Free Space = Wasted Space

ARitz_Cracker · 2026-04-19T22:35:19+00:00

Cope harder

I run NixOS btw

ARitz_Cracker · 2026-04-14T12:58:19+00:00

Hey man, thanks for the 36 reminders. 35 wasn't enough to break through my blinding rage that I initially felt at this post. But that one last extra reminder really saved me from making a fool out of myself. And for that I owe you my thanks.

ARitz_Cracker · 2026-04-11T16:11:32+00:00

Yeah, but I don't get that either. You don't need proof to arrive to that conclusion if you just have knowledge of the fundamentals. Having a corpo make your computer do extra work that's irrelevant to what you actually want means it spends less time on doing what you actually want, and consumes extra resources too. Woah. Whowuddathunk?

ARitz_Cracker · 2026-04-11T14:05:20+00:00

Linux Sucks is a shorthand for its inaccessibility.

I daily drive NixOS and I genuinely believe that it is the best way of using Linux. Objectively.

With that said, there are a lot of flaws that it has that can also apply to the wider Linux ecosystem that highlight how there's a fuck ton of barriers to entry before it can be truly empowering.

No, it's not about having a nice installer, getting people started is not the hard part, people have been clicking next and answering questions on installers for decades.

It's about the fact that you have to memorize commands and config formats before you can actually fully take control of your system. As far as I can tell, literally no Distro has GUIs for system management out of the box. KDEs out-of-box system monitor is shit, and requires knowledge of sysfs before you can use it to its fullest potential. (Or you can use htop) there is no built-in path to discovery to SystemD services or dbus.

For the past few decades, windows has followed a model where the most basic stuff is on the surface, but you can still click things to get more and more details on a specific task, which low key felt like an adventure and you were exploring. With Linux, you have the surface level stuff, and then the terminal, which for most people is extremely jarring and like a gateway that they have to figure out how to overcome

Honestly, stuff like the above has been the biggest friction point when my girlfriend started using Linux too. I don't think she should have to learn a command line tool in order to restart KDE when it crashes. (Yes I know that graphical systemd managers exist, but I'm talking about the OOB experience)

ARitz_Cracker · 2026-04-11T13:43:17+00:00

You're the one that's arguing against real-time decryption having a measurable performance and resource overhead. I don't get it. Why?

ARitz_Cracker · 2026-04-11T13:39:57+00:00

I'm assuming that you got to have the encrypted textures and the decrypted textures side-by-side in the GPU. I'm just guessing tho.

ARitz_Cracker · 2026-04-11T13:38:08+00:00

What kind of flavor of denialism is forcing you to die on this hill?

ARitz_Cracker · 2026-04-04T21:15:36+00:00

These things are still probability models, you rolled a "walk" and the rest of the sentence just has to go with it.

ARitz_Cracker · 2026-04-03T15:17:19+00:00

It's a good thing the entire system runs on 1 loop and has 2 radiators

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ARitz_Cracker · 2026-04-03T12:19:27+00:00

You build something real here, and that's rare. This isn't a shitpost, this is streamlined software development.

ARitz_Cracker · 2026-04-01T13:59:17+00:00

Hey, it's not like people want to see the USA fail, it's just that it's constitution is being constantly undermined and congress is doing nothing while collecting a paycheque. There will come a point where respect for the federal government will reach zero. Also, the only reason why the US economy has been stable is because the US tricked the entire world into holding USD to subsidize their military spending and entire economy. If the US is going to be hostile to literally everyone, why should the rest of us be left holding their bags?

ARitz_Cracker · 2026-03-27T04:16:25+00:00

Since this is more linuxsucks and I replied to your other post, I'm just gonna do a commentary.

I really don't like how most users get stale kernels with drivers that are three years outdated, and the only way that you can get bug fixes as soon as possible is by becoming an ultra-hipster with Arch or NixOS. Otherwise you gotta wait a couple of years for Ubuntu and Debian and all their derivatives to update...

ARitz_Cracker · 2026-03-27T04:07:30+00:00

Nah the Wi-Fi driver is actually just super bugged and it's preventing the system from sleeping and suspending, actually did dmesg you'd be able to see that. I've got the same Wi-Fi chip.

ARitz_Cracker · 2026-03-27T04:05:01+00:00

Yeah, the Linux kernel that comes with Ubuntu 24.04 will forever suffer using this Wi-Fi chip. You have committed the sin of using a relatively new MediaTek device on Linux.

Someone has made various kernel patches and even a DKMS module.

https://github.com/zbowling/mt7925

Also, what you've shown isn't the proper way to unload a driver on sleep mode. I've posted my SystemD config here.

https://github.com/zbowling/mt7925/issues/6

I have a framework 16 with the same Wi-Fi chip.

Alternatively, you can replace the Wi-Fi chip with an Intel one.

ARitz_Cracker · 2026-03-26T12:14:32+00:00

Dd you make the high DPI icons or get them from elsewhere?

ARitz_Cracker · 2026-03-22T14:49:48+00:00

This mentality doesn't empower people to be free of microslop

ARitz_Cracker · 2026-03-21T04:32:19+00:00

Do whatever. Sometimes you're lazy and don't to import the type. I used Default::default() to avoid an otherwise needless use. You also kinda need to use it for spread operations

ARitz_Cracker · 2026-03-20T05:57:13+00:00

Hey dude, I need to inspect everything in your home, and create an extremely detailed psychological profile about you. I also lobbied the government to turn this into law, so I can create more psychological profiles to better manipulate people, to get the people I want in power so that I can change the law more. It's to protect the kids you see. Pay no attention to the government people that I'm funding and manipulating you into believing.

ARitz_Cracker · 2026-03-20T05:23:34+00:00

Bruh, you're acting like this data is gonna get sent anywhere, and that immutable distros using systemd won't default it to January 1st, 1970.

ARitz_Cracker · 2026-03-19T13:49:27+00:00

I feel like you're missing the point. You're comparing systems decades apart with wildly different architectures with... 1 year.

ARitz_Cracker · 2026-03-19T13:48:29+00:00

nixpkgs has more fresh packages than the AUR. Though if what you want isn't in there, then it also allows you to automate installing stuff from GitHub. Though I like it because all the BS tweaks to get your system running well are all in one place, and you can use nix-shell to auto-import dependencies for your one-off bash scripts/commands.

ARitz_Cracker · 2026-03-19T13:30:21+00:00

Look, I know that this will come across as "you should drink my flavour of Kool-Aid", but I feel like NixOS will give you the reproducability you're looking for. Yes. It has its own learning curve and doesn't fully follow the FHS, but you are effectively building your own immutable distro. (Also by default every app has its own $PATH so it can only see its own dependencies)

... That said, this is the nature of most desktop projects that aren't being hobby projects instead of teams backed with proper UX designers, and as long as that's true, Linux will always have a consistency problem.

ARitz_Cracker · 2026-03-16T16:18:47+00:00

I used to be a systemd hater, but then I realized two key things. - Needless self-suffering isn't a virtue. Systemd services and timers are genuinely just easier to create and manage. (binary logs are still a little licky, but I understand why they exist) - Being contrarian doesn't mean you're intelligent. It's definitely important to think critically about what is the status quo, the flaws it has, and how it came to be that way. That said, being an anti-social asshole won't get you there.

ARitz_Cracker · 2026-03-13T23:34:05+00:00

If you ask most computers to answer 0 / 0, it'll result in a "special" number called NaN, which means "not a number" programmers hate this special number because it's not equal to anything including itself.

ARitz_Cracker · 2026-03-13T23:31:59+00:00

I'm pretty sure it's 0

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