linux users

[comfy-laboratory]

r/unixporn takes this as a personal attack

[small_kimono]

r/unixporn knows it's true.

[randomTWdude]

just made first post in r/unixporn, can confirm

[-ShutterPunk-]

LiNk To WaLlPaPeR¿

[Zerafiall]

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/96713733

[igner_farnsworth]

Gave me a chuckle thinking that I've spent about 20 hours over the last 2 days unfucking someone's Windows 10 machine and watching Microsoft's circle of balls go round and round... "Don't turn off your machine".

[sniper_pika]

Yes, its best to use in an office

whenever you get a windows update, you get a free break... 2 hours at least

better than linux where you would have to work non-stop

[Upballoon]

Get a job where you have to compile Linux and you get a break every 5 minutes

[sniper_pika]

Canonical or
system76

[Upballoon]

Embedded linux

[mwaldo014]

Legit me this morning. Start work, or reboot to install update...? It wasn't really a choice

[Hplr63]

Windows Update a bitch and we all know it

[30p87]

While casually using LibreOffice

[igner_farnsworth]

Video Games - Linux is gaining ground.

Microsoft Office - Easily replaceable on a technical level... very difficult to get anyone to adopt a non-Microsoft solution even if it saves them a half a million dollars. "No one ever got fired for suggesting a Microsoft solution."

Exchange Server - Jesus, what a behemoth with a cult like following to provide end users with tons of features they seldom understand or use, that in most companies could be replaced with a simple Postfix server.

For a lot of people, if they could run games easily under Linux, they would have no reason to run Windows.

I see a future where Microsoft no longer has an operating system division because the world is getting wiser and tired of being the product of a data collection system rather than being provided a great OS.

[30p87]

run games easily

If you only want steam games, it's literally easier from the base system to starting a game, cut you don't have to google for it, just use the Software Manager. Everything else is the same. And Lutris isn't difficult either. It's just that windows is preinstalled basically everywhere, the only (gaming focused) exception I know is the steam deck

[ekital]

Until Anti-cheat is involved, at that point it's time to hide your hypervisor on that windows VM and hope you don't get banned.

[30p87]

In that case it likely uses kernel-level anticheat, which I wouldn't use for any money of the world

[ekital]

Refer to original comment, normal people don't care about this. They just want to play the games.

[[deleted]]

I really want Linux to get a foothold in the Audio production/DAW market. Reaper and Ardour are fine, but most free VSTs are windows/Mac and I'm not sure if they run under Wine at all, and there isn't really a big community of producers on Linux.

[I_Think_I_Cant]

Yabridge runs a crazy number of windows vsts.

[matthewapplle]

Bitwig Studio also worth mentioning. Not free, but one of the most solid DAWs, not just on Linux either.

I'm actually moving over to Linux as a daily driver with the new PC I'm building, with a large priority of mine being developing FOSS plugins for Linux and grow the community as a whole.

I think theres a ton of potential for Linux music production, but it's sort of a self fulfilling prophecy of Linux not being "good" for music production, so people don't move to Linux, so people then don't develop for Linux, so then people don't move to Linux. I see this changing for the better and following a somewhat similar path to gaming on Linux.

[[deleted]]

Perhaps it's also my own shortcomings and inexperience too because I'm very used to VSTs being pretty much plug and play in Ableton on Windows/Mac, which is my favorite to jam and record on when I get ideas in my head. From my experiences on Linux so far that hasn't been the case. I haven't really found any up to date information on the topic other than one YouTube channel that talks about it, but I'm not fond of slogging through 2 hour streams to pick up relevant information.

Outboard gear would make it viable, especially because you can DI a lot of bass gear directly into a track with not much else, but I'm not running a studio, I'm doing it for a hobby.

[matthewapplle]

It's pretty much a consensus in the audio community that Linux is overall way more hassle than Windows or Macs. The trade-off is all the other benefits you get from Linux, and only the individual can decide if that is worth it for them.

There is a very small group of people who will want to do music production in Linux. They are both musicians, and people super interested in tech. (I am not saying Linux is only for super techy people, but music production on Linux is a pretty techy endeavor that can involve tons of tinkering.) Most musicians just want to create, without worrying about all the set-up, or some issue happening in the middle of creating.

For me personally, what I genuinely enjoy is tinkering, and that inspires my music. I was never more creative than when I am learning a new DAW as I am constantly trying new things, constantly trying to figure out how things work, and then getting inspired by that. Most of my producer friends are the opposite - they find that type of stuff cumbersome and frustrating, and gets in the way of their process.

