The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice


Got this fun little video recommended to me.

Some of them I didn't know. Some I did.

The thing where he nodded yes, and said no about the backdoor thing. I actually had heard about. But I don't think i had heard about it being confirmed later in the EU, that they had approached him.

Others are fun, like the sl command. Which i had heard about but forgot. I decided to install it and play around with the options. I think ill keep it on my system for the one time i somehow mistype ls
 
Betonhaus said:
It's still a nothingburger until it passes the house and senate
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No, once it's introduced it's a problem. Yeah, statistically most bills will never become law, but the problem is the US loooooves mega bills, for fuck's sake we have "Big Beautiful" as the official name. Conservatives always hated this shit back during the Obama years, now they want it. If both sides of Congress agree on an issue, but understand the public view is negative, they'll hide it in the bill somewhere and not say anything. This shit happens all the time.

Edit: This is why Rand Paul forces the clerk to read the entirety of bills out every time a mega bill is introduced.
 
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Hahahah oh my god, the SourceForge thread where the VeraCrypt dev discusses this is just amazing.
The man has the patience of a saint. Can you imagine having your critical security software sabotaged, and getting helpful comments like 'just email the CEO of Microsoft bro, here's his email address and an email template I had ChatGPT write':
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'Have you tried just using the shitty chatbot, but more'?
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At that point it's easier to say that nothing can be done. I don't think a jeet CEO gives a shit what decisions people under him make.
 
Taser Confetti said:
Doesn’t OpenBSD still only work on absolutely archaic Thinkpads?
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It should work on anything (except nIGGERvidia) Lenovo/AMD pretty well. Buddy of mine has it on a P16s Gen2 and AFAIK everything but the stock WiFi card works fine, the newest I've tried it on is a T480 and had no issues whatsoever.
 
Taser Confetti said:
Doesn’t OpenBSD still only work on absolutely archaic Thinkpads?
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It will generally work on well on any hardware that has open source drivers and/or documentation. Think Intel chipsets, wifi, (i)GPUs and s already mentioned AMD GPUs. I have Dell Latitudes and Thinkpads that will run OpenBSD quite nicely.

The issue that I found with OpenBSD is all the other stuff you have to give up (e.g. there is no Bluetooth support), or there is stuff that is lot more difficult than Linux and often it isn't worth the bother IMO.
 
from what I've heard openbsd seems to not really work well on the older haswell era intel stuff. so maybe that could be narrowed to it works well on newer than haswell intel, and amd. But even then I wouldn't put any bets on it just working. Even with a thinkpad.
 
I'm really impressed at how good Linux has gotten with games, especially getting older stuff running at the click of a button, compared to Windows.

My living room PC has an old Haswell and after Windows 10 EOL I put Bazzite on it, added some emulators but haven't really gamed on it. Recently went on a tear of installing (cracked) games and in 90% of cases its literally just pointing steam at the exe, telling it to use proton and everything just works. In the few cases where I've had issues with steam lutris managed to get things running with little effort.

There will be some 360/PS3 era gaming in my immediate future.
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The ATF Disliked That said:
Yeah, statistically most bills will never become law
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Since the US government loves nothing more than taking your freedoms away, this one will more than likely beat the odds. And if it does get shot down, guarantee you that a more insidious bill will take it’s place in the next few years.

They want you to have an ID to use your computer but not to vote. Make it make sense.
 
GeorgeFloydFentanylStash said:
Since the US government loves nothing more than taking your freedoms away, this one will more than likely beat the odds. And if it does get shot down, guarantee you that a more insidious bill will take it’s place in the next few years.

They want you to have an ID to use your computer but not to vote. Make it make sense.
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Same shit as the EU Digital ID and message scanning bills, they keep trying to shove them through, they get shot down, slightly reworded, and they're back on their legs in a few months. So far so good, but who knows how long it will stay that way on either side of the puddle.

SchizoDaemon said:
It will generally work on well on any hardware that has open source drivers and/or documentation. Think Intel chipsets, wifi, (i)GPUs and s already mentioned AMD GPUs. I have Dell Latitudes and Thinkpads that will run OpenBSD quite nicely.

