The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Judge Dredd said:
I like the default wallpapers of the Raspberry Pi distro back when I used that. They can be seen here.
When I searched for them, the top result was people complaining that the CachyOS default wallpapers were "unprofessional" as they often feature anime girls? Along with complaints about AI art.

It got me wondering if there's any specific favourites you have (or any you think are horrible).
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xsetroot -solid black
and if I'm feeling a little more colorful
xsetroot -solid darkslategrey
 
DavidS877 said:
xsetroot -solid black
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Wallpapers are bloat, I mean that with utmost sincerity.
Nothing peeves me more than seeing all the posts on r/unixporn with transparent terminal windows overtop a high contrast wallpaper.

Judge Dredd said:
When I searched for them, the top result was people complaining that the CachyOS default wallpapers were "unprofessional" as they often feature anime girls? Along with complaints about AI art.
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I looked them up because I was curious. I can't imagine anybody would seriously use these.
https://github.com/CachyOS/cachyos-wallpapers
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Willy McGilly said:
Wallpapers are bloat, I mean that with utmost sincerity.
Nothing peeves me more than seeing all the posts on r/unixporn with transparent terminal windows overtop a high contrast wallpaper.
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They hate us cuz they ain’t us
Willy McGilly said:
I looked them up because I was curious. I can't imagine anybody would seriously use these.
https://github.com/CachyOS/cachyos-wallpapers
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The sonic-alike one is based but the last one is gooner bait. The middle one is probably cool if you know what it comes from (silver surfer?)
 
Paul Revere Pantry Raider said:
I really liked Void,
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I came back to Void after a few years only within the past week, spun it up on an X201 and it just felt very janky to configure, to setup a working system and the community seemed pretty dead. Big contrast to how I recalled it in the past up till I stopped using it come 2021. I personally found my biggest issue with it was the lack of documentation. Yes I am aware they have documentation or their "handbook" on their website but it feels outdated and feels almost as if nothing has been changed in many, many years but being primarily an Arch user now I suppose the Arch Wiki has spoilt me. I also rather miss their forum as it was actually full of some rather great documentation but I believe due to some background drama that ended up shutting down sometime in 2019? however there is a new forum but it seems pretty dead if not just quiet.

There was also the issue with a lot of missing libraries and broken packages too that were delivered via XBPS and a consistent issue with Python that looks like it's existed for the past several years and never been fixed?

Minor complaints sure. But it just doesn't feel as alive or as great as it was those many years ago. Is what it is.
 
Betonhaus said:
I recognize it would be difficult, but would it be possible to make a version of Linux with a custom package management system that inherently uses compatibility layers? So instead of having discrete versions like Debian 12, Debain 13, etc you would have a core OS that does its own thing and something like a container that contains the bare minimum of code that's unique to each version. Then when you install an app it declares which version it uses (or if it's not prepackaged for the OS you declare it at the time of installation) and then the program uses the container that matches it's version. And if you have a really old application you want to use you can still run it inside the right container, and purge containers you're not using.

"Container" I'm not sure is exactly the right word, if imagine it would be closer to Steam's proton compatibility layers for Linux or something. But it would be a lot of work to set up, as you'd need to have a way to determine which containers to use and maintain modified versions of core libraries that support all versions.
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That’s bedrock Linux i guess.
 
Judge Dredd said:
they often feature anime girls
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I wanted to try wayland some time back, and a friend convinced me to use hyprland. I installed it and it (without any modification) booted into an anime girl wallpaper. That, along with it supposedly being the least pozzed of the wayland WMs, told me everything I need to know about that whole "ecosystem".
I have a few ship-themed wallpapers I like to use, but on my current installation I just use pure black.
 
Paul Revere Pantry Raider said:
I want to get rid of systemd. Again.
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You should become a Slackware Stacy like me! (Pro tip: sbotools makes installing Slackbuilds 50% less autistic)

prollyanotherlurker said:
They're likely going to have to change how some of these are designed, or at least add in something if they are going to comply with this law.
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They might be able to get around it by just doing something dumb like “Are you 18 or over? [Y/N]” when you run the installer or package manager for the first time. At least for now.
 
