The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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it's different on linux
Depends how you install it. That's what my inquiry about pipx is regarding: installing via pip. But I run Gentoo so I don't need to worry about it, because my distro is competent. But yes, your command probably works in a lot of circumstances too.
 
I think I just used sudo wget for the git? It was one of the first things I installed, so it's been 2-3 weeks.
 
Imma be real with you. Connecting a fully featured OS directly to the internet is suicide. All the services that are running even on something minimal are a huge attack surface and if you are "interesting" you're going to get fucked
and being "interesting" is just the KF poster main character syndrome where they have to fight the jews that control the world and also the pedos that control the world and also the troons that control the world

Nobody cares about your schizophrenic shitposts
 
Anecdotal, but I game almost entirely on Linux with an AMD setup and haven't had anything I would consider a major issue over the past two years.
I had an issue last year where games would sometimes run at a really low framerate, no matter if I close and relaunch the game. I don't know what the problem was but a reboot usually fixed it.
I mostly play on Linux these days, although I still use Windows for a few games, mostly Killing Floor 2 because it crashed my KDE and Gnome desktops the two times I tried, lol

I can certainly see a future where RH et al. commit a full corporate takeover of the Linux kernel, or most mainline Linux OSes in general, through shit like systemd etc.; again, this is about the paranoid perspective.
Aren't they already doing that by forcing certain projects into the kernel with a licence that isn't GPL?
 
Gentoo's packages track it quite rapidly, day or two off, IIRC. But this pipx, you recommend it? I imagine it handles upgrades less retardedly than pip?
My very limited understanding of pipx is that it basically sets up and handles a seperate venv- with all the dependencies- for each application you use it to install, and it installs per-user by default unlike pip. So better for installing an individual tool, but less useful if you had a bunch of different python scripts you were running outside venvs that all needed a relatively up to date version of a certain package.
 
It's the official github. Am I supposed to be worried that they uploaded a fucking virus to it or something?
There's generally very little reason to escalate any kind of software installation that you do outside of your package manager all the way to root. The example given in the instructions even uses a user-specific directory (~/.local/bin). Virus or not, it's best to be careful. Another point of concern would be the jeetification of the installer you're downloading, but it's inapplicable in this case because it's a single file download. Here's a decade old example of what I mean, from a company I happen to enjoy ayylawging:
rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"* could be evaluated as rm -rf "/"* if $STEAMROOT is empty
 
There's generally very little reason to escalate any kind of software installation that you do outside of your package manager all the way to root. The example given in the instructions even uses a user-specific directory (~/.local/bin). Virus or not, it's best to be careful. Another point of concern would be the jeetification of the installer you're downloading, but it's inapplicable in this case because it's a single file download. Here's a decade old example of what I mean, from a company I happen to enjoy ayylawging:
Why would the leave the / on the end???

Hopefully they were at least somehow checking it with an if statement. Or a few.
 
Gentoo's packages track it quite rapidly, day or two off, IIRC. But this pipx, you recommend it? I imagine it handles upgrades less retardedly than pip?
pipx is a way to get python packages for use in CLI/scripting
It creates isolated environments per, and it allows you to avoid polluting your system python installation, but without needing a conda environment, or needing to activate it.
The caveat is that these libraries aren't really available as libraries, but rather CLI tools
It's my preferred way of installing stuff like black or mypy.

It's also useful for testing python based CLI utilities, as you can just install from the built wheel as needed.
 
Really, is:
Code:
python3 -m venv yt-dlp
# Module venv not found.
# Fuck
sudo apt install python3-venv
python3 -m venv yt-dlp
cd yt-dlp
. ./bin/activate
pip install yt-dlp
Really so hard?
obviously you can also replace pip install yt-dlp with git clone https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp.git ; cd yt-dlp ; pip install . and there are a few other modules you might want.
 
I stand corrected. I found the installation instructions I used for yt-dlp.
Code:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3-pip
pip3 install -U yt-dlp
Apparently I was misremembering because it's been a while.

