The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Aidan said:
Some of you need to take a break from Kiwifarms and get your troondar recalibrated. Laurie Wired makes good content but her "IM A GIRL IN TECH" style is obnoxious and her voice sucks. The info is pretty good though.
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Uhhh she likes anime dude. Do you know a GIRL that likes anime?

At this point I'm convinced that KF users have never seen or interacted with an actual woman.
 
Froggy Fresh Sextape said:
Uhhh she likes anime dude. Do you know a GIRL that likes anime?
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I mean, I have in the past. Although if you extrapolated the interests of 'anime girls' out based on the small number of actually female vtubers documented on this site, she might have particular special interests in certain forms of anime that are roughly as disgusting as being a troon.
 
Ferryman said:
If you have a separate drive, I'd go so far as to suggest physical isolation
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I do and, and I still fucked it up. Despite doing it and immediately going to bed pissed I know it was mine own fault - though why the fuck would Windows instantly perform disk management tasks when it could just queue them up and write to disk when you're ready? Fuck I hate Windows so much now. ON the note about Windows messing with boot order and stuff, I've stopped using grub as an easy way to jump between linux and Windows because I've had on 3 separate occasions had Windows grenade grub on another disk after a windows update. I don't even get how Windows knows about it, but it never happens if I do it by selecting boot device on start up through the bios.

Ferryman said:
Artix, which is the de-faggoted version of Arch
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I'll give it a try.
 
ghastlyretard said:
Fuck I hate Windows so much now. ON the note about Windows messing with boot order and stuff, I've stopped using grub as an easy way to jump between linux and Windows because I've had on 3 separate occasions had Windows grenade grub on another disk after a windows update. I don't even get how Windows knows about it, but it never happens if I do it by selecting boot device on start up through the bios.
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At this point I assume Windows mowing over GRUB randomly upon updating is intentional. It doesn't mess with the much lesser used EFI-only bootloaders.
 
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Nice Stick said:
It's nice, but I tried it on 4 different boxes and they all had no wifi and/or no audio problems. The alt-init systems make solving these problem even more of a pain since the arch wiki and related pages don't have the answers.
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Wifi and audio have very little to do with init, it's mostly kernel modules and firmware.. Arch and Artix shouldn't really differ in these areas.

Betonhaus said:
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That's a lot of gay porn.
 
seri0us said:
How well does the Arc310 work for transcoding
And why aren't you using ZFS
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The A310 works great for transcoding, though when I got it Debian 12 didn't support it so I had to use Ubuntu. Debian 13 should support it fine but I haven't checked.

I find MergeRFS to be a lot more intuitive to set up and add/remove drives to. The large drives contain movies and TV shows where if one drive actually does fail and I can't replace it in time, I only have to redownload the contents of that drive instead of everything, and the media is low priority enough that there is no point in losing space to add a redundancy layer.
 
I decided to dual-boot Mint for a while because the EOL for Windows 10 is coming up, and I knew that I needed to get away from Windows after hearing what they were saying about their plans for the future. I was worried it was going to be shit, but I haven't touched Windows in over a month at this point. All I can say is thank God for Proton.
 
After 2 whole years of using Debian with GNOME, I've decided to switch my devices to Arch with KDE Plasma.

This is how I would describe my experience:
  • Debian was easy to install.
  • The abundance of deb files on the internet was nice.
  • I could use a really old printer that cannot be used with any modern Windows OS.
  • I liked the workflow I had with GNOME (I only made minor changes to the default settings), especially on my laptop.
  • Almost every bug I encountered was persistent due to how Debian is updated.
  • GNOME handled Qt applications and other programs rather poorly.
  • A ton of GNOME's applications were rather frustrating to use and were clearly inferior when compared to the alternatives (especially the file manager).
Now the reasons why I chose Arch and KDE Plasma are:
  • I had experience with Arch before, and I managed to install it on real hardware (also, fuck Broadcom and their WIFI drivers) before the addition of the archinstall script.
  • The archinstall script makes installation really easy.
  • Since my experience with Debian wasn't as stable as I thought it would be, I might as well change to a rolling release distro.
  • Up-to-date software and regular bug fixes are nice.
  • I can replicate my favorite features from GNOME in KDE Plasma, so I don't have to experience the downsides of using GNOME.
  • KDE's applications are decent.
  • Ubuntu and its derivatives are too bloated, Fedora is too untrustworthy, and when I tried to install OpenSUSE with XFCE on a VM, the installer screwed it up and the installed OS couldn't even boot properly.
Banana Hammock said:
I decided to dual-boot Mint for a while because the EOL for Windows 10 is coming up, and I knew that I needed to get away from Windows after hearing what they were saying about their plans for the future. I was worried it was going to be shit, but I haven't touched Windows in over a month at this point. All I can say is thank God for Proton.
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I firmly believe Mint is the best desktop distro out there. They've done a genuinely good job at creating a distro that you can easily install and will "just work" without any problem afterwards. I had Mint installed on my grandma's old laptop when it started slowing down due to the hardware aging and it was rather easy to set up for her; it didn't even make a fuss about non-free drivers needing to be installed. After I installed it, I never had to touch that laptop again; everything just worked.

My PC also uses a dual-boot setup, but I barely use Windows on it at all. I mainly use it to give feedback on software and compare its performance when it's running on Windows versus when it's running on Linux or through Wine/Proton.

Also, is Kubuntu a sensible alternative to Linux Mint if I wanted to recommend a Windows user an easy-to-use distro? I only used Kubuntu for like 10 minutes in a VM several years ago. Are snaps just as forced there as in regular Ubuntu?
 
The Wise Shaman said:
Now the reasons why I chose Arch and KDE Plasma are:
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Just a warning. Arch can, and will run fine with updates, I have never had any significant issues in my time running it.

But. With some like kde specifically. Or just kde. It's a huge suite of software, and kde is known to send out buggy updates from time to time. So you might run into more issues running kde on arch, than you otherwise might see. It's not guaranteed you will run into problems, but it's more likely than if you were using any other desktop that I can think of.

Like xfce, maybe lxqt if you want qt (though you probably want to run the xorg session on that, their Wayland session probably isn't ready yet, as far as I know xorg should still be their default). Probably cinnamon, or mate as well. I think cinnamon in particular is underrated. And it's something I would trust to not get sent out with the kinds of breakages, or bugs kde sees.
 
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The Wise Shaman said:
Are snaps just as forced there as in regular Ubuntu?
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Kubuntu uses snaps, yes.

Actually, bringing up your point about GNOME bugs persisting in Debian since bugfixes aren't backported, Kubuntu is the same way by default. This is worse for KDE because holy shit their release style is pretty close to "well ship it and let users report the bugs." You can enable the official Kubuntu backport PPAs if you run into a bug and want to move closer to upstream, but this, I think, would break it as being something that I would recommend for people entirely new to Linux.
 
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