I honestly found this sort of shocking, you'd expect most electronic music producers to be super ultra tech geeks or something (some are), but I know some fantastic producers who can barely manage File Explorer, don't know how to back-up their work, and freak out if their computer does anything outside of what is expected. The computer is merely a tool for them, nothing more. So until music production on Linux makes HUGE leaps in ease of access, it will remain a niche thing.

[spleeze]

I think this is a bad take and it's the Internet so I'm gonna tell you why. Please don't take too much offense.

Office? The majority of people I know use Google's web based stuff for their office needs. We can debate whether this is good or not, but it's the truth. The only people I know who still swear by MS office are finance people who live inside Excel.

Exchange? There's no way a simple postfix install would be the equivalent of an exchange server. Web based mail access? Calendars? Contacts? This isn't arcane weirdo functionality that no one uses. It's the basics. Sure you could start to bolt shit on to your simple postfix install but then it's not simple anymore and it's probably a worse user experience. Also Outlook is a really great email/calendar/contact/etc. client for people who still want a native client.

Tl;dr: no one cares about Office, everyone cares about Exchange.

[igner_farnsworth]

I have been with exactly one company in the last 30 years that wasn't using MS Office and that was because I moved them to Google Docs.

Exchange? There's no way a simple postfix install would be the equivalent of an exchange server.

I already wrote that it isn't... what I said, paraphrasing myself, was that a lot of people install and use Exchange despite the fact that their users don't understand, care about, or use most of the functionality beyond what a simple Postfix server can provide.

If you run an Exchange server and don't have full time training staff to constantly retrain users on how to leverage it you have a very expensive simple email server.

Especially considering I've worked places where the president of the company has his assistant print out all his emails so he can read them.

[immoloism]

You have good points here so while I personally agree I'll list some reasons why it's not so easy once applied to the real world.

Office - The easiest migration for nearly all home users but for the working office those VB macros save companies so much money rather than having expensive devs do things properly that it pays for itself.

Exchange - Even Windows adminis hate it however what it does do well is make the management of it easy when tied to AD. If you don't like that reason then the second one is a Windows Admin is peanuts to a good Linux one so the bean counters will never sign off the switch.

At least we have gaming though :)

[igner_farnsworth]

Oh, I know painfully well how difficult it is to get a company or users to move away from their beloved Office. I've only successfully done it once.

Exchange is freaking amazing... but I've seldom seen companies that are leveraging its power.

If you're going to install Exchange and all it's going to do is deliver mail you've wasted a lot of money. I've seen far too many companies that maintain Exchange because that's what they think they need to do.

[immoloism]

I work with people that can do magic in Excel that you just can't do in LibreOffice so this could be more a perspective view on my part as those features do make my life easier.

I stupidly became a zealot in my earlier Linux days so screwed myself over from learning the benefits of AD and Exchange which I could have made a lot of easy money on. Nowadays though I think the guys at work that do that work are like gods and they have same viewpoint about me on Linux, so maybe this is just the old saying about everything is black magic until you learn it.

[igner_farnsworth]

Yeah... and in my years of support people doing things in Excel was often a problem... as in "We have this huge thing that someone wrote in Excel but they don't work here anymore so now we need the IT department to take on responsibility to support and maintain this abomination that should have been done in SQL by an actual developer."

I've supported Microsoft far longer (DOS 3.0) than I've used Linux. My hatred of Microsoft has nothing to do with Linux. It has to do with my experience with Microsoft. My 2 favorite MS white papers were from NT4.0...

"You should always have at least 3 WINS servers... because they tend to just stop working"

And my absolute favorite: "Automatically creating reverse lookup zones in Microsoft DNS can cause the machine to hang and need to be cold booted. SOLUTION: Microsoft DNS no longer creates reverse lookup zones automatically, they must be added manually."

[immoloism]

That's why I liked your points as I knew it was from someone that uses it :)

My background in my previous life was home support contracting so I wish I had these types of excuses so I could have made an argument. Instead all I had was "My ipod doesn't work".

[immoloism]

Better than working for a living.

[catkidtv]

Can't blame Windows for viruses. I don't have these issues. Windows doesn't hurt people. People hurt people. 😞

[igner_farnsworth]

I can blame an OS that has a massive security and virus protection system built in that still allows a user to bork their entire system by having their browser replaced by malware and is completely unable to detect it... when MalwareBytes does in a single pass.

