ssm

ssm, 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago)

No, nor should the user be encouraged to. Shell is often the best tool for the job for things like filesystem operations and scripting for a unix environment. Limiting yourself as a user just to copy Windows’ and MacOS’ paradigm is just hurting yourself in the long run.

ssm, 23 days ago

I would hardly call using the shell “tinkering”. It’s just a different interface.

ssm, 22 days ago (edited 22 days ago)

Most Windows and Mac users have no idea what a script is,nor do they care.

Imagine how much easier their lives would be if they did (at least the MacOS users, since Windows has yet to find a usable shell).

If you’re on GNOME, KDE or any of the other DEs for that matter, and you’re not a geek, yes you can live on GUI alone these days.

Unless you have exactly 1 tech support issue, in which the assistant will tell you to open a terminal for diagnostics, because any other interface for debugging is insane. Telling users they shouldn’t learn shell is just setting them up for being dependent on users that do.

ssm, 24 days ago

This you, OP?

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/a0caa9e5-65e3-46d7-8dcd-b4cf2ff32480.png

ssm, 24 days ago

it’s him

ssm, 24 days ago

Copying this from another thread that was basically the same question, but didn’t get much attention

Started on Arch Linux for some reason back in 2016, I just decided to throw out my Windows and install it (Don’t really remember what was going through my head, or why I wanted to install Linux, other than I was reading the r/linux subreddit wiki at the time). I was trapped in a TTY trying to install the thing for maybe a week, and after 9 reinstallations, I got Arch working and got a Weston compositor session running under Wayland. After realizing Weston was more a tech-demo than something I was actually supposed to use, I installed X11 and Gnome, which was cool for approximately 3 minutes before I decided to replace it with some minimal window manager instead. Can’t remember if it was i3wm or something else, but i3wm sounds right; and later I messed around with some tilers like StumpWM, ratpoison, and HerbstluftWM.

After about 3 months, something in Arch broke (systemd was not reaping processes properly was what I concluded at the time, no idea what the actual problem was but I ended up with a bunch of zombie processes), and I decided to install Gentoo as my second Linux distribution. After installing Gentoo, I entered a stage which is colloquially know as “config hell” where I overconfigured everything to the point of breaking something, and could never figure out what I actually broke because everything was so overconfigured. After recompiling the whole system, everything was still broken, so I reinstalled Gentoo, this time less overconfigured, but still somewhat overconfigured (It didn’t help I was also running a full self-made custom kernel config with 3 months of Linux experience, I surprised the thing booted at all).

I lived in Gentoo for around a year using HerbstluftWM, but eventually I grew tired of how much maintenance Gentoo required and just wanted some sane defaults. This led me to installing OpenBSD, which I guess was the right decision for me because I’m still using it to this day (7 years!), and is where I gained the majority of my knowledge about using Unix thanks to the wonderful documentation. Initially I didn’t like the ports system because it didn’t have as many knobs as Gentoo’s portage did (Gentoo’s portage is more modeled after FreeBSD’s ports than OpenBSD’s ports it seems), but I came around to enjoying hacking ports with my own patches instead of using preconfigured knobs. Eventually my porting skills got good enough that I now officially mantain a couple OpenBSD ports (games/stone-soup, www/pipe-viewer), and that list is likely to grow. I switched between some other window managers (ratpoison, JWM, FVWM2) before settling on OpenBSD’s in-house cwm. I purchased a VPS also running OpenBSD, and self host various things like email, git, ZNC, web/http, and IPsec/VPN. Eventually, I grew tired of not having games to play (OpenBSD doesn’t support WINE), so I bought a Steam Deck that I use as both my gaming desktop and handheld. I also bought a Pinephone from Pine64 which currently uses PostmarketOS (I hope to run OpenBSD on it some day though).

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/56735566-ad96-4ae6-a667-434aa5275e39.png

tl;dr Use Arch as your first Linux distribution and you’ll end up as an OpenBSD ports maintainer I guess

ssm, 25 days ago

Write your steam username and password down somewhere in plain text (and maybe your email auth too since steam seems to like email 2fa garbage), and then someone will find it after you die and can use your account.

ssm, 26 days ago

It starts with a blatantly llm-generated image, with the text possibly being a chatbot as well; good journalism is rare these days compared to this mass-produced slop

ssm, 25 days ago

If the user sees the following

Linux Is Only Free if You Don’t Value Your Time

one must immediately counter with

Windows Is Only Free if You Don’t Value Your Privacy

The Windows user will immediately disintegrate if performed optimally

ssm, 26 days ago

does that mean you’re going to half-jail? maybe community service?

ssm, 26 days ago (edited 26 days ago)

Started on Arch Linux for some reason back in 2016, I just decided to throw out my Windows and install it (Don’t really remember what was going through my head, or why I wanted to install Linux, other than I was reading the r/linux subreddit wiki at the time). I was trapped in a TTY trying to install the thing for maybe a week, and after 9 reinstallations, I got Arch working and got a Weston compositor session running under Wayland. After realizing Weston was more a tech-demo than something I was actually supposed to use, I installed X11 and Gnome, which was cool for approximately 3 minutes before I decided to replace it with some minimal window manager instead. Can’t remember if it was i3wm or something else, but i3wm sounds right; and later I messed around with some tilers like StumpWM, ratpoison, and HerbstluftWM.