Judge Dredd said:
I like the default wallpapers of the Raspberry Pi distro back when I used that. They can be seen here.
When I searched for them, the top result was people complaining that the CachyOS default wallpapers were "unprofessional" as they often feature anime girls? Along with complaints about AI art.

It got me wondering if there's any specific favourites you have (or any you think are horrible).
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Knoppix always had really nice wallpapers. Unfortunately Klaus doesn't seem interesting in building any new versions.

I always liked the Debian "Space Fun" theme from the cozy Squeeze era.
 
Max Weber said:
Some autist tracked the money to see who's lobbying for age verification (it's big tech, what a surprise): https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings (archives)
attached zip is a local copy of the repo

reddit discussion
lobsters discussion
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Makes sense.

Also keep in mind that companies like google, facebook, and the others in big tech do tend to work prettt closely with the federal government as well.

One of the things I want to do for this timeline thing I'm planning to put together when I have time. Is bring up googles recent moved to close down android on 2 seperate fronts at once. Meanwhile at the same time our government is moving towards deanonymizing (at least more than ever, since you can currently use front ends like the aurora store) app stores.

So you have google moving to kill the open source android project just outright. Which is already bad to someone like me. While they are doing that, they are closing down sources you can install apps from. So you will no longer be able to install apps from sources they haven't verified (essentially) (even though that adds no extra security because the functionality is already there and on by default with play protect, but ignore that they are lying about their entire reason for doing this).

So to recapp, they won't have the android open source project available in the near future like they do now, they are also getting rid of your ability to install apps they haven't directly said you can.

Then on top of that, states are moving to implement age verification on both the operating system, and app store level.

When you put everything together, fo you see what you end up with and what the potential problems are going to be going into the future?

Android is one of the most popular OS's in the world, if not the most popular. It already by default is a privacy nightmare, and they are doing everything possible seemingly to negate the few things left you can do to use android or an android based operating system while not giving up basically every bit of information on yourself.

That's just one of the consequences, and what I think the government wants. What I think google wants is a way to widen their monopoly even further. Basically setting up more if a walled garden, and making sure they can always get accurate information to sell to people that want to shove ads in your face.

I still want to lay it out a bit better than this post. And there is a lot more of this stuff that I want to put in it. This is just a low effort version without the reciepts, and a lot of the other stuff I want to put in it.
 
Willy McGilly said:
I looked them up because I was curious. I can't imagine anybody would seriously use these.
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One is a sonic reference, and I get more of a Tumblr vibe than anime girl tbh.
The woman with the mask looks like a knock off of that KDA Popstars music video that went viral a while back.

Max Weber said:
Some autist tracked the money to see who's lobbying for age verification (it's big tech, what a surprise)
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I'm going to assume it's the same people pushing for this in the UK and EU too.
 
Curry Teafag said:
Today's Proxmox update required four restarts. Linux has officially become more retarded than Windows in this regard.
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Every time I ask someone what the benefits of Proxmox are, compared to simply running virt-manager on a plain Debian or NixOS install, their heads start steaming and rotating around. I guess I shouldn’t have made them question the geas placed on them.
 
Pluciferous said:
Every time I ask someone what the benefits of Proxmox are, compared to simply running virt-manager on a plain Debian or NixOS install, their heads start steaming and rotating around. I guess I shouldn’t have made them question the geas placed on them.
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My shitbox home server is proudly running baremetal Debian with nothing containerized and has been for the better part of a decade.
 
wew lad said:
My shitbox home server is proudly running baremetal Debian with nothing containerized and has been for the better part of a decade.
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things like Sonarr require you to run multiple instances if you have collections in different languages, and it is much easier to just deploy a second container then mess with adding a second service with it's own settings. Plus i run two instances of qbittorrent, one with a H&R configuration and one for private seeders.
 
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