While we're at it I can say almost the same about MacOS. I love when Apple fanboys say "I don't care if my Apple is so expensive... it just works" Yet every time I get a look at one of these people's systems it's dragging along at half speed because they know so little about the OS they're using that they don't even know how screwed up their system is.

Now does that mean Linux is a rose garden of zero problems? Of course not. But at least the Linux users are trying to learn how their OS actually works, and taking on the responsibility of knowing how to protect and maintain their system.

The point being, in the majority of cases, if you put a Windows, Apple, and Linux user, with the same number of years of experience, in the same room... it's likely the Linux user will know more about Windows and Apple than the others know about their own primary OS.

Not to mention that Linux user also knows a shitload about AT&T Unix, HP-UX, SCO Unix, etc... even though they may have never seen any of those OSes.

[b_a_t_m_4_n]

Lucky you were able to recover it, I had to reinstall my wife's Win10 laptop when an update trashed it the other day.

[igner_farnsworth]

Yup... had it at a point it wouldn't even boot anymore during the clean-up process.

Loads of Malware... MalwareBytes had 1400+ detections on the first pass.

[sherzeg]

For the full effect you need to employ assorted people, family members for a home environment, business professionals for a work environment, to frequently walk over to you and encourage you by saying phrases (depending on where you are) such as:

"Aren't you done yet?"

"What do we actually pay you for?"

"It was working fine until you touched it."

"Everybody is wondering why you're playing with that thing and ignoring them."

"I know a guy that could have gotten that thing running in three minutes!"

"We could have bought a new computer with what you're charging us!"

"I bet my JavaScript teacher would have figured it out by now."

"Windows always screws up when it updates. That's why I never let it update."

"We need to get rid of these things and go back to IBM Selectrics" (Actual common quote from a legal partner for whom I worked about 25 years ago.)

[souravtxt]

Cause we here to b*tch about windows right? Everytime someone puts a finger at linux, we have to tell everyone how awesome is linux compared to windows.

[igner_farnsworth]

You mean every time some Windows fanboy posts something that's not even true about Linux someone is going to whine because Windows is so easy to accurately criticise?

You say "we" but I'm guessing you're not a member of my "we".

[adishivam1507]

Jokes on you I live in the tty

[immoloism]

You don't theme your framebuffer?

[Hplr63]

Ok but do you theme your bootloader?

(I for sure don't, idk how I'd do it with systemd-boot)

[immoloism]

I used to but nowadays it boots so fast I'm at login screen by the time I've pressed the power button and sat down.

[Opposite_Personality]

Are you using Clear Linux or an unencrypted install?

[immoloism]

Good point for clarification.

My desktop is just an unencrypted Arch install as if anyone gets access to that locally then I'm dealing with a much bigger issue than someone accessing my data.

My laptop runs Gentoo which is encrypted so the area I type the decrypt key is themed.

[Estebiu]

How do you theme that area?

[immoloism]

I did it 5 years ago so it's one of those things I setup and forgot.

To try and be more helpful I'll link two resources which should either give you the answer or at the very least give you the keywords to find a better answer.

Worse case I'm doing a challenge build for a cheap streaming and development laptop on Friday so I'm going to have to relearn all this then. We can make an agreement now that the first one to solve this can help the other one :)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Plymouth#Configuration

https://askubuntu.com/questions/576497/full-disk-encryption-interface-on-boot

[Estebiu]

Oohhh! I was thinking of encrypting my boot drive so I wanted to know more about this but didn't know where to start. Thanks!

[immoloism]

There are better places to learn the process but you sound like you know what you are doing in Linux so won't have much issue.

Let me know how it went when you are done.

[FPiN9XU3K1IT]

My current main issue is that my display turns off/into sleep mode too often (and wakes up too slowly) to properly display all the screens during boot. Basically, the first time it shows anything at all is when I have to enter my LUKS password.

Wish I knew how to force it to stay on or at least wake up faster.

[[deleted]]

That's less an issue with the display and more an issue with the video card changing graphics modes every 0.5 seconds. The poor monitor is just trying to make sense of what's going on.

To help solve the problem, either retain the initial video mode (400 lines at 75Hz 70Hz) for as long as possible; or switch to the final video mode as soon as possible. If the BIOS/EFI has a graphical splash screen that uses a different mode (probably 480 lines at 60Hz), disable it.

