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>>107826118Everything works, except X screensavers.
>>107826118It will never be a full replacement, since some things are just out of scope. Not much of an issue though.
>>107837012You're looking for arch or a source-based distro.
>>107837362>You're looking for arch or a source-based distro.I'm fairly certain 3d fags actually want their stuff to work reliably.
>>107837385Then what's wrong with a source-based distro?
Let's get a BSD thread going. Are you using BSD on any of your machines and why did you choose it over linux? I installed FreeBSD on my thinkpad last night and it seems to work well, but what can I do with this that I cannot do on linux? So far the only interesting feature I've found is ZFS. Don't get me wrong, it feels almost like linux and the pkg-package manager is nice and fast. I guess I might as well keep using this as my OS on my laptop, but I fail to see any benefits when compared to linux. Maybe if you like jails more than VM's and containers, then that's one interesting feature for sure because AFAIK jails can be way more secure than containers. Oh and the IceWM package seems to be nicely themed for FreeBSD, so points for that too, overall packages feel more precisely tailored than on most linux distros.
I’m running web servers and a mail server on FreeBSD and it’s great. Upgrades are a breeze. Jails are easy to work with once you get the hang of networking with them. Pf is easy to configure. ZFS is great. Filesystem hierarcy is an improvement over GNU/Linux. Performance is great. Documentation is great.The single biggest thing is lack of surprises and at least feels less bloated compared to GNU/Linux.>>107834620OpenBSD on desktop doesn’t seem so appealing to me but it looks as a sexy alternative for servers despite the worse performance. My small scale bizniz shit probably won’t have any noticeable difference though.
>>107832616I think OpenBSD is a cool system, wish Linux had an equivalent like that other than maybe Whonix. It's a shame they used such a terrible license though.>>107832735If you're running it on desktop, other than ZFS and some incremental improvements, I don't understand why you'd pick FreeBSD over Linux with its tiny userbase. It just seems like a contrarian os. OpenBSD has something Linux isn't as intensely focused on, which is security and correctness.>Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!
>>107836306Not just Whonix, I meant Qubes. Oops.
>>107832539yes, but im developing a distro.
>>107836306>If you're running it on desktop, other than ZFS and some incremental improvements, I don't understand why you'd pick FreeBSD over Linux with its tiny userbaseIf for some reason you've needed to use a Unix command line for work before, isn't FreeBSD closer to it than Linux? Minor things like vi vs vim and tar vs gtar, but that is enough to make some people want to use FreeBSD over Linux, especially if they're used to Unix
>doesn't sell
>>107833078Needs to be at least good as a 4060
>>107834647not him but Intel does not have the infrastructure setup to handle GPU drivers for games as they treat it no different than their chipset drivers with a slow release frequency that is not acceptable for new software, specially games. If you're happy to have things remain in a broken state for 4+ months after release by all means go for it.
>>107835224Games don’t need their own individual drivers. A driver for dx12 will accommodate all dx12 games the same
>>107830069Just another reminder that PC builders are an insignificant market and Nvidia has won through superior relations with prebuild companies and laptops
>>107837117that mindset is exactly why Intel will never gain any GPU marketshare.You absolutely do need to tweak and optimize on a per-game basis otherwise you end up like AMD where games like Fallout NV flat out didn't work for 6+ months until enough people shitpost about it on reddit to get them to fix it.
With the current state of the PC market I’m thinking of buying Apple, I know the M4 is powerful but how is MacOS? I heard Tahoe is shite but haven’t looked too deep into it.
>>107832074What's the point of all that when it's severely limited in software compatibility? It's pretty much a toy.
>>107835303Why do you need all that power in a laptop? Get a desktop.
>>107835345Geekbench doesn't say anything regarding compilation which is what that anon wants. It's completely useless in performance benchmark too. It doesn't tell which component performs better, what are the bottlenecks, nothing. Stop using garbage benchmarks.
>>107837157What are some good cross-platform benchmarks?
>>107837140Because I move around while I work, and sometimes travel
IPS or OLED?
>>107829240next, take a photo with it displaying this
>>107836833Not him but here's my laptop after 2+ years of 8+ hours of daily use mostly with static content.I don't see any burn in, not even the taskbar.
>>107828538
>>107836833Not OP. In my 4 year old with 9K hours I think I can see some 'line' where should be taskbar. It's pretty faint and doesn't show on photo.
>>107836833No burn in after 5700 hours.
I have two external drives, one 20tb seagate HDD and one 2tb SDD that was scavenged from a laptop and put in housing. I want to preserve their data best I can. What is the easiest way to scrub the data to prevent bitrot/the data loss SSD is known for? Is there an application that makes it easy, or do I just have to do it with powershell?
ARM is the future
>>107834815>ARM is the futureand it always will be.
>>107834815What are you talking about? ARM has been "the present" for a long time in everything but consumer laptops and desktops, with the exception of Apple of course.The only reason it hasn't been more successful in that specific market is Microsoft and Qualcomm are fucking retards.
>>107836705Because they are too lazy to compete with apple. At least Samsung is trying to give it a go
>>107836765What I meant by that is it replace x86 and become normalized
>>107834815But I like x86.
>Read the sticky: >>105076684>GNU/Linux questions >>>/g/fglt>Windows questions >>>/g/fwt>PC building? >>>/g/pcbg>Programming questions >>>/g/dpt>Obsolete laptops >>/g/tpg>Cheap electronics >>>/g/csg>Server questions >>>/g/hsg>Buying headphones >>>/g/hpg>How to find/activate any version of Windows?https://rentry.org/installwindowsPrevious: >>107789452
>>107837048On Ubuntu I install "unifont" since it has full coverage of Unicode.If cytube needs symbols from the private range, then try to install font-awesome.If that still doesn't solve it then install a nerdfont:https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-fonts
>>107837155>it has full coverage of Unicode
>>107837155You using LTS? I haven't had a problem and it's been months.
