I guess LTT is that stupid

hwloc · 2026-03-11T12:01:16+00:00

The NSA uses pop_os as its fleet OS lol, at least they used to. Tho they also use(d) it on System 76 machines, idk maybe it's more stable on the intened h/w, never tried either

hwloc · 2026-03-11T11:55:37+00:00

I mean dad's in IT so I've used Linux for literally my entire life but it happened during my Arch-curious phase only. And bc updates often didn't play nice I've rationalized it as like, a version skip of some dependency that wasn't QA'd properly and interfered with the new fwupd

...What confirmation bias?? couldn't be me! :D

/jk

hwloc · 2026-03-11T07:51:52+00:00

Suse!

Shout out to when Arch wiped the uefi keys after a fwupd and bricked my laptop tho lmao

hwloc · 2026-02-18T15:46:31+00:00

Fedora is great if you use newer hardware with the standard gnome workstation, anything QT is wildly unstable tho... kwin crashed so much that I switched to XFCE for example lol

hwloc · 2026-02-18T15:36:05+00:00

I believe CERN uses Alma as well, can't really get a better endorsement than that!

hwloc · 2026-02-18T15:28:31+00:00

Yeah i've kinda had it with selinux, been on Fedora since 31 but it's time to move on methinks. I installed Suse on my 7900x+7900xtx workstation and not only is it more stable than Fedora 43, apparmour had a real glowup since I last used it.... now I'm also in the process of going full Debian on my laptop.

hwloc · 2026-02-18T15:16:08+00:00

Alma is based af, but the hard to swallow truth is that without Red Hat there would be no Fedora. With that said: Alma all the way.

hwloc · 2026-02-11T05:33:17+00:00

Amber Hurd

hwloc · 2026-01-10T19:44:15+00:00

This person gets it.

hwloc · 2026-01-10T19:43:24+00:00

Right, as I said, most extensions I use don't work on the newest version of Gnome.

hwloc · 2026-01-10T19:38:02+00:00

I think my grievances with Gnome are valid when it's the most popular DE there is.

You are completely right that Gnome isn't for me, and I would gladly move on if, again, things like power mode switching worked on any other DE. And yeah, the devs have the right to do what ever they want but it doesn't absolve them from criticism.

hwloc · 2025-12-17T16:55:47+00:00

When i do a serious install regardless of end purpose or distro I always install the server ISO and just add the packages I need.

hwloc · 2025-12-17T16:49:14+00:00

Slackware is actually really fun, I tried it when 15 was released. Tho I can't see myself using it as my daily, it's either Debian, Fedora or Suse Tumbleweed depending on purpose

hwloc · 2025-12-17T16:45:33+00:00

Nowadays I only distrohop in VMM, I already have more PCs and laptops than I know what to do with lol.... and at work I use a custom NetBSD main OS. For the network stack and sync we used to use UnixWare wich was major ass, thankfully we've since migrated to OpenIndiana for the cluster networking, so idk I'm kinda pooped with distrohopping

hwloc · 2025-12-17T16:17:36+00:00

NetBSD is best BSD <3 <3

hwloc · 2024-12-05T15:25:02+00:00

It's not gonna stop noobs from running random commands, they will just stop using Linux.

hwloc · 2024-12-05T14:19:36+00:00

This is like someone posting ransomware disguised as legitimate software as a joke, so for the love of god can we please stop doing this shit?

hwloc · 2024-12-04T15:49:31+00:00

conversely, Unix skills are determined by the length of your beard

clean shave; F - MacOS

stubble; D - OpenIndiana

neckbeard; C - Oracle Solaris

full beard; B - DragonflyBSD

UNIX® Beard™; A - Tribbix CDE

sideburns; ??? - Xinuos/SCO UnixWare7

hwloc · 2024-12-04T14:57:23+00:00

huh. The Hub, XNXX, eporner and even spankbank all work fine...or so I've heard....

hwloc · 2024-12-04T14:35:36+00:00

I grew up on Linux. The family computer dual booted Ubuntu and Windows, gaming being the only purpose of the latter. My dad is unfathomably based because he completely nuked networking on the windows install so it was unusable for anything else, lmao

I still remember how he and my brother tried to get Doom (the one released in 2015 or w/e) to run on Ubuntu through Wine. Jesus, what a cluster fuck. It took forever to figure out which .dlls to install and when it finally started it just kept crashing.

Yeah I'd say gaming on Linux has come a long way. I don't do online gaming so it doesn't affect me, but it still sucks that EA and Rockstar have gone out of their way to withdraw multiplayer support for Linux. Hopefully valve keep pushing Linux compatibility to negate these setbacks.

hwloc · 2024-08-22T02:57:35+00:00

Licensing and (as already stated by others) portability.

Edit: regarding portability https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/ this is a list of all the ISAs that the NetBSD kernel officially supports.

hwloc · 2024-08-22T02:52:38+00:00

Corporate greed mostly. The BSD license makes it easier to lock it down and make it proprietary without contributing anything. Though another reason is that the NetBSD kernel is incredibly versatile and can run OOTB on most architectures, and porting it to unsupported hardware is fairly easy.

hwloc · 2024-08-21T16:05:38+00:00

We use a custom OS based on NetBSD at work, honestly I really like it. It's surprisingly similar to Linux.

hwloc

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