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I use a Gigabyte board, the Aorus Ultra B650i, because it’s the only AM5 mITX board with three M.2 slots, and it’s worked just fine, but it was with no small amount of trepidation I ordered it.
 
analrapist said:
And from our boy cat
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Yeah, cat is the real answer. You don't need to worry about bs=, and it almost always it will be faster than dd. Also unless people are used to dd, there is a good chance it will be more intuitive.

That is if they know what shell redirection is. But I'm sure if they've done anything following a guide that involves running a ternimal they've probably done an echo "some value" > some_file (or >>)
Fellen said:
I've been seeing videos recommended about Windows sucking and how gamers should go to Bazzite. These people have to realize normies are gonna have one look at the terminal, shit their pants, and want to go back to Windows. It doesn't help that it's immutable so installing applications outside of the bazaar is more difficult. They've got to stop shilling "gaming" distros and just recommend the popular ones that are easily accessible to Windows users like Linux Mint or Zorin.
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I at least understand the logic. It's because bazzite tried to copy steamos. And a bunch of people used steamos, saw it worked, and they thought it was some magical thing. When really for the most part it's what they would get on any modern just works linux distro. So when the gamerz want to install something they see bazzite is just steamos, but for the desktop, and choose that. And they have techtubers selling it to them as the answer to linux working on the desktop.

When really mint, zorin, or even cachyos would probably be a more reasonable solution.

I'm trying to think of the right way to get across what I'm saying. Specifically about the mentality of the gamers that see steamos as some magical thing. I can say for sure valve has contributed to the linux desktop. But it was like people saw steamos doing things normal linux distros did for years. And thought that steamos was the only linux distro that could make things that easy. It just seemed like a lot of people either hadn't used linux before, but assumed modern linux would always be completely unusable, and you would need the terminal for everything. Or they had used linux but it was a long time ago, and they assumed everything was like it was back then. Don't get me wrong there are some circumstances, especially with some hardware that can make using linux harder than it would be otherwise. But even then it's not like steamos fixed that problem. They just had the luxury to pick hardware they knew would work well, and built on top of that.
 
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That is if they know what shell redirection is.
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The problem is that you can't sudo cat file >/dev/sdx as limited user, you'd have to sudo sh -c 'cat file >/dev/sdx'. dd circumvents this by having an explicit output. sudo pv -o /dev/sdx file gives you progress if you have pv installed. This shouldn't be hard for your average user, but it is a bit convoluted.

teriyakiburns said:
But yes, gigabyte are shit-tier. The only computer of mine that had insurmountable stability problems was on a gigabyte motherboard. I hated that thing,
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Weird to me. From like 2000 to 2010, Gigabyte was my preferred mainboard. I had a special DualBIOS rig specially hardware modded to run CoreBoot and trigger the DualBIOS refresh if I bricked it. I've only built two PCs since then, AsRock and ASUS.
 
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analrapist said:
The problem is that you can't sudo cat file >/dev/sdx as limited user, you'd have to sudo sh -c 'cat file >/dev/sdx'. dd circumvents this by having an explicit output. sudo pv -o /dev/sdx file gives you progress if you have pv installed. This shouldn't be hard for your average user, but it is a bit convoluted.
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I would personally just su, or sudo -s. then cat file > /dev/sdx
 
Susanna said:
I use a Gigabyte board, the Aorus Ultra B650i, because it’s the only AM5 mITX board with three M.2 slots, and it’s worked just fine, but it was with no small amount of trepidation I ordered it.
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I just use PCIe adapter cards. If you have an x4 slot you're golden, an x8 slot let's you have two m.2 drives. I put a cheapo one in a x1 slot because it's for a Windows VM and idc if it's not full speed for the slot.
 
Betonhaus said:
I just use PCIe adapter cards. If you have an x4 slot you're golden, an x8 slot let's you have two m.2 drives. I put a cheapo one in a x1 slot because it's for a Windows VM and idc if it's not full speed for the slot.
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It’s mITX, I only get the one card slot and I’d rather use that for a GPU.
 
DavidS877 said:
Look at all these amateurs who don't just run as UID 0 all the time.
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Sorry to trouble you, sir, but I am a retard who is responsible for losing terabytes of my precious data. I cannot permit this retard to do it again.
 
Betonhaus said:
As much as I love miniITX builds I'm slowly coming to terms with the fact that they have a lot of downsides
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Yeah, but my computer is so small!
7950X, 12TB, 96GB@6400, 4090, watercooling, in an A4-H2O.
 
jeff7989 said:
Can you prove that there is no spyware on any of the chips in your PC?
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I mean, if any of those chips were engineered in the US, there is malicious spyware on them.

It's funny that the only 'evidence' that any of the retards pretending Deepin is untrustworthy have, is that the music app gets metadata from Chinese services. As opposed to every second AUR package packing malware.
 
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It's funny that the only 'evidence' that any of the retards pretending Deepin is untrustworthy have, is that the music app gets metadata from Chinese services. As opposed to every second AUR package packing malware.
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I didnt really care enough to check if it did or not.
 
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It's funny that the only 'evidence' that any of the retards pretending Deepin is untrustworthy have, is that the music app gets metadata from Chinese services. As opposed to every second AUR package packing malware.
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The first and only time I've heard about Deepin was when OpenSUSE dropped them because they kept ignoring their security team and were sneaking packages past them.

SUSE Security Team Blog: Removal of Deepin Desktop from openSUSE due to Packaging Policy Violation
 
Max Weber said:
The first and only time I've heard about Deepin was when OpenSUSE dropped them because they kept ignoring their security team and were sneaking packages past them.

SUSE Security Team Blog: Removal of Deepin Desktop from openSUSE due to Packaging Policy Violation
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not to stereotype but im going to tell u now ur going to see chinese people come up a lot more in linux discussions, particularly the kernel and security problems
not saying its a chinese thing just ur gonna see a lot more of them in the future
again, not stereotyping
 
Savage Randy said:
Who the fuck uses SUSE?
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No one important, but it must be said: the fact that SUSE outlived Novell and came out the other side as a wholly independent entity once more is pretty fucking hilarious. A side effect of trawling through LinuxQuestions between 2010-2011ish is that you inevitably come across tons of posts from 2004-2006 whinging about Novell buying out the original SUSE company, then the patent deal with Microsoft, and so on and so forth. I wonder if those old fogies from decades ago are even aware of SUSE being independent once more.
 
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