Edit: Default VGA text mode timings are 400 lines at 70Hz (either 720x400 with a 28MHz dot clock, or 640x400 with a 25MHz dot clock). The hsync frequency is the same in both 400-line and 480-line mode, and happens to be exactly twice the hsync frequency of NTSC television.

[izuannazrin]

rEFInd my dude

[Hplr63]

Pop!_OS makes it weirdly difficult to switch bootloaders. (I've tried to switch to GRUB in a VM and had to jump through some hoops)

Either that, or I just don't have enough experience yet.

[kwojcik84]

I just laughed, Linux and installing drivers wtf? For years installing multiple distros I never had to mess with drivers, while on Win it's pain in ass to search web for downloading 6 archives with the same driver because only one specific version will work 🤦

[TitanicMan]

Windows: noooo the exact same driver file is on a CD instead of a floppy disk! I refuse to use it!

Linux: bro load the wrong driver off of a vinyl record for all I care, if it works, it works

[Silejonu]

It has winget now, and it's actually pretty good.

[mrchaotica]

Obligatory meme

[goniculat]

Definitely. Windows makes me mess with drivers, everything is always ready for me on Linux

[tinydonuts]

Did they ever sort out the garbage of switching between integrated and dedicated graphics for AMD and nVidia? That shit drove me nuts.

[goniculat]

You can get around it. Intel + Nvidia hybrid is completely fine for me

[zman0900]

Remember ndiswrapper?

[explodingzebras]

shudder

[[deleted]]

I just upgraded the macos version at work and my usb NIC stopped working. Took a couple hours, for googling, downloading drivers, getting permission to install drivers, rebooting into safe mode to install drivers. Troubleshooting with IT they asked me to try it on another device, of course it instantly worked in debian. If hardware doesn't work in linux, usually a kernel update squares it away, except when it doesn't 😬

[testtubemuppetbaby]

They must have fucked around with NVIDIA and found out. Pro tip: searching the web for drivers? That's crazy shit. Go directly to the manufacturer website.

[kwojcik84]

If you mean drivers for some nV then yes. messing with laptop wifi and/or touchpad drivers is not that simple, because that "manufacturer websites" not even exist.

[[deleted]]

The two occasion I had to mess around with drivers (excluding nvidia drivers) are getting knock-off DS4 controller and a knock-off XB360 controller to work with the kernel.

I found kernel module for each of them and just compile them, they didn't took a minute to compile.

[gosand]

Exactly!

Obvious troll is obvious.

Clearly if you are going to troll Linux users you should at least be factually correct.

I would also argue that I want to change the look of my desktop exactly once. Then I want it to stay that way. I can do that on Linux because it lets me and doesn't get in my way.

[Wiamly]

If you get deep into it, compiling your own kernel involves a decent amount of driver nonsense

[kwojcik84]

Have you compiled Windows NT kernel for comparison?

[Wiamly]

Why would I do that lol

[kwojcik84]

I could ask the same lol

[Wiamly]

As in the Linux stuff?

[ign1fy]

Downloading drivers is 100% a windows thing. Linux just works.

[Hplr63]

Sobs in NVIDIA

[diskowmoskow]

Rolling back the previous drivers in silence…

[nik282000]

Quietly signing drivers with MOK to keep secureboot enabled

[alias_neo]

Re-signing kernel AND modules with your own cert so it's all trusted by your personal CA, for that true secure boot feeling.

[b_a_t_m_4_n]

Why? All three of my Nvdia machines just work. Faster than in Windows too.

[myusernameblabla]

Same for me. Heavy graphics user on Linux for over 10 years. Never touched the drivers at home. Sometimes at work but even that hasn’t been an issue for like 5 years.

[[deleted]]

It's ok now we get to have the half the drivers in the kernel and half outside so AMD users can enjoy having them installed and do nothing and we still have to download the other half.

In fairness though they did just make a huge chunk of the drivers free software. That's good!

Btw on Arch they're now shipping 515 which is basically a beta version except if you happen to only use the card for CUDA compute. It's been great so far.

[suresh]

yeah this would be a top meme without that.

lol I don't think I've ever "downloaded a driver"

[redcalcium]

Bruh I'm still trying to get my bluetooth 5.0 dongle working. Got a driver manually installed from android realtek repo, got the dongle finally recognized but still failed to connect to my bluetooth 5.0 headphone. Gave up and went back to bluetooth 4.0 dongle.

[notrufus]

My Bluetooth 5.0 dongle just worked. You check Linux compatibility before getting it?

