The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[DavidS877]

I finally, after 30 years, found a Debian bug. Or a me bug. I had a system with an AM5 board and thus on-board graphics but I was using a GPU. I moved the SSD and Nvidia GPU into an AM4 system. Now whenever I unlock the screen it's just black. Apparently there's some vestigial AMD setting or library hiding somewhere or something didn't get installed from a normal Nvidia-only setup. Maybe tonight I'll actually fix it. It feels like something Windows would do.

I've fixed the glitch. Well, not the way I wanted. I blew away all of my dot directories and dot files in my home directory and logged in so they could be re-created. So something was in one of my config files was obviously setting something wrong. Oh well, fixed now.

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

I don't think 2 years old is particularly old for an OS.

Why? I manage fine. I have Arch installed on my laptop here and Debian on another. I barely notice the difference between them. I have pretty much the same stuff installed. Often I forget which distro I am on and only find out when I type apt install <something> and it tells me the command isn't found (or vice versa).

I genuinely don't understand why people have this perception. Not that much changes anymore tbh. Maybe if you want to run the latest riced-up window manager, it probably matters.

I use rolling release for everything I run. And even then some of the rolling releases don't keep some things as up to date as I need in a few rare cases so i follow the git sources for those. And i'm running dwm most of the time. which now days isn't exactly a bleeding edge window manager. Trying to move onto a stable release distro with what I use ends up being a huge pain every time I try going to one.

There are other subtleties I tend to just not like about Debian in particular, that have nothing to do with rolling vs versioned release. Like I prefer how close to upstream something like arch keeps it's packages, as in minimal changes from the upstream programs. I don't want the distro throwing anything it doesn't need to outside of what is necessary for things to work together seamlessly. It ends up annoying me even more than how much manual intervention I need vs most rolling release distros.

one way to avoid it is using flatpaks I guess. But that's a pain in the ass in it's own way.

It's just a lot simpler for me to get the latest release, with minimal changes out of the box from the distro. I don't want to fight the distro do make the system how I want it, and I don't care about holding back packages for stability. It's never been an issue for me in the past, and I'm not concerned about staying up to date being an issue in the future.

 

[Betonhaus]

its old as shit for no reason.

In the era of enshittification and tranny obsession, that's a bit of a plus. By the time the updates roll out all of the major bugs have been squashed and the shit fads that make code shittier for no good reason get played out and rolled back.