scratchandgame

scratchandgame, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

different distribution fights. Different display manager/desktop environment/window manager users fight.

Why can’t they just left (stupid, means user that want a friendly and lagging desktop environment; ignore this word) users to use things like gnome and kde and other desktop environment, they can still use their wm for maximum productivity and performance.

This is a very stupid fight.

Look at the BSDs, OpenBSD users can laugh on FreeBSD for having to support wine, running ia32 binaries on amd64, broken at securelevel 1, having so many extension for ls(1). FreeBSD can laugh on OpenBSD for using giant lock (doesn’t take advantage of multiprocessor machine), …

These are each operating system’s issue

But they don’t fight for that.

bsdfrog.org/…/my_bsd_sucks_less_than_yours-full_p…

scratchandgame, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

KDE is perfectly sufficient for my needs.

I’m actually praising that, since many Linux users care what desktop environment, what editor do others use. Just use what you want.

Look at the BSDs, they care about technical issues.

scratchandgame, 3 months ago

If you are gems in this limestone community I’d suggest you to get out of Linux instead :)

scratchandgame, 3 months ago

By calling them stupid you are actively participating in the fight yourself

Sorry :)

There are very valid reasons both for and against WMs

Whole point of Linux is allowing user choice, why get on people’s cases about what they can and can’t use

In my mind I call them “stupid” because I personally thinks desktop environments are “stupid”. Sometimes this flew on the keyboard. Sorry for that.

A better word to describe those de/wm is “crap”. Just my personal thought.

scratchandgame, 3 months ago

Well I’m still going to tell you that gnome is bad software both from the user experience and their unwillingness to implement basic features, and that you should be using helix.

I should?

I use what I want. (understand that you are advertising software here.)

I do, too. But only when I’m working on it. Otherwise, as long as stuff just works, I’m perfectly happy to keep the bonnet closed. That was quite different in my early days, I actually daily-drove linux from scratch in the early 00s, but at some point you either decide to become an OS developer, or you lose interest.

(See what technical issue I’ve written. See the pdf slides above.)

Side note there’s actually a project brining the glory of nix to the BSDs.

advertising. Don’t care.

scratchandgame, 3 months ago

Crap is still insulting them though

No one wants their software to be called a “crap”, so I will not puke out again.

personally I think gnome is really good

But many people doesn’t take “personally”. I wanted to write a post about this a few days ago but the op posted the meme.

“Linux users” cared about what their desktop environment looks so much.

This is my .cwmrc:

bind-key 4-s “bin/scrshot”

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scratchandgame, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Technically nVidia chose that fight, not Linux users.

nVidia is chocked full of proprietary implementations meant to bog down competition, for example all CUDA technology including translation layers are technically illegal to even look at without nVidia proprietary drivers.

This already described that Linux user started that fight, and they chose it.

But they cannot do anything than using the proprietary drivers, screaming about moral, propagating GNUism.

scratchandgame, 3 months ago

I agree, but that’s what a linux user would say…

“linux user” should be put in double quotes :)

scratchandgame, 3 months ago

WHY THERE ARE NOT.

Please have a partition for /home. In fact, you need partition for /usr, /var,… too

scratchandgame, 3 months ago

I personally think it is trash…

scratchandgame, 3 months ago

Why it is unfounded?? The sandbox is still a lie (flatseal is impractical security since it makes you become a security researcher overnight), apps are not properly filesystem-unveiled. But a new level of complexity.

scratchandgame, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Could you explain “filesystem-unveiled”?

Means its filesystem access is restricted.

For example, chromium on OpenBSD use the unveil(2) system call to restrict itself to /tmp and $HOME/Downloads .

Many popular flatpak applications have filesystem=host. This is equal to restrict all filesystem access and then unveil the whole filesystem.

Apps are not updated to support portals for “compatibility” or just lack of maintenance. Flatpak needs to follow their approach if they want to have many apps being supported.

Desktop Linux doesnt have the marketshare to dictate that all apps need to adopt portals. In the meantime, flathub.org has a rating system and verified checks, this is simply not well shown in KDE Discover and not sure about GNOME software.

If they can’t even enforce portals, flatpak is a new level of complexity.

So I said it is trash.

scratchandgame, 3 months ago

The host access is not actually everything

Not as restrictive as chromium’s unveil.

For home it even restrict to the downloads folder, not accessing the whole home directory.

scratchandgame, 3 months ago

Does not relate to linux kernel, utilities, programming, interfaces, package managers, distros,…

scratchandgame, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

No one care about ‘linux’, so I suggest a rename of this community, to open source software or whatever.

I’m pointing out that this content is not any related to linux, it does not fit with the communities’ name.

scratchandgame, 3 months ago

That’s a very strict interpretation of the community rules.

I think it is lax: I consider coreutils, busybox, binutils, c compilers, posix, even new distros and package manager and package format and desktop environment that crop up every day are still Linux-related.

software that runs on linux operating systems

There are so much…

Even discord app new versions should be announced here :)?

Kernel discussions are niche enough that you should start a new community called linuxkernel imo.

Oops, that won’t exist. (People here like customizing their desktop and share their neofetch rather than talking about the kernel. I’m trying to find gems in this limestone community.)

scratchandgame, 3 months ago

If this is the case, what makes Windows so much more vulnerable?

What the hell. They are same vulnerable.

scratchandgame, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I doubt whether “debloating” could reduce stability or not. I’ve never done that and have no intention to do it for my 88 year old grandfather’s windows. I’d have strict applocker rules on, though

scratchandgame, 3 months ago

Also, these days telegram is really at the state of a pile of garbage, bloated, buggy, and shady messenger.

Every messenger is.

scratchandgame, 3 months ago

top is the standard.

scratchandgame, 3 months ago

I think it is better to partition /usr (and /usr/local) too, for stability and security

scratchandgame, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Partitioning have benefits. It is quite easy to set up “modern gnu/linux” since they all use a graphical installer. For sizes you can refer to openbsd’s disklabel(8) man page.

It increase stability and security. Not only for enterprise.

scratchandgame, 3 months ago

It isn’t possible :)

Windows’ filesystem is different to unix, and it is much flawed.

scratchandgame, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I think it would save you someday, when there is nothing writing in /usr so the writing in /home would not cause much damage. On a system with a huge root partition, an incomplete writing might damage the whole filesystem.

Fsck would be faster. newfs (mkfs) would be faster. I found NetBSD spend so much time when it do newfs a 32G root partition (installing NetBSD in hyper-v).

Also for the /tmp partition, we can use memory filesystem (tmpfs) if we have 4G of RAM or more, instead of physical disk to store things that are cleaned on reboot.