RedSnt ♾️🦋♂️👓🖥️

Born 1983, He/him, Danish AuDD introvert that’s surfed the internet since he was a teen (1996 onwards).

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Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: June 18th, 2023
  • It's nice to see the MX Linux team, and in particular Dolphin_Oracle, are still based like that.

    I started out on MX Linux as my intro to linux back in early 2024 and it was partly because of their SystemD stand, and partly because the distro shipped with a lot of nice custom GUI tools for noobs like myself.
    It’s also a quite lightweight distro if you choose SysVinit + Fluxbox. I’m just a bit sad they no longer offer a 32-bit version.
    The only reason I switched away was because the Debian base felt quite stale, that is, for what I wanted to play around with. Still kept it around for a year.

    “So my suggestion for those in the US, and other countries, is to lobby your government representatives, federal, state, or whatever your country has, and not your linux distro.”

    Good idea! And here I was just about to send death threats to Dylan Taylor.

  • I really liked the GUI of WinRar, but I no longer consider proprietary software to be an option.

    Yeah, I don’t know about WinRar either, and I even bought a license back in 2010, so I guess I shouldn’t feel bad for using it, it’s just that I want to support FOSS more these days.

    I am still pining for a Qt GUI compression/extraction killer app, that feels fully featured and able to handle it all. As it is, I keep three different ones installed, to meet my needs and mostly satisfy my workflow.

    I believe Ark isn’t happy extracting a lot of r01, r02 etc. files or maybe it was passworded filed it struggled with, but that’s why I found PeaZip to begin with.

  • Over the summer Zypper got a huge speed upgrade after decades of being one of the slowest package managers, and while Hayden James did give Zypper “the best score” (not really, (except if you assume they all got 5 in ecosystem size) all of them got 17, except Pacman that got 16), it would’ve been nice of them to mention that as I’m sure lots of people probably still have this idea of Zypper being sluggish and taking forever.
    In fact, seeing as how APT is limited on simultaneous downloads, I’d wager that Zypper is actually faster than APT now. Probably faster than Nala as well.

  • It’s something I noticed this last half year, how the kernel has just ballooned, especially for us nvidia users.

    Over on Nobara they did at one point recommend this, but has since been removed from their wiki, but:

    echo 'omit_drivers+=" nvidia nvidia-drm nvidia-modeset nvidia-peermem nvidia-uvm "' | sudo tee /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/99-nvidia.conf

    and then rebuilding initramfs:

    sudo dracut -f --regenerate-all

    It certainly helps me a lot as I’m stuck with a 1GB /boot partition, although I see why it’s not recommended as those with LUKS set up will have problems.