20gramsWrench

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20gramsWrench,

the benefit are absolutely unrelated to privacy, use them with the idea that they’re ran by cops, the point of private trackers is the quality and availability of what’s in them, and most of the time, the quantity, you can find niche stuff uploaded 15 years ago with enough seed to clog your fiber

20gramsWrench,

In your head.

Calling insignificant and nerdy things like os choice a trait of the master race is openly mocking the concept of a master race by making it ridiculous

20gramsWrench,

professionals are more likely to prefer a locked down easy environment because of it’s lack of variation the same way one would prefer a bare cli debian over a full featured distribution of even windows with all it’s features and trinkets that can eat time away from the main task, mac os is bare and easy like a desk with nothing but a pen and clipboard, pretty bad if you want to fix a ventilator but perfect if you just want to write

20gramsWrench,

they should know how to change a flat or put in coolant

and care design, just like ux, is evolving in a way where the service industry takes the role of the user in maintaining their tools

20gramsWrench,

do you mean tiling window manager or just window managers in general ?

i3 is the one most people use so you’ll find a truckload of support and documentation about it online, if you wand to be the cool kid try dwm, and if you wand to rise to the top of of c/unixporn get hyprland.

20gramsWrench,

doesn’t that do all of them together, possibly making you install it multiple times ?

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    20gramsWrench,

    you may find other repos a bit lacking compared to manjaro’s since they have a few things in there that are added on top of the arch ones, aur is the same across all arch based distributions and aside from ubuntu, most other distributions will have fewer useful package than those two.

    you could try garuda wich integrates aur package in the system’s repository through the chaotic-aur repo, and they do have a cinnamon flavor

    20gramsWrench,

    You should switch back to windows, that would fix your problem.

    20gramsWrench,

    wow, you sperged out quite hard about such a simple problem, I’m glad you will be using windows from now on and won’t be hanging around *nix related discussion platforms

    20gramsWrench,

    it’s one of those packages that are only put in the repo with the intent on being itself a dependency of the full kde desktop, since it’s a component of the deskop and not just a random theme

    Moving to Arch/EndeavorOS from PopOS?

    I’ve been using PopOS for a few months now, and I’m interested in Arch, but I’m worried about whether or not I have enough experience to do that successfully. Also, I have an Nvidia GPU until I start a new build in the next year or so. I don’t know if that’ll be a problem in Arch. It was a major issue with Fedora for...

    20gramsWrench,

    Pacman is the most braindead straight to the point package manager of them all, it won’t take you very long to memorize the 3 letters you need to use it.

    20gramsWrench, (edited )

    You might want to know about discord updates, if the maintainers of the distribution don’t update discord as fast as the discord developper, it will fail to launch when major update happen since those don’t go through the internal updater of the client, and discord only provide a .deb package, which you can install with a simple double click on debian based distribution (ubuntu, mint, mx, zorin etc), and a generic linux exectuable, which can be launched in any distributions but won’t be automatically integrated in your application menus

    20gramsWrench,

    With a bit more digging, you might even start to notice a pattern if all the articles, and realise that most sites you find on search engines are giving you nothing but articles generated through ai based on each other with little to no meaningful difference between each others

    20gramsWrench,

    Thats super helpful, thank you!

    20gramsWrench,

    because of course, pointing out that capitalism will cause a specific problem can only be a disguised attempt to resuscitate Joseph Stalin.

    20gramsWrench,

    actually I think the /s completely reversed the joke making it feel like you were mocking the other dude for potentially considering something else than capitalism

    20gramsWrench, (edited )

    one thing to keep in mind is that both brands align with each others in terms of msrp/performance, the differences at the same price-points are very marginal, where the prices go wild is in the manufacturer’s (evga, asus, sapphire…) retail price, so if you have to compare two cards, do it with the msrp of the base models and then try to find a model which is close to it, just make sure the model you pick doesn’t have an habit of blowing up and you’ll be good to go, trying to optimize your choice reading hundreds of benchmarks is a pain that’s won’t net you much.

    edit: you might be interested in moore’s law Is dead chart, the dude’s insufferable but the chart is pretty good.

