lose your data.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

...boy I'm glad when I went back to Artix I stuck with the most boring ext4 layout.

 

[Private Tag Reporter]

Apparently there's a bug on btrfs that broke a bunch of peoples' systems

i clicked that link and was greeted with some anime girl, what the actual fuck.

is there a non-pozzed link or should i go back to windows

 

[neal_rice]

i clicked that link and was greeted with some anime girl, what the actual fuck.

is there a non-pozzed link or should i go back to windows

No, unfortunately. The 'anime girl' is part of Anubis, some tranny's project against AI crawlers. I will not link the site directly as it serves the same thing, there's a GitHub link: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

Tranny's GH: https://github.com/Xe

 

[Angie Wormwood]

Heh.

That was actually completely unintended.

He's a GNOME packager, which is the actual DE you want to avoid. KDE is fine from user perspective. Unless you're talking about politics, which, uh, good luck finding somehing at all then.

I shouldn't angrypost either. Spent the day yelling at a vendor who kept having me look at shit unrelated to the problem I was having with their jank-ass software. But yeah, stay away from both GNOME and KDE, honestly. They're both bloated crap now. XFCE as mentioned is delightful, though I've grown fond of Cinnamon in Debian now. Does what I want, is light enough, and has useful widgets out of the box.

 

[HootersMcBoobies]

What's the best htpc DE for Linux? Something I can install on Linux Mint and have a dedicated user that logs into it at startup and it handles Emby and YouTube? Maybe emulators but the intended computer is a potato

I use KDE Neon. I don't use Emby or Kodi, just a file browser. You need to compile some packages to get HDR support in mpv right now, but there are guides out there if you search.

If you already have an Emby server setup, LibreELEC and a Raspberry Pi 3 or greater will give you a 4K/HDR Kodi player and you can add the Emby plugins. I had this going for a while, but I just prefer a file browser over that fancy Netflix/Streaming interface.

 

[Betonhaus]

I just need someone that opens applications in full screen by default and has a full screen start menu like Windows 8 thay can be navigated using a USB remote

 

[ghastlyretard]

I just need someone that opens applications in full screen by default and has a full screen start menu like Windows 8 thay can be navigated using a USB remote

This screams Kodi to me. But I haven't looked at HTPC stuff in a while since I set up a RaspberryPi to play old western movies on shuffle to keep my Alzheimer's riddled father entertained.

There are addons for Kodi that would let you use Emby and YouTube, based on some quick searches

 

[Wood]

No, unfortunately. The 'anime girl' is part of Anubis, some tranny's project against AI crawlers. I will not link the site directly as it serves the same thing, there's a GitHub link: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

Tranny's GH: https://github.com/Xe

Lol

 

[One Angry Computer]

Lol
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Watch me how I fork this P.P.O.S (pozzed piece of shit) into C++ to only allow male, female and "it" pronouns.