>>107837203I didn't say there's a problem. Unifont is to replace Noto because I despise Noto for polluting every font selection dialogue with 47 variants of itself. Unifont is just one font, not 47.
>>107837244>dubsYou make me feel like a normie, thanks bro.
Why has no big brand succeeded in the e-ink tablet space?Huawei and Lenovo tried and abandoned their productsAmazon has the Kindle Scribe series but it's AmazonBoox has nice hardware and features but typical Chinese brand software longevitySuprenote is mehRemarkable is trying to be Apple too hard
>>107831865pretty much this. i like the idea of e-ink but it’s basically trying to reinvent the wheel… imagine trying to jot something down to pass on to someone else, you’re not gonna hand over your tablet just for that lol
>>107826750Don't forget Sony, they have an e-ink tablet specifically for like doing paperwork and note taking and reading PDFs. Would have been super useful in grad school, but they were (probably still are) overpriced.
>>107826750I really like my remarkable 2. My fiance got it for me when I was in grad school and it saved me from lugging around a million textbooks. Also, because it doesn't have a web browser or search feature I was allowed to use it for open note tests, which saved me lots of time and money from printing out slide decks.
>>107833288Had. Their branch was taken over by Fujitsu. Still very limited and hard to get outside of Japan. The current Quaderno A4 Gen 3 costs 80,000 yen but it's still limited to 207ppi.
just get a smart pen
What are you working on, /g/?Previous: >>107779804
>>107836907>and you learn nothingNTA but I don't think that's necessarily true. If you can't figure out a problem, being handed a solution to analyse might teach you something. But you'd have to actually take the time and make the effort to learn from the solution.
>>107836907>>107836982And also it might teach you how to vibe code effectively. Which is an entirely different skill set, that's apparently growing in utility and demand.
If I release code under a license, say for example GPL, am I then bound by that license too?
>>107837194No, you have absolute copyright.
I impulse bought this last night, is it good?
>Windows 10 LTSC 2021> (pick i dont have internet)Run these programs first:> ionuttbara / windows-defender-remover (removes windows defender)> Windows Update blocker to permanently disable updates> SimpleWall to block internet access for spyware, bloated apps etc. (if any exist)Internet on:>Whitelist qbittorrent and firefox in simplewall>get your drivers from the official site> install MPC HC because you're not gay LOL> notepad++ for coodingThere you now have the best OS in the world.
>>107834193Meh, we're surviving the microjeet slop better than most but I really hope Steam OS becomes usable for most tasks/gaming soon.
>>107834193The described process creates an isolated, debloated system by stripping security features and update mechanisms. This results in a fragile, insecure configuration vulnerable to exploits, requiring high manual maintenance and offering no real-world advantage over a properly managed installation.
Doesn't disabling updates kind of ruin the point of using LTSC? If you just want to get rid of the UWP apps that's a one-liner post-install. And some software will refuse to run on LTSC so don't use it unless you're gonna use it. My whole apartment building is one LAN so I'm not going to run unpatched code lol
>>107834193
>>107834193>Manjaro>sudo pacman -S yay>yay -SyuAll done.
>The best text editorWhy did Kate won?
>>107834970>It has, default keybind is CTRL + SHIFT + PThanks for this anon, I never knew it was capable of that. The shortcut I had to use was Ctrl+Shift+F though.From what I can tell you can't seem to search within the results, like you can with N++, however. There's an option to show the results in another tab, but Kate doesn't seem to allow you to do any search within that new tab.Not a huge dealbreaker, but in a work scenario being able to search within the results is incredibly useful for parsing error logs.
>>107833620Sublime is million times better and faster.
>>107835523You could definitely write a function for vim that does that, and saves it back with tee.
>>107835523Is it not able to chunk them? I’m a fan of editors loading entire files in memory, especially for big ones, because otherwise searching in them is a huge pain in the ass, and in my experience vim has been good for this (alongside Zed and Sublime), but I can see why it’d be annoying if you lack the memory for doing so.
>>107833620Kate is my next favorite after vim
We're entering the era of human slop, where anything made by humans is worse than AI.
>>107834166Yeah my wife has also said that chatgpt is uneducated compared to Claude.
>>107829172It ain’t free, and what you’re getting at the moment is heavily subsidised, either by investor money (OpenAI) or profit from separate departments (Google, Microsoft, Facebook). OpenAI was losing money on its 200$/month plan.
>>107836895china ai imbued with soul of dragon very good
>>107822928>It's literally more efficient to do all the tasks myself with Claude and faster as well.So why do you have juniors at all? Just fire them all and do it all yourself, 24/7.
Gemini 4 in Q4 2026
Why do people still use guhnome in 2025, usecase?It doesn't even have a task bar like windows and is functionally broken.KDE just werks, Krita Just werks, KDE connect just werks.I installed kubuntu everything just werks with flatpaks.
reminder that GNOME is funded by redhat which is funded by kikes and owned by IBMhttps://www.redhat.com/en/blog/support-our-israel-associatesthey're less concerned about building a good desktop as they are pleasing their jewish overlords
Daddy has come home. He will save us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzPN3Zpzusg
>>107835696Rules are what define a civilization.Rules for queuingRules for TV licensesRules for owning a knife to spread butter and jam on toast.Long live King Charles
>>107835160Very nice indeed.
DOT
>>107837064CUM