The issue that I found with OpenBSD is all the other stuff you have to give up (e.g. there is no Bluetooth support), or there is stuff that is lot more difficult than Linux and often it isn't worth the bother IMO.
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FreeBSD has most of Linux's functionality and an installer that puts you into a KDE desktop with minimal fiddling. If ease of use and features are what you're after, FreeBSD is a good choice. Granted, they do have Wayland support, a CoC and *some corporate sponsors, so they may be on the big pozz clock, albeit way, way further down that Linux. They're also working on first-party packaging for XLibre. Generally all the BSDs have a big user-developer culture going on, so most people that use it also contribute upstream.
 
Stasi said:
My living room PC has an old Haswell and after Windows 10 EOL I put Bazzite on it, added some emulators but haven't really gamed on it. Recently went on a tear of installing (cracked) games and in 90% of cases it’s literally just pointing steam at the exe, telling it to use proton and everything just works.
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I’ve had some luck with Heroic launcher with cracked games on CachyOS. Like if I try to run Rebirth on my PC for testing purposes through Steam, it gives me a generic error message. But with Heroic, it will launch with no problem. However, if I try to launch my Diablo 2 install with all sorts of mods, Heroic will tell me I need the cd inserted but Steam will launch it with no problem.

thought about just mounting my Diablo 2 ISO but not sure if wine will see it.


Ferryman said:
Same shit as the EU Digital ID and message scanning bills, they keep trying to shove them through, they get shot down, slightly reworded, and they're back on their legs in a few months. So far so good, but who knows how long it will stay that way on either side of the puddle.
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Yeah. This bill is pretty vague and hope it doesn’t pass. Eventually one of these bills will make it through. And I normally don’t get spooked by most of the world ending internet bills that have been proposed in the past.

Might be a nothing burger right now but people should plan like this bill will pass. I’m just hoarding what I can.
 
Ferryman said:
FreeBSD has most of Linux's functionality and an installer that puts you into a KDE desktop with minimal fiddling. If ease of use and features are what you're after, FreeBSD is a good choice. Granted, they do have Wayland support, a CoC and *some corporate sponsors, so they may be on the big pozz clock, albeit way, way further down that Linux. They're also working on first-party packaging for XLibre. Generally all the BSDs have a big user-developer culture going on, so most people that use it also contribute upstream.
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There is a lot of things that I often require for work & personal development that isn't supported on FreeBSD. Some of this I could probably get working, but for me it isn't worth the additional effort.

I did use OpenBSD & Solaris at University, this was many years ago now. I really liked OpenBSD.

I've seen there is a lot of activity in making FreeBSD a bit friendlier with the KDE desktop option. I personally do not like KDE.

I did setup Cinnamon on FreeBSD on a Dell Latitude late last year. It did work reasonably well after following the handbook. But it wasn't straight forward, I can't remember specifics now (it could have been my fault tbh).

If you compare that to the process in Debian/Devuan (I recently migrated)

Code: 
# apt install task-cinnamon-desktop

or

Code: 
# tasksel

Then reboot your machine. IMO it isn't worth the additional headaches over using a good Linux distro.
 
GeorgeFloydFentanylStash said:
Might be a nothing burger right now but people should plan like this bill will pass. I’m just hoarding what I can.
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When confronted with low trust, third world shit like this, your best bet is to stay ahead of the crowd. TPTB may hate you and want you confined to their cattle pen, but they're also lazy and retarded so they're not gonna exert the effort of going after the 5% if the rest are in compliance. I have a feeling that Linux, outside of the IBM/systemd monolith, is going to be helpful in that regard. Even the trannies that would have called me a fossil that just needs to embrace The Future are now shilling for alternative inits and non-corpo software. Not on board with the whole "Thinkpad T61 using a custom network protocol over a meshnet with public keys circulated via local sneakernet" bit as the sole alternative. The only way, as usual, is through, and completely retreating means any semblance of useful knowledge dies with you as more time passes.

It was revealed to me at the bottom of my crack pipe that these ID laws will pass everywhere with time, in one form or another. Psyops over the Internet are the hot new thing and every country is doing it to everybody else 24/7/365. That's the path of least resistance to reigning the chaos in if you don't care about the general population (they don't).
 
GNU Abyss said:
ID laws will pass everywhere with time, in one form or another. Psyops over the Internet are the hot new thing and every country is doing it to everybody else 24/7/365
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Most countries will require it just to do basic functions on the internet. And I find 99% of the internet useless and just go to a handful of sites, the farms included. The rest is just low effort slop.
 
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