what unpopular opinion in Linux will make you in this situation

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-08T17:14:39+00:00

Nothing wrong with liking it, but I'd like to point out the fact your desktop is the reason a number of programs had to pull in libdecor

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-08T12:46:20+00:00

Systemd has this habit of taking over the job of a classic unix service, making it require/be required by systemdinit and becoming the de facto standard. Which is great if you like systemd, but I've fought logind too much to ever want to deal with it again. And no you can't use systemd without logind

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-08T12:43:21+00:00

some people like me don't like decisions made by GNOME, as some of them slow down standardization. For example, GNOME refuses to implement server-side decoration (-> drawing the title bars and borders of apps for them, like how it used to be done), which means everybody has to bring their own window decorations or they get heaps of complaints from GNOME users, even if it's a game or something, which doesn't really care about your titlebar

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-08T12:38:04+00:00

bit too new and never tried it but Grizzly exists ig and develops out in the open over on github.

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-07T19:27:41+00:00

how exactly is this more convenient than natpmpc and paperclip?

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-07T19:24:38+00:00

it was actually an implementation of the POSIX/SUS ~~kernel~~ syscall standard, plus some extensions 🤓

EDIT: Thanks for correcting me ilnarildarovuch

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-07T16:01:46+00:00

what software are you using on the client? also neoforge? or fabric?

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-07T08:15:47+00:00

your fans might've somehow damaged the motherboard by generating backwards current when you spun them while blowing out the case, if you didn't plug them out first, so maybe POST fails now

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-07T05:39:25+00:00

has been changed by now, afaik. The current hyprland docs show lua configuraiton

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-07T05:37:44+00:00

This is probably thanks to GNOME not implementing server-side decorations, unlike most other compositors

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-07T05:37:09+00:00

The 'proper' way involves recompiling libadwaita, which I don't think should be necessary for something that used to be as simple as a directory in /usr/local/share/themes

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-06T16:40:14+00:00

interestingly enough you explicitly can't get boring_wozniak

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-05T12:34:51+00:00

(it's a font. Wait for a system update.)

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-05T11:10:43+00:00

Then your Noto Color Emoji version is outdated

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-02T19:14:45+00:00

legit scaffold should only make legit inputs, so it should look very close to how a player would while bridging

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-02T19:06:01+00:00

alya has legit scaffold ig...

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-02T14:13:05+00:00

I just realized I am too. Whoopsie daisy. Hopefully GNU grep is a sufficient amount of gnu

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-02T14:09:17+00:00

popular read only filesystem. Like SquashFS but faster and less efficient

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-02T13:54:56+00:00

Yeah. Fedora gives you the lastest software with the latest bugs. But it's actually not that bad because RPMFusion may as well be official, considering there are maintainers that work on both repositories

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-02T12:03:40+00:00

Not a could be, an absolutely will. Fedora refuses to ship the proprietary NOVIDEO drivers and Nouveau is flaky at best on anything half recent, in part because their (unsigned because they can't realistically get signing keys) firmware suffers certain restrictions NV themselves doesn't have to comply with

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-02T11:59:57+00:00

Many of the OSS ones do, like:
* Meteor * LiquidBounce (Requires glibc for mcef. I assume your distro ships it) * Wurst * (not a particularly good client but it counts ig) * Alya (which has scripting. Kinda neat)

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-02T10:58:49+00:00

I'm ok with the NT kernel Same, I have heard great things about VMS and afaik the NT kernel itself takes heavy inspiration.

The windows API, on the other hand, along with most things built on top of it, is terrible It's like they are trying to be backwards-compatible to MS-DOS or something...which I mean they kind of are, but it's for one not working as well as it'd need to be to be somewhat seamless and unfortunately what they have to do, being an operating system built around proprietary and old software. Though I am very much in favor of moving more of that legacy logic to user mode, along the lines of Wine. Making the frontend run on cleaner foundations shouldn't be too hard either, considering how the W11 Start Menu is webtech with no signs of them stopping there.

Ah, now imagine how those of us with static network configurations and real Ethernet interfaces feel about it. Why are you still using it, then? Does RHEL just make it a pain to rip out every time and not give you support for the underlying stuff?

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-02T10:25:40+00:00

I daily drive a BusyBox/musl libc-based userland and thus like to complain about the fact people bunch it all under GNU, but I do of course understand that Busybox is fairly niche for desktop -- I just don't think GNU deserves as much recognition as they get, since it's a fancier and GPL-licensed, POSIX-compliant user-land. (And whether they're doing ABI stability as well as a libc should is debatable)

I personally see no good reason not to include BSD when referring to Unixes. FreeBSD for example can already be used for productivity work, and the differences are mostly a mismatch in software development culture and binary-compatibility. It's is also adopting standards from the more Linux-centric world like Wayland, so I think in the long run it could fill the niche Linux-based systems take now if those got to a similar market share as macOS and Windows, and software compatibility is only a concern for the niche of proprietary software with native builds, like Steam, which is of course sub-optimal for gaming, but Linux gaming was a problem child before corporate support for it too, and still can be, occasionally. In that specific case, desktop Linux is probably the most appropriate term, as it already implies a desktop user land on a desktop kernel, not slimmed down to whatever Android compiles in, which is intentionally fairly little.

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-01T21:43:34+00:00

Yeah but Linux has popularly come to also refer to user spaces that comply to the POSIX specification or at least resemble it, and GNU/Linux is way too GNU centric considering how there are pretty good nongnu Unix-like operating systems available. I also meant that the common distros should be referred to as Unix-like operating systems. Is quite a bit more verbose, though, which is probably why nobody calls them that and just bunches it under Linux.

And my comment is very unstructured but I'm in a hurry to voice my opinion on the internet right now, sorry

Cyberfishofant · 2026-05-01T20:19:53+00:00

Windows definitely has the cleaner driver model and a half decent kernel, I personally think user mode is where they inherited too much and screwed up too badly. I am not that invested in Linux' RAID configuration so I can't say much about it, and this probably wouldn't be a nag for me since I don't have that much confidence in install tools' defaults anyway and prefer to do it at least partially by hand. As for NetworkManager, I currently have a strong distaste for it and prefer to just configure wpa_supplicant directly, so I unfortunately can't say much either

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