Any fellow Linux users on here?

[saturnv]

I have been using Linux for 1/4 of my life. I started in high school and started exclusively using it shortly after. I can't imagine using anything else. Linux software is verbose, powerful, and so much is documented. Everything makes sense to me.
I am an EMACS user but the biggest tip I can give to anyone learning Linux is to become very good at Vi.

Have you tried evil mode for Emacs? It is the best of both worlds.

 

[fattymeatysardine]

Have you tried evil mode for Emacs? It is the best of both worlds.

I have but I remember running into a lot of inconsistencies when doing anything that wasn't editing text.

 

[saturnv]

I have but I remember running into a lot of inconsistencies when doing anything that wasn't editing text.

Yeah. I use Doom Emacs. It has evil mode integrated very well with everything else. It all works coherently.

 

[Crabcore]

Man, I love Lubuntu. My old desktop feels like a Raspberry Pi 5.

I dug out some old (and apparently very rare) CDs I've been missing, spent all day digitizing them with abcde and then easily transferred them over to my main setup via WinSCP (which doesn't have a CD drive). Probably one of the smoothest Linux experiences of my life, even though a lot of the albums I have are too obscure for GraceNote or whatever DB it uses to fetch metadata.

I'm kind of excited to just use it as a local server like this. No excessive GUIs, no web-browser login pages, just easy access to the stuff I love. If the drive dies, I can just re-digitize the important stuff in a matter of hours. I never thought I'd care about 'ownership', but when more and more things disappear from spotify (and sometimes the internet itself, when you listen to really obscure independent music), it's nice to be able to actually own something.

 

[Outdated]

I never thought I'd care about 'ownership', but when more and more things disappear from spotify (and sometimes the internet itself, when you listen to really obscure independent music), it's nice to be able to actually own something.

I put all my music on harrdrives before we had streaming services. It ended up being a huge library and a few friends contributed to the collection too over the years. I'm glad I did that, there's a lot of music that's really difficult to find these days, especially older Aussie artists.

 

[Tarkus]

I put all my music on harrdrives before we had streaming services. It ended up being a huge library and a few friends contributed to the collection too over the years. I'm glad I did that, there's a lot of music that's really difficult to find these days, especially older Aussie artists.

Remember Soulseek?

I should go back to P2P

BTW I'm using Asahi Linux in my mac M1... I highly recommend it, awesome jobs by those devs

 

[Outdated]

Remember Soulseek?

I never used any P2P services because back then we only had dial up internet, and because of that everyone was making very low quality MP3s for the smaller download sizes. They were crap.

I personally ripped more than 3000 CDs at 320kbps. At 6 CDs an hour that was a very long haul job.

BTW I'm using Asahi Linux in my mac M1... I highly recommend it, awesome jobs by those devs

Asahi is for Mac only, why I don't know. Mac OS is a type of Linux anyway. Also, Asahi is not really a unique linux fork, it's actually Fedora Linux wearing a Macintosh frock.

About - Asahi Linux

Apple/Mac isn't all that popular outside of the US. I don't know anyone that has any of their products.

 

[Jumpinbare]

I never understood why anyone has them. The whole concept of proprietary hardware/software is an immediate turn off for me. I can't be boxed in to one supplier like that.

 

[Judge]

I never understood why anyone has them. The whole concept of proprietary hardware/software is an immediate turn off for me. I can't be boxed in to one supplier like that.

Ironically I've only owned one of their products over the years.

"AAPL". - Their $tock.

 

[Tarkus]

I never used any P2P services because back then we only had dial up internet, and because of that everyone was making very low quality MP3s for the smaller download sizes. They were crap.

I personally ripped more than 3000 CDs at 320kbps. At 6 CDs an hour that was a very long haul job.


Asahi is for Mac only, why I don't know. Mac OS is a type of Linux anyway. Also, Asahi is not really a unique linux fork, it's actually Fedora Linux wearing a Macintosh frock.

About - Asahi Linux

Apple/Mac isn't all that popular outside of the US. I don't know anyone that has any of their products.