    20gramsWrench, (edited )

    msrp is the price that the manufacturer say the card should be sold at, usually it is lower than the actual price depending on the supply and demand and on how much the retailer want/can make on top of the base price

    For the chart, it’s readable this way:

    the higher ↑ a gpu is on the list , the stronger it is. you can see that being on top of all the others, the amd rx 7900xtx, nvidia rtx 4080 and nvidia rtx 4090 24gb, are the most powerful gpu’s of the chart, the best one of the 3 being the nvidia rtx 4090 since it is above all

    you have 3 big columns one for amd, one for nvidia and one for intel.

    wen a gpu is on the same horizontal line as another, even across the columns, that means they perform roughly the same.

    For example:

    the nvidia gtx 1660s that you have is on the same line as the:

    amd vega 56, nvidia rtx 3050, nvidia gtx 1660Ti, nvidia gtx 1070Ti and the intel A580

    So all of those perform roughly the same, if you go one line above, those the cards on the line will perform slightly better, 2 lines, a little better, 10 lines, much better etc

    you can see with the chart that the closest modern amd gpu to your nvidia gtx 1660s is the amd rx 5600xt, but since it’s only one line above the one you have, it is only going to be slightly better than the one you have.

    what you should do is open the shop on which you want to buy the card and find the card that is the highest on the list in the amd collumn that you can afford.

    20gramsWrench, (edited )

    I’m guessing you mean that it is too thick in which case only 2 things will change this, the theme and the font size, I have for now only found 2 themes with a reasonably sized title bar that aren’t too ugly, adwaita-slim and dracula-slim. If you look for “compact” or “slim” in sites like cinnamon looks you might find ones you like better

    20gramsWrench,

    the font you had before you changed it may have already been hitting the minimum size of your gtk theme

    I wish KDE apps hardcoded their Breeze theme

    I use both GNOME and Plasma and various apps from their ecosystems. When using Plasma, GNOME apps look out of place, as they hardcode their Adwaita theme, but they don’t suffer from contrast issues and are perfectly usable. When using KDE apps on GNOME on the other hand, the contrast is terrible, the apps look very ugly and...

    20gramsWrench,

    so they wouldn’t break completely when installed on the “wrong” desktop

    the kde apps are made theme agnostics specifically to not interfere with the way other desktops/distro want to theme them, and the gnome desktop is specifically made to not natively handle user themes so as to not interfere with the way apps are supposed to look like, mix that into a bowl and you get ugly kde apps, which one is in the wrong is for you to decide*^1^, but at the end of the day you need another app to handle your qt-theming since gnome doesn’t natively support it.

    spoiler*^1^ it’s the gnome devs of course

    20gramsWrench, (edited )

    op is making the opposite point, saying that companies making closed source software are going to be put off from putting their software on flathub, the clown face is there with the intent to portray flathub’s action as being naive and idiotic, arguing that not catering to such companies by not letting them distribute closed source software without telling it’s potential users is a bad thing

    20gramsWrench,

    if you want to compete with Canoncial’s Snapstore

    says it all about your mindset, you think big numbers are good regardless of context, as if google play wasn’t enough of a warning for other distribution platforms

    20gramsWrench,

    as most people but not op

    20gramsWrench,

    those numbers are nonexistent for most distribution, since forcing telemetry isn’t really a cool move in the free software world

    20gramsWrench,

    Nah, bash is fine.

    20gramsWrench,

    you may be surprised to know that crap touch-pads are the majority of touchpads and even moreso in the future since old thinkpads are slowly going away

    20gramsWrench,

    My apologies, it seems we do not have the same definition of proper touchpads, of all the laptop brands in the world, asus and hp are amongst the few that I would consider unsuitable including their touchpads which are the most basic low grade pads i can think of, maybe their more than a grand models are better

    20gramsWrench, (edited )

    how dare you criticize smystemD, I spent 20 years having to write startup scripts in assembly with a quill and feather and i can tell you that sistem_d is literally life changing, I stopped drinking an got out of prison ever since arch implemented it

    20gramsWrench,

    you posted in the wrong sub my dude

    20gramsWrench,

    let’s forget gnu and praise linux then I guess.

    Why do people still recommend Thinkpads for Linux when there are Linux-oriented manufacturers now?

    I’ve noticed in the Linux community whenever someone asks for a recommendation on a laptop that runs Linux the answer is always “Get a Thinkpad” yet Lenovo doesn’t seem to be a big Linux contributor or ally. There’s also at least six Linux/FOSS-oriented computer manufacturers now:...

