The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Akerman said:
Redditors seem to be getting more & more fed up with Wayland lately. Usually these types of posts have a lot of downdoots from the cultists, rampant accusations of XLibre fascist promotion, "it werks for me" or w/e else, but not this time.

You even have people calling for people to just go back to X11 now:

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i get a couple retards in my dms talking about this
they start off as wayland shills because they started using linux in 2019 on their modern gaming machine so all they know is wayland
when i say well i need x11 for <insert obscure or old hardware here> they say just buy a new computer
when i say i plan on using xlibre they say its probably malware or some non sequitur about nazis
you can't win with these people
 
Betonhaus said:
Is there like a diff detect program that scans your entire computer and tells you all files that are different after each scan? It would be a slow process though
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Why specifically do you want to do this? do you want to do backup but only with the diff instead of backing up everything everytime you do a backup? backup tools can do this automatically in that case
 
Retard Marine said:
I suppose there's this against Nvidia on Linux if you care a lot about modern games...
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Yeah, they are working on that apparently but the fix hasn't dropped yet. Maybe 590. But DX12 has been awful in general for me. I was having the strangest DX12 issues on my Windows partition after upgrading to 24H2.

It was literally freezing up my entire computer while I was playing CK3. Literally no response from the system. Dev said it's some known issue with DX12 w/ 24H22 and that they were currently off petitioning Redmond for a fix because apparently they have to do that. The only reasonable workaround suggested was to fall back to Vulkan or some janky Regedit. Dunno if they fixed it since then, probably.

Another thing to note is that NVIDIA has HDMI 2.1 support on Linux, AMD on Linux does not. AMD does on Windows IIRC though. For Linux you need to use a converter like this.
 
seri0us said:
But how can the security of their repository be guaranteed? You may say, "reference the checksums" however what if a hypothetical backdoor messed with those too and what about simple or unverified files? The package maintainers probably wouldn't know if one of the many proprietary blobs in either the software or hardware was being used as an attack vector; is there any way to truly know the security of your computer without also guaranteeing the security of the underlying hardware?
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Unless you are willing to manually review the source code of every single package you compile, you're going to eventually have to trust someone somewhere along the line. When it comes to software I generally assume that everything that is a black box is automatically a backdoor. Safety, security and privacy are always a game of compromise; how much convenience are you willing to give up for the sake of privacy?

OpenBSD & Guix + Libreboot are my current ways of dealing with that. And yes, I know that modern Libreboot requires some proprietary blobs, but as of Haswell boards the only thing that's left of the IME chain is a tiny bring-up blob, which I can live with. Again: compromise.
Betonhaus said:
Possibly Erebus and the Huawei chips, but those are very hard to get in NA
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I can almost guarantee those will come with some kind of IME/PSP-tier niggerware. Any government or large corpo-backed produciton is bound to come with closed source black box firmware. I would rather choose Libreboot than that tbh. Although, I am willing to somewhat compromise regarding ARM stuff. Trust Zone doesn't run beneath the OS and can be interacted with directly from userland, and the small RISC microprocessors (IIRC) are only used for hardware bringup and managing temps; in any case, their implementation is much smaller and less severe than the IME/PSP.
 
Belisarius Cawl said:
How do you handle tray icons

I worry about an organization's gay politics in case I somehow run afoul of it and get cut off from getting support. That's exactly what happened to a number of people attempting to use the Caves of Qud Discord server and getting thrown out for fucking stupid reasons.
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Sounds like the tranny bitches that ruined RHDN
 
By the way, I asked a few pages ago about Wayland - so, my Linux Mint thought to install it. I still use the default... which I think is Cinammon.

No idea why it thought of doing it?
 
Outer Space Traveller said:
By the way, I asked a few pages ago about Wayland - so, my Linux Mint thought to install it. I still use the default... which I think is Cinammon.

No idea why it thought of doing it?
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...what?
Wayland: standard for graphics rendering, alternative to X11
Muffin: Cinnamon's implementation of the Wayland server
Cinnamon: the graphical desktop environment, which dictates exactly what you see such as the menu layout and icon sets. Is the default de for Linux Mint, but Linux Mint can be downloaded with XFCE or MATE

For X11 all Desktop Environments and display managers of any form use the Xorg display server, but for Wayland there is no standard display server so each DE and WM has to write a new one from scratch. Cinnamon's Muffin is the Wayland one and it's still experimental, so Cinnamon defaults to X11 despite having Wayland installed
 
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Betonhaus said:
...what?
Wayland: standard for graphics rendering, alternative to X11
Muffin: Cinnamon's implementation of the Wayland server
Cinnamon: the graphical desktop environment, which dictates exactly what you see such as the menu layout and icon sets. Is the default de for Linux Mint, but Linux Mint can be downloaded with XFCE or MATE

For X11 all Desktop Environments and display managers of any form use the Xorg display server, but for Wayland there is no standard display server so each DE and WM has to write a new one from scratch. Cinnamon's Muffin is the Wayland one and it's still experimental, so Cinnamon defaults to X11 despite having Wayland installed
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I have no idea what is the default, so I am probably talking out of my ass here. Still, thank you for correcting me. I see. I guess I must have installed something without paying attention.
 

Idk what it is about this guy, but I trust him with my life. Let's get him a visa, so he can be forced into wage slavery in my country.

(Somehow he manages to understand the simple concept of why a duopoly is bad, meanwhile I've seen fellow white people not grasp the concept)
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UxXpiIqwMAY
Idk what it is about this guy, but I trust him with my life. Let's get him a visa, so he can be forced into wage slavery in my country.

(Somehow he manages to understand the simple concept of why a duopoly is bad, meanwhile I've seen fellow white people not grasp the concept)
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yeah they teach u in highschool that monopolies are bad because theres no competition
they dont teach u a duopoly is just a monopoly except 2 companies are colluding to fuck u in the ass instead of just 1
 
I see people complain about there being "too many distros" yet no real solution is present or proposed?
 
I finally solved a persistent issue for months and months with my computer sometimes crashing on sleep, by updating the bios. go figure.

Trans Fat 41g said:
I see people complain about there being "too many distros" yet no real solution is present or proposed?
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there is. Linux Mint. Anyone who suggests anything else to new users is mentally ill, with the exact illness defined by their choice.
Arch/Gentoo: autustic
Ubuntu: BPD
Bazzite/Nobara: ADHD
just as examples
 
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