The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Hakase Shinonome said:
Is this how you copy paste? Really?
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You delete/yank/put to selection registers when you want to move in/out of the DE clipboard, more on that in :h quotestar. There are other registers which you can use as a way to keep a piece of text intact while you operate to then put it back in without it getting overwritten by your last action, so if you do "ndd then you'll delete a line but keep it in the n named register, so then you can use "np to put it in even if your unnamed register has been overwritten. See :h registers for more.
 
analrapist said:
Any o' y'all niggers burnt a cd any time recently? What are the options that don't suck? I... have not burnt an optical medium since leaving Windows, so that's going on ten years now. And audio CDs are a bit fussy. I want to burn a WAV/CUE combo.
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Options that don't suck? :thinking:
Brasero is a nice simple front end for CLI tools that will burn .cue/.iso etc.. Even though it is claimed to be part of the GNOME shit-top I think it's mostly DE agnostic and pulls in little to none of GNOMEs crap

DeVeDe is a DVD burning/authoring program that I never hear anyone talk about. You can easily create homebrew DVDs+menus from various video files or just burn VIDEO_TS folders. it reminds me of ConvertXtoDVD which I used on Windows ages ago.

Asunder is a quick-n-dirty little CD ripper.

dvdbackup is CLI only and slow as shit but it has been able to crack anything I have thrown at it include R2 discs with various copy protection (e.g. new Doctor Who animated recons) after Brasero and MakeMKV couldn't do it.

Options that kind of suck?
K3B (now hear me out out!) reminds of the good old days of Nero on WinXP for making data discs and audio CDs. The downside is it will pull in a bunch of KDE and may treat you like a nigger on some distros, making you add yourself to esoteric groups (like 'cdrom') before you can use your burner.

I know that's more than you asked for. Thank you for tolerating my autism tonight. :lol:

Slav Power said:
Though a good chunk of tools for CD/DVD/BD ripping, like Alcohol 120%, Media Preservation Frontend, MakeMKV and the BD ODD flashing tool are Windows only.
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Um, sir MakeMKV is certainly available for Linux. I have been using it for years and was even kind enough to trade the devs a few shekels for a lifetime license which I have more than gotten my money's worth back on (YARR!)

Susanna said:
Set an alias for nano to nano --modernbindings
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You know I didn't even know that was an option... I have just been using nano since I first got into Linux (2012-ish) and am just used to the (admittedly odd) default keybindings. I swear I learn something new every day being a Linux fag.
 
innocent jogger said:
Um, sir MakeMKV is certainly available for Linux.
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Ah, my bad, I assumed it relied on Windows NT specific optical drive drivers and whatnot. Also technically you can do dumps on Linux since redumper CLI is multiplatform, but the recommended way that makes it trivially easy which is MDF is Windows only.
 
Which distro do you guys think is least infested with tranny bullshit? My money's split three ways between Gentoo, Guix and Artix. Something about source compilation or declarative systems makes me think that trannies are less likely to invest the time to make them shine in comparison to a quick and dirty niri + arch rice they can spam /g/ with. Anything that shills systemd + wayland seems to be tranny central.
 
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Good to know you only need to declare the XDG variables in the context of the script and it'll work, makes setting up portable nvim much more trivial. Obviously you know how to Bashify this, no "set" to declare a variable, "$1" instead of "%1" for passing the file path and so on, trivial shit. It's probably the biggest strength of nvim that it takes so little to make it self-contained.
 
Ferryman said:
Which distro do you guys think is least infested with tranny bullshit? My money's split three ways between Gentoo, Guix and Artix. Something about source compilation or declarative systems makes me think that trannies are less likely to invest the time to make them shine in comparison to a quick and dirty niri + arch rice they can spam /g/ with. Anything that shills systemd + wayland seems to be tranny central.
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Troons tend to have infinite time on their hands, so I wouldn't bet on that being any sort of filter.
 
