The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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prollyanotherlurker said:

I 100% agree with Brodie. This isn't a partisan issue. And that is a distraction.

Also he mentions a couple states we haven't seen mentioned yet like utah.
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redistribution of code is part of the first amendment. its impossible for the government to ever censor or prevent code from being shared. If anything this is a good development bc it''ll get people off windows and on linux.
 
Phoronix: Valve/RADV Developers Look At More Per-Game Tuning/Optimizations For Mesa Drivers (archive)
Right now these are just ideas being tossed around by RADV/Mesa developers, but especially considering Valve's commitment to Linux gaming and their financial backing to the developers involved, it's quite likely this will turn into substantive action. Those interested in the topic of per-game tuning/optimizations for Mesa drivers can see this Mesa GitLab ticket where the topic is now being discussed.
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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
Phoronix: Valve/RADV Developers Look At More Per-Game Tuning/Optimizations For Mesa Drivers (archive)
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Call me retarded, but I never understood this, not on Windows, not on Linux. Surely the lower leves of the stack should not depend on higher? Like, the kernel should just exist, userspace should use the kernel, applications should use lower level userspace tools. Optimizing a kernel module for a specific game not only removes several steps, it introduces a weird reverse dependency.
 
mango_reseller said:
My prediction is that this (age-gating shit) will simply create an Internet chasm in which there will be a normie internet that is basically scan-to-enter and a freak/schizo internet that is largely powered by autists (read: anarchists, neonazis, trannies etc), which would look probably like I2P on steroids. I don't *personally* expect any grifter and influencer (right or left wing) to ever step foot on the latter internet, simply because it will be impossible to make money on it. It will be much smaller, but also probably finally a return to form for those of us that refuse to be on social media platforms and other such gay shit.
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If it actually comes to giving up your ID to get on most of the Internet (notwithstanding having to pay an ISP to begin with) it'll be interesting and horrifying to see who's still around after all the normies have left
 
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The Linus video is annoying, especially the part where he talks about acting as the average new user. You'd expect that a youtuber or educator (calling him this is really too much credit) would want to appear better than the most basal of zoomer who troubleshoots nothing, knows nothing, and has no capacity or desire to even try learning anything technological, maybe as some form of inspiration or encouragement for them. But nah he just presents as a retard that flips a coin on a chatgpt prompt, good lessons to teach your viewers Mr. """Tech Tips""".
Why anyone would want this in the linux ecosystem is beyond me when its antithetical to it (and it will always be antithetical, linux isn't going to ever be a drop in no complaints no tinkering etc system, whether this itself is an issue is irrelevant). Personally I wouldn't even want people like this to be using computers, but whatever.
 
Tremolo said:
The Linus video is annoying, especially the part where he talks about acting as the average new user.
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the best part about these "youtuber tries linux" videos is the thousands of comments they get from their regular audience saying "i made the switch 2 weeks ago with no problem. i used linux mint because thats what people keep recommending when you look this stuff up"
so theres a huge dissonance between what linus thinks an average user is going to do and what an actual new user is going to do
 
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I fucking hate the antichrist. I can't even open my retarded python shell without wayniggers slapping my hand and demanding I ask for consent first. At least upgrading to Sonic seems to have fixed the massive multi-second delay between switching virtual desktops and the actual taskbar catching up.
 
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I fucking hate the antichrist. I can't even open my retarded python shell without wayniggers slapping my hand and demanding I ask for consent first. At least upgrading to Sonic seems to have fixed the massive multi-second delay between switching virtual desktops and the actual taskbar catching up.
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Did you also switch to Xlibre? If I recall correctly Sonic DE on Xlibre uses Xnamespaces for each virtual desktop so they're isolated from each other. That might improve performance when switching.
 
Betonhaus said:
Did you also switch to Xlibre? If I recall correctly Sonic DE on Xlibre uses Xnamespaces for each virtual desktop so they're isolated from each other. That might improve performance when switching.
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Separate namespace per virtual desktop? I haven't seen it being mentioned. They are cooking by the way, plenty of PRs about ripping out Wayland related ifdefs.
 
jeff7989 said:
Separate namespace per virtual desktop? I haven't seen it being mentioned. They are cooking by the way, plenty of PRs about ripping out Wayland related ifdefs.
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I swear the guy mentioned it on the Teleram chat but I'm not seeing any mentions on the github so maybe it never got rolled out after all.
 
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I fucking hate the antichrist. I can't even open my retarded python shell without wayniggers slapping my hand and demanding I ask for consent first. At least upgrading to Sonic seems to have fixed the massive multi-second delay between switching virtual desktops and the actual taskbar catching up.
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Looks like you're trying to remove it with a package manager while the package relies on wayland. At least from that error message. Or something like that.
 
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August Levasseur said:
Were there every any that didn’t?
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Fair point. I got used to Debian at one point, moved my webservers to Devuan because I'm that buck broken in the LAMP setup 20 years later. I liked Alpine for a bit, but their politics annoy me. Considering moving back to OpenBSD for everything except for my personal laptop. I don't have 20 years to wait for the latest GMA3000 compatible drivers to make it there with twm.
 
Paul Revere Pantry Raider said:
Are there any distributions left that don't suck?
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Depends on the flavor of suck. I've been on Artix for several years now, the stability is there for my particular set of programs (no KDE, no GNOME, no 4K HDR gaming with FSRwhateverthefuck). Waiting until my local repo is so out of sync that fetching new software gives you 404s doesn't break it. The packages themselves are sometimes broken or not completely brought in line with upstream Arch, which is expected because the pool of maintainers is quite low. Never encountered it myself, thankfully, but here's one example with Jami.
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On desktop I installed the jami-daemon and jami-qt artix packages. It crashes immediate on start up because it can't find libZXing.so.3. Thinking the package maintainer just fucked up and forgot the dependency or maybe whatever package that belongs to was out of date I searched and supposedly that belongs to zxing-cpp. Installed that manually but jami still crashes with the same message. I confirmed via pacman -F that zxing-cpp does in fact provide libZXing.so.3 so idk what the issue is.
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A specific annoyance with Arch's package system for me is the lack of either/or declarations for non-optional dependencies. You have yt-dlp-ejs, a Javascript engine backend for yt-dlp. The program itself, as far as I understand, can work with any backend - Node, Bun or Deno. The Arch package, lacking a conditional for this mandatory dependency, goes with Deno (Rust btw). If you want a different backend: sucks to suck, make a new package.
 
Not sure this is the right place to ask but ive been looking into Linux mostly from seeing how well steam OS mirrors my favorite windows XP set up.

I've been told Ubuntu is a solid choice but does it have compatibility issues with Nvidia GPUs? I know my default choice of grabbing a branch modeled off steam os really require a AMD card.

Painfully new and planning to have a solid chunk of time to troubleshoot just looking for a good starting point to build from.

Its primarily for a gaming hobby computer.
 
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