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Dirk

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Somewhere between Linux woes, gaming, open source, 3D printing, recreational coding, and occasional ranting.

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Nothing beats the Arch wiki, to be honest. One of the best and broadest collections of useful information around the web. And since Arch is not-too-modified in relation to upstream, all of the information is usable for most a lot of other distributions, too.

And yes: I’m using Arch, btw.

To be more specific: I’m running Arch with Hyprland (a tiling compositor for Wayland) on my DELL XPS 13 without any issues, running Arch with Openbox (X11) on my main computer since over a decade without any major issues (device is used for gaming, multimedia, video and image editing and screen recording), and on all devices I serve something from.

Since I run Arch as a server (had it as communication server, as DHCP/DNS server, as VPN endpoint on a Raspberry Pi, and as a gaming server, currently on my main server it’s used as host for a Docker setup), I can tell you, you don’t need to worry about any real issues regarding stability and performance. Arch is way less bleeding edge as non-Arch users think. Just update regularly every 2-3 weeks at least, and check the news before doing so.

I’m curious to hear about your experiences and recommendations!

It boils down to what effort you want to put into it.

If university and work usage is mainly running productivity stuff like some type of text processing or using web-based applications you likely won’t ever have any issues. If you’re constantly switching environments, need to run specific apps (maybe even 32-bit software), constantly use different video outputs, tons of different BT devices, etc. … well … Arch is of course capable of everything the bigger distributions have to offer by default (all the nice “magic” stuff that happens automatically in the background), you just need to set everything up by yourself.

I might be biased towards Arch, but maybe just try if it fits your intended purpose and if you’re willing to set up everything at least once before using it.

Dirk,
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No person should be allowed to own more residential property than they’re realistically need for living.

Dirk,
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You should try Linux Mint. It’s a good distribution for new Linux users. It’s easy to understand, has a good community with plenty of solutions for all types of problems and it is not too specific.

Gaming with Steam on Linux works without any major issues except when it comes to games that intentionally made run on Windows only due to their DRM. I suggest using the Flatpak variant of Steam so you won’t clutter your system with too many weird dependencies.

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https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/e7ee2a95-5f9a-4b7e-9c11-4a6ace44bffc.png

Dirk,
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For the same reason a lot of programming languages can’t calculate 0.1+0.2 properly.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/800d9121-8b45-421a-b3a1-3a866750899f.png

There’s a website explaining it: 0.30000000000000004.com

Dirk,
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Do people actually want this?

Absolutely not. But this is the new standard now.

Is it actually dangerous to run Firefox as root?

I have a few Linux servers at home that I regularly remote into in order to manage, usually logged into KDE Plasma as root. Usually they just have several command line windows and a file manager open (I personally just find it more convenient to use the command line from a remote desktop instead of directly SSH-ing into the...

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This. Thread should have officially ended here.

Dirk,
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This is basically an article promoting two Tweets (something like Toots, but on a monetized closed source for-profit platform run by a highly questionable billionaire).

Here:

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/7f877ece-edcd-4d09-b550-963e7103406f.png

Dirk,
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What can you automate with Beachpatrol? The sky is the limit:

  • Check your email.
  • Login to your bank account.

[…]

Oh hell no!

Wayland-Proxy Load Balancer Helping Firefox Cope With Wayland Issues (www.phoronix.com)

Among the Firefox Wayland bugs, one of the top crash bugs is over a lost connection to a Wayland compositor. For dealing with it is to have a proxy between Firefox and the Wayland compositor to cache messages and prevent compositor message queue overflows.

Dirk,
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When you need a proxy between your application and your graphics server then something fundamental went wrong long before.

Dirk,
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Why are they even still pushing that nonsense

It’s a for-profit corporation. They only have one goal.

Dirk,
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Less resources needed, less physical space needed, less power consumption, no need for a network, don’t need to maintain/update multiple systems, etc.

Terms of Service (media.kbin.social)

alt text(parodical) YouTube popup: Going to pee during the ad break violates YouTube’s Terms of Service - It looks like you selfishly left the room while our ads were playing. Don’t you know that by watching youtube you entered a CONTRACT?! - We killed the competition by operating at a loss for a decade. We paid good money...

Dirk,
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Forget YouTube.

Sony owns a patent for a system/concept that needs you to audibly name the company/product the advertisement is for to continue at the end of the advertisement.

fortune.com/…/sony-patent-is-hilarious-terrifying…

Dirk,
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There are some packages in the actual AUR that use the deb packages as source, extract them, and make them into something that can be installed using Pacman. So we’re going full circle now 😁

Dirk,
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https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/141c439b-4acc-43fe-8e97-86a1c62c4294.png

Dirk,
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Ryan, is that you?

Dirk,
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Google, Samsung or some other large corporation would take it over

Perkele!

Dirk,
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I don’t think anybody here wants that.

Talk for yourself!

Where is the French braiding meat OC?

Dirk,
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frensh

Dirk,
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ZWEIG!

Dirk,
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It’s actually pretty funny how many discussions about Reddit, Twitter, and Threads happening in the Fediverse.

I just deleted my Reddit account a few months ago (and my Twitter account years ago) and I don’t think I miss anything.

Dirk,
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I never understood why they did not switch to solar power when the fossil fuel got so sparse.

Dirk,
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Ah yes, the absolute territory.

There is science involved!

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/88aee9af-c11c-4888-bbe4-6eda6b5e7703.png

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