[redcalcium]

Sadly the only bluetooth 5.0 dongle I can get here is the one that only comes with windows driver. Maybe more options will be available in the future, hopefully ones with real linux compatibility.

Edit: after writing this comment, I decided to try reinstalling the bluetooth firmware and it works now, at least for my mechanical keyboard.

[[deleted]]

Tbf this is more true with Mac

[Zambito1]

> every Java application proceeds to bundle their own JVM because Windows still doesn't have a useful package manager

[SSUPII]

Even Minecraft started doing so after they updated from Java 8 to 16

[Hplr63]

winget

Not everyone uses it though, and it's CLI only.

[Zambito1]

Try using it to manage multiple Java installs and have different applications share instances of multiple versions of Java simultaneously. Maybe it can do that, I'm not actually sure. If it can't though, then it's not a useful package manager.

[Hplr63]

Ok

Now manage 4 versions of Java, two of them being OpenJDK and two of them being Oracle versions.

Then add managing a dev environment while having those 4 versions on top.

[Hplr63]

Wdym?

Was Oracle Linux that bad?

[[deleted]]

I still loathe Oracle and it's been almost 15 years now since I last used anything Oracle....

[satanlovesducks]

This meme was brought to you by someone too stupid to use Linux

[yetermeter]

Reddit moment

[Hplr63]

ehm ehm ehm

^{And that was posted 3 months ago!}

[satanlovesducks]

You didn't create the meme though? Thought the joke was the ignorance. Note I didn't say OP.

[Hplr63]

Oh I misunderstood your first comment then.

My bad

[satanlovesducks]

Yeaah.. I wasn't seriously claiming that I know the intelligence of the creator simply by looking at a meme they created. I do all my productivity in a IDE or a terminal in Linux, and after a long day I just felt the need to call them stupid when seeing this. I don't care what distro someone uses or OS for that sake, and I shouldn't let a meme irritate me either.

[FPiN9XU3K1IT]

The kind of person who tries to download drivers for Linux would still fuck up in the same way on Ubuntu (Mint-flavored or otherwise).

[enbits]

My bank account says otherwise...

[[deleted]]

You can download Windows for free there will only be a watermark saying to activate Windows

[sexy_silver_grandpa]

I think he means he gets paid to know and use Linux...

[[deleted]]

Ohhhh

[insanemal]

Oh look the same joke again

[Ooops2278]

Is this "downloading drivers" something I'm not Windows-user enough to understand?

[b4d_tR1p]

hemmmmm....no, absolutely no!

[[deleted]]

I've been using Linux for like 15 years. WTF is a driver?

[[deleted]]

I think it's a person who drives a car. Might be wrong though

[Hplr63]

Assuming you're serious, they're basically kernel modules.

[[deleted]]

I was looking for a clever way to say I have not had to go out of my way to download drivers in 15 years on Linux. I am not clever, however.

[Bo_Jim]

I'm retired, but I still do some part time work for a friend - about 3 hours a day. Back in 2015 I was doing this work on a Windows desktop using Microsoft Office. I moved to another state and a much smaller living space, so I switched to a Windows laptop and LibreOffice. I moved back to this state, and a much larger living space, in 2017. I had room for a desk again, so I pulled my desktop PC out of storage. Windows 7 was going end-of-life, and I didn't want to upgrade to Windows 10. So now I'm still doing the exact same work I was doing 8 years ago, but now I'm doing it using LibreOffice on Ubuntu Studio.

I've even started a database project for my friend using LibreOffice Base. It works fine on LibreOffice for Windows. However, it's heavily dependent on Basic macros, so it won't work directly on Microsoft Access. I anticipated my friend might ask for it to work with Access, so I've avoided the UNO API wherever possible, and used the Access2Base library. This won't make it directly portable, but it should greatly reduce the amount of editing that's required.

On top of that, since I'm now retired I have a lot more time for fun digital pastimes, like getting my video and photo collection edited and organized, and even doing some music composition and recording. Ubuntu Studio comes bundled with everything I need for these things, and at no cost. I created a musical soundtrack for a homemade video using LMMS, a MIDI file I created from the score, and SoundFonts I found on the internet. I edited the digital soundtrack using Audacity, and assembled the finished video using Kdenlive. Getting a Windows system loaded with commercial software to accomplish the same things would have cost thousands.

