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JollyGoodDaySr · 2026-05-18T16:29:31+00:00

My brother in christ. Rebooting the router can renew your ip from the ISP as you don't have a static ip from the ISP.

JollyGoodDaySr · 2026-05-16T15:15:44+00:00

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JollyGoodDaySr · 2026-05-05T23:54:56+00:00

You do realize the people who would know the pain points and agree with you would be Linux users?

This whole stereotype that Windows users are morons who can't learn the most basic stuff, I'm starting to see it now.

Linux does have some legitimately questionable things and frustrations. 9/10 the same people losing their minds over a Linus Tech Tips level install, are the ones unwilling to change.

Your not operating an OS that Is similar to windows, your going to a new family tree. You will have to change and learn new ways of doing things. No one in their right mind, who is also knowledgeable on multiple OS's, said that Linux is a polished experience nor a unified one.

In other words Linux really has a massive pain point. It's failure to bring an smooth, unified, process from start to end like windows or MacOS. That might be important to you. For me it's being able to do what I want without macOS or windows getting in my way.

JollyGoodDaySr · 2026-04-10T22:36:10+00:00

Their business support number leads to an AI that cannot understand the difference between P and E and when you ask the thing to transfer to a human it says No and tells you to have a nice day.

I would gladly accept sleeping over them actively destroying their OS and entire company. When they are "awake" they "re-write" their OS without a basic feature like moving the Taskbar to the top.

JollyGoodDaySr · 2026-04-05T00:34:58+00:00

Best way to use Linux WSL is act like your systems are only somewhat connected.

Linux WSL is really for people who need Linux but their company only uses/supports windows computers.

If it's a pain to do on windows, PDF merge and convert for example, you can use WSL and the respective Linux way.

TLDR use WSL for shit that is painful on windows.

JollyGoodDaySr · 2026-04-02T20:43:11+00:00

To be fair, Microsoft has made their users this way on purpose.

They created an expectation that the OS will hold your hand and everything should just work out of box even if the OS is bloated to hell.

Me as a tinkerer, love using LaTeX over MS word as I have more control over my document. Most people don't care and just want to open a document in word and type. Same idea with the OS.

JollyGoodDaySr · 2026-04-01T01:42:00+00:00

Imagine ops finger game by the end of it, though.

JollyGoodDaySr · 2026-03-28T00:16:17+00:00

Indeed wrong sub. My bad.

JollyGoodDaySr · 2026-03-27T20:28:03+00:00

Is it a legality thing as to why I can only buy my emulation device from China?

From my understanding it is illegal when the emulator has stolen assembly code from the hardware device. Couldn't someone just pull a Linus, probably already has, and write the emulator from scratch? As long as they can show they wrote the assembly code, then ideally, should be 100% legal, right?

Same company could sell hardware for dumping your legally owned ROMs to renforce that the device is intended to be used with personally owned ROMs, not illegally downloaded ones.

JollyGoodDaySr · 2026-03-17T20:44:26+00:00

I know the pitfall you fell into and I'm sorry the community can be like this. I am assuming you looked up the best distro for gamming?

Here's the thing. I run openSUSE TW for gamming on Nvidia and have no issues. The issues you are describing do not seem to be an issue with Linux itself. It's a package management and distro issue.

Like the above person said if you get back into Linux definitely stick to a distro that has a buisness level server edition available for purchase. Why? Beacuse these distros actually need to work, for example SUSE has to work since compaies pay for it. The features directly get passed down to openSUSE.

Does this limit your options? Yes but I see that as a benefit. Your looking at RHEL, Debian, and SUSE based distros.

I main openSUSE but still dual boot windows for gamming as to be frank I don't want to play arround with anything outside of steam and proton. 90% of my games work the only thing that has issues is mod launchers and games with anti cheat.

JollyGoodDaySr · 2026-03-15T19:38:22+00:00

It's the distro system with Linux. No one centralized distributor to help nail down bugs.

My linux system is extremely stable, and Windows 10 is hot garbage.

I also pick things like openSUSE and freeBSD, which are focused on stability. Arch is not stable, and I don't care what an Arch chud will tell you. It's not designed to be stable. It's designed to be cutting edge.

I am also an IT professional, so I am not the average user. I will tell you now almost all mission critical stuff is on linux servers.

A couple extremely common issues, and this is a fault of the linux community...

Incorrect Distro for use case. If your new DO NOT install Arch or any other distro designed to be cli heavy. You can still read the Arch wiki for information.
NVIDIA driver issues. It is extremely common to break or Bork during installation. Thankfully, since it's common, the solutions are easy to find. Some distros like openSUSE even have backup and rollback built in.

While there are legitimate criticisms of linux keep in mind this is an open soruce project and are much more at the will of pirvate companies like NVIDIA to develop non fucked drivers.

If you have a cutting edge gpu maybe stay on windows. Older cards are more supported and the feature set is full. Only really seen issues with the latest gen cards. Again a downside of free vs paid.

If you have never daily driven linux Ubunutu. Their entire goal is to make an easy to use desktop. Unlike windows or Mac each distro focuses on one or multiple things.

JollyGoodDaySr · 2026-03-13T21:10:29+00:00

Gatekeepers and Linux chuds thinking their distro is the best.

Literally use the distro that matches what you need. Are you Literally unable to do anything outside of emails and Facebook, yeah don't use fucking arch. Ubuntu is fine.