Wooow 3000 CDs so cool, awesome, I loved ripping CDs... It felt like magic, like what I'm freely cloning them? Insane. Downloading via dial-up was kinda torture lol but it was fun... I miss Napster, I still remember the first time I downloaded music, fun times (also game emulators, that was crazy)

Yes that's it! Fedora adapted for the Apple chips, I'm so happy with it and NGL the Macbook hardware works so good and the battery lasts long hours...

However I'm planning to switch to a Thinkpad T480s, I hacked an Asus C201 for it to have Free Software in its firmware (i.e. Librecore) and I plan to do it as well in the Thinkpad

Indeed! macOS and GNU/Linux are closely related, not a type of Linux exactly but both derive from Unix (Unix-based and Unix-like) and TBH macOS works great, but I prefer GNU/Linux for several reasons

I'm from outside the US (not a native speaker), regarding Apple products Facetime is not at all popular in my country, WhatsApp is king (although I stopped using Meta products and social media in general)

 

[Tarkus]

I never understood why anyone has them. The whole concept of proprietary hardware/software is an immediate turn off for me. I can't be boxed in to one supplier like that.

Absolutely... But the thing is that their products work great IMO (at least compared to PC/Windows)... Many people don't know/care about the proprietary hardware/software, which is a shame

Ironically I've only owned one of their products over the years.

"AAPL". - Their $tock.

Well played lol

 

[Judge]

Absolutely... But the thing is that their products work great IMO (at least compared to PC/Windows)... Many people don't know/care about the proprietary hardware/software, which is a shame

Well played lol

I was never exposed to a Mac until around 16 years well after Windows 3.1. It was in tech school, when I quit insurance to learn web design. In a nutshell I found the Mac to be far more intuitive in how its GUI was designed, being able to compare both operating systems at the same under practical circumstances.

Yet to this very second I type this, the most profound consideration of why I have never purchased their products as a customer has never waned, IMO. - Their pricing. Which remains anywhere between too expensive to outrageous.

As far as proprietary hardware and software go, I find it to involve one primary dynamic that I loathe. To have a firm understanding of how such corporate entities inevitably favor their shareholders over both their own employees and particularly their customers.

Something I became acutely aware of working for such a corporation whose product and service was in entertainment and educational software publishing and development. While I was only a lead designer and later a website manager, my original job had me deep inside the marketing department, within earshot of both two public relations officers and a departmental vice president.

Adapting to Linux OTOH has been one continued breath of fresh air when it comes to an absence of a single corporate "hive-mind" controlling everything at the same time, without the perception of unilaterally prioritizing shareholders' concerns and equity first and foremost. Where routine updates are simply improvements, without having to consider their marketing impact to shareholders. That the product comes first, and ultimately the customers in the process.

In essence, I find the value in Linux to be superior to all other proprietary operating systems. Making it a value well worth the effort to learn not necessarily a more difficult OS, but rather a profoundly different one. One of my life's best decisions, IMO.

Still, I have to commend Apple for me to have made the most lucrative stock purchase and sale during my nearly ten years as a private investor, compared to all other stocks.

 

[Outdated]

Yet to this very second I type this, the most profound consideration of why I have never purchased their products as a customer has never waned, IMO. - Their pricing. Which remains anywhere between too expensive to outrageous.

That is the number one consideration in my part of the world - South East Asia. Not the wealthiest region in the world.

A brand new Android phone costs around USD$100. (unless you want a Samsung)
A new 13th generation laptop with Windows on it costs around USD$300.

People see tourists wearing those white ear plugs and think "What a wanker.".

 

[Princess Viola]

Just for the Hell of it, I installed Arch Linux in a VM yesterday to test it out and because I now have space to do this (a few weeks ago, I finally formatted my secondary M.2 drive that had my old and broken Windows install on it - after backing up any files I wanted to keep, of course - and then just created a singular 1 TB ext4 partition on the empty drive, primarily for games and stuff) and I gotta say - I am disappointed.

