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luthis, to linux in New Linux user here. Is this really how I'm supposed to install apps on Linux?

As a side note, dealing with adding repos and keys and all that is something I will never miss from apt. I use Arch and installing things is usually as simple as… well let me check.


<span style="color:#323232;">$ yay mullvad
</span><span style="color:#323232;">...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">2 aur/mullvad-vpn-bin 2023.6-1 (+86 1.36) 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    The Mullvad VPN client app for desktop
</span><span style="color:#323232;">1 aur/mullvad-vpn 2023.6-1 (+126 2.10) 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    The Mullvad VPN client app for desktop
</span><span style="color:#323232;">==> Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">==> _
</span>

And it’s option 1. So easy. Type 1 and press enter and you’re done.

luthis, to linux in New Linux user here. Is this really how I'm supposed to install apps on Linux?

Can’t I just download a file and install it?

Yes, there are instructions on the page for that, the section is titled ‘Installing the app without the Mullvad repository’

luthis, to linux in how do i efficiently attach audio to an image

The answer is always ffmpeg

luthis, to piracy in Me vs my ISP

Well, people have been forking recipes forever. I’m sure we will get closer to that reality eventually

luthis, to piracy in Me vs my ISP

“My food is included in rent. Which is convenient for day-to-day eating but gives me less capacity for cooking my own meals. Like, I admit it, the system works really well for normal people, I’m just a weirdo who likes tinkering with recipes, hosting dinner parties, and whatnot”

There, I highlighted the absurdity even more for you. You’re not a wierdo, you’re a tech-chef.

luthis, to linux in Why do you use the terminal?

I just discovered that I know emacs commands because I use them in the bash terminal all the time.

Hey look, it’s us:

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luthis, to linux in Why do you use the terminal?

For a lot of what I do, its the only way to do it.

For everything else, there’s MasterCard.

luthis, to linux in Live (Animated) wallpapers programs for linux

Pretty sure I did with mplayer and/or feh but it was years ago

luthis, to piracy in Proton VPN on Linux looks very different from Windows. How do you select one of their P2P options for faster torrenting?

Something recently broke the client and now it says invalid credentials all the time. I gave up with the client and just downloaded the openvpn files and use those.

Torrenting works…

Sign up to my onlyfans and I’ll hack together a nice Linux client for ProtonVPN and Drive.

luthis, to linux in Super weird error, what's happening?

Can you remove the GPU and use onboard?

It is mentioning gpu in the errors, so it would be the first thing I would try, to see if the errors change, because I have no idea what’s going on here

luthis, to linux in As a normal, boring user that does nothing special other than browse the internet and the occasional "casual coding" -- what am I supposed to do with 32GiB of ram?

My DE is Gnome which uses a bit. Haven’t really looked into it further, because I still have 62GB of ram free after startx. Haven’t maxed it out yet.

luthis, (edited ) to linux in As a normal, boring user that does nothing special other than browse the internet and the occasional "casual coding" -- what am I supposed to do with 32GiB of ram?

After boot, I’m using 2GB. I haven’t noticed Linux doing the ram-hog thing like Windows at all. But Firefox is currently using 8GB.

Just restarted Firefox and it’s using 2.5GB now. I think it stores a lot in ram from video.

luthis, to linux in Looking to switch to Linux in the somewhat distant future

I haven’t actually touched selinux at all… It’s not ‘officially supported’ in Arch yet, although there are compatible packages available. I only recently discovered PAM which I have yet to learn too.

luthis, to linux in Looking to switch to Linux in the somewhat distant future

To break from the trend (because I recommend Mint as well),

Check out the options on distrowatch.com, test out any live distros you can. When you have some understanding of GRUB then dual boot, and then triple.

Inevitably, you’re going to end up using Arch because it’s so easily managed and you get to choose each component. But it’s better if you have experience with the different components first. I completely missed out on learning RPM (package manager), I went from Mint (apt) to Arch (pacman). I did resurrect a lot of old laptops and desktops with various different distros though, and I learned Gnome and xfce, LXDE, MATE, and i3, xmonad…

There’s a lot to learn but it’s all fun, and it’s all different. When you go to a tiling window manager, you’ll understand why Windows adopted (albeit shittily) tiling in it’s latest version.

luthis, to linux in Looking to switch to Linux in the somewhat distant future

Arch is for advanced people

I’d say mid… the Arch install process has got a lot simpler over the years and the wiki a lot better.

If you can google duckle effectively, I reckon even a sharp-minded beginner could handle it.

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