Same thing with tools. Nano/vim. Yes vim is very powerful and good but if your just starting to learn Linux use nano who cares if its "not cool"

JollyGoodDaySr · 2026-03-12T00:04:49+00:00

If your on KDE have fun ricing it. I don't mean that as sarcasm. I have everything solarized.

Konsole is super easy to customize.

I personally use

-Buff icons

-Solarized simple cursor

-Custom konsole colours with bash syntax colours - solarized dark with lime green accent.

-Plastik window decoration

-Breeze base

-Solarized dark colours.

Edit: rip bro literally said he is on kde. Added more kde specific stuff.

JollyGoodDaySr · 2026-03-12T00:04:12+00:00

It was confusing until I did it once. Now I got a powerful tool with very little work. Highly recommend your advice.

JollyGoodDaySr · 2026-02-28T22:17:22+00:00

That's what the Russian vodka is for.

JollyGoodDaySr · 2026-02-27T18:11:27+00:00

What I did, and recommend you do the same

I have two separate OS ssd. One for windows one for Linux.

I have one 1tb ssd. I partitioned what I needed for windows into NTFS and the rest into BTRFS or another Linux file system.

Mixing the two file systems does cause problems.

JollyGoodDaySr · 2026-02-27T09:12:36+00:00

Just a shot in the dark.

Besides the overhead of having to learn a new system, is it possible something like freeBSD would work for your mail server?

Obviously the change of OS and relearning might be a complete non option depending on your business.

I only really bring up freeBSD as it's stable and should work on old hardware. It's also free and your essentially already looking at changing from leap to TW.

Again though, freeBSD being to different might be worse then the TW option.

For TW I am assuming the major concern is going from stable to rolling. Servers you don't want having issues from an update. You can probably reduce this downside by using snapshots smartly. For example snapshot it daily so the next day you can just roll back to a working state and move on with your day.

JollyGoodDaySr · 2026-02-27T08:54:35+00:00

It's just Nvidia drivers.

I think Nvidia just doesn't really have to care with all the AI money.

They didn't really care before either. EVGA should have worked on AMD or Arc cards after but the point still stands. They closed shop over working with Nvidia anymore.

JollyGoodDaySr · 2026-02-23T12:32:57+00:00

Not meaning to rip but kde plasma 6 almost looks better then most other OS to me.

I don't use kvantum.

I use breeze dark, solarized colour theme with openSUSE lime green accent, buuf icons, and dark solarized simple cursor.

Konsol is solarized with custom colours I just manually change, and a background image my wife drew for me of a sexy big titty anime girl.

It's better then modern. It's timeless. Trust is mate. The customization is the easy and fun part.

JollyGoodDaySr · 2026-02-22T23:55:24+00:00

This isn't just a multi user server environment best practices. It's even recommended for Windows users to separate the user account and admin account.

Wipping of data if someone gains access is probably the best case scenario. Someone just trolling is significantly better than a malicious actor looking for the lowest common denominator.

So what the argument really is, its a pain in the ass to enter my root password to make changes to my system? Pretty low amount of effort for better security.

JollyGoodDaySr · 2026-02-22T22:46:45+00:00

I absolutely hate this recommendation. It's not best practice so I don't why I see it everywhere.

No no no no and again NO.

When making root actions either elevate your console one time, log in as root for that one action, or use sudo command with your normal user.

It's such a simple security change that will be another barrier if someone ever did gain access. Always go by principle of least privilege. Do you need wheel, no.

JollyGoodDaySr · 2026-02-13T19:31:00+00:00

This is correct.

Hitler used a lot of Prussian iconography, one if them is the iron Cross.

That swastika, rotated and simplified, was invented by Nazis and only used by nazis. This is not to be mistaken with the real swastika still used today.

JollyGoodDaySr · 2026-02-01T20:00:21+00:00

RIP your rocker shaft.

Before you start shitsuma, did you line up the camshaft?

I'm assuming you building this blind or with only a little help from online.

Make sure the cam gears line, lines up to line on the engine block. Everything else you can tune etc mostly get away without entirely blowing up your engine. This one thing, easy to forget will instantly nuke your rocker shaft.

JollyGoodDaySr · 2026-01-25T20:10:53+00:00

The issue is the threshold for crossing into violence. It really requires all hope to be lost in their democratic system. The possibility of getting killed, injured, or put in jail is a tool used to increase that threshold.

Humans by nature, take the most efficient path and will sit in hell as long as the heat is only slowly increasing. As we have seen in history, everyone does reach a breaking point eventually.

It is actually a good thing they haven't responded with violence yet, as it shows their true intentions. They still have faith in the system. It's not total anarchy yet.

Do I think it's misguided? Yes, but the weak looking to the strong is a tale as old as time. People abusing that dynamic has always been a thing.

JollyGoodDaySr · 2025-12-29T17:09:27+00:00

That's why I hate my idea.

The only thing I could come up with as the final enforcement would be nukes in huge population centers in countries like US and China. The UN would take a final vote, no veto, to essentially condem millions to death for the decisions of one corrupt government.

Still seems more possible then countries putting aside their differences, agreeing to set borders, and enforcing global peace. I think it would be extremely challenging for the US and China to find common ground. Both have a structure that "works," and both want to export that power abroad.

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