The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[DavidS877]

Yep. If you had a newer GPU than the kernel, that can cause issues, admittedly, but that has often always been an issue.

Nah, the GPU was stable for several years before they broke it.

 

[SchizoDaemon]

Nah, the GPU was stable for several years before they broke it.

Really. Wow. Not had that happen before.

 

[Betonhaus]

I want to grant my apologies to any Ubuntu hater out there; while I'll still give out Ubuntu to newbies, if someone has very limited space on their drive, I won't ever recommend it. Ubuntu is great for trying to learn the basics of the Unix landscape.

Snaps are so fucking horribly terrible that to anyone who wants to go above in their Unix-pipeline into learning it, I'll recommend literally anything else. Ubuntu slows the FUCK down whenever the drive runs out of space, even when it's at 90%. I forgo shutting down or rebooting my computer because my fucking Ubuntu setup takes 5 TO 10 fucking minutes to boot, if I include booting up Firefox, 15-20 minutes.

I can't stop talking about how fucking terrible snaps are, and they're just forced upon you. I installed Ungoogled Chromium via flatpak and it runs twice to four times as fast. They're both the same idea of sandboxing the environment for safety, but I don't know how such a massive company as Canonical can make such a botched version that it's like running a computer 50x slower than it actually is, astounding.

i use arch + hyprland btw

As much as I dislike Ubuntu and would prefer you recommend Linux Mint to beginners, are you sure that’s not a hardware problem or a fragmentation problem? If the drive is 90% full then it’s possible that there aren’t a lot of contiguous free space so the system has to spend time searching for them or breaking up files to move around then finding all of the file fragments. What filesystem are you running, or this might be a problem in the ssd firmware

 

[Dread First]

I want to grant my apologies to any Ubuntu hater out there; while I'll still give out Ubuntu to newbies, if someone has very limited space on their drive, I won't ever recommend it. Ubuntu is great for trying to learn the basics of the Unix landscape.

Snaps are so fucking horribly terrible that to anyone who wants to go above in their Unix-pipeline into learning it, I'll recommend literally anything else. Ubuntu slows the FUCK down whenever the drive runs out of space, even when it's at 90%. I forgo shutting down or rebooting my computer because my fucking Ubuntu setup takes 5 TO 10 fucking minutes to boot, if I include booting up Firefox, 15-20 minutes.

I can't stop talking about how fucking terrible snaps are, and they're just forced upon you. I installed Ungoogled Chromium via flatpak and it runs twice to four times as fast. They're both the same idea of sandboxing the environment for safety, but I don't know how such a massive company as Canonical can make such a botched version that it's like running a computer 50x slower than it actually is, astounding.

i use arch + hyprland btw

No one should ever inflict barebones Ubuntu desktop upon themselves in a post-17.04, post-dissolution of Ubuntu Software Centre, post-Unity world. Flat-out. Not even other shitty clones like Zorin or Pop_OS either. It's either Linux Mint or bust for Ubuntu variants. It's really that simple.

I will, however, earnestly go to bat for Ubuntu Server. Ubuntu desktops stopped caring about the whole "Linux for Human Beings" shtick like 9-10 years ago, but y'know what? Ubuntu Server honestly does feel like "Linux for Human Beings." LTS versions ship standard 5 years of support, the free Ubuntu Pro subscription bumps that up to 10 years of support (and without any hurdles to jump through like with the RHEL developer programme), The server docs on the official Ubuntu portal are legitimately excellent stuff; comparable to and even surpassing the old desktop documentation (official and community). I even have the official CLI cheat sheet printed out and pinned to my wall. Mind you, I don't necessarily neeed to know how to do stuff like systemctl start foo BUT I do have an assload of other commands I scrawled all over the margins for obscure shit I'm working on for my home server.

Yeah, there are 100% better choices on the "market" than Ubuntu Server. My logic for choosing Ubuntu Server boils down to "I don't like updating Debian every 2-3 years and the old+oldold+oldoldoldstable nomenclature gives me pause for thought. I just wanna set it, forget it, and never have to touch SELinux or Firewalld." Lo and behold... it was either Ubuntu Server or Slackware. I'll save Slackware for whenever Patrick Volkerding decides to drop Slackware 16.

I use the official Fedora Cinnamon spin which ships with Xorg bee tee dubs.

 

[Aidan]

If your drive is over 85% capacity it's time to upgrade your storage or free up space. This is even more important for SSDs. The OS and file system can only do so much for you at that point.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

make sure to setup snapshots before you break your system just in case

I get that you're trying to be an asshole here but snapshots are so incredibly easy to do that I'm not sure what kind of own you're thinking you're getting.

 

[Betonhaus]

I get that you're trying to be an asshole here but snapshots are so incredibly easy to do that I'm not sure what kind of own you're thinking you're getting.

I don’t think he’s being an asshole. If you aren’t already an expert at Arch you will likely break your system at least once, possibly just by installing updates without checking the release notes.

 

[Hakase Shinonome]

What filesystem are you running, or this might be a problem in the ssd firmware

>implying i use an ssd
Naive. And it's an issue on multiple platforms I've tested it on. Ubuntu is the first thing I download before trying out anything else.

I don’t think he’s being an asshole. If you aren’t already an expert at Arch you will likely break your system at least once, possibly just by installing updates without checking the release notes.

It's not that difficult to fix arch-related issues; if you're posting here, you know how to fix an arch installation.

 

[DavidS877]

I don't have any problems at 96%.
/dev/md4 90T 85T 4.3T 96% /bfd

 

[Betonhaus]

I don't have any problems at 96%.
/dev/md4 90T 85T 4.3T 96% /bfd

I doubt it’s that hard for the system to find contiguous free spaces big enough to fit even lord of the rings 4K bluray rips

>implying i use an ssd
Naive. And it's an issue on multiple platforms I've tested it on. Ubuntu is the first thing I download before trying out anything else.


It's not that difficult to fix arch-related issues; if you're posting here, you know how to fix an arch installation.

if you’re using a rust disk as your boot drive in 2026 then that’s going to be even worse for fragmentation and makes your problem go from “huh something funky must be going on” to “well no shit your computer gets slow when the drive is almost full”

And everyone learns something for the first time eventually. There’s no guarantee that someone learning Arch posting here will not fuck ip their system at least once and already knows to have backups set up.