The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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snotang said:
To answer your question, yes, I like Guix, but it inspires a lot of hate in me. Other package managers seem extremely limited by comparison (seriously, requiring root just to upgrade *your user's* packages?), but to be fair, I haven't done much comparing recently.
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As someone who was shocked by how much Gentoo "just works", you make Guix sound like Gentoo for masochists. Given how many times I've written my own Linux distro, I am now more committed to eventually running it.
 
Kind of ridiculous how you have to set a window rule on KWin just to get OSD volume notification to be near the bottom of the screen like on Windows. The default placement of it is almost at the middle of the screen, super inconvenient esp for games. I was able to do it with this rule. Tweaked it a bit for my monitor resolution. It does limit the OSD notification to your primary monitor but I am fine with that personally.

I was also able to port this plasmoid from KDE 4 to KDE 6 over the weekend as I've been trying to learn QML and I've found porting to be a good way to learn in general:
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Its a little steampunk clock widget on the desktop with some fun animations.
 
Akerman said:
Its a little steampunk clock widget on the desktop with some fun animations.
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Widgets were so much fun in the Win7 days, too bad Microjeet saw no fun in them and removed them in the same Windows version. I want my desktop to actually be of some use other than the z=0 of my monitor.
 
Hakase Shinonome said:
Widgets were so much fun in the Win7 days, too bad Microjeet saw no fun in them and removed them in the same Windows version. I want my desktop to actually be of some use other than the z=0 of my monitor.
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This is why I was so hyped for Active Desktop back in the day but holy fuck we did not have enough CPU to cash that check.
 
analrapist said:
As someone who was shocked by how much Gentoo "just works", you make Guix sound like Gentoo for masochists. Given how many times I've written my own Linux distro, I am now more committed to eventually running it.
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I get the sense that any $DISTRIBUTION I use would immediately become "$DISTRIBUTION for masochists". My usage is not particularly typical. At least with Guix I get the sense that there is progress being made.
 
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The instructions are here:
Assuming that it is publicly available, you would definitely want to set up the Tor repos to get semi-up-to-date versions of Tor stuff. That's here:
(But you would replace the 'DISTRIBUTION' in the sources.list with the equivalent Ubuntu version for your version of Linux Mint, not whatever Mint calls its variant of Ubuntu internally- i.e. 'noble' for the latst version)
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What do I type in place of ORPort and ServerTransportListenAddr?
 
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