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Why are people shilling this distro so much recently? What's so special about it?
>>107551270Uriel, my beloved...
>>107551330New OS, new converts who think its the new best thing.
I FUCKING MISS THE MID 2000S
>>107551337i have an uefi mobo, so i cant encrypt that efi partition, right? i know you can on /boot. regardless, isnt it a huge attack surface to let these boot partitions uncrypted? if the glowies get your hardware they'll try to mess around with it. do you see a way where they could access your data tempting with these partitions?
>>107551330>recentlytinkertrannies have been shilling it for at least 3 years now
4 hours wasted and a broken mouse from raging over broken drivers again awardturns out i was glancing over the setting i was looking for repeatadely because they changed the layout in the kde settings
>>107551330
>>107551616
I like rape!
>>107551330nothing really. it's for spergs who can't go 2 days without reinstalling their OS. Could never be me, I installed my fedora workstation in 2022.
>>107551483I miss him
Fresh install of Fedora + NVIDIA drivers. Why are background services using half a gig of VRAM?
>>107551938not this shit again
>>107551938>novideo
>>107551766Distros for this feel?
>>107551938Because you have enough RAM to spare.
>>107551966probably gentoo if you mean as the receiver
>>107551938because you're using kde plasma
>>107551330afaik its for people who think arch isnt bleeding edge enough
>>107551938
Linux hasn't been my daily driver for about 15 years but I can't stop thinking about coming back to it on my gaming PC so I can cut ties with Windows before it gets too unbearable with its poor design and dogshit "agentic" aspirations. I've been reading up on what's available in Linux these days and it sounds like it would be a much easier transition than it was back then and virtually everything I use in Windows has a Linux build or easy equivalent or is just part of the OS in the first place.I think before I do it I'm going to set up a VM so I can experiment with software and get a basic feel for what tools I like before I'm stuck in the environment, then try repurposing one of my storage hard drives to play with it, then finally make the jump on my main drive once I've gotten a feel for it and know how I want everything. Since it's been so long I figured I'd drop by here to ask, do you guys have any less obvious gotchas you'd recommend looking out for, or anything you wish you had thought about or known before switching over/doing a fresh setup?
After much testing I have concluded that there are only 3 distros worth my lack of time: - Linux Mint/LMDE- MX Linux - Debian
>>107552498MX Linux looks ugly as sin.
>>107552498for me it's bazzite. debian and ubuntu distros have always been massive disappointments.
Richard Stallman's raider list:https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/g/mysociety-community/c/zkyZpOXjgoQ/m/_8xyXSxv9zYJ>A supply of tea with milk and sugar would be nice. If it is tea I really like, I like it without milk and sugar. With milk and sugar, any kind of tea is fine. I always bring tea bags with me, so if we use my tea bags, I will certainly like that tea without milk or sugar.
>>107552520There's a ton of fun Xfce themes out there so that can easily change. Also MX Linux has that cool retro vibe going on with custom grub themes
>>107552563>There's a ton of fun Xfce themes out therenta but proof?
>>107552530You know you're dealing with at least a turbo-autist if they say that shit without just stating what tea they like.
>>107552693But there's so much to tea other than what tea you like?
>>107552664https://www.xfce-look.org/p/2076848https://github.com/rozniak/xfce-winxp-tchttps://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95https://github.com/et0ndyy/Win2khttps://gitlab.com/dejan-z/xfce-stuffand many more
>>107552744Everytime I see Thunar I'm reminded that it doesn't have recursive search
>buy amd gpu because it's "better" for linux>shits the bed constantly, can't seem to get it to work for 5 fucking minutes>check the amdgpubug tracker>tons of other people have been having the same issue for months>no fixthis shit is so retarded
>>107552940works on my machine
>>107552943thanks for the help nigger
>>107552940That sucks anon, I'm sorry to hear that but you did learn 1 valuable lesson that was way more expensive than it should have been.ALWAYS DO RESEARCH!
>>107552940which GPU and which distro?
>>107552951no problemo. just buy a good psu and stop being retarded.
>>107552734Sure, but when it comes to all the if this then that shit rooted in which tea bags it's going to be and he has his own tea bags just say what his own fucking tea bags are so they can have them.
>>107551938>discoveryhow i hated that on my kde days, its useless bloat, cant install shit properly and runs on background evevy fresh boot.
>>107552954Yeah I guess I messed up when I didn't pull out my crystal ball to magically divine that the drivers would have this problem and that I would encounter them.>>107552962>driver problem? BUY A PSUhow's the weather in India?
>>107553118gpu drivers can crash because of a bad psus. good morning sir. is this the first pc you have build? do you need any help with it?
>>107552954>DO RESEARCH*USE OLD SHIT YOU FIND ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD
>>107553132at least use a better translator, ranjeet
>>107553144and you a better power supply
>>107553160>DO NOT REDEEM DRIVER ISSUE!!!! SAAR IS PSU!!!!!!
>>107553182again works on my machine
>>107553118>messed up when I didn't pull out my crystal ball to magically divine that the drivers would have this problem and that I would encounter them.New user huh? Almost every Linux distro keeps a hardware lag of sometimes that tells you how compatible the distro is with your hardware, you could have always asked in here first.
>>107553201Do you not understand the meaning of "driver issue"?
>>107553259the driver itself can crash because of faulty hardware