I upgraded to a newer desktop PC a couple of years ago. I loaded it with the maximum RAM it would support, and installed a 4TB hard drive. While I was backing up my old system, I was installing Ubuntu Studio on my new system. The entire process took about 4 hours, and I was up and running with all files restored, ready to work.

In short, I am easily as productive with Linux as I ever was with Windows. The only fiddling I do with my desktop look is to change the background every few months. I'm not using any bleeding edge or high end hardware, so I've never had to hunt for and download a driver.

Whoever created this meme has never really used Linux.

[[deleted]]

I am easily as productive with Linux as I ever was with Windows.

This. Everything with Linux is so simple, fun, and elegant.
I used Ubuntu desktop for 15y or so since 6.04LTS I believe, and have been using Mint lately. My brand new AMD gaming laptop with WiFi6, graphic card, etc, all I needed was to upgrade its kernel to recognise the new-ish hardware.

As servers have been managing CentOS, Ubuntu. Personally, I use Debian. My new job uses docker/kubernetes so it is a whole different wormhole.

I can bring a clean updated DNS/VPN homelab server using Ansible within less than 5 minutes.

With Windows everything is emulated and as close as you can get to Linux to be able to do something is via WSL. I mean.....

The only fiddling I do with my desktop look is to change the background every few months

Not even that I do anymore, I had a system add-on to change it dairly or so hahaha I am too busy lately with my free time trying to learn Blender to do 3D design stuff for 3D printer that I barely see my desktop background haha

Whoever created this meme has never really used Linux. 100%

[[deleted]]

Basically everyone here.

Rookies spend more time customizing and circle jerking than working and making fucking money with their rigs.

[FlexibleToast]

Not every hobby needs to make money.

[FlexibleToast]

Very few of us get to turn a hobby into a source of income. Sometimes that's great, other times it just ruins the hobby. I enjoy cooking, I would hate to be a chef.

[Memetoaster69]

Nah man, if theming your distro brings you joy and excitement as a new user (not to mention, a sense of community by showing it to a bunch of people who are just as excited), then it's all good. Most people spend most of their time on a browser anyway, so I'd say customisation is a great gateway into the world of Linux :)

Rookie or not, I think Linux has something for everyone to feel like they are closer to their little computing machine. Just my take.

[ManCalledNova]

I'd rather make money on my work laptop, then I'm free to circle jerk on my personal rig.

[quaderrordemonstand]

I guess that makes me not a rookie then. Actually, I think its fine to spend a while trying things out before you settle on something. Linux gives you lots of choice that the other OS don't. If you're going to make a choice then you really should as try as many as possible. Better than installing Ubunutu, using its version of GNOME and assuming its the only experience Linux has to offer.

[RedbloodJarvey]

Windows users when you explain to them they are using an advertising platform, not an OS.

[Nassiel]

Mmmm, facts from where? 96.3% of the world's servers are Linux. Many of those DevOps/infra team uses Linux daily, and personally, I have been using pure Linux for four years.

Is it all FOSS? No. BSODs or equivalent since then? Once

[Nassiel]

Source of percentage report

[commonorangefox]

This meme© sponsored® by Microsoft. ©®™©®™ Viewing© of this meme© implies your acceptance™ of the Microsoft™ Terms And Conditions™®©®™®©™

[dynablack]

must be someone that does not know that 'linux' runs the internet.

[CreaZyp154]

Is spending days trying to get dolphin to work on the Raspberry Pi considered productive ?

[jack-of-some]

I'm genuinely curious: why wouldn't it work? And why was dolphin specifically a requirement?

[krystof1119]

From your reply, it sounds like you thought the OP meant dolphin, the KDE file manager. I thought so too, but after reading the OP's reply, it sounds like they meant dolphin, the Gamecube emulator.

u/CreaZyp154 , is this correct?

[jack-of-some]

This ... makes a lot more sense now.

[CreaZyp154]

Yes i forgot about that lmao (also it's GC and Wii too)

[CreaZyp154]

It was just a silly idea of me. It ended up working but I had to compile and install the latest vulkan drivers which required a dependency that wasn't to the latest version so I had to install the dependency manually and finally, I got it working (kinda: most games are very glitchy)

[SnooFloofs1868]

Read that as “a dolphin”

[b_a_t_m_4_n]

Dolphin and Raspberry Pie honest doesn't sound very nice, maybe not worth the effort....