I was told Arch was supposed to be hard, I was expecting difficulty. I did not get that. Even the problem I had after install where it literally wouldn't boot (like literally I got a kernel panic level of 'not booting') wasn't that hard to figure out the problem and solution with a quick google search. (I just did a quick reinstall then at the end, chrooted into /mnt, checked the UUID of the root partition, edited /etc/default/grub and made sure that GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT included the correct UUID of said partition, regenerated the GRUB config, reinstalled GRUB to the virtual disk, regenerated Initramfs, checked /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and ensured the right hooks and modules were included, exited chroot, unmounted the file system, checked if there were any errors, and then rebooted and it was all fine and dandy)

Anyways here's Linux Mint 22.2 running in a VM in Arch Linux running in a VM in Linux Mint 22.2

 

[Jumpinbare]

Just for the Hell of it, I installed Arch Linux in a VM yesterday to test it out and because I now have space to do this (a few weeks ago, I finally formatted my secondary M.2 drive that had my old and broken Windows install on it - after backing up any files I wanted to keep, of course - and then just created a singular 1 TB ext4 partition on the empty drive, primarily for games and stuff) and I gotta say - I am disappointed.

I was told Arch was supposed to be hard, I was expecting difficulty. I did not get that. Even the problem I had after install where it literally wouldn't boot (like literally I got a kernel panic level of 'not booting') wasn't that hard to figure out the problem and solution with a quick google search. (I just did a quick reinstall then at the end, chrooted into /mnt, checked the UUID of the root partition, edited /etc/default/grub and made sure that GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT included the correct UUID of said partition, regenerated the GRUB config, reinstalled GRUB to the virtual disk, regenerated Initramfs, checked /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and ensured the right hooks and modules were included, exited chroot, unmounted the file system, checked if there were any errors, and then rebooted and it was all fine and dandy)

Anyways here's Linux Mint 22.2 running in a VM in Arch Linux running in a VM in Linux Mint 22.2

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Gotta love running a virtual OS two levels deep in the same OS!
How was the speed?

 

[RealisticRobin]

I use MX Linux.

 

[Judge]

System 76's "Pop!OS Cosmic" just went "beta". They abandoned Gnome and went to using Rust. Hope to see the official version out sometime in the first quarter of 2026. Though that may be a bit too optimistic.

Not sure if I want to play with the beta version, but so far what I've seen I liked. I had a blast customizing Pop!OS22.04, mostly with altering key stylesheets. Just wondering if this new version will still be structured in a similar manner. Maybe not...

COSMIC Download

 

[Shevek]

I use MX Linux.

How easy is it? Can you compare it to Mint? It is time for me to have another go at booting a bare-bone box, and MX was the recommendation about three years ago.

 

[RealisticRobin]

How easy is it? Can you compare it to Mint? It is time for me to have another go at booting a bare-bone box, and MX was the recommendation about three years ago.

I was never able to get mint up and running on anything. But I find mx linux pretty easy to use. It's debian based so it's what I am used to.

 

[Tedzilla]

Just for the Hell of it, I installed Arch Linux in a VM yesterday to test it out and because I now have space to do this (a few weeks ago, I finally formatted my secondary M.2 drive that had my old and broken Windows install on it - after backing up any files I wanted to keep, of course - and then just created a singular 1 TB ext4 partition on the empty drive, primarily for games and stuff) and I gotta say - I am disappointed.

I was told Arch was supposed to be hard, I was expecting difficulty. I did not get that. Even the problem I had after install where it literally wouldn't boot (like literally I got a kernel panic level of 'not booting') wasn't that hard to figure out the problem and solution with a quick google search. (I just did a quick reinstall then at the end, chrooted into /mnt, checked the UUID of the root partition, edited /etc/default/grub and made sure that GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT included the correct UUID of said partition, regenerated the GRUB config, reinstalled GRUB to the virtual disk, regenerated Initramfs, checked /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and ensured the right hooks and modules were included, exited chroot, unmounted the file system, checked if there were any errors, and then rebooted and it was all fine and dandy)

Anyways here's Linux Mint 22.2 running in a VM in Arch Linux running in a VM in Linux Mint 22.2

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I use EndeavourOS, which is a variation of Arch, and is essentially is Arch, which I will say isn't as true with for example Manjaro.

Got into Arch distros starting with Manjaro, only moving on because they tend to lag in their developments. This is not to say that I would tell people don't go to Manjaro, or get off of Manjaro.

I have learned to avoid mistakes, and it behaves well. Currently, I use Gnome because one of the pieces of software I have doesn't like kWallet, but I think I was being a little obsessive about things and could have stayed with Plasma. Which I may go back to in again in the future. As Gnome extensions quickly become useless when Gnome dates.