Context for newbies: Linux refers to network adapters (wifi cards, ethernet cards, etc.) by so called "interfaces". For the longest time, the interface names were assigned based on the type of device and the order in which the system discovered it. So, eth0, eth1, wlan0, and wwan0 are all possible interface names. This, however,...
Firefox on Debian stable is so old that websites yell at you to upgrade to a newer browser. And last time I tried installing Debian testing (or was it debian unstable?), the installer shat itself trying to make the bootloader. After I got it to boot, apt refused to work because of a missing symlink to busybox. Why on earth do...
Edit: Stickying some relevant "war reporting" from the comments to the post body, in a hopefully somewhat chronological order. Thanks for diving into the trenches everybody!...
Long before I used vim, some dude shared a bunch of vim memes with ":q!" in them.
It was actually vi on some ye olde unix machine, but I remembered the meme and got out, searched up how to use vim, and then jumped back in to edit the file lol.
The KDE to GNOME should have been "imagine not having standard min max window titlebar buttons by default" with each following DE dunking on GNOME for the same reason.
Seriously, what degenerate thought this was a good idea. Even gesture spamming Mac users still have their standard GUI in case they want to use the mouse like a normal person or idk someone not fluent in computers wants to use the machine without feeling like chopping their hand off.
BSD is useful for when you want to program some specialty hardware once and chuck it into the abyss with no updates and without releasing the source code so you can maintain a barely passing level of security through obscurity. Or if you really just don't want to publish your source code for a unix system.
Things like modems and old routers come to mind. Also PlayStation iirc.
Most modern IoT stuff I've messed with uses linux probably because the devs like not having to manually package things and deal with weird edge case bugs. Since they're usually making software updates anyway, published vulns are less of a concern.
I ran with 8gb ram for 7 years because zram would shove my swap into what little ram I had available and it actually worked well enough that I didn't feel like upgrading until this year lol.
I just wish their websites reflected to show all their available spins. It feels like you have to go out of your way to get to the spins site because the main page only shows Gnome.
I get that Gnome is RedHat's main thing, but like at least make a button that says "See other excellent DEs". The only thing they have is a button for alt downloads that shows stuff for net install and rawhide.
I think the funniest part of this meme is every company bar Amazon, Discord (both not in market yet), and TikTok (Chinese) were confirmed to be a part of NSA's PRISM
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) which lets you basically run linux kernel along side the windows kernel which lets you do a lot of cool stuff like containers, linux apps, whole DEs, etc.
It was pretty cool for like 5 minutes until people realized that keeping windows around was kind of pointless and we should just be running pure linux lol.
It's still a good feature, but it just gives you a direct comparison of linux vs windows which tends to outshine windows.
Pros: Really useful AIO program that does everything
Cons: Really useful AIO program that does everything
Great example:
Systemd makes it very easy to bring up DNS with systemd-resolved, and it bridges a gap from the old resolv.conf file and newer DNS standards n stuff.
But then it also means that any alternative DNS clients have to tell resolvd to go away if they want to run, or often times make a systemd service to autostart with systemd and ensure it works perfectly with every possible systemd setup.
There's nothing inherently wrong with this method of having a centralized AIO thing that handles a a lot of stuff for you, but lots of early Linux people preferred the hardcore KISS principle and found it very beneficial to have everything neatly separated and modular with the service manager's job to only start and stop services.
Overall, systemd has been remarkably (and relatively) stable and beneficial which people thought would be impossible back when it became initially popular.
I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.
Okay I can definitely back up the second claim.
World of Warships, a DirectX only game, runs and loads better on Linux with Proton.
I tested both on SSD and HDD, and in both scenarios the game runs at a higher FPS and loads faster. I legitimately have no idea why.
I originally tested on HDD and guessed that ext4 was just much better with the IO speeds because NTFS would fragment like hell.
But then it also was the same with an SSD and now I'm not sure.
Props to Alpine and Kali for disabling this bullshit out of the box ( lemmy.world ) Englisch
Context for newbies: Linux refers to network adapters (wifi cards, ethernet cards, etc.) by so called "interfaces". For the longest time, the interface names were assigned based on the type of device and the order in which the system discovered it. So, eth0, eth1, wlan0, and wwan0 are all possible interface names. This, however,...
Debian used to be so good. What happened!? ( lemmy.world )
Firefox on Debian stable is so old that websites yell at you to upgrade to a newer browser. And last time I tried installing Debian testing (or was it debian unstable?), the installer shat itself trying to make the bootloader. After I got it to boot, apt refused to work because of a missing symlink to busybox. Why on earth do...
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Don't mess up secure boot with bitlocker Englisch
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-11-24h2-will-enable-bitlocker-encryption-for-everyone-happens-on-both-clean-installs-and-reinstalls
Don't make a mistake in choosing a distro ( lemmy.world )
Shit... ( sh.itjust.works ) Englisch
It has already been removed again Englisch
Edit: Stickying some relevant "war reporting" from the comments to the post body, in a hopefully somewhat chronological order. Thanks for diving into the trenches everybody!...
How did you get out of Vim before you knew its hotkeys and commands? ( lemmy.world )
Last one, i've been farming Ai for memes but last one with lore ( lemmy.ca )
Using any DE be like: ( graph.org )
toxic help forum ( lemmy.world ) Englisch
Old XKCD, still relevant ( lemmy.dbzer0.com ) Englisch
Was trying to extract a totally legit copy of Skate 3 I downloaded today to play on my Steam Deck
Is there anyone here who uses BSD on their desktop? ( lemmy.world )
you don't need more 4GB of RAM ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
Types of OS ( file.coffee )
Don't dare to question Gnome ( lemmy.world )
I was wondering what happened to the proposal from a month ago....
Chad VLC ( lemm.ee )
A broken man ( lemmy.world )
upgrade ( mander.xyz ) Englisch
Less is more ( files.catbox.moe ) Englisch
Talking to normies about privacy: ( lemmy.world )
Something tells me this might not be a good year for games... ( lemmy.world )
Look at that fragmentation! ( lemm.ee ) Englisch
Fragmentation is good!...
i find it's a great tool. ( lemmy.world )
There's still room for improvement, but Linux gaming has come a long way in a short time. ( lemmy.world ) Englisch
I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.