The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

Taser Confetti said:
Isn’t that something that could be addressed regardless of what language something is being written in?
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Right, it isn't a rust-specific complaint. But low-level languages don't have any of the same safety features, which is the purported reason the rewrites are happening to begin with. So if it weren't for the memory safety itself, the rewrites would not be happening.
 
Taser Confetti said:
I’m not baiting - this is a genuine question. What’s the arguments against Rust besides some icky troons like it?
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Basically it's a canary.

You know how for movie remakes whenever you see that they replaced a character with a nigger you know immediately that it's going to be bad? There are good nigger actors in movies (see: Blade) but right now there being a nigger actors correlates perfectly to the movie being shit.

Rust is the same way. The language is fine, but it almost exclusively means the project is Troon garbage.
Rust is basically irrelevant as a language (whenever you want to do anything you need to override the memory protections), but it is the most prominent feature of shitty Troon projects and can be used to refer to the shitty Troon projects.
 
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thirstytux said:
I haven't used it in some time, but I like it. How is digiKam for grouping photos based on image recognition? I hate to say it, as I use very little proprietary software, but I continue to use Google's discontinued Picasa program for Linux (not a true port though, they used WINE) for finding and grouping photos based on its skillful image recognition scanning. I'd gladly switch to something that is FOSS.

I notice you use HexChat. Have they found a new maintainer?
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Honestly? I’m the wrong guy to ask. I was just showcasing the install process and the applications Artix ships with by default via Community GTK.
 
Taser Confetti said:
I’m not baiting - this is a genuine question. What’s the arguments against Rust besides some icky troons like it?
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from my experience, it causes splintering of codebases and higher resource usage vs the same c/c++ code, plus staticly linking everything doesn't let you take advantage of only needing one copy of a library in memory. Rust does have potential to be a good choice of programming language, but it comes with even more baggage than possibly c or c++.
 
Squishie PP said:
Many of the new rust rewrites are MIT-licensed. Which means they move to being proprietary at a later date without consequence.
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Had the same thought earlier today about MIT and adjacent cuck licenses, insofar that I don't think its really possible for them to grow into a popular proprietary product simply by virtue of their two main developer bases (sans employees): trannies and soy devs. Both groups develop for reasons of ego and ass pats. Turning something big and MIT, for instance Wayland into the Red Hat Proprietary Display Server or whatever would instantly kill off those two developer bases and likely estrange many more. With the advent of infinity jeets and Actually Indians, I can see a future where it happens, but not one that's very likely. I give it a 90% vs 10% chance of happening, at least in the way I'm envisioning it.
 
Anyone still doubting that Poettering is a Microsoft shill sent to enshittify Linux with SystemD? Probably because they saw what a great job he did at making things shit with pulseaudio.
First it was making logs not plaintext any more (SUPREMELY gay). Then a whole heap of other shit I won't even list, but the most recent with the age verification thing is just ridiculous. The man is literally a Microsoft employee, how the fuck is he still tolerated? At least this will push people to the SysV init distros. Which I am going to need to switch to but have been putting off because it took me ages to configure a whole bunch of stuff on the system I'm currently using and I can not be fucked to do it again right now.

His wikipedia page lists that he is known for getting death threats. Can you name any other Linux developer who has had death threats? I hope some nigger blasts his fucking head off.
 
gpg said:
GNOME 50 killed Google Drive integration because nobody wanted to maintain it

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More specifically, some retard decided to completely rewrite the library that GNOME apps use for doing HTTP/HTTPS, libsoup, and did it in an incompatible way. The excuse was that Google's pet 'HTTP 2.0' project was not supported... so they just broke everything for libsoup 3 rather than just adding HTTP 2.0 to libsoup 2. Then, the Gnome retards mandated that the existing, secure, working libsoup 2 must be abandoned.

As a result the previous maintainer, who became frustrated when his 100% functional software that he had carefully maintained for 15 years was broken by some retard jerking himself off, declined to spend more of his own time jerking the libsoup 3 retard off, and so the project was abandoned in the absence of someone else with no prior familiarity with the codebase volunteering to learn the intricacies of what was needed to 'fix' this nice functional project for the problems the jerkoff created.
acid_ra1n said:
god i hope not, please use a modern init that at the minimum can handle dynamic systems and at the best has daemon supervision
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Have you tried running service software that doesn't crash several times a minute?
 
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Have you tried running service software that doesn't crash several times a minute?
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defending sysvinit as the optimal init over runit openrc s6 or dinit is not something i expected anyone to do
now im curious as to why you prefer sysvinit over literally anything else
actually now that i think of it i dont know any linux distros that ship a pure sysvinit as its default init system
devuan is technically sysvinit with a runit/openrc implementation on top of it but i cant think of any distros besides debian antix pclinuxos or slackware where sysvinit is even an option
 
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acid_ra1n said:
defending sysvinit as the optimal init over runit openrc s6 or dinit is not something i expected anyone to do
now im curious as to why you prefer sysvinit over literally anything else
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It's simple and it's traditional and I know how to use it and I don't want to learn literally anything else. I just use sleep mode or hibernation if I need to save power, so I don't worry about saving one or two seconds on startup.

The only times I've encountered problems with services that would reasonably be running on a personal computing system is with proprietary VPN daemons, in particular the NordVPN and Cloudflare WARP daemons. If I still used those company's products, and didn't want to just use Wireguard config files to connect, I could always set up supervisor to manqge those broken ass daemons and restart them when they crash out.
 
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