The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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SchizoDaemon said:
I download PDFs from some dodgy Eastern European site and hope they don't have a virus.
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What dodgy eastern european pdf sites are you finding? yandex and such just redirect me to oceanofpdf and then i have to use Sigl to strip all the crap out.
 
Betonhaus said:
What dodgy eastern european pdf sites are you finding? yandex and such just redirect me to oceanofpdf and then i have to use Sigl to strip all the crap out.
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It was somewhat of a joke. Often car manuals, e.g., The Land Rover Defender service manual, obscure books and the like.

Usually some dodgy site where I need to click through some suspicious download links before getting the PDF. Willing to risk it to save £50.
 
Ferryman said:
Imagine not going through our girl Anna for all your ebook needs. Lunacy!
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I do use anna for rare books but I'll actively try to find a thrifted copy of it for much cheaper. The wow diary was a big one for me because it was only released on kickststarter as a physical book and Anna had the scans. I did end up buying a copy on ebay for 40 but I first downloaded it from anna
 
The AUR hack has no effect because it's only fat guys who live with their parents who use Arch, and they always are reinstalling shit every third day.

Debian/Ubuntu and to a lesser extent, Fedora, are for people who actually use Linux for do shit with.
 
AUR helpers are to blame, and I'm guilty myself. As for reinstalling often:
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Flatpak-NG sounds like bad news for systemd refuseniks

tl;dr flatpak is converting a big chunk of their core tech to a systemd module for no clear reason, meaning that flatpaks are going to have a hard dependency on systemd going forwards. The response to critics is to demand to know why other inits don't also have a systemd-appd module (in not so many words).
 
Dread First said:
I know the Gentoo project is pozzed to hell and back, it's been pozzed to hell and back ever since Daniel Robbins left the project
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Issue of being run by committee, and not bdfl. IIRC gentoo finances still have not been properly prepared by a CPA/audited in... 10 years?

Yes. I get that you want options for cron. Is it really nessisary to keep five fucking cron options, with three horrendusly outdated (or no longer being maintained for one?).
Why the fuck is gentoo still using MD5 digests AS A DEFAULT VERFIFICATION when I can use something like BLAKE3, xxhash (if I care only about corruption), or SHA??
 
Dirty Harry said:
The AUR hack has no effect because it's only fat guys who live with their parents who use Arch, and they always are reinstalling shit every third day.

Debian/Ubuntu and to a lesser extent, Fedora, are for people who actually use Linux for do shit with.
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Even with Arch you can choose to use other repos aside from AUR. I quite like Garuda Linux's choices on that (like chaotic-aur) since they have dudes who check it out before pushing it, but at the same time the only reason I haven't jumped ship to Fedora yet is because I like having a similar system to the Steam Deck for my Proton shit and I dunno how well Fedora does with CUDA and Nvidia drivers.
 
Computer Guardian said:
Nvidia's recent "open" drivers are actually pretty solid on Arch and it's derivitives, so chances are you'll be fine, provided you use DKMS modules if you want to use it with any kernel forks
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I was shocked when I switched from AMD to a 3060 a few months back. It was easy to switch to Nvidia without having to nuke my OS
 
Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
a rock solid stable Debian 13 release
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I don't think this is going to be a given going forward. Looking at Debian's leadership it's only a matter of time before the rot starts affecting stability.

teriyakiburns said:
Flatpak-NG sounds like bad news for systemd refuseniks

tl;dr flatpak is converting a big chunk of their core tech to a systemd module for no clear reason, meaning that flatpaks are going to have a hard dependency on systemd going forwards. The response to critics is to demand to know why other inits don't also have a systemd-appd module (in not so many words).
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I've avoided containerization but if Red Hat et. al. manage to get every major containerization system to have a hard dependency on systemd, that's gonna be bad. I've even already seen some projects that are docker only that I had to find alternatives for. Also it's always a trip to see non-retarded technical articles in the register.
 
SCV said:
I don't think this is going to be a given going forward. Looking at Debian's leadership it's only a matter of time before the rot starts affecting stability.
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I'm always surprised people call debian stable every time I try it it crashes all the time and most of my programs don't work correctly cause they're such old versions
 
acid_ra1n said:
I'm always surprised people call debian stable every time I try it it crashes all the time and most of my programs don't work correctly cause they're such old versions
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This is all bollocks. I don't understand why people parrot this. The worst distros are the boutique distros and Ubuntu, which are just crash fests.

Problems come with Debian when you do stupid shit with the package manager (which they tell you not to do), or it is because it is an "open source thing that isn't really open source, and they only really have a build for Ubuntu and some stupid dependency on an ancient version or a super new version of libstdc++" and it is impossible to build yourself because they decided to use some bespoke build system instead of just using CMake / Make / Scons etc.
Seethan Ralph said:
You would be surprised - they do, I even saw some actual seething and threats to move to Plan 9 (geeeg do it faggots)
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I tried mucking around with Slackware in a VM, and I honestly forgot how bad Linux was circa 2002. I was using Slackware 8 or 9 back in 2002.
 
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Voloromir of bad Yuristan said:
NixOS is the official transvestite distro, since they quite literally ousted everyone who wasn't a far leftist from the project
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I stopped using NixOS after the founder let himself get bullied out of his own project

The principle of using tools strictly for its utility and not giving a fuck who makes it or what they believe is an admirable one but it's genuinely a security risk if everyone in charge of maintaining your operating system is a psychotic sexual deviant with a massive chip on their shoulder, especially if it's a smaller distro with less oversight.
 
seri0us said:
I stopped using NixOS after the founder let himself get bullied out of his own project

The principle of using tools strictly for its utility and not giving a fuck who makes it or what they believe is an admirable one but it's genuinely a security risk if everyone in charge of maintaining your operating system is a psychotic sexual deviant with a massive chip on their shoulder, especially if it's a smaller distro with less oversight.
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Still a great package manager imo. Using Nix and Guix on top of other operating systems is severely underrated. All the bazillion nixpkgs, zero tranny bullshit, what's not to love? Twice as based if you run Nix over Guix because people are too busy sucking off AI in the mailing lists to actually package a Python version newer than 3.12 :^))))))
 
Curry Teafag said:
Please don't do stupid shit with the package manager (which they tell you not to do).
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I haven’t tried this in the last couple of years, but “stupid shit with the package manager” used to include “launch Synaptic, make some proposed additions and deletions to your packages, close Synaptic without having actually approved the proposed changes, boom your package manager is now in a corrupted state”.

Hopefully Debian will have fixed it next time I give it a whirl.
 
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