After about 3 months, something in Arch broke (systemd was not reaping processes properly was what I concluded at the time, no idea what the actual problem was but I ended up with a bunch of zombie processes), and I decided to install Gentoo as my second Linux distribution. After installing Gentoo, I entered a stage which is colloquially know as “config hell” where I overconfigured everything to the point of breaking something, and could never figure out what I actually broke because everything was so overconfigured. After recompiling the whole system, everything was still broken, so I reinstalled Gentoo, this time less overconfigured, but still somewhat overconfigured (It didn’t help I was also running a full self-made custom kernel config with 3 months of Linux experience, I surprised the thing booted at all).

I lived in Gentoo for around a year using HerbstluftWM, but eventually I grew tired of how much maintenance Gentoo required and just wanted some sane defaults. This led me to installing OpenBSD, which I guess was the right decision for me because I’m still using it to this day (7 years!), and is where I gained the majority of my knowledge about using Unix thanks to the wonderful documentation. Initially I didn’t like the ports system because it didn’t have as many knobs as Gentoo’s portage did (Gentoo’s portage is more modeled after FreeBSD’s ports than OpenBSD’s ports it seems), but I came around to enjoying hacking ports with my own patches instead of using preconfigured knobs. Eventually my porting skills got good enough that I now officially mantain a couple OpenBSD ports (games/stone-soup, www/pipe-viewer), and that list is likely to grow. I switched between some other window managers (ratpoison, JWM, FVWM2) before settling on OpenBSD’s in-house cwm. I purchased a VPS also running OpenBSD, and self host various things like email, git, ZNC, web/http, and IPsec/VPN. Eventually, I grew tired of not having games to play (OpenBSD doesn’t support WINE), so I bought a Steam Deck that I use as both my gaming desktop and handheld. I also bought a Pinephone from Pine64 which currently uses PostmarketOS (I hope to run OpenBSD on it some day though).

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/56735566-ad96-4ae6-a667-434aa5275e39.png

tl;dr use Arch as your first Linux distribution and you’ll end up as an OpenBSD ports maintainer I guess

ssm, 26 days ago

Support ClamAV instead of this trash

ssm, 26 days ago (edited 26 days ago)

“ClamAV is bad so instead of improving it I’m going to cuck to proprietary standards instead”

I never said ClamAV was good or bad, nor was that the point.

ssm, 27 days ago

Wow first time in my life I agreed with a CEO, at least only from reading the headline

ssm, 27 days ago

Sony is testing the waters with trying to console-ify/enshittify PC gaming, for now it’s making a PSN account and living in an “approved” country, next it’s going to be paying online subscription services to play PSN games. My thoughts are game developers and consumers should avoid Sony like the plague (and request refunds / class legal action in cases like Helldivers 2 where it was introduced after the fact), there are better publishers; and if you can afford it, self-publishing.

ssm, 27 days ago

it is so sad that e is dead

ssm, 27 days ago

You don’t know what I’d do to get massive chunky brick laptops back from the 90’s again. Look at all those ports!

ssm, 27 days ago

whoa

regretting my framework laptop about now

ssm, 28 days ago

could be okay if you cut it all / scrambled it and added some rice

ssm, 27 days ago (edited 27 days ago)

Did you know that Coffee Stain Studios, the publisher behind the beloved pro-consumer Deep Rock Galactic, belongs to Embracer Group? I’m sure this mentality will lead to nothing bad happening to the monetization of this game in the long run.

ssm, 27 days ago

I would suggest reading this before switching to Firefox/Waterfox/Librewolf. DNS blocking and userscripts will get you a long way on browsers that lack extensions (qutebrowser, falkon, luakit).

ssm, 27 days ago (edited 27 days ago)

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/40284e91-c469-4dcb-accf-49278908b5c6.png

Here’s where to do it on the web client (you can get to the publisher from the right sidebar in the game’s store page), unsure if it’s the same in the steam client.

ssm, 28 days ago

unixdigest.com/…/choose-your-browser-carefully.ht…

ssm, 28 days ago

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l30wwmcQTLc

ssm, 27 days ago

If they really cared about fallout they’d give it back to black isle/obsidian for another release

ssm, 29 days ago

Feels like Linux 4.20 wasn’t that long ago and we’re already at Linux 6.9? At this rate Sex 2 will release and it won’t even be exciting

ssm, 27 days ago

Ubuntu what now

ssm, 28 days ago

OpenBSD user, in no particular order, definitely missing some stuff: pdksh (OpenBSD) or oksh (Linux/MacOS), su, unix/posix utils (man (most important), find (second most important), apropos, awk, grep, df, du, dd, ed, etc), mg, openssh, got, heirloom-doctools/troff, bc-gh (bc calculator with a bunch of extensions), xclip, xdotool, xeyes (very important), yt-dlp (youtube-dl seems dead these days), some C compiler (clang/gcc), httpd, opensmtp, ffmpeg, libressl/openssl, pf, tmux (I prefer to use my window manager, but if I’m in tty or need to retain a shell session, tmux is useful), ping, ifconfig, traceroute, netstat, nc/netcat, unwind (or other dns server like unbound)

ssm, 26 days ago (edited 26 days ago)

Great game, terrible performance issues. I don’t know why a game that looks like Half-Life 1 needed to use Unreal Engine 5. Nearly unplayable on the Steam Deck at times.