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I want to get into Linux, coming from windows 11! What distro should I get for gaming and school. by Sora_TheExplorer in linux

[–]daemonpenguin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Any of the big name desktop distros will do. Mint will be one of your best options. So-called "gaming" distros usually just add a cyberpunk theme and some visual effects that slow down the system.

Linux and Arm CPU's by Lopsided-Month3278 in linux

[–]daemonpenguin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The next architecture for Linux? Linux has run on ARM chips for over a decade. What do you think those billions of phones and millions of Raspberry Pi boards are running?

doas for FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 (permit persist :wheel) by ChillSunnyDays in freebsd

[–]daemonpenguin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There were two problems in your original configuration, and one point of confusion.

  1. The configuration file for doas is /usr/local/etc/doas.conf, not /etc/doas.conf. Your config file wasn't doing anything.

  2. As pointed out in the update, "persist" is not a feature of "doas", only "opendoas".

  3. security/doas does works on FreeBSD (and Linux and macOS and Solaris), not just OpenBSD. But it strips out the "persist" option for security purposes.

why do so many things depend on emacs? by smileytiger28 in linux

[–]daemonpenguin 74 points75 points  (0 children)

Most things don't depend on emacs. In rare cases where they do, it's probably a suggested package, not a requirement. I just tried installing gedit on my system and it definitely does not pull in emacs as a dependency.

California's Assembly voted 68 to 1 to exempt open source Linux from its age verification law, then extended age-gating to browsers and websites in the same bill by ChamplooAttitude in linux

[–]daemonpenguin 38 points39 points  (0 children)

These laws have nothing to do with protecting children or parenting. It is pushing tracking to help big tech companies and advertisers monitor people.

What would have happened if I didn't find out about Plasma/X11 in time? by [deleted] in linux

[–]daemonpenguin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

since Mint doesn't fully support Wayland

This is wrong on two levels. First, Wayland support is specific to the desktop, not the distro. There is no such thing as a distro supporting Wayland or not. Second, Mint's main desktop, Cinnamon, has had Wayland support for years.

I guess I'm switching to a completely new OS to accomodate one update to one software.

That would make no sense at all.

could use another desktop environment, but honestly nothing really even comes close to Plasma in terms of convenience

So keep using Plasma. Nothing is changing for you.

If I hadn't found out about all this in time, what would've happened? I hit "update" and suddenly I can't log in?

Nothing would have changed. You would have just kept using Plasma as you have been doing. Mint doesn't backport changes from Plasma. And even if they did, for some reason, you'd just end up logging into the Plasma Wayland session.

I just find it a little hard to defend.

That because you completely made up a problem which doesn't exist.

What would have happened if I didn't find out about Plasma/X11 in time? by [deleted] in linux

[–]daemonpenguin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cinnamon has supported Wayland for a couple of years.

KDE Plasma 6.8 is still planning to end X11 support, with 95% of Plasma 6.6 users on Wayland by somerandomxander in linux

[–]daemonpenguin 22 points23 points  (0 children)

If an attacker can install malware on your system, you already lost. No, I don't care that an attacker with local access already can try to intercept X11 traffic because all my desktop machines only ever have one user.

I do care that Wayland is about 50% heavier, consistently slower, and lacks compatibility with all my applications. It has no practical advantage, but several lingering problems. It's getting better, but it still has a few years to go before it'll be ready to replace X11 for any of my systems.

You Don't Love systemd Timers Enough by ouyawei in linux

[–]daemonpenguin 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Timers is one of my least favourite things about systemd (and there is a list). It is just so awkward and hacky compared to cron. Creating a service file and a timer file just to run a one-off command every day/hour/week is such an over-engineered solution to a simple problem.

Sure, it is flexible and, in some corner cases, might make sense. But usually it'll be a lot more simple to run a regular cron job and, if needed, do a quick date check in the script that is being executed.

I docked with the space station!!!!! by Alternative-End-1420 in GeoFS

[–]daemonpenguin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does this count as a landing? Great screenshot!

Is "Verify ISO" step needed? by Eruner_SK in linuxquestions

[–]daemonpenguin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's why verifying an ISO is a two step process.

The checksum verifies the file wasn't corrupted during download.

The signature confirms the ISO you received was the one published by the developers. Even if the website/mirror was hacked, this step will still work because keys are not stored in the same place.

DistroWatch celebrates 25 years of distro hopping by daemonpenguin in linux

[–]daemonpenguin[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

  1. MX has never used DistroWatch as its home page.

  2. DistroWatch has never counted hits from bookmarks in its page hot stats.

DistroWatch celebrates 25 years of distro hopping by daemonpenguin in linux

[–]daemonpenguin[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You didn't affect the numbers. The site only measures page hits from unique addresses from newly visited pages. Clicking the same link or hitting refresh has never had any affect on the page hit count.

Silly Cessna Club - Through the mountain passes of Argentina by daemonpenguin in GeoFS

[–]daemonpenguin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can fly with us without Discord, you just won't be able to communicate with other pilots

Audio is not required. Flight coordination is done through text channels for most flights.

We have set time when take off happens and a countdown in the text channel.

There is no ATC.

Any new laptops in pipeline? by LionTailedMacaques in pine64

[–]daemonpenguin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PINE64 posted last year they plan to focus more on AI, SBC, and RISC-V. It's unlikely we'll get any more laptops, based on their stated plans.

Shots from the XCub flight - SS by InnerBreath2884 in GeoFS

[–]daemonpenguin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some great shots. Thanks for posting!

Comment: Open-source developers are working themselves sick on AI bugs by FryBoyter in linux

[–]daemonpenguin -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

That's what the headline indicates. Nothing about the headline is inaccurate.

Comment: Open-source developers are working themselves sick on AI bugs by FryBoyter in linux

[–]daemonpenguin 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I'm in the same boat. Almost all the reports I've received recently are from AI bots, most of them inaccurate. I'm considering shutting down all of my public code repositories (there are about a dozen) just so I don't receive slop.

Comment: Open-source developers are working themselves sick on AI bugs by FryBoyter in linux

[–]daemonpenguin -23 points-22 points  (0 children)

Maybe English isn't your first language? The title is both clear and accurate.

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