Ferryman said:
Which distro do you guys think is least infested with tranny bullshit? My money's split three ways between Gentoo, Guix and Artix. Something about source compilation or declarative systems makes me think that trannies are less likely to invest the time to make them shine in comparison to a quick and dirty niri + arch rice they can spam /g/ with. Anything that shills systemd + wayland seems to be tranny central.
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Linux Mint would be there, it only has 12 developers and half of them are married with children and a lot of their work is removing bullshit from upstream
 
Ahriman said:
@Dread First you're the resident BSDbro, how bad is this?
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August Levasseur said:
Presumably Xlibre creating kernel objects to communicate with a process then not freeing them properly once that process ends. Not good, probably not that terrible.
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It should be mentioned that FreeBSD actually is working on an official port of XLibre, but the problem is that it's still a WIP, per XLibre's GitHub wiki. Right now, the "port" that people are using is an amateur repackaging (this amateur repacking, to be precise). Is it a fundamental issue with XLibre on BSD systems? An issue with the GPU they're using? A fundamental design flaw that validates XLibre critics' worst assumptions about the XLibre project's QA? Honestly hard to say at this point. I would imagine that once the official FreeBSD port for XLibre is considered "ready," these issues would not exist, or at least be mitigated to the fullest extent possible. It should also be noted that third-party XLibre repositories and packaging endeavours are not consistent whatsoever. The third-party repo for Debian/Ubuntu hasn't been updated for months, and the same also applies for the COPR repository on Fedora. Unfortunately, Artix still remains the only place where you can get a consistent, first-party XLibre experience.
 
I can no longer trust the newer xlibre-debian repository. The guy making it refuses to cross-compile for Ubuntu and even if you get it working it's not being tested for obvious problems, such as a conflict with Xlibre-core and the Nvidia driver both trying to install a 10-nvidia.conf file and dealing with that basically bricked my system. This is after him offering the workaround of force installing libxau6 1.0.11 (because he refuses to cross compile for Ubuntu 24.04 which uses libxau6 1.0.9) which basically corrupts the package management and trying to fix it uninstalls your desktop environment.

Honestly since the development team only really tests things on arch distros, don't bother unless the distro you use has Xlibre in their official repositories. If we're lucky maybe we can get the Debian XStrikeForce team (which compiles Xorg for Debian) to take over.
 
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Slav Power said:
And much like any attempt to clarify what piracy actually is will get you branded as a thief, clarifying why Microsoft isn't this cartoonishly evil will get you branded as a corporate shill.
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Yeah this is how i feel in the open source thread. so many Linux users (more off the farm than on it) are just oppositional defiance disorder sysadmin autists that don't understand how businesses make decisions or what the world is like. Software devs just pop into their platonic gooncave/IT department, make some arbitrary changes, then leave again.

Yes, Microsoft sucks and is evil. I started grappling with Linux when i was on paternity leave - I learned how to set up Pop_OS bc i was so sick of windows11 start menu being so shitty and other things. But Linux autists have no theory of mind for other people let alone how large corporations work, so they end up like zerohedge with recessions, predicting 30 of the next 3 evil things Microsoft does. Then when micro$oft does do something evil they act vindicated without ever questioning why their predictive model didn't come true.
 
Penne Dreadful said:
Troons tend to have infinite time on their hands, so I wouldn't bet on that being any sort of filter.
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IMO there's three types of trannies in software dev: the primary tranny (Troonus Primus) the secondary tranny (Troonus Secundus), and the tertiary tranny (Troonus Tertius).

The Primary Tranny is one who makes being a pestilent abomination its primary directive and focuses the majority of its actions through the lens of commiepedotroondom - typical examples include Ariadne Conill, Francis Rowe, Elliot Fong Jones, everyone on Mastodon etc.

The Secondary Tranny is one that focuses first on its work, and then on being a blight. Although the Troonus Secundus is still a slovenly freak, it is still capable of producing quality work, if only until its inevitable mental breakdown causes enshittification or project splintering. Most of these slip between the cracks of software development and exist only in the confines of their musky dens or citing CoC in pull requests & project forums. Examples include various NixOS, Void, GNOME, Wayland etc. devs.

The Tertiary Tranny is either a still-developing youth or easily exploitable young adult that has been roped into the tranny cult. Autists, Reddit/HackerJews midwits and similar types apply. These people are often trannies in name alone, and have not yet taken to poisoning or butchering themselves, and as such their illness can still be remedied. Walking a thin line but can still return from the edge.

Trust either at your own peril - but if you do, make liberal use of git clone and pin commits before they ACK and or DFE.
 
Ferryman said:
it is still capable of producing quality work, if only until its inevitable mental breakdown causes enshittification or project splintering
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Canonical example in my head here is Justine Tunney. Honestly, Tunney is more like a Primary who gave up on advocacy, but Tunney was also not a commie. Tunney's also the twink phenotype, not the AGP phenotype.
 
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