The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

He Who Points And Laughs said:
RMS has given so much to the world that I will always feel a deep level of respect towards him, regardless of how autistic that fat, commie, foot-skin eating hippie actually is.
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Incredibly true, he's still a commie though.

On to other things, what's the best DE to run if you compile a lot of AUR packages? I tried to compile some AUR packages today and everything ran slow, even with one other window open on GNOME. Hence why I want to try something new.
 
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Dr. Troon said:
Incredibly true, he's still a commie though.

On to other things, what's the best DE to run if you compile a lot of AUR packages? I tried to compile some AUR packages today and everything ran slow, even with one other window open on GNOME. Hence why I want to try something new.
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Compile a kernel with it and enable it with sysctl or whatever.

CGroups might help as well.
 
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Dr. Troon said:
Incredibly true, he's still a commie though.

On to other things, what's the best DE to run if you compile a lot of AUR packages? I tried to compile some AUR packages today and everything ran slow, even with one other window open on GNOME. Hence why I want to try something new.
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Any of the tiling window managers. They are much lighter on resources. i3-gaps being my preferred.
 
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a_lurker said:
Maybe i'm a crusty oldfag, but electron and anything built on it feels like fucking cancer. Browser apps, except you don't just use your regular browser to use it, each comes with their own uniquely broken version of the same browser you're probably already using. Just so you can poke around at javascript files to tweak things without waiting for shit to compile & link, at the cost of all the cpu & ram overhead plus whatever security issues are lurking in the various versions of chromium used.

I sort of understand the cross platform use cases, essentially if its a web app anything with a compatible browser can run it and have a fairly consistent interface across platforms, but I really don't get the rest of it.
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JavaFX has all the benefits of Electron while also being far less bloated, but I guess most developers simply don't want to make the effort of learning a new language.

Spooky Bones said:
UEFI I think but I booted into Ubuntu off a USB (burned under Windows) with no problems, and with dd. Thanks for a super rapid reply.
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This is going to sound a bit retarded but try formatting your USB as GPT with FAT32, mounting the ISO, and then copying over all the files. In theory, your firmware should recognize the filesystem and boot from the \EFI\BOOT\BOOTx64.EFI file.

If that doesn't work maybe that file is missing, your firmware isn't UEFI, or your CPU isn't x86_64. For the first two cases you can try using isohybrid or ImageWriter to make the ISO a bootable MBR and if it's the last one look for an ISO that's actually compatible.
 
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If you weren't such MIT niggers, you would know that gittup.org is clearly God's chosen holy distribution. x86 only, dope website, no kernel modules, no glibc, no graphics, no package manager, a single source tree, everything goes in the initrd. It's one man's side project like God intended.

This is an entire(-ish) linux distribution in git. Everything is built with tup.
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What gittup.org does that nobody else can
Make changes!
Harness the awesome power of tup to make changes to your system -- anywhere in the system -- and quickly see the results.
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What gittup.org doesn't do
In fairness, there are a few things gittup.org doesn't do. For example, you might use it to browse the web. Well, gittup.org can't do that. In fact, all you can really do with gittup.org is recompile things really fast and play nethack and watch movies with mplayer over sshfs.
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Mangaka Linux

"Mangaka is a GNU/Linux operative system based on Ubuntu and Debian. It’s especially developed for the specific needs of the anime and manga community from japan and world wide, including by default professional free software for fansubbing, web browsing, multimedia playback and 2D graphical creations as well codecs, java and flash out-of-the-box."

Pretty autistic

Sourcemage

"The Source Mage tagline is: "Linux so advanced, it may as well be magic.". Basic terminology is similarly magic-oriented. Program packages are called spells, and a collection of spells is called a Grimoire. All installed grimoires likewise make up the Codex. Installing a spell is called "casting", and removing it is called "dispelling". Such terms are not only figures of speech, though: cast and dispel are also the programs used to perform the said tasks."

Very autistic
 
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Minix is a unix clone which uses a micro-kernel (as opposed to a monolithic kernel) and predates Linux. Very small and uses few resources, check it out sometime.

ReactOS is an attempt to clone Windows, with varying (mostly poor) degrees of success.

Haiku is a clone of BeOS, written almost entirely in C. It is fast as hell.

BareMetal is an exokernel OS written in assembly.

DexOS, Menuet, and KolibriOS are written in assembly language.
 
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??? said:
Minix is a unix clone which uses a micro-kernel (as opposed to a monolithic kernel) and predates Linux. Very small and uses few resources, check it out sometime.

ReactOS is an attempt to clone Windows, with varying (mostly poor) degrees of success.

Haiku is a clone of BeOS, written almost entirely in C. It is fast as hell.

BareMetal is an exokernel OS written in assembly.

DexOS, Menuet, and KolibriOS are written in assembly language.
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People figured out a while ago that Minix is the most popular Unix derivative after they found out a copy was included in all (or almost all) Intel CPUs produced since 2015.
 
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??? said:
Minix is a unix clone which uses a micro-kernel (as opposed to a monolithic kernel) and predates Linux. Very small and uses few resources, check it out sometime.
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Last time I checked Minix didn't have USB or sound card support. As a general-purpose OS it has worse hardware support than Plan 9.
 
??? said:
Minix is a unix clone which uses a micro-kernel (as opposed to a monolithic kernel) and predates Linux. Very small and uses few resources, check it out sometime.

ReactOS is an attempt to clone Windows, with varying (mostly poor) degrees of success.

Haiku is a clone of BeOS, written almost entirely in C. It is fast as hell.

BareMetal is an exokernel OS written in assembly.

DexOS, Menuet, and KolibriOS are written in assembly language.
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ReactOS is basically trying to write Windows compatible code completely blind and wants to clearly build bridges to Linux users with it's internal psuedo package manager. The stability needs a lot of work, but if they ever get that fixed, it could be good as a drop in older Windows replacement for emulating old games.
 
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garakfan69 said:
ReactOS collaborates heavily with wine and both projects share as much code as they can. It won't ever be any better for old games than Linux+wine.
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True, but the whole point is that it's running non-POSIX code. The kernel is as Windows like as they do utterly blind via reverse engineering. Linux + Wine is a great alternative, but some people want a legal Windows OS alternative with no Linux middleman.

It's still not as good as Linux + Wine, but I can understand why someone would want to make serial numbers filed off Windows without paying Microsoft a dime though.
 
Why did Mozilla release picture-in-picture video for Windows first? I want to be able to watch YouTube videos without having the tab open, I will never understand Mozilla.

Though Firefox v72 is only a couple days away, so there's at least that.
 
cecograph said:
Check out EXWM. It's pretty impressive. Firefox and your favourite pdf reader will run seamlessly as children of Emacs as a window manager.
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That's very cool, I might try it out once I get a handle on elisp.

But the thing that attracts me to "living in emacs" is the DE/WM agnosticism, where my working environment is entirely independent from whatever machine I'm working on. I'm not sure if this would even be a problem, but I envision having to work with whatever machine a workplace hands me, where messing around with the WM would not be worth my time and hinder cooperation.
Again, I'm not sure if this is even a problem beyond my imagination, let alone one that warrants me writing a post about it.
Continuing on anyway, I'm pretty sure emacs only uses a single thread, because it completely shits itself every time I compile something from it or run some demanding program, meaning my idea is dead in the water at this time.
 
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