Neovim, and secondly lazygit. I guess you could count tmux too. I live in the terminal
It’s just what I like man, it’s very customizable and wraps around my workflow instead of me wrapping around it’s workflow. I think about doing a thing and at a point muscle memory kicks in and the thing happens.
Recently, I switched from Windows to Linux, tried many distros, and ended up with the Ubuntu rolling-release. Things went well for some days, but I started facing some issues like printer issues, gaming performance issues, and overall Ubuntu performance issues. So, I switched to where it all started, which is Windows 10. Now...
He’s looking for a distro with an easier install method when it comes to the nvidia drivers. EndeavorOS is arch based, and is the antithesis of easy. It’s just a graphical arch installer.
I use arch myself, but it takes alot of manual interventions to keep working. Look at the grub issue causing black screens, the repo swap, or the linux kernal that caused laptops with intel chips to flash full brightness on their screens backlight, that could have broken the screen, requiring a downgrade until it was fixed. Arch is fantastic, but it’s like a toddler you have to continuously keep from running head first into traffic at times. If they’re ok with that I’d say go full send. Endeavor is a fantastic distro
I’d argue fedora, or nobara, are great options. Same with opensuse tumbleweed. No idea what the issue is on those systems with nvidia drivers though sadly, so I couldn’t help
I can understand your point of view, and I’ll admit "the antithesis of easy is an over-exaggeration. I’d like to argue against the isldea of arch being too similar to other rolling releases, or semi-rolling like fedora. Though you’re right, they can all be road wanderers at times
As for the things out of our control like grub and the kernal screen bug, they didn’t hit fedora, tumbleweed, or many other semi-rolling or rolling releases. This is, of course, due to the fact that arch is here to find these problems first. Also, the others don’t have as many manual interventions like the repo migration, or the package migrations that happen a few times yearly. This is entirely within the control of arch, though I do like how it’s handled
That last one is a philosophical idea which I agree with, don’t mess with what could be configured for a reason, but if you don’t follow the mailing list you may find your system breaking more often than the others.
Though arch is fantastic, and no matter what I try out I seem to always find my way back to it, It is a uniquely challanging toddler to babysit
Recently, I’ve been using linux(tried multiple distros). I’m curious about how linux works, it’s architecture! Is there a book, guide, video, etc to learn about linux? By using linux, I get to know something. It would be better If I know how linux works!
I can also suggest installing gentoo if LFS is a bit much, which is understandable. It won’t have as much direct information as LFS but if you look up everything you don’t understand and follow all the links you’ll get a fairly good concept of the thing
Absolutely, arch will teach you quite a bit. Not nearly as much as Gentoo though. If you’re going for learning how things work at a core level Gentoo is a fantastic place, though of course LFS will be better though more involved. I’m glad you’re willing to take the harder path though!
As for arch, it’ll teach you about mounting, user management, partitioning and partition management, an overview of how to set up a system and a few of the options available, and make you more comfortable with the command-line. With a few exceptions, that’s about it. you can understand what makes arch arch in less than a day.
As for Gentoo, it’s a guided experience that will teach you all of that but much, much more than arch will. With arch you could look more into it, and arch will be very well documented on what to do, but Gentoo will lay out the choices clearer with an explanation as to why. What is SystemD and why would you use something else (or, why you need so much to replace one thing?) How is networking built up? how do package managers work? What different kernels are available and why would you use them? What file system should you use? How does networking work on Linux? How do you install a tarball? What are firmware and microcode?
Just look at the index (legend?) on this page Gentoo Wiki and then this page Arch Wiki (on the left.) You’ll see how much more Gentoo goes over
To be clear, I use arch on my main system, it’s a fantastic OS and I’ll likely use it until the heat death of the universe, but installing Gentoo, following the links, and searching up what I don’t understand has taught me much more. LFS will, of course, teach you essentially everything though. It’s a great option, and you’re in for a fantastic journey. Once you’re done you’ll be the most impressive person in the room, if that room is full of us linux nerds
I’d argue gentoo isn’t the worst thing to do even as a beginner, but installing arch would likely be the best first step as it’s shorter and you’re more likely to get it running first try. You also don’t have to compile.
As for other resources, though I prefer reading and doing, youtube might help. Specifically, chris tituss tech’s linux basics playlist or learn linux TV playlist on the subject. Another great resource is to just read the man page for and specific command
Other than that, install in a virtual machine and start breaking things. Finding the solution will likely teach you quite a bit
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I’d disagree with that last part. There’s alot more that linux does which they may find useful. You can change the entire paradigm of how your computer looks and feels by installing another Desktop Environment while losing nothing, your original DE will still be there, all your apps will be too, and you won’t have to re-install.
You can get some absurd amounts of customization from KDE Plasma too if that’s your thing.
