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Some drama in the Void Linux community brewing. On Friday someone posted a link to a git repo with a working Void template for Xlibre on the subreddit (you'll need the unmerged pull request too if you want to test it). The post was removed without comment.

Today the poster is back:
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And gets removed again before I could archive :
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daffodils said:
Some drama in the Void Linux community brewing. On Friday someone posted a link to a git repo with a working Void template for Xlibre on the subreddit (you'll need the unmerged pull request too if you want to test it). The post was removed without comment.
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Should not be surprising. Alpine Linux, Chimera and Void all share the same devs and maintainers. Void was the same distro that also blocked Hyprland for political reasons because of Drew.
 
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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They certainly have some interesting bespoke scripting going on to make everything work. As far as I know short of Gentoo with explicit anti-sysd USE flags, antiX is the most systemd free distro out of the box. And it fits plenty use cases: a stable server OS, headless or otherwise, a standard OS since like 80% of even stock Debian packages just werk, or as something you can tweak and tinker. Great OS all around. One thing I've noticed is that their entire core dev and forum admin team are boomers. The head dev "anticapitalista" was already a MEPIS developer in the late 90s and early 2000s, and antiX itself is already 18 years old. Not a gripe, just an observation.
 

Ubuntu forums gay nigga flag nonsense. Of course lunduke makes an account, puts things in his bio to test if they will be consistent with their policy to allow people to share their identity. And he gets banned.

Also he says in this "I am very religious", and he's Jewish. What does he mean by that? 🤔

daffodils said:
Some drama in the Void Linux community brewing. On Friday someone posted a link to a git repo with a working Void template for Xlibre on the subreddit (you'll need the unmerged pull request too if you want to test it). The post was removed without comment.

Today the poster is back:
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And gets removed again before I could archive :
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Speaking of lunduke. He would eat that story up.
 
I was considering Alpine Linux one day, but I don't trust the maintainers to not fuck around with shit to where I have to rearrange how I install the things I need/want because they had a politisperging meltdown.
 
Retarded Weeb said:
Are they .rar files? The only time I've had this problem (neither 7z, unzip, LXQt File Archiver could extract them on Lubuntu) was with .rar files I got have manga piracy sites, and I found unrar extracts them just fine. They always have some message put by the piracy group that displays in command line at the start of extraction, so my only guess is they're doing something fucky with the metadata that other programs besides unrar don't know how to handle.
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Debian breaks out 7z RAR into a "7zip-rar" package you need to install. Still doesn't seem complete but more work properly, but I haven't checked my files to see what unrar says about them.

Also, I find the whole efistub thing funny. We JUST(20+ years ago) got a bootloader that could read kernels from any filesystem and now people are going back to needing to shove everything in the modern day "/boot" Grub has a pretty menu, configurable timeout for choosing options or changing to boot windows without mashing F8 until the BIOS menu pops up.
 
DavidS877 said:
Debian breaks out 7z RAR into a "7zip-rar" package you need to install. Still doesn't seem complete but more work properly, but I haven't checked my files to see what unrar says about them.
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Huh, I thought I checked for things like that. Maybe I forgot on my most recent OS install. There are definitely some rar files 7z can unpack by default, but that does in fact fix the issue for ones it can't.
 
daffodils said:
I know that former Void developer and belligerent tranny q66 runs Chimera, but what is the overlap with Alpine?
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People like psykose, fossdd, Neal Gompa, and Sertonix are regulars in the Void Linux IRC server. And their inner circles mingle a lot on the same bluesky servers. Psykose apparently works on Chimera now too. Psykose was one of the most prolific Alpine Linux package maintainers.
 
Retarded Weeb said:
Are they .rar files? The only time I've had this problem (neither 7z, unzip, LXQt File Archiver could extract them on Lubuntu) was with .rar files I got have manga piracy sites, and I found unrar extracts them just fine. They always have some message put by the piracy group that displays in command line at the start of extraction, so my only guess is they're doing something fucky with the metadata that other programs besides unrar don't know how to handle.
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One of them is a .rar file with an ISO for a game, I have that one still, can't remember what the other one is. Must be a similar situation to what you had because unrar worked. Thanks

Edit: it would be nice if mint had some sort of 7zfm program that just does all the shit like it does on windows instead of having to play with multiple programs to essentially do the same thing. Or at the very least let the wrong programs tell you that you're retarded for using the wrong program, go get the right one.
 
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Frederica Bernkastel said:
Should not be surprising. Alpine Linux, Chimera and Void all share the same devs and maintainers. Void was the same distro that also blocked Hyprland for political reasons because of Drew.
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well also void didnt ship bleeding edge wayland which was required by hyprland, so they couldn't package it even if they wanted to
after vaxry ran off most of gentoo's maintainers with negligent security practices and sperging out in public issue trackers, gentoo deemed the codebase too messy to manage even on a source-based distro and they threatened to pull it from ::gentoo (the official repository) if they didn't get their ship in order
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How worse is ext4 compared to NTFS anyways? NTFS is practically ancient by this point yet you don't hear any major problems from Windows that stem from it. If ext4 is comparable to NTFS then there isn't much reason to use anything else for your OS install IMO.
 
wafflesies said:
after vaxry ran off most of gentoo's maintainers with negligent security practices and sperging out in public issue trackers, gentoo deemed the codebase too messy to manage even on a source-based distro and they threatened to pull it from ::gentoo (the official repository) if they didn't get their ship in order
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Yeah, I recall reading about that. When security issues were pointed out; he told people to fuck off basically. He's always been generally dismissive, and elitist about bug reports. Hyprland suffers heavily from feature creep and pulls in way too many fucking dependencies on gentoo. It pulls in unnecessary garbage like qt5 and gay ass wallpapers you're never going to use. Then, it has the nerve to nag you about donations unless you turn it off. Just faggotry all around.
 
Slav Power said:
How worse is ext4 compared to NTFS anyways? NTFS is practically ancient by this point yet you don't hear any major problems from Windows that stem from it. If ext4 is comparable to NTFS then there isn't much reason to use anything else for your OS install IMO.
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uhhh if im reading this right ur trying to install linux on a ntfs partition
this won't work, but i think you knew that already
ntfs doesn't support linux permissions so you'll notice stuff like games on an ntfs slave probably won't work from a linux system. and if they do it's probably not consistent.
there are extremely hacky ways to install some linux distros on ntfs but it's definitely not advised.
ext4 is generally recommended because it supports partition resizing, where some filesystems like xfs don't.
xfs has the benefit of being copy-on-write which means duplicate data won't write twice, saving ssd lifespan especially when using a distro like arch or gentoo which has a lot of source packages.
as far as people complaining about ntfs, yeah a lot of people do. my old slaves were ntfs cause i was migrating from windows and i've since formatted them to exfat in case i ever installed windows again and i needed to access them, since ntfs had corruption and i didn't have windows to run chkdsk anymore.
 
daffodils said:
Some drama in the Void Linux community brewing. On Friday someone posted a link to a git repo with a working Void template for Xlibre on the subreddit (you'll need the unmerged pull request too if you want to test it). The post was removed without comment.
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Sucks that their retardation has started to affect the software. Already moved my laptop to Artix for unrelated reasons, thankfully
 
wafflesies said:
uhhh if im reading this right ur trying to install linux on a ntfs partition
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Yeah I assumed it would be misread like that. I meant it on the technical level, how equal ext4 is to NTFS in it's reliability, stability and all the technical aspects of the filesystem, knowing full well that NTFS is not meant for Linux. Basically what would be the Linux equivalent of NTFS, and if ext4 can be considered one, or does it have weaknesses that disqualify it from being considered one.
 
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