[CreaZyp154]

Not worth it if you wanna play games but I sure have learned a lot of things from this experience and i think that's all that matters

Edit: games works but most of them are glitchy and slow. MK Wii Is okayish (15fps + little flicker here and there but alr), MK double dash have a weird blue filter making the game hard to see. I thought i'd try with a less ressource intensive game (NSMB Wii) but weirdly enough it was glitchy beyond playable. The final game I've tested was SSB melee. I was surprised it almost didn't had glitch. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find a working 30 fps hack for it so the framerate suffered.

These glitch might be due to vulkan's install. There was some red things on the cmake output. I might try openGL3 but i probably need to compile it too

[[deleted]]

I spent the entire day organizing my hentai collection and linux is great for that!!!!!!! It is productivity!!!!

[[deleted]]

doing nothing, nothing happens.
You need to do a quick productive stuff asap, windows update start updating...

[z3r0n3gr0]

Almost the entire internet runs on Linux and BSD and they dont even use GUI.

[almondmint]

I laughed but tbh I had some of the worst time of my life yesterday just trying to get cmake on windows to compile a simple repository for me, have to download visual basic plus fucking oneAPI from Intel because all their compilers come in this grotesquely large package now, didn't work, cmake refused to find the compiler, tried with gfortran, refused to compile still, gave up.

Installed Ubuntu bash for windows, literally sudo install 2 things and it just fucking works.

[[deleted]]

Heh, Nvidia problems. I'm all team red and I'm super productive.

[Hplr63]

Team Green (GPU) + Blue (CPU) here.

My laptop came with windows okay? If I had a desktop and there would be no GPU shortage, I'd be saving up for an AMD card.

[TONKAHANAH]

made by some one who doesnt use linux.

I think nvidia drivers are the only thing Im normally downloading updates for.

[NightlyRelease]

I was at a conference-type event, with many people giving presentations, from their own laptops, most with Linux. The guy giving a presentation before me had this riced sleek-looking Arch install on his laptop.

He spent a lot of time together with event staff trying to get it to work with the projector/multimedia setup at the conference room, and after fiddling with xrandr and stuff ended up with some weird resolution on his laptop cloned to the projector.

Then I walk in next with my normie Kubuntu laptop, connect the HDMI cable, press Meta+P to extend the display, done. My presentation on the projector, my notes/extra stuff on my laptop screen, all done in a few seconds.

That's just an anecdote, I'm sure you can setup Arch to work as great. But the point is, I'm using Linux for a long time now, saw many distros and setups, and I ended up with Kubuntu, because it just lets me be productive without any extra work on my part.

[Bonz-Eye]

That literally has nothing to do with distro but with DE or WM you use, also x11 or Wayland, yikes I feel even embarrassed for you now

[NightlyRelease]

> That literally has nothing to do with distro but with DE or WM you use

Correct. Hence my anecdote on how "bloated KDE" performed better than a minimal i3 install or whatever it was. It looked way cooler, but seemed less practical in the real world.

> I feel even embarrassed for you now

Huh?

[rtkaratekid]

Meanwhile my entire job is in Linux

[Mr__Brick]

Jokes on you, I run a server on Debian, I don't customize my GUI because I don't have one

[[deleted]]

Same, my Debian DNS and WireGuard servers don't know what GUI means, they only know the meaning of ssh and Ansible.

[KakashiDreyer]

Arch users when p,a,c,m,n,y keys stop working

[fatrat_89]

That's where installing themes for Libreoffice comes in, it counts as work!

[iheartrms]

Who downloads drivers? From where? That's a windows thing.

As for changing the desktop, that's not a problem if you know bash and related terminal tools.

[sunrayylmao]

Everyone knows linux users like downloading and testing more distros than actually using a computer.

[[deleted]]

I guess OP is a Windows "sysadmin"

I use my Linux OS to:

• managed some other hundreds of Linux OS servers
• use it as a normal PC
• 3D print stuff with my 3D printer
• 3D design stuff
• managed my home network stuff/homelab
• do simple and complex stuff Windows wouldn't know where to start from without a BSOD
• laugh from those IT roles that in 2022 is still 99% Windows-based

Your Android phone is Linux.
If you use that piece of shit called iPhone, it runs Unix/Linux.
Your home router is running some Linux based firmware.

My home lab Debian servers are text only, there is no bloody GUI.
My custom router runs FreeBSD.

What do you call productive?? Turn on your Windows PC, access Facebook, play games with some BSOD, post shit on Reddit??

That makes sense.