Also, in my experience, it breaks less. And when it does break it tells you exactly how. There’s more info out there than “Error 1204, 483, and 2096 all mean that the update failed. If you see one, try running sfc scannow” or other generic codes that end up in the same three commands which only work 30% of the time. On linux, you tend to find helpful instructions with an explanation as to why it happened
On top of that, choice. If you hate change with a passion, you can install debian and only update every 5 years. It’ll be completely secure and your system will not change how it works over that time. Also, xfce and trinity keep the same look and feel so many people liked alive. If you hated the transition from windows 7 and wanted to stay on it even to this day, that’s impossible on windows, on linux there can be forks that keep it alive.
Also, theming for plasma can keep new features while still looking like the old.
There’s more features to some of the tools as well. I hate to keep tooting the kde horn, but if you want to do it plasma very likely has a solution for it.
You can add entries to the file managers right click menu, add features to krunner the linux version of macos spotlight, change how windows work while moving them, zoom into sections, invert a windows colours, change how clicking on a window works at a fundamental level, add burn my windows effects to ‘beam them up Scottie’ or light them on fire (not my style but I’m glad it’s possible), change out everything on the panel like I do with the clock; calendar; and start menu with ease, add new random stuff in like a colour picker; timer; now playing on spotify, your colour scheme will apply to many non-default apps too (gnome also does this), etc.
Or, you can get gnome, which is a very locked down by default but polished user experience.
Tiling windows managers, automatic or manual tilers, different docks and shells, and mixing them all together.
Easier sandboxing with flatpack for the security minded, a better experience while installing apps in my opinion, godly forums with very helpful people, and the penguin will jack you off once weekly. God I love linux.
you’re correct, though I’d disagree with the idea of convincing people away from windows if none of what makes linux linux appeals to them. Some people like windows, some people just use what’s on their system to browse facebook, some people couldn’t care less if bill gates was in the room watching them get pegged by their wife, some people just hate computers and want to use them as little as possible. For those people I see no reason for them to switch and wouldn’t argue they should. Not to say there aren’t more reasons than I listed to switch those are just some of my favorites. When people ask me why they should switch to linux, I say because they want to. If they don’t, eh, who cares, it’s an OS. I’m more than willing to ramble about why I like linux but if none of that entices them I gain nothing from shoving it down their throats.
The leapfrog leappad used to run linux. People were able to hack them in order to run full on operating systems, by rooting their children’s learning toy
Hey! Glad to see you’re interested. To confirm though, steamOS is arch based not debian based. I really wouldn’t suggest arch though, it sometimes takes manual intervention to keep working and you should keep up to date with what’s going on if you use it. Subscribe to the mailing list, keep up with the community on lemmy, etc.
SteamOS will handle all of that but Arch absolutely will not. If you’re ok with a distro that needs some for babysitting arch is a fine thing to use. It’s not as bad as some say and it’s certainly not “for CS majors or people who know every detail of how a unix like system works” as the other guy states. That’s nonesense, and the rest of their comment was filled with misinformation too
Sorry to say but there will be no “one to one” option.
However, the “desktop mode” is something called KDE Plasma and is available on all distributions. Kubuntu is a good option, it’s just ubuntu but it looks different. The underlying tech is the same. Personally I’d suggest looking at the KDE linux mint flavour/spin though.
Though I’d stick to ubuntu or a ubuntu based distro, Fedora Kinoite is also a great option for gaming, or nobara with the plasma spin. Both will be more up to date and nobara is made specifically for gaming
That’s the old version, steamOS v2. That ran on the failed steam machine. steamOS v3 is arch based. It uses pacman, pacman keyring, has arch packages, etc. Debian uses apt. The steamdeck is using an immutable variant of arch linux with it’s own mirrors of the arch repositories.
I implore you, try using apt on your steamdeck. It will not work. Try installing a .deb, it will not work. It is not debian based. What you have linked to is the old, steamOS operating system used in their initial console trial, which failed
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This is kind of ironic, using a tool that steals from other people without attribution or care taking their creativity and hard work while erasing their credit and contribution to the art in order to promote a gpl v2 free and open source project which values transparency and moral programming.
Sorry you’re getting downvoted to hell, good article. Just so people know, the guy in the article uses a terminal multiplexer too, and is simply talking about some limitations. The titles clickbait and it starts off quite critical but that’s to be expected in this day and age
To summarize, people say it’ll work with Wine which you can use bottles to configure. They also suggest using harmony instead too as that has a linux version specifically. However, on ubuntu you’ll have to install some libraries and use KDE plasma if you want a reasonable UI (for some reason).
Looks weird to implement, and expensive to buy a new version in order to use it. Sorry. You should try running it through wine though if you can and again, bottles is a great program to make that easier if you go that way
I made a post a few days ago asking your opinion on Manjaro and it was very mixed, with a slightly negative overall opinion. I heard some recommend EndeavourOS instead and did some online research and it seems to be pretty solid and not have the repository problem that Manjaro has....
I use EndeavourOS and OpenSuse tumbleweed myself, and I’d caution you about using endeavour. It’s a great OS that I personally love but there will be manual interventions you’ll have to keep track of, and implement. Maybe twice yearly. Like the grub issue, or the repo migration for two recent examples.
OpenSuse tumbleweed however is a rolling release distro that’s more stable, takes little in the way of manual interventions, and is quite sleek out of the box. I use it as a work partition for freelance dev work personally.
