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Are you your own dependency manager too?

Some day I’m going to get someone in one of these “what distro should I try?” posts to install slackware and fall in love with it.

downhomechunk,
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Holy crap, how did I forget that existed? I would use that for complex stuff like vlc back in the day.

I’ve not heard of ROCm, but I think I get the gist. It’s something like Cuda for AMD?

Are you going to upload and maintain it if you get it working?

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That’s actually next on my list to check out.

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Nah, I’m just a hobbyist. I’m a n00b compared to all the regulars in the slackware channel on IRC. But I love tinkering and learning. I’d need your help to install vanilla arch, just like you’d probably need mine to get started on slackware. (The slackware install is actually super easy).

I’ve been trying to distrohop the past couple months, see what else is out there. I wasn’t paying attention installing Garuda and borked my EFI partition. I did manage to chroot into my still working slackware partition, but I couldn’t figure out how to re-install grub. So I formatted and did a fresh slackware install.

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Haha, I’ve been daily driving slackware since the late 90s. I like to tinker and install a lot of stuff. I seem to break anything with an automated package manager and dependency resolution.

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Get that downvote finger ready!

Arch.

I know it’s what all the cool kids are using, and I keep trying to like it, but I just can’t get into it. I’m a slacker for life.

downhomechunk,
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Come say hi at # on libera.chat if you are so inclined. We’re a group of wild slackers who all met on the main irc channel.

downhomechunk,
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Probably linux mint. Everything tends to work out of the box and function the way you’d expect. If you’re used to windows then cinnamon will have a familiar feel to it. I like xfce myself, but I move things around to make it feel like windows 95.

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I’ve been on slackware almost exclusively for 2 decades-ish. I’m team kde. I always liked it, but I had shitty hardware from like 2010 - 2020, so I was on xfce because it’s a lot lighter. But I always had kde installed so I could use some of their native apps.

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3rd, but I recommend getting the kde variety (used to be called kubuntu). This will give you the most windows like experience. Regular Ubuntu ships with gnome and has a different feel to it.

Also, gnome suxxxxxxxxxxx! There, I said it!

downhomechunk,
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I don’t think dubious scrappers taking obviously stolen copper are paying fair market value. You’d have to throw in a vcr or two amd haggle a bit to get enough for a dub.

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...

downhomechunk,
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Oh man, you really owned those libs

downhomechunk,
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Tiling wm or cli only, Satan’s crackpipe?

downhomechunk,
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Me too!

downhomechunk,
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KDE comes with its own office suite. I’ve always preferred libre office so I don’t have much experience with it, but it’s there.

downhomechunk,
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I’m not dissing the VM approach. I’m just saying I’d try WINE first. I already have it i stalled for steam.

downhomechunk,
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I totally get that! Everyone here is suggesting complicated virtualization options. Maybe they know something I don’t. But if it were me, I’d try setting up plain old WINE and seeing if I can install an old version of iTunes from here:

www.oldversion.com/windows/itunes/

You could pick an xp era iTunes and set wine compatibility to xp, or 7 or whatever was contemporary for the ipod generation you have.

Unrelated: my phone insists on autocorrecting ipod to iPad. I feel old now.

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Just curious why the ipod? Is it for retro chic? Are you trying to load songs you purchased or “backups”? I play my backups with vlc on my phone to save data.

Ipods have a proprietary handshake that must happen between the device and the computer trying to manage it. The open source community was able to reverse engineer it on the older models but not the later ones.

downhomechunk,
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Holy crap. I thought he was driving the car. I didn’t realize he was a passenger holding a gun to the driver’s head.

Just moved to Linux: a follow up

I recently made a post discussing my move to Linux on Fedora, and it’s been going great. But today I think I have now become truly part of this community. I ran a command that borked my bootloader and had to do a fresh install. Learned my lesson with modifying the bootloader without first doing thorough investigation lol....

downhomechunk,
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Pro tip:

Create a separate partition for /home. Then it’s all still there if need to do a fresh install.

downhomechunk,
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I am not one of the million, but I’m glad flatpaks exist. Anything to increase ease of use and hopefully wider linux adoption is a good thing.

downhomechunk,
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I was using the stock kde plasma wallpaper for about two years until last week. I installed alien Bob’s daw suite (slackware) and caught that it added a second/new wallpaper option to kde’s menu. So I switched to it.

Am I one of you now?

downhomechunk,
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This is the first I’ve ever heard of a write protect screw. That’s so silly!

downhomechunk,
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I’m happy with my abundance of p-cores! Hopefully they don’t nail it.

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