KISSmyOS

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The Distro Wars are good actually.?

If all the seemingly pointless discussions about which distro is better comes from attachment to a spesific distro and if a distro is just a way to interract with linux than all the discussion about witch distro is better etc. fundementally comes from a a place of love and appreciation for Linux as an OS....

KISSmyOS, (edited )

That’s not even close to the weirdest distro out there.

KISSmyOS,

I agree that the wealth of distros offers a choice for everyone and shows how much users love Linux as a system and respect the idea of a diverse, global open source community as a whole.

(I use Apartheid Linux btw)

KISSmyOS,

Wait, which Wiki did you expect?

What distro would you recommend for a 32-bit old Acer One laptop? (kbin.social)

It's an old model (Acer One D257) Processor is Intel Atom. Memory is 1GB DDR3 with 320 GB of HDD. I currently Have MX 21 running on it, but I need to reinstall because I forgot the root password. Since I'm reinstalling the OS, I thought I'd ask here for recommendations for an OS that makes the most of this oldie.

KISSmyOS,

The Distro is not important

Most distros have dropped 32bit UEFI support, so on old hardware, the distro is important.

KISSmyOS,

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take, but you also avoid getting hit in the face by the rebound or having the entire stadium laugh at you.

KISSmyOS,

Yes, if you’re a pony.

KISSmyOS,

For me, the issue with Debian stable currently isn’t the applications, but the DE. Wayland support and UX gets better with every update of Gnome/KDE, and that isn’t something you can install via flatpak.

KISSmyOS,

I haven’t had any recent issue with those either. Just make sure both the nvidia driver and the kernel are from your distros repository, and you always update them both at the same time.

KISSmyOS,

Oh god, why did you have to trigger that memory???

KISSmyOS,

I know. So I take the dog and the Jeep x3, and sell the three Jeeps to some idiots while the gas still isn’t spoiled.

OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 -> Tumbleweed conversion

Thinking of trying to morph my Leap workstation into Tumbleweed (and potentially Slowroll once that project matures enough). I’ve seen that you can do it . I reckon I can rollback relatively easily via the BTRFS snapshots if it goes sideways, but just curious to see what others’ experience with doing so has been.

KISSmyOS,

RTFM. The setup of a user-level flatpak is right there in the Wiki: en.opensuse.org/Flatpak

Why didn't anyone remind me the dual booting exists?

I was talking to my dad yesterday and he talked about how he dual booted windows and Linux in his college days. I immediately left to download Ubuntu, I feel so dumb for forgetting it’s an option. I literally only use windows so I can play Fortnite with friends. PSA: you can have both Linux and Windows, or you can use a vm in...

KISSmyOS, (edited )

Windows doesn’t “snitch” on you. Invasive anti-cheat measures demand to act as a root-kit on your pc that reads out literally everything about your system, including CPU, hardware ID of the mainboard, etc. So of course it will see that it’s installed on a VM and you gave it the right to send that info wherever during installation of the game.
Since the point of this measure is to keep people from evading a ban by reinstalling, it will not like seeing that it’s in a VM.

KISSmyOS,

You can, but 70% quality has visible jpeg artifacts and any editing makes them worse.

Preparing to move from Ubuntu to Fedora

Hi! I’m seeking some advice and sanity check on hopping from Ubuntu to Fedora on my personal PC. I’ve been using Ubuntu LTS for almost two years now, switched from Windows and never looked back. But I cannot say I know Linux well. I use my PC for browsing, some gaming with Steam (I have AMD GPU), occasional video editing,...

KISSmyOS, (edited )

If you’re on Debian Stable, yes. On Ubuntu, hell no.

KISSmyOS,

Super-key -> t -> Enter

If that doesn’t work, you’re not using the terminal enough.

I want to study psychology but won't AI make it redundant in a couple of years?

I know it’s not even close there yet. It can tell you to kill yourself or to kill a president. But what about when I finish school in like 7 years? Who would pay for a therapist or a psychologist when you can ask for help a floating head on your computer?...

KISSmyOS,

I’m sure as fuck glad my therapist is a human and not a Chatbot.

Also, psychologists will be needed to design AI interfaces so humans have an easy time using them.
A friend of mine studied psychology and now works for a car company, designing their infotainment system UI so that people can instinctively use it without consulting a manual. Those kinds of jobs will become more, not less in the future.

KISSmyOS,

On Linux, you need the libdvdcss library in order to rip protected DVD’s with vlc.
For legal reasons, it can’t be included by the distros directly but there’s usually a documented way to install it.

On Ubuntu, this is:


<span style="color:#323232;">sudo apt install libdvd-pkg  
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg
</span>
KISSmyOS,

I mentioned dhcpd (the ISC DHCP server demon), not dhcpcd, the unaffiliated DHCP Client demon.

KISSmyOS,

Neither GNOME nor Plasma depend on NetworkManager, do they?

Not directly, but distros may choose to create a dependency.

On Debian, installing recommended dependencies is enabled by default and disabling them can lead to all sorts of errors and missing functionality.
gnome-shell recommends gnome-control-center, which recommends network-manager-gnome, which depends on network-manager.
So unless you go out of your way to install a very minimal system, it gets pulled in.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

I heard PETA also started the plague and fellated Hitler.

Seriously, the campaign against PETA must be one of the most successful examples of propaganda in history. Even people whose views are aligned with the goals and actions of PETA hate PETA. Because they’ve read somewhere (but can’t quite remember where) that PETA are evil hypocrites, deny the holocaust and kill animals for fun.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

I’m not familiar with sway or hyprland, but KDE automatically finds and configures any modern scanner and printer in the network, makes all programs use the same theme, saves my passwords and certificates, auto-mounts attached drives, auto-starts programs and services, handles which program opens which file type, has a nice workspace overview, lets me configure the firewall, grub, bootsplash screen, VPN, network settings, monitors, keyboard layout, etc… all with sane defaults out of the box, localized to my language, and easy GUI configuration.

KISSmyOS,

If your home is smaller than 2TB, it’s not an issue.
And if it’s larger than 2TB, then why the hell is all that data on your /home SSD and not a separate HDD, NAS or file server?

KISSmyOS,

Then I guess it’s a good thing they don’t control all other Linux distros.

KISSmyOS,

Protipp: Don’t ever create a directory called ~ anywhere.

KISSmyOS,

Create an alias with:
alias rm=‘rm -i’

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