Huh, good point, I never stopped to consider what licenses are behind Alpine.

I agree with your point that pushover licenses should not be the way forward (I personally license all of my major projects with GPLv3 only), but I’ll still keep using alpine because I like it from a technical standpoint.

Partition management is the single most chaotic chore that you come across as a casual computer user, change my mind. Depending on the partition table and filesystem, each filesystem can have zero, one or two labels assigned to it. But there is no consensus about what to actually call these labels. I’ve seen “partlabel”, “label”, “partition label” and “name” with no obvious way to tell whether the tool is talking about the label stored in the partition table or the label stored in the filesystem.

So just use UUIDs to refer to partitions instead of labels, right? Wrong! Each partition has both a UUID and a PartUUID which are not the same. It’s simple once you are aware of that fact, but if you are not, it can lead to hours of confused troubleshooting. I learned this the hard way.

Yeah, of course! Kind of goes against the point of the meme but oh well.

Fun fact: you don’t even need a hard drive (or ssd or usb stick or any storage device) to run linux. You can just flash it directly into your firmware

As an X user I support this message.

This comic was posted in 2011 but still holds up today perfectly lol.

Still gathering up my courage to make the switch. The better security / isolation between apps is a huge feature for me. But porting all of my shitty xorg-specific scripts and hacks will be a pain.

And for people who are still confused: The confusion is the whole point of the joke. Nobody understands what the hell “cow tools” is supposed to mean. Maybe it had something to do with research showing that other mammals, not just monkeys and early humans, were capable of making tools. But nobody knows. It’s absurdist humor

Didn’t the wannacry payload (yes, that one) actually work through wine? I remember the running joke was “Heh, finally something works in wine”

Flatpak is such a cool tool, kind of sad seeing it be mainly used for barely usable bloatware like libadwaita and electron. So much unrealised potential

cool

thanks, I’ll take a look.

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Yeah this is the way. Debian stable has outdated packages, debian testing has broken packages. Ubuntu is difficult for beginners because of snap. Linux mint is the perfect just-works debian-based beginner distro. Same for DE: Gnome is hard to use, KDE is bloated and unstable, and XFCE is too minimalist/diy/quirky for beginner users (you need to add a panel applet in order for the volume keys to work? Huh??). Cinnamon is the perfect middle ground between resource usage and features.

Make sure during installation that you create a 4 GB swap partition too

Or at least as large as your RAM if you want to be able to hibernate.

lol who tf even uses windows nowadays? The only people I know is my dad who needs it for excel and a friend who dual-boots XP for retro gaming. It’s a legacy OS

You could do it in any shell by replacing touch with a function or alias that sends a note to whatever GTK subsystem is responsible for the “recents” tab before making the file. A more comprehensive way would be either using inotify or kernel-level process tracing fuckery, but I’m not smart enough for that

Would be awesome if there was more software to bridge the gap between CLI and GUI workflows. trash-cli and dragon-drop are pretty useful to that extent, but there is still much that could work better. I want files I’ve touched in bash to appear in the “Recent” section in the GTK filepicker, and stuff like that.

Yeah apt tends to shit itself very often. I don’t like how it’s actually two different programs (dpkg and apt) glued together with perl and python. It all feels too fragile. A friend once tried updating a package, and it failed because… he was issuing the apt command from with a python virtual environment. Can’t say for pacman because I’ve never used arch, but xbps is just one set of self-contained binaries, which feels much more robust. Alpine’s APK fits that bill as well, lovely little package manager. Tho I guess apt predates both of those, so it’s not a fair comparison. Someone had to make those mistakes for the first time.

I also really dislike the Debian/Ubuntu culture of fucking around with the sources file to add other people’s repositories on top of the distro-default ones (ubuntu calls this PPA). It’s a good idea in theory, but in practice those third party repos always fuck up in some way and brick your package manager. Just search for “apt Failed to fetch” in your favourite internet search engine, and you will see hundreds of people confused about it. You can do it with almost any package manager, but for some reason it’s mainly the debian/ubuntu people who like shooting themselves in the foot like this.

Lol no. Many posts in this community recently making fun of gimp. Do you see anyone in the comments going WELL ACTUALLY IF YOU JUST USE IMAGEMAGICK? No. Plenty of things to complain about in the big DE’s like KDE and Gnome. But do you see people saying “just use tty”? Also no. Meanwhile you mention terminal once and you get at least two randos going on about how ThIs Is WhY LiNuX IsNt ReAdY. The meme is not backwards, your perception of reality is.

Setting the colorscheme to green on black increases hacker rating by 20%