The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

Like I said: pick your battles. People who are devoted to user privacy despite the tranny coat of paint, i.e. Librewolf & Libreboot, are still fine in my book. I couldn't care less if there's a fag flag on the icon, if it irks you that much just patch it out or swap it for something else. In the age of rampant surveillance a faggot logo is the least of your worries.
 
Celebrate Nite said:
idk, after the news about it switching to Rust code, people are already jumping ship.
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I'm not going to lie, that news deflated my hopes somewhat. And of course it happened right after I threw some money at the project.

That said, there's no escaping Rust. The Linux kernal may have a negligible amount of Rust in it, but it has it. Only Caesar's wife will eternally remain above suspicion.
 
Valis Wade said:
So it's either Firefox with user.js mods or Waterfox, which is somewhat better but not much. If you're staunchly against Jewgle monopoly on browsers, you're sort of fucked.
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Being on Firefox won't free you of the Jewgle monopoly. Look at how much money Mozilla receives from them. Google is very entrenched in W3C as well, meaning web standards are very much a living document of what Chrome implements. Actually putting a dent into this monopoly means not using flavor of the month JS frameworks or transpiling/polyfilling bullshit that will inject modernity into your code. The only two fully-fledged working browsers, meaning you can run interactive websites as opposed to something like Dillo or Net/Neosurf, that could be considered as alternatives are Pale Moon and Ladybird.
 
Sveny Mausehund said:
Terminal multiplexer like tmux or screen, maybe a different shell (for example fish or zsh). If you need a simple text editor you could try micro or for more customization options neovim
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I've gotta come clean, I had this idea about this console dual boot being some fun little project, it's been a disaster that has pushed the limits of my sanity. I've basically distrohopped my way to a broken bootloader and I have to command my way back into Mint from a grub prompt. Main obstacle I think has been offline installation, and then file system conflicts, whenever I do get the installation done, I get hit with a kernel not found error, even though I'm looking at the file it needs and I've directed it to it. I'm not great with computers, so this has been kind of a challenge beyond whatever I'm used to.

And rather than do the sensible thing and stick to what I know, I'm formattiing my entire HDD tomorrow, doing a fresh Mint install and starting over.
 
gpg said:
is there any other really good browser?
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I think surf could be good once you patch it to your preferences. I've been meaning to do that once I get the time™, hasn't happened yet. Also eww is pretty decent for quickly looking something up inside of the gnu/emacs operating system.
 
The Big Bad D said:
use mpd nigger. or mopidy if you enjoy being sodomized
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Idk why post cant be found but I'll reply to this post so people can see what I was gonna say
I was a big fb2k user when i used windows and when i moved to Linux i wanted a music player or combination of applications that could do most everything fb2k could do
I had at the time a 3TB music library that had mp3 flac wav iso + cue midi tracker and all sorts of other shit in it
So I needed a player that could turn that all into a usable library without crashing as I had literal thousands of hours of music
Xmms was almost there but at the time didn't support ISO + cue, so I landed on audacious
Only thing I don't like about audacious is the way searching songs works doesnt work well for albums with various artists, but it works on some of them and you can queue the entire album
I also like that you can use winamp skins. Not a necessary feature but nice to have.
 
If my computer asks I'll them it I was born on new year's day in 1970 exactly at the stroke of midnight in Greenwich.
 
Does anyone know what distros are going with age verification and which ones are going against? I heard CachyOS have decided to comply and Open BSD have also decided to comply.

Never mind, I have the list, thank you.
arcann said:
Ubuntu, POP_OS, elementary_os, Fedora, midnightBSD are all working on adding it.

This github page is tracking distros and they're intentions.
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Miller said:
it's like the Linux version of Foobar2000
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Except foobar2000 is designed for Windows' library-poor architecture. The whole notion of a "plugin" system ignores the Unix/BSD tradition of compiling against local libraries using eg. configure or cmake. You don't

With FFmpeg being what it is, you can practically vibecode a working music player. It's more straightforward than ever.

For a year or two, I was using a shell script that piped ffmpeg to aplay or paplay. I've evolved it a little and written it in three languages now, but you need practically nothing to play music. It's as easy as crossing the streams, fundamentally.

"But what about tagging?" Delete your redundant metadata and encode that metadata correctly, ie. in the filename.

Music players have become dickwaving contests.
 
audacious btw
 

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