The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Intel® Core™2 Duo E8400]

The hilarious thing about this bad troll argument is that I've spent less time fiddling with my OS since switching to Gentoo than ever; spent less time fiddling with Arch and Debian than I did the Windows machines they replaced. The thing about Linux is that the random breakage and weirdness and feature churn of Windows just doesn't exist here once you get good.

If you fuck something up on linux at least you'll find some sort of wiki or guide that will get you back on track.
When windows decides to fuck itself up for no reason, all you get is "hello, i am windows mvp, you're computer is unhealthy, run sfc /scannow and DISM /RestoreHealth, thanks you please rate 5/5"

If linux fucks itself up on its own, there's usually a big stink online and a guide around it already posted before you even notice

 

[Vesperus]

When windows decides to fuck itself up for no reason, all you get is "hello, i am windows mvp, you're computer is unhealthy, run sfc /scannow and DISM /RestoreHealth, thanks you please rate 5/5"

You forgot "have you tried re-installing windows?" Which is MVP for "I don't know, this wasn't covered in my course."

 

[Billy Herrington "Aniki"]

I suppose so, yes. I'd personally recommend a Xorg-forward spin like Cinnamon, MATE+Compiz

have you tried mate, i saw that they aren't really doing much on their project, also i need wayland bc my mouse doesn't work on xorg. It keeps lagging as if the latency of it its 500ms and it'll jitter, only happens on xorg. Any ideas?

 

[Betonhaus]

If you fuck something up on linux at least you'll find some sort of wiki or guide that will get you back on track.
When windows decides to fuck itself up for no reason, all you get is "hello, i am windows mvp, you're computer is unhealthy, run sfc /scannow and DISM /RestoreHealth, thanks you please rate 5/5"

If linux fucks itself up on its own, there's usually a big stink online and a guide around it already posted before you even notice

Don’t forget how the Microsoft Answers website is so completely useless. You’d ask a question and then some official answer would come in with a super generic and unhelpful response and then mark your question solved and then never respond to that question ever again.

 

[Akerman]

Apparently you need to manually enable Bluez to fast connect to devices:

# Permanently enables the Fast Connectable setting for adapters that
# support it. When enabled other devices can connect faster to us,
# however the tradeoff is increased power consumptions. This feature
# will fully work only on kernel version 4.1 and newer. Defaults to
# 'false'.
FastConnectable = true

I didn't know that before snoopin about Bluez's settings.
Check on your own systems with:

cat /etc/bluetooth/main.conf | grep -i fast

Now my Bluetooth hardware dont take ages after startup to connect.

 

[GNU Abyss]

So does anyone know why after weeks of trying I can't get Plex to see the hard drives on my computer under Linux and every time I try to install a game it says I don't have a hard drive?

I found my old Windows 10 disc and I am going to switch back to that if I can't find an answer because I don't think Linux is a usable OS.

I have been trying for the better part of a month and I can;t get anything other than web browsing to work.

Nothing works on Linux as far as I can tell and I am using the linux version of apps.

Thanks for trying to help but Linux just doesn't work and it is never going to be an OS that can be used by anyone who needs to get work done on their computer.

Are you dual booting by any chance? Windows doesn't fully unmount NTFS drives because of fastboot, unless you explicitly tell it to do so.

 

[wew lad]

It looks like Brave Origin finally left beta and it's free on Linux (any platform if you compile form source), so I might give it a try over my old autistic Firefox profile for a bit. I like the idea of Brave a bit more if I'm not being bombarded by crypto ads and requests to enable bullshit I don't want the instant I open a fresh profile, and an unfortunate number of websites are starting to work like absolute shit with Gecko engine browsers.

 

[SchizoDaemon]

It looks like Brave Origin finally left beta and it's free on Linux (any platform if you compile form source), so I might give it a try over my old autistic Firefox profile for a bit. I like the idea of Brave a bit more if I'm not being bombarded by crypto ads and requests to enable bullshit I don't want the instant I open a fresh profile, and an unfortunate number of websites are starting to work like absolute shit with Gecko engine browsers.

You aren't bombarded by crypto ads. Every ad can be turned off, and it never comes back. I have no idea why people say this stuff when it blatantly isn't true.

 

[Rust Troony]

It looks like Brave Origin finally left beta and it's free on Linux (any platform if you compile form source), so I might give it a try over my old autistic Firefox profile for a bit. I like the idea of Brave a bit more if I'm not being bombarded by crypto ads and requests to enable bullshit I don't want the instant I open a fresh profile, and an unfortunate number of websites are starting to work like absolute shit with Gecko engine browsers.

>Use Brave
>Take away everything Brave made

At that point is it not just ungoogled chromium with a mid tier adblocker bolted on?

 

[Pluciferous]

>Use Brave
>Take away everything Brave made

At that point is it not just ungoogled chromium with a mid tier adblocker bolted on?

