The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

I need a hardware recommendation if anyone has one. I'm currently running a Microsoft Surfacebook 2 bought 10-ish years ago that has Ubuntu with the custom Surface kernal. I love this 2-in-1 and would die with it but I sense that it's getting ever closer to eventual death.

Anyway, I'm think about buying one of those Lenovo Yoga convertable laptop/notebooks. The inability to separate the keyboard mildly sucks but I can live with it.

I know Lenovos tend to do okay with Linux, but does anyone have any personal experience? My use case is pretty light. I surf the Internet, email, do the home productivity stuff, and perhaps some light video editing if I'm on the road and away from my desktop. I could make do with a regular laptop if I had to, but I'd prefer something convertable.
 
Zyklon C said:
I need a hardware recommendation if anyone has one. I'm currently running a Microsoft Surfacebook 2 bought 10-ish years ago that has Ubuntu with the custom Surface kernal. I love this 2-in-1 and would die with it but I sense that it's getting ever closer to eventual death.

Anyway, I'm think about buying one of those Lenovo Yoga convertable laptop/notebooks. The inability to separate the keyboard mildly sucks but I can live with it.

I know Lenovos tend to do okay with Linux, but does anyone have any personal experience? My use case is pretty light. I surf the Internet, email, do the home productivity stuff, and perhaps some light video editing if I'm on the road and away from my desktop. I could make do with a regular laptop if I had to, but I'd prefer something convertable.
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I had an X1 Yoga and it was a pretty good laptop, nice and durable. Ended up trading it for a 15” HP envy x360 my stepdad was given and that’s also a good 2-in-1 though it was dropped once so the frame is bent in a corner.
 
Zyklon C said:
I know Lenovos tend to do okay with Linux, but does anyone have any personal experience? My use case is pretty light. I surf the Internet, email, do the home productivity stuff, and perhaps some light video editing if I'm on the road and away from my desktop. I could make do with a regular laptop if I had to, but I'd prefer something convertable.
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ThinkPads typically work perfectly with Linux/BSD. I always go for the T models which aren't convertible, though.
 
analrapist said:
I maintain a git repo with someone else's software, just random patches for an old workhorse so it'll build on recent machines. Some rando sent me a bug report recently with a build error that made it clear there was a misconfiguration on his system. I pointed that out, asked for his distro, and his response was, basically: "I use Arch, BTW, so I couldn't possibly be doing anything wrong, it's your package." Deleted with prejudice. Why are Archfags like this. Wouldn't even occur to the dumb nigger that if I can't reproduce his issue, I'm not interested. Just posts smugly like I owe him anything.
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I had some guy complain about a downloader package I made on GitHub. He was quite angry.

Told me the steps to install didn't work. I tried them in an Ubuntu virtual machine, and they did.

Found out that he hadn't read the fucking instructions.
 
Zyklon C said:
I know Lenovos tend to do okay with Linux, but does anyone have any personal experience?
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I have an Ideapad flex 14 from 2019 that's running Fedora and it's otherwise fine for web browsing and light document work. It can run some games, but I can't recommend it for that. My biggest objection is how thin it is, because I want to be able to fix my shit should anything happen to it and so on, however, that's a me thing so take that into account.
 
Zyklon C said:
I need a hardware recommendation if anyone has one. I'm currently running a Microsoft Surfacebook 2 bought 10-ish years ago that has Ubuntu with the custom Surface kernal. I love this 2-in-1 and would die with it but I sense that it's getting ever closer to eventual death.

Anyway, I'm think about buying one of those Lenovo Yoga convertable laptop/notebooks. The inability to separate the keyboard mildly sucks but I can live with it.

I know Lenovos tend to do okay with Linux, but does anyone have any personal experience? My use case is pretty light. I surf the Internet, email, do the home productivity stuff, and perhaps some light video editing if I'm on the road and away from my desktop. I could make do with a regular laptop if I had to, but I'd prefer something convertable.
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According to a good buddy of mine, the ThinkPad L13 Yoga Gen 3 works like a charm with Omarchy. Not something I've personally used, but apparently it's great for programming & drawing, have only heard good things from him after switching from Fagintosh.
 
Maintainer of Artix and CallMeTango from XLibre having a (potential) back-and-forth about communications issues.

Right now Artix has stopped putting out XLibre ISOs over regressions. No skin off my nose, I do my installs minimally. However, according to cmtango (CallMeTango) these regressions are poorly communicated and only about six affect Artix Linux in particular. Xorg-xserver-tearfree has far more issues to run into compared to XLibre, according to CallMeTango. Oh, and Artist was removed from the core XLibre team due to multiple infractions none of which I gave enough of a shit to dig into. So someone is deliberately omitting and exaggerating reports likely out of spite. This shit better not demote XLibre to third class citizen on Artix (removed from repos).
 
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Maintainer of Artix and CallMeTango from XLibre having a (potential) back-and-forth about communications issues.

Right now Artix has stopped putting out XLibre ISOs over regressions. No skin off my nose, I do my installs minimally.

However, according to cmtango (CallMeTango) these regressions are poorly communicated and only about six affect Artix Linux in particular.

Xorg-xserver-tearfree has far more issues to run into compared to XLibre, according to CallMeTango.

Oh, and Artist was removed from the core XLibre team due to multiple infractions.

So someone is deliberately omitting and exaggerating reports likely out of spite. This shit better not demote XLibre to third class citizen on Artix.
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Xlibre has had a bit of a communications issue for a bit, too many autists that assume everyone knows everything and are unwilling to proactively elaborate.

To this day I have no idea if they have done the formal process set by Ubuntu and Debian to request Xlibre be added to Ubuntu and Debian repositories or if they are trying to do the run around and wait for Debian and Ubuntu teams to contact them first.

