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laurelraven,

You use your mouse for GRUB?

laurelraven,

The old GRUB was easy, just a text file… I think I’ve done it once in the new one but it’s way too long since then

I bet either the Gentoo or Arch (or probably both) wiki has enough details on how to manage GRUB to do that

laurelraven,

Just checked and they do have it, I think this is the section they need if they want to go that route

wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#Custom_grub.cfg

laurelraven,

All of them, just to be sure

laurelraven,

They’re distant cousins, but they avoid each other at family reunions

laurelraven,

Xtra Feral Computing Elements

laurelraven,

Well, it stands for GNU’s Nearly UNIX, so probably

laurelraven,

One is divisible by 3 and not 2, and the other is divisible by 2 and not 3

This is very important when checking if your software packages are compatible

laurelraven,

A text based Rorschach test. That one is clearly a mouse chasing a cat.

laurelraven,

I don’t recommend it, the more boots you use the heavier your computer will be. I’ve got mine down to half a boot and I’m working on getting it down to a quarter.

laurelraven,

That is a high compatibility version for when you need to work with many different softwares at once

laurelraven,

Not at all! Since it’s half of 9, it can therefore work with half of the software RHEL 9 is compatible with, but since the 4 is also divisible by 2, it can handle all of that software as well.

It’s really quite simple, I don’t see how this could be confusing at all…

laurelraven,

Honestly, I’d say the defaults most distros use will be fine for most users… If they don’t know why they should use one filesystem over another, then it’s almost certainly not going to matter for them

laurelraven,

You can disable it, but yeah… You shouldn’t have to if it’s being handled by the package manager

laurelraven,

Just because they don’t do full releases doesn’t mean it isn’t developed anymore. They switched to updating modules individually, with three updates made this month. Doesn’t sound very abandoned to me.

laurelraven,

That’s not what the person I was replying to said, they said it’s abandonware and not being developed anymore. Which is not true.

laurelraven,

Not enough fans, I want it to ruin my hearing too

laurelraven, (edited )

“You’re not wrong, [Linus], you’re just [being] an asshole”

laurelraven,

That’s very “ends justify the means” of you. No, that’s not the question here. Linus could have gotten the same results without the yelling and insults. You do not need either of those to be direct, assertive, and clear on what the issue is, something that Linus has since learned

laurelraven,

For the first part, no clue, but for the second, absolutely

Just because you work for someone else doesn’t give them the right to treat you badly and that sort of behavior can and should be reported to a person’s employer.

laurelraven,

The good news is Linus did eventually learn this isn’t okay and took some time off to reflect on how to approach these things better.

He still doesn’t tolerate things like he was responding to here, still responds to them firmly and directly, but doesn’t rant, yell, or hurtle insults

laurelraven,

That is what we like to call a “gateway drug”, first they try out an Android, then “just a taste” of Steam Deck, and next thing you know they’re installing arch btw on their grandparents’ computers

laurelraven,

Eh, my main reason for going KDE is every time I try Gnome, it feels like “what do I do now” and “where is the program I opened”

I know that would get better with time spent using it, but then again, KDE feels like I can make it do what I want a lot easier

And none of the other DEs look as nice and polished, which, I know, that’s not the important part … But dammit, I’m gonna be spending a lot of time staring at it, I’d like it to look good to me at least

laurelraven,

I still don’t get why a toolchain that can be replaced but never was able to make a stable kernel of its own after twenty years should get top billing in the name of the OS. A lot of that stuff was left in the dust, its relevance to the system grows smaller each year while the Linux kernel is the only reason they were ever able to make a complete OS in the first place.

Hardly anyone uses GNU without Linux; way more people use Linux without GNU than with it.

Plus, the community at large has decided long ago that the name is just Linux… Does it matter that that’s the name of the kernel? No. Windows and MacOS aren’t named after their kernels, or their toolchains, or any other component.

Anyway, there wasn’t an OS until there was Linux to bring it all together.

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