Anyway, I was wondering if it's possible to change the sorting method to the one that Windows uses. I've been using (, ), and ; to make sure that important folders/files are at the very top of the page for a decade, and Linux's sorting method is fucking me over right now. Switching to ASCII didn't help much, because it still puts numbers before symbols. Maybe some autist has made a custom collation file or something?
 
Anyway, I was wondering if it's possible to change the sorting method to the one that Windows uses. I've been using (, ), and ; to make sure that important folders/files are at the very top of the page for a decade, and Linux's sorting method is fucking me over right now. Switching to ASCII didn't help much, because it still puts numbers before symbols. Maybe some autist has made a custom collation file or something?
Use the damn numbers. That's why they're there. Or prepend a-z, aa-zz, whatever, man. Take acid and come up with something completely arcane. But stop trying to interfere with the sort. Work with it. It will improve sanity in the long run, I promise.
 
Have you tried setting LC_COLLATE to "C" or "C.utf8" and see if that's more to your liking?
I thought I had it set to C, but apparently Nemo is ignoring that in favor of its own sorting method.
Use the damn numbers. That's why they're there. Or prepend a-z, aa-zz, whatever, man. Take acid and come up with something completely arcane. But stop trying to interfere with the sort. Work with it. It will improve sanity in the long run, I promise.
I think you're misunderstanding something. My issue isn't that I don't want to do something new going forward. My issue is that I've been doing it this way for over a decade. I have hundreds of files and folders that I've done this with, and I have no interest in spending a week doing nothing but changing them all to use this new sorting method.
 
I come to my fellow Kiwis as a last resort. I need help fixing my niche use-case issue that I cannot find info on anywhere else online.

I live in a tiny studio apartment and I've got my desk set up in the corner with my PC. No issues there, everything's golden. However, when I game I like to do so from the couch in front of the TV I spent too much money on. So naturally I have an HDMI cable connected to my TV as well as my monitor. The problem is that when I have my GPU connected to my monitor and TV at the same time, I experience lag and stuttering. Not just while gaming, even scrolling through a web page will stutter and hitch. There are no problems when it's either just the monitor or just the TV connected.

An astute Kiwi will say "well, just don't have both connected at the same time." And they would be correct. That fixes the problem, but my weapons-grade autism will not accept this. In my mind, there shouldn't be a reason I can't enjoy my PC while it's connected to both my monitor and my TV. It is simply ridiculous and I won't accept it. Both are set to the same refresh rate and resolution, so save your breath if you think I haven't tried the obvious fixes. The problem persists even if my monitor or the TV is turned off, which further perplexes me.

I'm on Arch, but I don't know how much that matters because this happened when I was using Mint earlier. It happens with both an Nvidia and an AMD GPU so drivers probably aren't the problem. It does not happen if I boot into my Windows drive, which leads me to believe the problem is somewhere with Linux.
 
Both are set to the same refresh rate and resolution, so save your breath if you think I haven't tried the obvious fixes.
  • Are they set to the same refresh rate? Or is one set to 1080p @ 59.94hz and one to 1080p @ 60.00hz?
  • If using Wayland, have you tried using normal X11?
No suggestions beside that, although if I were you and only using one output at a time I would probably get a cheap ass HDMI switcher so I can just press a button rather than fuck ass around with display settings.
 
  • Are they set to the same refresh rate? Or is one set to 1080p @ 59.94hz and one to 1080p @ 60.00hz?
  • If using Wayland, have you tried using normal X11?
No suggestions beside that, although if I were you and only using one output at a time I would probably get a cheap ass HDMI switcher so I can just press a button rather than fuck ass around with display settings.
Both are set to the same refresh rate and resolution, so save your breath if you think I haven't tried the obvious fixes
Wait what is an HDMI switcher?
 
Wait what is an HDMI switcher?
Or a cheap KVM switch. GPU sends signal to it, it passes the signal to one display, you press a button and it switches. Usually they are used the opposite way, to have multiple machines with the same periphery, so make sure it supports that (or is bidirectional).
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