    20gramsWrench,

    those manufacturer either have to charge thouthands, or use the cheapest possible hardware they can find to be interesting compared to the thinkpads of old, which can take a punch or two and get replacement parts

    20gramsWrench,

    no matter ho much you try to hide it, it will always be there, lurking in the corner, waiting for your to forget about it to make itself noticed, give up, embrace it, buy a purple hoodie, get your nails done and paint your house purple, for your own sanity

    20gramsWrench,

    wsl technically make windows a distribution of linux, therefore, windows is unixrelated, so your post is relevant.

    your rice is pretty mid though get some blur in there and either make everything translucent or nothing translucent, also, black and grey don’t mix, and those colored icons in the middle really swear with the outlined one on the right and how many different fonts is that, 4 ? still upvoted because the heart is there.

    20gramsWrench,

    yep, iirc it started in windows 8 where they would suggest third party apps directly in your app menu back in 2013

    20gramsWrench, (edited )

    at some point in my computer life, I realised that with most new window I oppened, I was dragging them to the side to tile them next to the other in order to not lost track of either the content of the other window like a webpage or a running script or to more easily drag stuff between them without having to move the first window, now behind the new one, it wasn’t that annoying or time consuming since I’m pretty fast with a mouse, but it did require me to focus on the positioning of the window to get going, tiling completely removed that aspect, no I only interract with the window to resize them or change screen, which is far less often that I use to move them around to un-obstruct them

    20gramsWrench,

    the main advantage of snapshots is how fast it happen, in two reboots with little to no wait time you can get your system back

    20gramsWrench, (edited )

    turn off your computer, plug in the key, press the power button to turn it on, then immediately and repeatedly press your boot menu key, it’s probably of the f keys above the numbers on your keyboard, if you have an hp laptop it’s going to be f9 otherwise it’s often f12 but that can be any other one, try googling it, then you will have a menu appear which lets your select “usb something whatev” select it and press enter, if that doesn work, you’ll have to learn all about configuring your bios to run linux

    20gramsWrench,

    alright that’s good, that means it’s seeing the key as bootable, you need to enter the bios config, same procedure, but it’s another f key, then you will find an option that’s called secure boot and you can change it from “enabled” to “disabled”, on some bios, you first need to erased the stored secure boot key first

    20gramsWrench,

    I always wondered why none of them could agree on which f key does what, especially when they all already agree that ctrl-alt-del restart the computer

    20gramsWrench,

    it shouldn’t reset your device, secure boot is only there to prevent someone from doing exactly what you’re trying to do, booting another os on the computer, that said, if you’re going to mess around with a linux installer without full knowledge of what you are doing you should absolutely back up your entire drive first, the easiest method being phisically removing the hard drive and putting another one in

    20gramsWrench,

    in the bios config menu, you can access it when you start up your computer and spam the appropriate keyboard key, you can find out which key it is by the brand of the computer, or the brand of the motherboard if you assembled the pc yourself, then inside the bios config menu you will find the secure boot option.

    for example, on my computer, I need to turn it off completely, then press the power button and quickly press the f2 key repeatidely, then instead of launching my operating system, it launches the bios config menu, and in that menu, under the “boot” section, I find a line called “secure boot” which I can enable and disable, once i’ve done so, I press f10 to save the configs I made, and boot my system where I want

    20gramsWrench,

    f12 iirc, and it’s normal mode

    20gramsWrench,

    Nobody watched the video and the down arrow is there for when you disagree, simple as.

    20gramsWrench,

    iirc that would be handled by your theme rather than a system config

    20gramsWrench,

    it’s a reddit imported hate-train because they didn’t renew certificates twice in twenty years and a bug in pamac cause the aur to be ddosed for a few hours total, to tell you how much of an empty bandwagon it is, few years back, manjaro tried to push a closed source office suite in their base installers and none of the clowns parroting anti-manjaro mantras ever mention it, they didn’t think about adding it to the agreed list of accusations in the early days so their copy pasted opinions don’t feature it.

    20gramsWrench,

    if you are willing for forget the minimal aspects, I would recommand garuda linux, it has an horrendous default theme and pretend to be for gamers, but in reality it is a solid arch install with good gui tools for updates and system maintenance, and it also has things pre-configured that would take a while for you to do, like the magical btrfs snapshots, which means if you or an update break something, you can make your system go back in time without losing any personal data all from the grub menu

    20gramsWrench,

    I tend to see cinnamon as a simpler kde, it feels a lot like the defaults of kde, if you enjoy having thousands of ui options from ordering the icons in your program toolbars to selecting conditional window sizes and placement on opening then kde will meet your needs otherwise it’s a little overkill for standard computing

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