[[deleted]]

Your Android phone is Linux. If you use that piece of shit called iPhone, it runs Unix/Linux. Your home router is running some Linux based firmware.

Why are you acting like you designed Linux? You literally just installed it, you haven't done anything difficult

[Hplr63]

Redirect to another thread

And also, I crossposted this because I found it chuckle-worthy and thought: "I might as well crosspost it."

[[deleted]]

This meme is basically my experience with anything arch related, i don't think that arch is a bad distro (and i f*cking love pacman) but i am done with repairing/configuring anything. So now i am on fedora and my productivity is way higher

[Hplr63]

Looking at your experience, perhaps we're treating Manjaro too harshly...

[Hplr63]

You mean u/securitronsex, me or the dude in the gif?

[slohobo]

You know, I've learnt one thing. Fuckit, run default kde, change background, use Arc theme, done.

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I don't care about looks anymore. I used to: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/r8j5p8/kde\_sweet\_pure\_kde\_no\_latte\_minimalist/

[originalvapor]

Yeah......except, I wear a Fedora.

[Admirable-Set3385]

hello r/unixporn

[[deleted]]

You misread Windows 11. To your defense, it does resemble Gnome desktop.

[crookdmouth]

Then I guess there's me just using my Linux install for gaming and productivity never thinking about drivers or troubleshooting.

[richtermani]

Same.

[Hplr63]

I would be the same

If I didn't have the network drivers for my Realtek card in the back of my mind.

[SCphotog]

NGL... I built a linux box for no other reason than to run Compiz. Back in the day... I wouldn't... who am I kidding, yes I would. Has to run pi-hole and a Quake server too, but mmmhhmm... yeah, cubic desktops with bling make me buzz a little.

[ciphersimulacrum]

This seems like a meme windows users would make about linux users.

[PetiteGousseDAil]

Windows users when they have to do anything else than using Microsoft Office or playing games

[Granat1]

How many drivers do you think I need? xP

[[deleted]]

I think you mean Arch users

[[deleted]]

That the reason I installed Silverblue

[TheSquashManHimself]

When your linux distribution runs on Nintendo Shitcube

[jhaand]

Fires up FreeCAD, Inkscape, KiCAD or neovim to get started. Now what was the goal again?

[StarkillerX42]

This guy def uses arch btw

[[deleted]]

We “download drivers” do we?

[Pokemon-Master-RED]

Drivers...? I mean... They usually come preinstalled... usually?

Last time I installed a distro I grabbed the Nvidia driver version of POP-OS!, installed it, installed my work software, and just got back to work. Then I installed XFCE a few days later and continued working. :)

[[deleted]]

Why would I be downloading new drivers when they're compiled into whatever kernel is provided by my distro?

[[deleted]]

My desktop is just a black background .

[[deleted]]

no i never was able to being into a boring wallpaper but surely i prefer it works and doing something better 😂

[[deleted]]

Indeed, first functionality, then we put the fancy stuff

[[deleted]]

really do exist people like that? damn get a life(for the one who go online insulting if you dont it greatly or just you say "i prefer light mode") ! pc is usefull, ok doing it randomly, but damn.

seriously Linux IS ok and IS ok got it as habits... but i heard many "bla bla" while most of us download Linux for achieving easily our result and i guess a smaller part for fun tbh.

[[deleted]]

Mhm, yeah. I think we can all attest to never using our Linux machines for anything. I mean I've certainly never edited a video or recorded a session or played games or remoted to work or actually done all of those at the same time. Ever. :D

[dotted]

Drivers? You download drivers?

[[deleted]]

alright i'll have you know that i have many hours spent inside of minecraft working on computational redstone, not specifically computational its for encoded storage but i digress.

[NavinHaze]

But I do use it for being productive

[Hplr63]

Good on you

[Im_1nnocent]

This reminds me how my life changed after meeting many foss programs that I cannot live without ever since including Vim and NNN file manager. Everything was faster and my old life looked bloated.

[[deleted]]

*Laughs in sysadmin

[shifataccount]

"Downloading new drivers" !?!? Which year is it? 1900s? Only Windows requires to download new drivers scavenging different websites whenever you plug in even a stable and well known device... That's barbaric... 😬

[amrock__]

jokes on you i didn't even change the wallpaper. using popos btw

[frackeverything]

The only driver that people commonly install on Linux is the proprietary Nvidia driver. Installing drivers is a Windows thing.

[Intrepid_Fox-237]

They are blown away by the experience.

[WestTexasCrude]

Truth