The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Pluciferous said:
Your comment makes it sound like locking a bootloader down is an ultimately pointless exercise. But Microsoft got everything they wanted by doing so, so it was a complete success for them despite it getting hacked 12 years later.

The goals for locking down a game console are:
1. Preventing game piracy. Microsoft stopped Xbox One piracy for the entire effective lifespan of the console and forced people to buy their games at retail prices. Big win.
2. Preventing the Xbox One from getting turned into the cheapest PC on the market, like the 2001/2 Xbox hacks did and which must have pissed off Microsoft’s hardware vendor partners. Ok, now you can change out the operating system. But over the past 12 years PCs have gotten exponentially faster, so you’ve just spent a ton of time liberating shitty old hardware.
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At least now those console exclusives can be archived. That's the positive here
 
Ferryman said:
Found your problem. Get yourself a *30 and enjoy. Jokes aside, the (AMD) P-series is still solid. They still have the AMD PSP spyware and no Coreboot as of yet (which might change one day with the pretty quick development of AMD coreboot on decently modern hardware a la Framework via openSIL), but damn, are they nice.
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The only problem is, we now live in a post-Asahi Linux world, and you can’t pretend Linux on ThinkPads is amazing anymore. The bar is much higher.
 
Pluciferous said:
The only problem is, we now live in a post-Asahi Linux world, and you can’t pretend Linux on ThinkPads is amazing anymore. The bar is much higher.
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Is Asahi functional enough to really bump the bar? Genuinely asking, I have a friend who is an unrepentant Macfag simply because he is in love with M* ARM, maybe I can de-transition him if Asahi werks well enough.
 
Ferryman said:
Is Asahi functional enough to really bump the bar? Genuinely asking, I have a friend who is an unrepentant Macfag simply because he is in love with M* ARM, maybe I can de-transition him if Asahi werks well enough.
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Definitely. You’ll probably want to switch yourself once you try it.
 
Lone Wandering Courier said:
All this age verification stuff made me want to try Artix again. I tried it in a kvm/qemu/libvirt? vm, but networking didn't work. I then tired installing it on a thinkpad, and it was a complete failure.
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Everything worked just fine and dandy when I installed Artix+OpenRC with lxqt on my thinkpad. The only things that break are programs that rely on dbus, in addition to ones that need manual setup due to needing a systemd service. The prior were mostly various methods to get the discrete graphics working properly like Bumblebee, but Network Manager worked fine without additional setup.
Speaking of artix, I might have to de-systemdify another system considering recent changes, but I'm wary of fucking up all my custom services. Hopefully that's all that'll need unfucking. :optimistic:
 
Lone Wandering Courier said:
All this age verification stuff made me want to try Artix again. I tried it in a kvm/qemu/libvirt? vm, but networking didn't work. I then tired installing it on a thinkpad, and it was a complete failure.
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What went wrong? It's just Arch with different init choices. If you screw up just boot from ISO and fix your system through arch-chroot.
 
jeff7989 said:
What went wrong? It's just Arch with different init choices. If you screw up just boot from ISO and fix your system through arch-chroot.
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Basically, cachyos and endeavouros (both arch-based) work fine on my computers and in vms on fresh installs.

but for some odd reason whenever I try artix, it never works out. basically when booting the live image on my thinkpad, it was completely pitch black and I had to press the down key 3 times and hit enter to boot a live environment. I did a fresh install using the graphical installer, not doing anything weird or fancy, and it just doesn't boot after a completely fresh install.
 
Which image did you choose? How have you turned it into bootable media? If nvidia then try passing nomodeset to kernel, maybe it's installing some retarded driver.
 
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Funnily enough I just booted into Cinnamon live from VM and found this on the desktop:

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Troubleshooting guide PDF, you might wanna take a peek.
 
Harvey Danger said:
"They've announced a voluntary buyback program starting next month, which will become mandatory next year."

Old hardware can't save us from a system dedicated to enshittification. Cash For Clunkers was just a test run.
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Your allusion to mandates retiring older ICE vehicles and firearm restrictions is disturbingly plausible w/regards to our hardware. Reminds me of Ye Olden Days where they (unsuccessfully) banned the commoners from owning crossbows because they were concealable and nobles were worried about assassinations. Just like modern-day pistols and gun-grabbers.

Basically any time significant resources fall in the hands of the plebs, the ruling powers get antsy and look for ways to snatch it back out of your grubby mitts. I remember when they were freaking out a while back that CRISPR tech was so low-budget that any muzzie with a chemistry set would be able to gene edit viruses, but that worry fizzled out. Now that LLMs can make up for the intelligence deficit of Joe Sixpacks the world over - I can see them locking people out of unsupervised computer use. Otherwise you get stories like that one dude curing his dog's tumors with a custom mRNA vaccine. Even if they don't think they want that yet (they do) they'll come to that conclusion soon.

However I always comfort people with the following: power always allies with criminals for dirty work and plausible deniability and will want the ability to secretly, privately use these tools - so there will always be a black market for this stuff. It'll never be completely gated off. Nothing is ever completely gated off.
 
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Linux illiterate newfag here, I need some advice. Is it safe for me to install the latest linux mint build?
I happened to stumble upon Lunduke Journal's videos and I'm starting to question if I should be aware of certain builds, I don't want an OS that might track you for "wrongthink". Stupid question, but I think it's better for me to ask here, just to be safe.
 
RacistComputer79 said:
Linux illiterate newfag here, I need some advice. Is it safe for me to install the latest linux mint build?
I happened to stumble upon Lunduke Journal's videos and I'm starting to question if I should be aware of certain builds, I don't want an OS that might track you for "wrongthink". Stupid question, but I think it's better for me to ask here, just to be safe.
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I'm not sure how one would get testing builds of Mint, but the regular download page on their site will have 22.3 which will be fine.
 
jeff7989 said:
Funnily enough I just booted into Cinnamon live from VM and found this on the desktop:

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Troubleshooting guide PDF, you might wanna take a peek.
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Apparently I wasn't fully paying attention to what I was doing yesterday because I apparently flashed the stable image. I downloaded the weekly image today, ran the installer again, and a fresh install boots fine now.
 
RacistComputer79 said:
Linux illiterate newfag here, I need some advice. Is it safe for me to install the latest linux mint build?
I happened to stumble upon Lunduke Journal's videos and I'm starting to question if I should be aware of certain builds, I don't want an OS that might track you for "wrongthink". Stupid question, but I think it's better for me to ask here, just to be safe.
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Mint has left my bussy intact thus far and it's widely regarded as a good entry build for retarded faggots like yourself. Enjoy. Except for my tax software I haven't had to boot Windows in over a year. Just have an LLM walk you through it on your phone or a spare laptop if you get stuck. Took me about half a day.
 
Lone Wandering Courier said:
Apparently I wasn't fully paying attention to what I was doing yesterday because I apparently flashed the stable image. I downloaded the weekly image today, ran the installer again, and a fresh install boots fine now.
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In case of issues, Gentoo wiki has some resources about alternative init systems. You can even ask AI, since it's just a glorified search engine. If you can't find service files in AUR, then it's trivial to write your own. There are plenty of examples to get started in /etc/init.d/.
Dbus and elogind services are provided for Redhatisms, so everything can be made to just work™.
 
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