Which is a shame, with apebl outright vanishing and abandoning the first (and well done) pancaking for Debian and Ubuntu I’m still taking a wait and see approach because communication has been a problem since the beginning

Last I checked they still hadn’t decided on a logo despite hundreds of submissions. Hell they haven’t even picked a few and gone “this is neat but can you tweak it a little?”

Considering how fundamental a display server is to a system they need a better organization system then they currently have.
 
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Betonhaus said:
Xlibre has had a bit of a communications issue for a bit, too many autists that assume everyone knows everything and are unwilling to proactively elaborate.
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To which I hope they get the ball rolling to fix.

Betonhaus said:
To this day I have no idea if they have done the formal process set by Ubuntu and Debian to request Xlibre be added to Ubuntu and Debian repositories or if they are trying to do the run around and wait for Debian and Ubuntu teams to contact them first.
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Debian seems more occupied with breaking Perl for Sid/Unstable users if the latter is the case.
 
skunt said:
this must be an easter egg or some kind of tradition i wasn't aware of: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CABG1boNTOBsbz3w6LSKW9+ff=agNkPhHuFSmryqWz1wZ3Y27bw@mail.gmail.com/

some dudes been asking once a year every year for 20 years if one could write a kernel module to blow his pc speakers.
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use case posting all the way back in 2007
 
analrapist said:
I maintain a git repo with someone else's software, just random patches for an old workhorse so it'll build on recent machines. Some rando sent me a bug report recently with a build error that made it clear there was a misconfiguration on his system. I pointed that out, asked for his distro, and his response was, basically: "I use Arch, BTW, so I couldn't possibly be doing anything wrong, it's your package." Deleted with prejudice. Why are Archfags like this. Wouldn't even occur to the dumb nigger that if I can't reproduce his issue, I'm not interested. Just posts smugly like I owe him anything.
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That's why I was against installer being included on ISO, being able to follow a guide is a perfect filter for a type of retard you don't want to use your OS.
 
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Debian seems more occupied with breaking Perl for Sid/Unstable users if the latter is the case.
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Jesus Christ. Did Larry get jealous of Python breaking 90% of software with every minor release?'

Seriously though, important changes in there. Can't get anything done without Unicode 16 support, to make sure you're not missing out the goodness of critical technical milestones like 'Constable, Peter (2023-02-01), "Consensus 174-C24", UTC #174 Minutes, The UTC accepts the name change for U+1CE35 from LARGE TYPE PIECE RAISED UPPER RIGHT ARC to LARGE TYPE PIECE RAISED UPPER LEFT ARC'.
 
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Zyklon C said:
I need a hardware recommendation if anyone has one. I'm currently running a Microsoft Surfacebook 2 bought 10-ish years ago that has Ubuntu with the custom Surface kernal. I love this 2-in-1 and would die with it but I sense that it's getting ever closer to eventual death.

Anyway, I'm think about buying one of those Lenovo Yoga convertable laptop/notebooks. The inability to separate the keyboard mildly sucks but I can live with it.

I know Lenovos tend to do okay with Linux, but does anyone have any personal experience? My use case is pretty light. I surf the Internet, email, do the home productivity stuff, and perhaps some light video editing if I'm on the road and away from my desktop. I could make do with a regular laptop if I had to, but I'd prefer something convertable.
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I had a refurbished Yoga 6 for university and had a great experience. Tried a few distros, but the only one I could get the touch screen and pen working on was Ubuntu. Obviously if you're here you presumably know how to unfuck that distro.
 
THE DREADED CONE said:
I had a refurbished Yoga 6 for university and had a great experience. Tried a few distros, but the only one I could get the touch screen and pen working on was Ubuntu. Obviously if you're here you presumably know how to unfuck that distro.
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Maybe not. He bought his Ubuntu laptop 10 years ago, which was the beginning of Ubuntu’s decline. He may not have any experience with what it’s turned into if he never upgraded his OS (which given the custom Surface kernel may be the case).
 
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Maintainer of Artix and CallMeTango from XLibre having a (potential) back-and-forth about communications issues.

Right now Artix has stopped putting out XLibre ISOs over regressions. No skin off my nose, I do my installs minimally. However, according to cmtango (CallMeTango) these regressions are poorly communicated and only about six affect Artix Linux in particular. Xorg-xserver-tearfree has far more issues to run into compared to XLibre, according to CallMeTango. Oh, and Artist was removed from the core XLibre team due to multiple infractions none of which I gave enough of a shit to dig into. So someone is deliberately omitting and exaggerating reports likely out of spite. This shit better not demote XLibre to third class citizen on Artix (removed from repos).
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And Artist deleted the post, an indictment against my expectations of a "based distro" being too high to not screenshot and archive.

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Someone else's due diligence prevailed.

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How do you guys deal with AI crawlers on your home server? I got anubis, but some other bots are bypassing it. I had to block windows and macos user agents, but the other day I saw some using android user agent instead. Soon I'll have to block everyone except linux desktop users from accessing my server to make it usable.
The AI crawlers kill my server, making all cores run at 100% which results in the server timing out requests.
 
dec05eba said:
How do you guys deal with AI crawlers on your home server? I got anubis, but some other bots are bypassing it. I had to block windows and macos user agents, but the other day I saw some using android user agent instead. Soon I'll have to block everyone except linux desktop users from accessing my server to make it usable.
The AI crawlers kill my server, making all cores run at 100% which results in the server timing out requests.
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A server-side IP block on every address owned by AI companies. A lot of them (the big ones anyway) publish a plain text or JSON file of their entire network addresses. That plus something other than Anubis because Anubis is shit.
 
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