The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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prollyanotherlurker said:
You will almost never see any real issues, even running arch, any other rolling release distro. I see people complaining about issues with arch updates, and I used to wonder why I never have had any of the same problems.
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In all my time running arch(I do use a dynamic WM), the only problem I got was with pipewire just stopping working after one update (iirc. it was a well documented break, and all I needed to do was to change a config file, but it was over a year ago). Recently a second problem manifested, my imagemagick is broken, haven't figured out why yet (for some reason it can't understand jpeg?). But two problems in around 5 years? I think that's a pretty good score for an "unstable" distro.

Betonhaus said:
What do people consider to be the best distros for a media server with docker images?
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A few of my friends use something called "FreeNAS" (or something like that). They say it's really good for docker stuff and NAS. I haven't tried it as I feel that docker only does (abstractedly) what the OS is supposed to do, but that's probably just my autism. I guess it's at least worth looking into.
 
Zeftax said:
docker only does (abstractedly) what the OS is supposed to do
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Recently I've been thinking about undoing my Proxmox setup to use separate LXC's for my Docker containers instead of one LXC with a Docker instance, but I quickly went back to Docker since I realized how convenient it is. For example Syncthing. To set it up in an LXC you'd need to go through an entire procedure that differs from software to software. With Docker, you just pull a Docker image, declare some /var/ path for data to be stored outside of the Docker environment and you're all good to go. Need to migrate? Just migrate your data directory and set it while setting up the image. All the dependency hell and pains of manual installation are taken care of for you, you only focus on what you want to deploy. Granted, you basically have to destroy the container and set it up again if you want to update it, but idk maybe K8 does it better.

Point is that yes, you could set every single service up in a separate LXC, but Docker is faster and easier to achieve the same end goal. The abstraction is there for a reason, it's to save you time and nerves. Something die hard Linux users don't value much I guess.
 
Ferryman said:
antiX has great 32 bit support, they've been posting on the forum about how they want to continue offering it for the foreseeable future; it already includes a lot of homespun scripting and customization, so I'm pretty confident they can figure out a way to keep 32-bit going regardless of upstream changes. Don't let the politisperging on their home page dissuade you, the distro is solid. Its been my server distro of choice since I migrated from Alpine a few months back and it works like a charm.
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ya im one of those people that actually doesnt care about politics so theyre fine in my book lol
ive used antix but not for any serious length of time. might be time for me to test it on obscure hardware
 
wafflesies said:
ya im one of those people that actually doesnt care about politics so theyre fine in my book lol
ive used antix but not for any serious length of time. might be time for me to test it on obscure hardware
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Well, they're Greek antifascists so they do actually have to fight Nazis sometimes.

AntiX is impressive from a technical standpoint. It's a good distro. They know what they're doing.
 
Anyone ever used Qubes before? Is it any good? Thinking of buying a small PC to use Qubes with.
 
Anti Snigger said:
I'm just going to come out and say it, GIMP is perfectly usable, I've never understood why people hate it
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I have a ton of nostalgia for GIMP when I was an autistic teenager making forum signatures, but it really must be said: the program is hideous and whatever pen tool functionality it has is woefully inadequate to something like Photoshop CS5/CS6. You can make some truly fantastic shit with GIMP, but certain effects or tasks in GIMP are such an uphill battle because the tools are either unintuitive upon first attempt or half-baked and nowhere near as robust as in Photoshop. I don't bitch about Paint.NET because I know it's basically MS Paint but with some added bells and whistles like layers, blurs, and plugins. GIMP, for the entirety that I've been a Linux enthusiast since my high school years, was always billed as "it's just like Photoshop" by Linux evangelists who've never once spent like 5-6 hours in Photoshop making something stupid and niche. An animated GIF forum signature that's like 350x100, under 100kb, and has all sorts of custom transparencies you ripped yourself is labourious under Photoshop CS6, but 100% doable. I attempted it on GIMP and gave up halfway through. Mind you, I'm speaking entirely from memory here. The then-current version of GIMP I used at the time was 2.6 -> 2.7, and I haven't touched the program in well over a decade. Could there have been massive advances in the interim? Sure. I can't very well put that to the test, however, because I'm long past the point of spending an inordinate amount of time making similar forum signatures and even if I wanted to, it's not like Kiwi Farms lets people have forum signatures in their posts.
 