What if that’s everything I ever wanted?

 

[wew lad]

You aren't bombarded by crypto ads. Every ad can be turned off, and it never comes back. I have no idea why people say this stuff when it blatantly isn't true.

I said with a fresh profile, it does go away forever but I hate it being there in the first place. More than zero ads is intolerable.

>Use Brave
>Take away everything Brave made

At that point is it not just ungoogled chromium with a mid tier adblocker bolted on?

Pretty much, I know I could also use Helium and get uBlock Origin since they're maintaining Manifest V2 for it, but Brave has one thing that Helium doesn't: a configurable minimum tab width. One of the things that was keeping me to Firefox for so long was not having horizontal tabs compress down to the point the labels disappear if you have a bunch of tabs open.

 

[Betonhaus]

What if that’s everything I ever wanted?

In which case just install Chromium with Ublock Origin?

 

[wew lad]

In which case just install Chromium with Ublock Origin?

Is that still doable? You could still install it in dev mode in Chromium but I heard that bypass for Manifest V3 extensions was getting removed in an update this month.

 

[SchizoDaemon]

I said with a fresh profile, it does go away forever but I hate it being there in the first place. More than zero ads is intolerable.

What a ridiculous expectation. This attitude of "I should never, ever see an ad" is ridiculous when you are getting it for basically nothing.

It would be different if they were cramming it down your throats and there was no way to turn it off, or if you know, you paid for it.

I would actually argue Firefox is worse than Brave these days.

 

[analrapist]

Hey @Dread First, in your evaluation, what disqualified Gentoo? Just didn't want to build stuff? ChromeOS builds off of Gentoo, so there's corporate support for Gentoo from that angle these days.

 

[Dread First]

Hey @Dread First, in your evaluation, what disqualified Gentoo? Just didn't want to build stuff? ChromeOS builds off of Gentoo, so there's corporate support for Gentoo from that angle these days.

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, but honestly? Wisdom from people like @AmpleApricots way back when made unfucking Gentoo nontrivial but still doable (fun fact: AmpleApricots-senpai was the reason I learned how to do an EFISTUB like a normal person instead of relying on the horrible monstrosity that is GRUB). I blamed compile times for not wanting to give Gentoo a fair shake, but that's only half the answer.

a) Compile times for most software ain't as bad as they were in decades prior; post-AM4 hardware basically means everyone has a hex-core amd64v3 processor with an assload of cache and dozens of GB worth of RAM that we could only dream of in the "good ol' days." Y'know what actually got worse? All the software I basically live out of... y'know, like Firefox, LibreOffice, and so on. Yeah, I know the binaries exist for good reason. But therein lies the fucking problem: there are still no shortage of compile time flags, USE flags, or whatever the fuck else that would be really nice to take advantage of... but I'm over here sitting and staring for like an hour or two while Portage compiles everything. Yeah yeah yeah, it's an overengineering problem because lesser web browsers and office programs can compile [finger snap] just like that. Still don't make it suck any less.

b) I'm gonna be completely honest: skill issue is the other half I neglected to disclose. There are tons of options at your disposal, USE itself is the name of the game, don't neglect learning SLOTs either, and the Gentoo handbook (to the best of my knowledge) only gets you up to the base text-only system, and you need to still bootstrap the rest of the way there. That's on top of the Gentoo handbook guiding you through the source compile way the whole damn time without a digression on getting the binary kernel up and running. Yes, all of these are problems individually that can be solved... but I ain't got the patience for all that. Maybe if I were 15 years old again with a horrible sense of budgeting my time, I would go all-in. Those days are long gone.

 

[Betonhaus]

What do you do when you are compiling? Do you have an ebook you crack open or just browse the kiwi farms while the compiling happens in the background?

 

[Hieronymus Lex]

>Use Brave
>Take away everything Brave made

At that point is it not just ungoogled chromium with a mid tier adblocker bolted on?

Brave made Brave browser's adblock engine in RUST.

Google is slowly axing Manifest v2 support in Chromium source code, and since Ungoogled Chromium uses upstream Chromium source code, they'll have to keep patching the source code whenever some jeets at Google decides to further clean up dead code of Manifest v2. No white man's time is cheaper than a jeet's time, so this is an uphill battle. Either that or you concede and use uBlock Origin Lite. Brave's adblock engine is built into the browser not as an extension and therefore avoids the Manifest V2/V3 thing

 

[analrapist]

What do you do when you are compiling? Do you have an ebook you crack open or just browse the kiwi farms while the compiling happens in the background?

Run it before bed, wake up to a freshly-baked system, restart if necessary then.

 

[SchizoDaemon]

Run it before bed, wake up to a freshly-baked system, restart if necessary then.

If I ever do that while compiling anything it would fail 2 minutes after I left it.