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captain_aggravated, in (Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

I’m going to mention two:

Manjaro. I’ve attempted to use Manjaro a few different times, and outside of a VM it just didn’t work properly; on my laptop it would boot loop for reasons I don’t understand, it had poor hardware support and optimization on a Raspberry Pi, and it didn’t last long on my desktop. It’s had its chances, I’m done trying.

I really did not hitch horses with Pop!_OS, and it’s almost entirely because Pop!_OS started at Gnome and kept fucking going. Just thinking about the two miserable weeks I spent trying to get Gnome to do anything is making me physically angry. Words like disobedient and belligerent come to mind when I think of what it’s like to use Pop!_OS. Linux Mint is designed to feel familiar to anyone coming from Windows. Pop!_OS feels like it’s designed to be the opposite of that, it deliberately doesn’t work the way you think it does. YOU have to conform to IT. And I FUCKING hate it. It is never welcome on my hardware ever again.

lseif,

yep. i dont see a reason to use Manjaro when EndevourOs is basically the same, but better (and a nicer color theme!)

maness300,

Why does endeavor OS describe itself as a terminal-centric OS?

That alone turns me off from using it. I try to avoid the terminal at all costs.

lseif,

im pretty sure you can get by pretty well without the terminal, for the most part. although, it is arch based, and its kind of the point. no distro is for everyone.

its besides the point, but why dont u like the terminal?

maness300,

its besides the point, but why dont u like the terminal?

Because it’s way harder to remember and use text commands than it is to navigate a GUI.

I also don’t like taking my hand off the mouse if I can avoid it.

lseif,

fair enough.

mlg, in "Must Try" distros and DEs?
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XFCE with Compiz as the compositor

Or just straight Compiz

Make sure you enable all the funny effects like the cube, cube animations, 3D windows, advanced window animations, transparency effects, sky box, etc.

All easy to do with compiz config manager.

nickwitha_k,

That’s a name that I’ve not heard in a long time. Wasn’t aware that Compiz was still active. It was my favorite compositor until the Gnome 3 switch.

mlg,
@mlg@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah I’m surprised it doesn’t show up as much anymore despite being both a performant and highly customizable platform.

Lots of the effects aren’t available on other DEs, and the team behind has so far actually maintained all the plugins.

JDubbleu, (edited ) in creating an alias of a command with plenty special characters

Not at my computer so I can’t double check, but I believe you can replace the outer double quotes with single quotes. I’d also remove the spaces before and after the equal sign for the alias. I don’t know about fish but I know bash doesn’t like when you add spaces there.

humanplayer2, in creating an alias of a command with plenty special characters
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I think you have to alternate the quotations you use between doubles and singles, pairwise. Else the first pair is closed after --format.

So you have to use a pattern like “command level 1 ‘level 2 “level 3” more level 2’ more level 1”

Does that make sense?

friend_of_satan, (edited )

That’s not how it works. The second bare double-quote closes the first one regardless of how it is nested in a string. The middle pair of double-quotes would need to be escaped. Also, single-quotes cannot be escaped in this way.

The only place I can think of where nested double quotes do work is in subshells


<span style="color:#323232;">echo "hello $(echo "world")"
</span>

This is because the subshell is interpreted before the outer logic, so during interpretation of the outer logic there is never a nested double quote, just the stdout of the subshell.

These things are sometimes difficult to grok, and even more common, difficult to spot with human eyes. Best to use shellcheck, which will surely help you get better at shell scripting.

humanplayer2,
@humanplayer2@lemmy.ml avatar

TIL! Thank you!

tkk13909, in creating an alias of a command with plenty special characters

Try using ‘apostrophes’ for the outer set of quotes and see if that works

clmbmb, in creating an alias of a command with plenty special characters

As the others have said, your first issue is using blank spaces before and after =

Then, when you need to use double quotes in a command, the alias should be defined with single quotes, like this:


<span style="color:#323232;">$ alias dockps='docker ps --format "table {{.ID}}  {{.Names}}  {{.Status}}  {{.Ports}}"'
</span>
krash, (edited )

Thank you (and all others who replied), this worked flawlessly :-)

MalReynolds, in Fedora, Arch, or EndeavourOS?
@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net avatar

Consider immutable, I use ublue-kinoite (fedora spin ‘with batteries’) and use a distrobox Arch for the AUR and development, best of both worlds, rock stable main OS, cutting edge rolling release as needed. I’ve been very happy, and if you’re using for uni and work, reliability should be a consideration.

KarnaSubarna, in (Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?
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RHEL - for obvious reasons

secana, in Toolbx now offers built-in support for Arch Linux and Ubuntu

Any advantages over distrobox? Sounds very similar.

AlijahTheMediocre,

Toolbx and Distrobox are basically identical.

The only difference is Distrobox is more agnostic and will create .desktop files for containers and applications installed in them automatically. Toolbx you need to make the .desktop manually.

richardisaguy,
@richardisaguy@lemmy.world avatar

Toolbox is more stable, but distrobox has more features

stardreamer, (edited ) in Help w/ crash
@stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Look at the line with the asm_exc_invalid_op. That seems like a hardware fault caused by an invalid asm instruction to me. Either something wrong is being interpreted as an opcode (unlikely) or maybe the driver was compiled with extensions not available on the current machine.

OP, how old is your CPU? And how old is the nic you are using?

Edit: did you use a custom driver for the NIC? I’m looking at the Linux src and rt_mutex_schedule does not exist. Nevermind. Was checking 4.18 instead of 6.7. found it now. The bug is most likely inside a macro called preempt_disable(). Unfortunately most of the functions are pretty heavily inlined and architecture dependent so you won’t get much out of it. But it is likely any changes you made in terms of premption might also be causing the bug.

mvirts,

It’s a 3770k… So super old? 😅 The USB nic is this guy: CF-953AX a.aliexpress.com/_mNfj796

Maybe I should set up a config that doesn’t use a preemptable kernel for when I want faster wifi :P

Maybe this is my chance to actually fix something kernel related

Thanks for taking a look at this, your comments are super helpful.

stardreamer,
@stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

My suggestion would be to try compiling the kernel locally.its highly likely the one packaged in your distro contains extensions that you don’t have. Doing a local native compile should rule that out pretty quickly without having to disable any additional features.

mvirts,

Looks like dmesg isn’t being logged to disk… But I made my font smaller 😹 https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7d5b658b-f029-4cce-aeeb-ddcce9760426.jpegDefinitely more to go on there, this happened while playing Minecraft with a small human so I didn’t dig into it yet. I’m pretty sure the kernel I’m running was built by a derivation that applies some preempt patches so I’ll start there. Ubuntu works fine with the adapter, but it’s also not a preemptable kernel.

dotslashme, in "Must Try" distros and DEs?

I wouldn’t recommend specific ones, but I would recomnend you try out distros with unique features. Such as an immutable one, one that is built from source, one with packages, one with snap, one with flatpack, etc.

This will help you understand and evaluate what you like.

squid_slime, in What's your favourite RSS reader for Linux?
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Feedparser, made nice tui RSS reader in python 😍

KarnaSubarna, (edited ) in Share your Linux-related Blogs/Websites
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lseif, in (Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?

Evil Linux Suprise™

idk why people even use it. too scary for me.

urandom, in What's your favourite RSS reader for Linux?

I recently switched to iOS, found out that the front end of my feed aggregator doesn’t work worth safari, but then found Unread, which I could use because they both support the fever api. It was quite a trip, but I’m now content

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