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Since nobody posted about this in the thread, a new NTFS driver for Linux with read/write support just got announced by the same dude behind the exFAT driver:

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This NTFSPLUS driver carries some weight as its development was led by Namjae Jeon. Namjae Jeon is the Linux kernel developer who developed the exFAT Linux driver, maintainer of the KSMBD kernel server code, and other Linux storage achievements. He's now taken to improving the NTFS support on Linux.

NTFSPLUS offers write support unlike the original Linux kernel driver. Compared to Paragon's NTFS3 code, NTFSPLUS offers IOmap support, no buffer head, public user-space utilities, IDMAPPED mount support, delayed allocation, and plans to support journaling unlike NTFS3's inoperative implementation.
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Creative Username said:
no, you have the respective folders owned by the groups accounting, files, and legal. if you want somebody to only have access to accounting, you simply add the accounting group to their supplementary groups
also i am aware that there are 5000 ways users and groups fail and you need acls (the "99%" remark was present for a reason) but i think this case is not one of them
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Correct, that was partly what I alluded to with my second solution. You can create groups for every little thing and do that, however the more complex you make your system the more time you spend on user management. Since the default *nix model only allows one user and one group, you have to get extremely granular with that in those cases. ACLs do simplify that since it does allow you to assign multiple users and groups to (a) file(s).

You also need to make sure that if software's dropping files in that directory that it obeys permissions and sets them appropriately. I've seen this problem happen with logs dropped where it doesn't set the appropriate owner/group or octal and it causes a number of foul-ups.
 
TerribleUser09 said:
Back in the days, I had Asus laptop with Vista installed. It worked fine. It was sluggish but it got job done. After Vista I have installed Ubuntu and the sheer numbers of issues with drivers and unsupported hardware was appalling. Built-in webcam was flipped upside-down and there was nothing I could do about it. The touchpad had different sensor issues and used to teleport mouse pinter all over the desktop. Boot section was regularly raped by-who-knows-what. Integrated Intel graphic card was shit on Windows but on Linux it was even shittier. Something that run flawlessly on DirectX 9.0c (UT 2004) was stuttering on Linux despite installed free-open drivers. WiFi card got raped every few months after major update which required some in-depth knowledge about script and settings.ini edit.
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At least generally things are better than they were back when vista would have been around still. I haven't seen that kind of thing so far on linux.

Besides my own stuff, I've installed linux for people on laptops. I usually just wipe it, and install mint. And of course after installing it, I'll reboot then make sure things are all working properly. I don't think I've run into a a laptop where mint doesn't just work.

These are of course, fairly normal laptops I'm talking about. There could very well be some laptops out their that have broken linux support currently. But so far I haven't run into them


Was on the Primagen and TJ Devries podcast talking about omarchy.
 
TerribleUser09 said:
I had likewise experiences but on a flip side.

Back in the days, I had Asus laptop with Vista installed. It worked fine. It was sluggish but it got job done. After Vista I have installed Ubuntu and the sheer numbers of issues with drivers and unsupported hardware was appalling. Built-in webcam was flipped upside-down and there was nothing I could do about it. The touchpad had different sensor issues and used to teleport mouse pinter all over the desktop. Boot section was regularly raped by-who-knows-what. Integrated Intel graphic card was shit on Windows but on Linux it was even shittier. Something that run flawlessly on DirectX 9.0c (UT 2004) was stuttering on Linux despite installed free-open drivers. WiFi card got raped every few months after major update which required some in-depth knowledge about script and settings.ini edit.
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i had the opposite issue. my laptop ran horrifically bad with vista. everything broke often and my computer started falling apart. i eventually gave up on it and installed ubuntu and everything just worked for the most part
 
wafflesies said:
i had the opposite issue. my laptop ran horrifically bad with vista. everything broke often and my computer started falling apart. i eventually gave up on it and installed ubuntu and everything just worked for the most part
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To be fair Vista lied about it's recommended system requirements and was a bloated pig shipped on hardware that struggled to run it. Ubuntu was far less bloated at the time and would've flied on laptops Vista struggled on.
 
StolenWindows said:
Just a reminder that only GNU w/ kernel hardening and Guix are any good. Qubes is good for security, but not for privacy (since everything runs in isolated VMs, such as work, banking, browsing and development with each getting its own domain, that makes it prone to metadata leaks). Arch tries to be Gentoo, but LGBT-friendly. Manjaro is just trash that tries to be Windows.
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What kind of metadata leaks are you referring to?
 
I have a confession to make.

I'm starting to like Vim.

