Quazatron

YOU ARE WEAK! You do not deserve the air that you consume. You dishonor is all. Drop and give me twenty.

Jk, use whatever works for you.

I wouldn’t say unusable, it’s tolerable. But it does get in your face in a very opinionated way, that gets old fast.

I’ve avoided Gnome since the shift to GTK 3, when it became apparent that the devs were hiding functionality in the name of some greater vision that was never explained to lesser mortals.

You don’t get to treat me as a moron, only my wife can do that.

XFCE and KDE have served me well, at least they don’t hide settings and functionality from me.

I assumed primary is ctrl-c/ctrl-v and secondary is select/middle-click. I’ve never come across this ctrl-middle-click, it does the same with and without the ctrl key.

I seen to recall reading something this week about a distro dropping middle click, so I probably conflated both issues and failed.

But you’re right, I did not read the fine article.

I’ve been using the “select copy + middle click paste” since the late 90s.

I find it useful for simple intra-document editing because you’re just using the mouse, no need to reach for the keyboard.

It can be combined with the traditional copy/paste, say you have your password in the clipboard but you need to also copy some part of a long ssh command. You can have both and paste them on the command line one after the other.

I know I’m a minority and this will eventually be dropped because it’s too confusing for the end users, man.

Yes, I get it. But I’ll miss it.

Copperplate Gothic.

Just kidding, I don’t have one but would love some suggestions.

I’m old enough to remember UML (User Mode Linux). I don’t know if it’s still around, but it was a port of the Linux kernel that you would run as a standard user binary.

Why should it bother me? It’s not like I have Linux corporation stock. I’m just a longtime happy user.

/me quickly greps the logs for “nvidia”

Yep, thar she blows.

The command line is perfect for lazy people like me. You spend a bit more putting together a little automation and shove it in a script in ~/bin and you can forget about how it’s done.

Example: I have a small script that does the backup for me using Borg. It backups only the directories I want, ignores a bunch of stuff and keeps 6 months of backups. I spent some time crafting that but now I just plug my external HDD and type backup.sh. or if I’m feeling extra lazy I just click the desktop link.

My suspicion for Nvidia not opening their drivers is that they have something shifty going on, maybe benchmark “optimizations” or some other trickery.

That, and they’re plain evil.

I think it was a Finnish philosopher who once said it best: Fuck you, Nvidia.

How I’m doing it: setup nginx-proxy-manager as frontend and put all services behind it, using different names (cloud.home, media.home, etc) but with the same IP (the proxy IP).

I agree, I notice more new blood around Linux compared to the previous “OMG, Micro$oft suxx, let’s all ditch Windoze!1!!” craze (I guess it was Win8.1 -> Win10, maybe?)

Each person knows what it feels more comfortable with.

Linux is not inherently hostile, it just has a very different way of doing things that what you’re accustomed, so you perceive it as hostile. It is sometimes easier for someone who never touched a computer to learn Linux that someone who grew with Windows to unlearn the habits.

There’s nothing wrong with feeling comfortable in Windows, it’s the system you grew up with and know how to work with and maintain.

I’m old enough to have seen this “flocking” several times. Some people stay and are pleasantly surprised. Most people go back a few weeks/months later, and leave a “Linux suxx” post behind them. I don’t expect this time will be any different, and that’s totally fine.

I just want to add that you that you can also setup multiple user accounts for different uses. One for banking, one for gaming, one for downloading random crap. It will not protect against privilege escalation attacks but will help against random scripts exfiltrating your personal documents.

Another nice layer is containers and containerized applications (flatpaks, bubblewrap, etc). Each app will be somewhat limited in what damage it can do.

Running pi-hole as your DNS or using some other filtered DNS provider (Mulvad or others) will also protect you from some shady sites.

Cups is awesome. I have an ancient HP laserjet 1100 connected to an ancient parallel-to-Ethernet adapter, connected to my ancient router. Cups works flawlessly with this setup, Windows never worked.

Same here, I heard about the reliability of Unix while enduring Windows 95’s appalling crashes.

Last month I finally moved my wife’s Windows 10 laptop to Endeavor OS. She recognizes that her unusable laptop is now snappy and stable.

My house is now officially Microsoft-free.

It sometimes is, but then sometimes Linux is not to blame.

Yesterday I was installing CachyOS on my son’s laptop, because that’s what he chose to use instead of Windows 10. The desktop came up fine, but no wifi adaptor was detected. I could try another more mainstream distro, but I wanted my kid to have what he chose. So we went troubleshooting. Googled the laptop model, found the adaptor, found the matching kernel module, checked the logs… and there it was, a cryptic error -110. Googled that and there was an answer: disable Windows Fast Boot.

It turns out that Windows locks the wifi adaptor when shutting down in Fast Boot mode. So after disabling it and a couple of reboots later, CachyOS was installing flawlessly.

It served as a lesson for me and an example for my kid to persevere and learn more.

My advice is: this isn’t Windows, so if you look at the logs you will probably find clues to what is wrong. With those clues you can find help online, either from blog articles or from Linux forums like this one.

I know reinstallation is the default in the Windows world, but you stand to learn a lot from trying to solve the issues you are facing.