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That is like, trying to convince a meat lover to eat veggies (only) but seriously? Just download an iso @ linuxmint.com, give it a spin. It’s free. Be aware that “It’s not Windows” so expect some things to not behave “by the Windows logic”. “Duckduckgo is your friend”, even if it means asking the most trivial things “How do I install $thing on Linux mint?”, and you’ll be just fine.

How do y'all deal with programs not supported on Linux?

I’ve been seeing all these posts about Linux lately, and looking at them, I can honestly see the appeal. I’d love having so much autonomy over the OS I use, and customize it however I like, even having so many options to choose from when it comes to distros. The only thing holding me back, however, is incompatibility issues....

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I either compile em or run Windows to use said “program”.

…I mean… when the latter happens is always someone else’s PC, so eh.

GustavoM,
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Amen. I’d install Hyperland on both of my “main” PC and on my Rpi 4 but my rpi 4 (still) has sway and it “just werks” so eeeeeh

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There is no* such thing as “best” – all distros are Linux/GNU at heart.

What do you think about this? (www.youtube.com)

Since i see so much linux talk on lemmy i got curious and watched a video about the common distros. How true is the information in this video? The person hardly describes why debian and arch are just better than every other distro. At least i’m definitely now curious about Mint or something for gaming.

GustavoM, (edited )
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All distros are GNU/Linux at heart – theres no such thing as a “better” distro.

GustavoM,
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I’m also looking for general tips and advice for beginners if anyone has some to share.

The only thing that is stopping a Windows user from becoming a Linux user is the package manager – learn how to use it in the cli. Then the "rest’ should be an obvious, flat curve (which “package” goes for video card, audio, etcetc).

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You guys 'member when security patches were (freely) given away, for free, without asking nothing back?

I 'member.

Looks like the “Windowsfied Linux” era is upon us.

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afaik, you actually need to do way LESS compared to using a geforce card.

GustavoM,
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Ratpoison. :^)

GustavoM,
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It’s like we are in a big, nonstop Southpark episode.

Non-root user that (suddenly) has elevated privileges in a specific command (only). [Have I been hacked?]

Title. Long,short story: creating or editing files with nano as my non-root user gives (the file) elevated privileges, like I have ran it w/ sudo or as root. And the (only) “security hole” that I can think of is a nextdns docker container running as root. That aside, its very “overkill” security-wise (cap_drop=ALL,...

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-rw-rw-r-- 1 $sudoer $sudoer $date $createdfilename.

GustavoM,
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Just did it, and it shows my sudoer username with ownership of the created file. umask returns me 0002.

GustavoM, (edited )
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i.e file is created (as non-root), trying to remove the file (once again, as non-root) gives me a “rm: cannot remove ‘dir/file.name’: Permission denied” error message.

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Alright, first one returned me “bash: alias: nano: not found”. Second one, “nano is hashed (/usr/bin/nano)”. Third one, my sudoer username. And the fourth one shows my sudoer username at the top of the list, with both uid and gid at 1000.

And I honestly can’t really think of much to add, other than the username in the docker image being completely nonexistant (It’s just a bunch of numbers, and it doesn’t even have a name). I don’t know, maybe someone managed to breach the container and gave this “nonexistant user” root privileges but haven’t managed to do much or something like that. I’m not that much of a tech savvy, but I guess it doesn’t hurt to try to guess something. Maybe there is something inside the container? Idk, I’m gonna (try to) check it out (It’s a “distroless” image – it doesn’t even have a shell in it.).

GustavoM,
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Try an ls -l $(which nano) and look at the permissions section of the output.

Just did it – output is -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 274816 Feb 19 2022 /usr/bin/nano. Now I’m really confused. Still, I appreciate your input.

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No and yes. And it returns me only a single line with $mysudoerusername 28596 0.0 0.1 5896 2016 pts/0 5+ 15:52 0:00 grep nano.

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Amen. He is a lost gem.

GustavoM,
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Genuinely made me smile.

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That is like asking, “Do you think Linux devs make big phat poos every once in a while?”.

GustavoM,
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Armbian or DietPi.

GustavoM,
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As someone whom is used to trash talk and throw one-liners mostly of the time… this is at the same level of jumping in the middle of a crowd and screaming “I just farted.”

GustavoM,
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> “Why is X so T.O.X.I.C?”

> “”“argument”“” is just a bunch of meme spam

ewwytim

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Personally I think that the xp era was the best. Then everything went downhill.

…

Oh wait. You are talking about X.org.

GustavoM,
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“There are ingrown toenails… and there are folks who make (insert ridiculous stuff here) look like a ingrown toenail.” And of course, the latter is not a wise thing to do.

GustavoM, (edited )
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Nowadays there are (less than $20) single board computers able to “run Linux” and decode 1080p videos like its nothing, so a perfect, plausible answer for your thread is simply “Why not a PC with Linux and another PC for Windows?”. Even if GNU/Linux is decent enough for gaming/working needs nowadays.

Then again, you might be arguing like distros have specific use cases – which is a straight up fallacy. Every distro is GNU/Linux at heart. Theres no such thing as “more useful” since you can simply remove packages/commands you don’t find pleasing/“useful” and add/compile another ones yourself.

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