I love endeavour, but it can take some more babysitting than other distros as it’s essentially just a really good graphical arch installer
Apologies if I’m a bit ramble-y, I’ve recently caught covid.
Just a few simple partitions. I have one for EndeavorOS, one for Tumbleweed, and a third intermediary that I auto mount on both. That one houses a few applications that both need access to, I just added a bin folder before adding it to the path on both. As long as nothing there is system critical it’ll be fine
You definitly could get away with just two partitions though if you just want stability, and auto mount your partitions onto each other for ease of file transfer of you want.
it’s not really different than duel booting windows, and works quite well
I also have a fourth 70gb partition for a macOS virtual machine as that’s much quicker than a qcow file but that’s a bit much, to be fair
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Libgen works best for me, with effective C being a reasonable resource. You shouldn’t start with C though as your first introduction to memory managment. All resources will assume you know a fair deal about the subject first. I’d suggest you go for zig, or rust or if this is your first language, python, or c# if you want a real challange. C is not a good language to learn first.
I used manjaro first but after hearing about the incompatance of the devs I made the switch to endeavor.
To justify, they’ve ddosed the aur accidentally twice, their lead arm dev pushed a commit to the asahi kernal that broke half of the users installs, they tried shipping that kernal while it was very much in development with a broken kernal which couldn’t actually run while pretending that “manjaro runs on the m1 macbook” (this could have broken users hardware), and they don’t properly tell users the dangers of the aur like the time a guy put two calls to an IP logger beside a list of people who can fuck themselves or an on init fork bomb. This should not be a toggle directly next to snaps and flat packs, which are safer than a normal package.
Not safer than the aur? Where you run a random script from some random guy who is likely unassociated with the project which has very little chance of being audited?
Or a normal package? Which has no sandboxing at all. In that case, yes, one could have a poorly sandboxes app, but the vast majority have some to a larger amount of sandboxing. On top of that, they come from a much more heavily audited place than the aur. It is, on average, safer than the average normally packaged package. Some sandboxing is better than no sandboxing
And no, their warning is not nearly enough. They should state that a person needs to read any package build script before installation and its diff while updating unless they verify the packager is the project maintainer for the application they use
You mean asked to log in right? Sorry for the downvotes lol, but what you’ve written is kinda incomprehensible. You shouldn’t be though. If you are, I’d try another trusted mirror
I was having issues with windows, and hate the look of windows 11 so I decided If I was going to have to re-install and deal with a new OS’s problems I might as well deal with linux issues and learn something new.
I duel booted, and two months later thought back and found I hadn’t gone into windows since the install.
A year and a half later and I can say that the issues I’ve had on linux have been easier to fix than windows. Two separate problems I’ve had on both. Linux was easy and took about ten minutes, windows took a day, and a month each.
with windows I get esoteric error codes that mean something generic like “failed to update windows” when it stops at 3% for two hours and crashes. The solutions for it including two magic fix all commands (didn’t fix it), restarting it ‘correctly’ (nope), and copying a regedit value from another computer (did work). This all coming from the end of a random windows 7 forum post. My computer was on windows 10.
On linux it told me my arch keyring corrupted. When I googled the error I got an explination and the arch-update-keyring command. This worked.
With a swap file (167gb for some reason on windows) I got a greyed out GUI and twelve re-starts, 4 to get the screen up, 8 to make it work. On linux, I copy pasted commands.
Apologies for the rant, jt’s early, but this is why I switched and stayed. I also like customization, alot
I’ll be sticking to spotify personally out of convenience, and the fact that I’m paying for a family plan but to be fair paying that money directly to the artists you like will be much more effective while not supporting platforms that pay them very little for their work.
If you want though, using spotify adblock has been quite effective in my experiance. That way you have the convenience and you don’t pay spotify shit
Federation is the reason I'm allowed to comment on this post, even though I'm on sh.itjust.works and not kbin.social
It simply means that the instances (different websites) are connected, and you can see content from any that are federated as well as create posts or comment anywhere.
Defederation is the opposite. That is your site deciding that you'd rather not have you, or any users on your instance, see or interact with other instances.
One of those, I am not allowed to participate in or look at it due to my instance being sh.itjust.works. Behaw defederated, and thus I am not welcome in these communities. These new communities have not defederated and thus are the ones I'll be participating in.
If we're not welcome, why not create another where we are?
That is their statement, but this doesn't change the outcome. I cannot participate, I am not welcome in their communities. I see no reason why new communities can't be created on instances which won't defederate, even temporarally.
When it comes back, I'll still avoid the instance. I'm not going to participate where I could suddenly become unwelcome again. They've done it once, they'll do it again. As is their right, the heavy handed moderation is their stated goal, but it's also my, and other peoples, right to simply go elsewhere when we are unwelcome.
Other instances will do this too. One answer to this question of 'why create another copy community' is for this situation. When we are no longer wanted in one place, why not create another?
Thank you for the kind reply though. While I disagree with the action I'm happy they have the ability to create the site they want
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