SOLDIER OF WALES said:
extreme trolling that I don’t want linked back to me
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Qubes is hideously resource-intensive. TAILS is better if you wanna be a shitlord on the internet that'll go cowtipping or indulge in no-no forms of online trolling. Kind reminder to not share your desire to indulge in "extreme trolling" that you "don't want linked back" on a forum where terminally exceptional users ultimately get doxed themselves due to their own failures in opsec.
 
Froggy Fresh Sextape said:
Well, they're Greek antifascists so they do actually have to fight Nazis sometimes.

AntiX is impressive from a technical standpoint. It's a good distro. They know what they're doing.
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ya im sure they do good work
might throw it on a computer at some point if i come across one that looks like a good fit for it
 
Frederica Bernkastel said:
FYI, apparently Linus Of Tech Tips is doing an interview with the real Linus this month.
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That sounds insanely out of step with what Linus usually does. He's doing fewer and fewer interviews in general these days, and he's always super picky about the ones he does. They are always relevant to kernel development, mainstream like 60 minutes, TedTalk or w/e. Why would he do LTT? I have heard Linus say the same thing every time gaming is brought up going back to the 90s: "I am not much of a gamer" and then he just stares blankly at the host until the interview moves on to fun things like kernel development. I am betting he will say it this time around too and then stand there kinda awkwardly as Linus tries to talk about the Steam Deck at him which he had nothing to do with. Why did he even agree to this? If I was going to theorize I would bet that some of Linus Torvalds' kids were fans of LTT urging him to do it or something, but his kids are adults now aren't they? The only thing I have heard about from his kids, or at least one of them was that he/she made Torvalds sign some moronic pledge.

If that is the case though then that fucking sucks, usually kids get their celeb parents to do fun online shit that they are fans of like Hot Ones. I'd much rather see Linus choke out on Da Bomb than hang out with Troon Tips
 
KDE Linux is looking for testers, by the way

Who is KDE Linux for?​

At the moment, only the Testing edition is available. The more these sentences describe you, the happier you’ll be using it:
  • You’re a KDE fan
  • You get excited about modern technology like Systemd, immutable OSs, containerized apps, and Btrfs
  • You want to participate in KDE’s QA process and find issues early
  • You’re a KDE Plasma developer
  • You don’t have an NVIDIA GPU that’s over 6 years old
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I'm sure this applies to everyone in this thread.
 
Froggy Fresh Sextape said:
KDE Linux is looking for testers, by the way



I'm sure this applies to everyone in this thread.
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Considering how the KDE project was seemingly overtaken by the troon menace and embarking on the same path of self-destruction that GNOME fell prey to, I'll pass. They've shunned XLibre and I'm fairly sure they're gonna abandon Xorg for Wayland like GNOME is, albeit at a later time. Plasma 5 was the last truly excellent KDE release.
 
SOLDIER OF WALES said:
Anyone ever used Qubes before? Is it any good? Thinking of buying a small PC to use Qubes with.
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make sure you have a lot of memory. not sure how heavy it is on cpu, but I imagine you probably will want something with decent specs if you run qubes. It's pretty resource intensive.

also if you're planning on swatting people or something kys nigger.
Dread First said:
Qubes is hideously resource-intensive. TAILS is better if you wanna be a shitlord on the internet that'll go cowtipping or indulge in no-no forms of online trolling. Kind reminder to not share your desire to indulge in "extreme trolling" that you "don't want linked back" on a forum where terminally exceptional users ultimately get doxed themselves due to their own failures in opsec.
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We will know if we see someone doing a bit of trolling, it was that guy.
 
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