Although, I am using Neovim as it doesn't shit up every folder I work in with useless files that should've been kept in it's own data folder, and I can make it portable by just launching a Powershell/Bash script that sets the XDG variables, and because Vim's development died with Bram. But I'm not bothering with the whole plugin ricing trend, just a basic init.vim config and relying on built-in features to ease into the workflow. I even went ahead and swapped the default text editor on my server and it's containers to nvim just to keep it all consistent, and I ssh in there anyways. Hell, even went so far to install Vimium in my browsers and from time to time I find myself using it instead of grabbing the mouse.
 
I decided to purge Fedora from my external hard drive. Guess who's on the Artix bandwagon now? THIS NIGGA. They even still have neofetch in the repositories! I was too impatient to build up from a base system like with classic Arch, so I decided to go with their weekly Cinnamon ISO. I gotta say, ArchBang still exists in my head as the definitive "lazy man's Arch Linux," but Artix is definitely up there.

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Dread First said:
I decided to purge Fedora from my external hard drive. Guess who's on the Artix bandwagon now? THIS NIGGA. They even still have neofetch in the repositories! I was too impatient to build up from a base system like with classic Arch, so I decided to go with their weekly Cinnamon ISO. I gotta say, ArchBang still exists in my head as the definitive "lazy man's Arch Linux," but Artix is definitely up there.

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Congrats! Xlibre is in the Artix repositories so if you want to try it out you can just install xlibre-xserver using pacman. I think to go back you can just uninstall it, or installing xorg-xserver should replace it.
 
Betonhaus said:
Congrats! Xlibre is in the Artix repositories so if you want to try it out you can just install xlibre-xserver using pacman. I think to go back you can just uninstall it, or installing xorg-xserver should replace it.
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That's literally the entire reason why I jumped ship from Fedora (sorry COPR; you're only a stopgap) to Artix on my external hard drive. OpenRC is just the cherry on top. Artix boots so much faster, from a goddamn Toshiba portable hard drive, than Fedora... the literal fucking flagship for systemd and Wayland. Haven't done any thorough testing as of yet, but I'm certainly eager to get my knuckles dirty. Assuming I go through with the PC rebuild I have in mind, Artix will more than likely be my daily driver. Either Artix or FreeBSD (@prollyanotherlurker cringes as I float the idea).

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Ahriman said:
Bros, are we cooked?
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We ain't cooked. Increased malware activity on Linux drawn in by skyrocketing normie engagement is an inevitability. Bear in mind that Wine was capable of making actual, factual malware meant for Windows bork your Linux box if you were stupid enough to run linkin_park_-_numb.exe under Wine for the last 20 some odd years. Servers are always under attack, penetration testers are on payroll at big Linux companies to get ahead of the curve on CVEs, it's only natural that malware makers turn their sights toward desktop Linux for a newer crowd of people who ain't so savvy. Year of the Linux Desktop never implied a utopia free from proprietary NDAware and malware; Year of the Linux Desktop precisely implies that malware and proprietary NDAware would transfer over.
 
Remember, your security only goes as far as where your best practices are consistent, otherwise the house falls apart and you're just bluffing.
 
As the dream Year of the Linux Desktop™ is approaching, all distros will go through trial by fire to see just how resilient they are to supply chain attacks, as simply hoping for Windows to get worse will no longer be enough and actual work will have to be put into making Linux better on every level.

It is yet to be determined if taking over the Windows userbase will ultimately be worth it.
 
Rust Troony said:
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Extremely impressive given how Windows imitation themes always looked off, but I'm sure that I'd run into some sort of pedantic inconsistency that would break the whole vibe and I'd prefer a theme that would dark theme everything anyways, which is also why I don't try to relive the glory days on Windows even though there's a dozen of stupidly complicated ways I could do it on 10/11 to reach the same result with the same shortcomings of "this program doesn't match the rest and I hate it". Funnily enough, dark theme everything is something you could've done with classic themes since Windows 3.1 but then XP happened, and then 8 transformed those classic themes into the disgusting high contrast ones and that was the end of it.

I don't know, as time went on I ended up preferring minimizing the blue light raping my retinas over aesthetically pleasing UI's. The fact that a whole bunch of software will use it's own UI libraries like KDE, GNOME, Qt or some custom made ones doesn't help much either. Also changing my userspace mindset to be more keyboard oriented has mostly made the classic desktop, taskbar and start menu layout obsolete for me. I'd probably go for some extremely trimmed down and lightweight DE like LXDE, if not for something like i3wm if I were to get used to the autotiling workflow.

This theme is still damn impressive though. Throw out some obvious Linuxisms like Linux only software icons or that clipboard in the tray menu and you could pass it off as a genuine Win7 screenshot.
 
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