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First for fuck Gnome, fuck Ubuntu, and fuck Flatpak.
>>109529812This is a *Friendly* Gnome/Linux Thread, anon.
>>109529897Oh right, my bad. I was feeling passionate. Ignore that post.
>>109529902Ignore that guy, shitting on Gnome is a perfectly friendly thing to do.
I was just realizing something today, as someone who's been daily driving linux since windows XP EOL, but required to use windows occasionally some software. For a good few years, it was always a relief to use windows because i knew it would just werk. Don't get me wrong - I love tinkering and all, but the day to day experience on desktop just felt more convenient on windows. In recent years, I no longer feel that at all - I dread any time i have to use windows for anything and my day to day desktop experience is miles better on linux. All that to say I'm so happy with the forward progress that linux has made as an end user experience - to a point where my normie gamer friends and my mom whose laptop probably came preloaded with winxp from the factory can actually use and enjoy it as much as I do.
I like checking out what freeware games are in the repos from time to time, but as a newfag to Arch-based distros they don't have their software sorted into categories like that. Searching 'game' pulled up a large selection but still leaves quite a few out (like Xonotic, for instance). Any way to work around that? I like Arch better than 'buntu based distros that I used before but not being able to browse software by categories is kind of a pain.>>109529812As a gnome user, same.
>>109530325https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_games
>>109530348Oh, nice. Thanks.
>>109529010anons....i finally decided to use tmux and start learning it properly for good.....WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME IT WAS THIS GOOD???!!
>>109531476It kind of sucks when you start noticing latency. Good for remote sessions though.
>install immutable OS>download libreoffice through flatpak>it's using that horrid, borderline unusable gtk UI engine>turns out it's the only one available in the flatpak version because all that is included in the runtime is gtk garbagewew lad
>>109531688LibreOffice always looked ugly. Just use OnlyOffice.
Are the warnings against Ventoy legitimate or overblown? Better to use Rufus? Etcher? I currently only have one working laptop to work from so if Ventoy fucks up I'm in a shit spot. On the other hand having multiple images set to go off my usb drive would be useful for the time being. For context I'm working on a family members (can operate tech but isn't that savvy) newish budget laptop running the OEM W11 Home install. I'm going to get them to try a couple different flavors of Linux but worst case I'll be falling back on a fresh W11 install with some debloating tweaks and such.
Pop!_OS >All white development team>Only company to publicly stand up against Age Verification and actually tried to do something. >Solid distro with dedicated team keeping up and running smoothly.>Publicly admits when they fuck up and works to correct mistakes (early release of COSMIC)>Makes based laptops and PCs>No trannies>No politics at allTruly the only distro for the straight white man.
>>109531865you forgot>crashes
>>109531877>gaslighting faggot gaslightsexcept it doesn't. been using it for years with zero issues. maybe you're just an idiot who can't into linux and should stay with windows where it belongs?
>>109531910>works on my machine ;)cool story bro but I'd rather believe my bro linus tech tips tyvm
>>109531938>my bro linus tech tipsahhh so you're an actual techlet NPC normalcattle. new to 4Chan and /g/, welcome! you can say "faggot" here and not get banned like you do back on your r/subFAGGOT
>PoopOSsaar...
>>109532081Jeets don't use Pop, they use Ubuntu and Fedora
>>109532086it's a derivative of a derivative. it's india coded.
>>109532104Hmmmmm
>>109532130poopos is based on ubuntu
>>109532136Where do you see poos using Pop?
>>109532130also using that ai overview is very indian of you saar
>>109532130>Garuda Linux: a rolling release distro that is "uniquely indigenously developed in India">uniquely indigenouslyWhat the fuck is the AI search overview smoking?
>>109532146You lost, Tranny.
>>109532150idk. something about trannies. he shits up the thread like the shit up the streets over there.
>>109532150What, does this not look indigenous to you?
>>109532217It's from India, yeah. It screams "Pajeet Distro" it's just funny to me that the AI search overview uses choice language like that.>Here we see the humble Garuda Linux distro in its natural habitat. It is a rolling release Linux endemic to India.
I am glad we can all finally agree that Pop IS the best distro out there and should be the standard all the other Shitros should try to measure up to.
go make your own poopos thread
>>109532609Let's make a fun list of all the cool things pop does!>Cosmic or GNOME both perfect choices >Gaming out of the box, literally better than even Nobara >Solid systemd implementation Let's keep it going!
>>109532628>it gets shilled by a poopjeet in the /fglt/ on 4chan!
why is it okay to run windows user with full root access, but somehow a bad thing on linux?what happens if I Just give root access to my linux user account?
>>109530325Sonic Robo Blast 2, SRB2 Kart and Robotnik Ring Racers, no other freeware games needed
>>109532632Jeets don't use pop, they use Ubuntu, you know this as your whole family uses it on their family shared computer
>>109529010i went installed linux today
went along with jeet sht too just posted..
>>109532669whatever distro you choose it was the wrong one
>>109529010Goddamn, I didn't know Larry David used Linux.
>>109532669whatever distro you chose is the right one, unless it's unbuntu
Is it normal for a SSD to have a lot of read when seeding torrents? Apparently it has read a total of 280GB (I've only uploaded 20GB) after 2 days of uptime, I'm guessing it's because it's doing a lot of random reads? The last 2 hours it added another 20gb to the read, even though I've only seeded 100mb.
>>109532921Probably. Who gives a shit? That much in read traffic is equivalent to like 300KB of writes. A whole two minutes of IO time on the device in 2 days. At this rate you'll wear out the drive in 500 years.
>>109532921What is the ratio? My ratio is always 0.05 max.
