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oscardejarjayes, 15 days ago to linux in How bad is Microsoft?

Working there is apparently pretty nice. Microsoft on the inside is not Microsoft on the outside.

But regardless, terrible company with terrible products. Even if they didn’t do anything shady, they still aren’t great.

oscardejarjayes, 27 days ago to linux in What's Your Favorite IRC Client, and Why?

irssi. the plugin stuff is nice, terminal is better than GUI, and when themed it doesn’t look terrible

oscardejarjayes, 1 month ago to linux in What are the best proprietary/paid apps for linux?

Steam

vibeogames

oscardejarjayes, 2 months ago to linux in What is the most popular Linux distribution on PC?

Hannah Montana Linux is probably the most popular Linux distro.

In all seriousness, popularity isn’t necessarily the best metric for what you should run on your computer. Ubuntu might be fairly popular, but it also isn’t particularly good.

oscardejarjayes, 2 months ago to linux in Which communication protocol or open standard in software do you wish was more common or used more?

i2p. It’s sorta like Tor, but the way that every user is a node provides some advantages over Tor.

oscardejarjayes, 2 months ago to linux in What could your distro learn from another distro?

It would be pretty neat if they did like zsh does, where it asks you if you mean a certain command when you only type it partially.

oscardejarjayes, 2 months ago to linux in your favorite homelab applications

I’m a big fan of Nebula. It’s sorta like Tailscale, but not quite.

oscardejarjayes, 2 months ago to opensource in XZ Hack - "If this timeline is correct, it’s not the modus operandi of a hobbyist. [...] It wouldn’t be surprising if it was paid for by a state actor."

https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/173a3b55-1f1e-47e9-899a-97baddf4e2d6.png

oscardejarjayes, 2 months ago to linux in Oh Snap! Canonical now doing manual reviews for new packages due to scam apps

Only took them 6 years of malware

oscardejarjayes, 2 months ago to linux in Those who custom configure their kernel: what did you gain?

camera drivers. the patch was submitted, but hadn’t been merged yet, and I didn’t want to wait.

oscardejarjayes, 2 months ago to linux in Linux users with uncommon or unusual setups: tell us about it

It’s a bit of a weird setup, and not at all practical. I build “golden images” with archiso, the image gets sent over, then local disks are auto-mounted. The local disks have my ~/home, so all my configs, flatpaks, games, etc. stay consistent.

I use PXE for my servers, so I figured “why not?”. I don’t do too much on it besides videogames, I do most real stuff on laptops. This “setup” probably isn’t going to stay around forever.

oscardejarjayes, 2 months ago to linux in Linux users with uncommon or unusual setups: tell us about it

I PXE boot my desktop.

oscardejarjayes, 3 months ago to linux in Do you daily drive Wayland, if so since when, if not when will you?

I’ve been on Sway for a while now. Also have a computer on Plasma (Wayland).

(Intel iGPU, AMD APU, and AMD graphics card)

oscardejarjayes, 3 months ago to linux in Are there any CPUs that work well with Linux that aren't made by Intel or another company on the BDS list/that supports Israel?

I’ve never had any issues with Ryzen, but I never had first gen. If you don’t want Ryzen, and Intel is unethical, maybe you could try a Epyc /s?

Buying used Intel stuff might also be an option. No more money would go to Intel, and using used stuff is good on the e-waste front.

oscardejarjayes, 3 months ago to opensource in What lesser known free and open source software do you use daily to improve your life?

Nebula, the overlay network thing. It connects all of my servers together, and me to my servers.