Cwilliams

@Cwilliams@beehaw.org

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What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?

Tinkering is all fun and games, until it’s 4 am, your vision is blurry, and thinking straight becomes a non-option, or perhaps you just get overly confident, type something and press enter before considering the consequences of the command you’re about to execute… And then all you have is a kernel panic and one thought...

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Man, gotta love apt sometimes

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Been there, done that. But I haven’t had any problems once I switched to systemd-boot 🤷

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At one point I had the coolest Ventoy USB; CyberRe, LABEL=hakr. But then I got a new computer and apparently the ssd was /dev/nvme0n1 instead of /dev/sda. While I was installing Arch, When I created a new GPT partition on /dev/sda, it wiped my beautiful Ventoy 😢

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Literally

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they’d’nt’ve

Aside: rip Tom Scott

(Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?

I’ve been distrohopping for a while now, and eventually I landed on Arch. Part of the reason I have stuck with it is I think I had a balanced introduction, since I was exposed to both praise and criticism. We often discuss our favorite distros, but I think it’s equally important to talk about the ones that didn’t quite hit...

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Agree. The tradeoff of building everything from source just doesn’t pay off

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For X11, BSPWM was my daily driver. (before I switched to Sway, then Hyprland)

"Must Try" distros and DEs?

Hey folks! I’m getting a fresh laptop for the first time in about a decade (Framework 16) in a couple of months and am looking forward to doing some low-level tinkering both on the OS and hardware. I’m planning to convert into a “cyberdeck” with quick-release hinges for the screen since I usually use an HMD, built-in...

Cwilliams,

It’s like Arch, but x10. People think Arch > Any other distro, Wayland > Xorg, Hyprland > any other DE, Rust > C, etc

Is it possible to use Google Drive reliably?

I’ve been using Google Drive in Windows for about a decade and have a good workflow. I recently transitioned to Linux but cannot seem to reliably connect my drive to the filesystem. My work provides unlimited Drive space and since it’s for work I have shared directories with coworkers that I need access to every day. Hence,...

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It appears that this only supports Google Cloud storage buckets, not Google Drive

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The idea of installing Linux on a vacuum…

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Well in that case, you could look into Plasma Big screen, which you could control from your phone with KDE Connect

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I used to download my music with NewPipe and listen to it on Musicolet, but since then, i just gave up and got a cracked spotify client

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M$ is the best abbreviation for Microsoft yet

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Panic! At the Disco

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Personally, I think they should make LMDE the default version of Linux Mint.

Debian -> Ubuntu -> Linux Mint vs Debian -> LMDE

Since it’s more upstream, it should be more up-to-date and secure, right?

I feel like basing a distro off of Ubuntu is sort of a crutch. It’s makes things easier at the beginning, but ultimately it holds you back as a distro developer

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Been trying to get my friend into Linux, but he uses a MB. Maybe this will finally do it for him

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Is XFCE good on Touchpad gestures, though?

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You even have to pay for the full version, just like Windows!

Laptop keyboard unresponsive - I think my (unknown) laptop is affected by the kernel Zen IRQ regressions - how do I work around this?

I picked up a laptop a couple of months ago for the purpose of setting up Linux on (I chose NixOS for stability) to go with my existing desktop. It’s an Infinity E15-5A165-BM (Infinity being an Australian local manufacturer of gaming laptops) which features a Ryzen 5 6600H CPU and a GeForce 1650 GTX....

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I chose NixOS for stability

I think that’s the first time I’ve ever heard that

Gentoo goes Binary (packages) (www.gentoo.org)

To speed up working with slow hardware and for overall convenience, we’re now also offering binary packages for download and direct installation! For most architectures, this is limited to the core system and weekly updates - not so for amd64 and arm64 however. There we’ve got a stunning >20 GByte of packages on our mirrors,...

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This might get me to switch to Gentoo. I just broke my Arch again, so this is the perfect time…

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Someone please tell me how to do this on Wayland. “c/unixporn, here I come!”

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Not OP, but here’s the link if it didn’t load for other people.

Cwilliams,

Not sure about the other ones, but I use Btrfs because of subvolumes and backups.

Subvolumes are like special folders inside of your partition that mount separately. Ex. In my btrfs partition, I have a @home partition that is mounted to /home

This makes it easier to choose what you are backing up, because you can say, “just copy everything in @home to the backup location”

If I got any of that wrong, feel free to correct me!

Cwilliams,

I didn’t realize custom roms didn’t support android auto. The things you have to give up for privacy 😢

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If only fitness apis were actually that easy

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