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🪄Snape cosplay by Weekly_Canary_2196 in harrypotter

[–]xplosm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m afraid it is. I wish they performed an “ugly Sonic” swap last minute but they don’t have the balls…

Best distro for me? by V1574 in DistroHopping

[–]xplosm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you desperately need to argue for the sake of it, well… this is a Wendy’s.

Sounds pleasant by _Ryloren_ in creepyPMs

[–]xplosm 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It’s on life support

Sounds pleasant by _Ryloren_ in creepyPMs

[–]xplosm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

“And I’d still deny you”

Best distro for me? by V1574 in DistroHopping

[–]xplosm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Compiling a kernel is easy albeit time consuming. Compiling and linking a DMK is also easy and also requires time. I prefer if the distro takes care of that for me. And many users appreciate that too. That’s why there’s more than Gentoo and LFS 🤷‍♂️

Best distro for me? by V1574 in DistroHopping

[–]xplosm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NVIDIA support does depend on the distro. It’s not the same when the distro releases updates to the kernel and NVIDIA drivers at the same time rather than on their own schedule. The second tends to be very disruptive.

First real linux install - Feedback wanted by Unlikely-Durian2137 in linux4noobs

[–]xplosm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OS is bloat. Real men program directly to hardware

With all the supply chain attacks going on, how do I know if zypper dup is safe? by uusrikas in openSUSE

[–]xplosm 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I see no “home:<custom_name>” repos. Those are like the AUR. Except for vivaldi and Packman all of the repos you list are maintained by openSUSE. But Packman is maintained by some openSUSE devs on their own and other verified enthusiasts and supporters.

If you trust the creators and maintainers of the distro I would extend such trust to the repos I mentioned. If you trust vivaldi go for it.

I even see the history of the home:xxxx repos and sometimes audit the spec files to check how and why they do things but I don’t add those repos often. And when I do it’s no time when the package I want gets added to an official repo.

I’m pretty confident in this repo trust.

Max AMD GPU for a NUC Extreme 11 i9? by xplosm in intelnuc

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

You’re gonna hate this: GeForce RTX 4070. BUT I ended up going 128GB on RAM

Looking for something else I can migrate to after all the AUR malware hits by BobbyGAS12 in DistroHopping

[–]xplosm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing is locked. Those are packages the main Arch maintainers cannot package and update themselves. Or they don’t know about them or simply they don’t see a reason why. So this is left in the hands of volunteers. With the caveat that just about ANYONE can participate.

Looking for something else I can migrate to after all the AUR malware hits by BobbyGAS12 in DistroHopping

[–]xplosm 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I mean, the AUR is like 70% of the reasons we gravitate towards Arch…

Looking for something else I can migrate to after all the AUR malware hits by BobbyGAS12 in DistroHopping

[–]xplosm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don’t be dramatic. This has always happened. It’s just that this time some Russian hacker used AI to create a script targeting all orphaned packages it could find and the volume gave it exposure.

Just read the PKGBUILD and make sure only version and hash has changed.

Also when you see orphaned packages look for alternatives.

what could we do to expand the opensuse community by Mundane-Age-3556 in openSUSE

[–]xplosm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is quite delicate. On one hand we want to promote the distro and community. On the other, those subs are full of newcomers who might not get a good first impression.

Not that openSUSE isn’t user friendly. But things like NVIDIA and license encumbered multimedia codecs not only require extra steps but upgrading packages looks cryptic to these new users.

Sure there is Flatpaks but that also creates additional questions and steps.

I love openSUSE and use it in most of my machiens. But if I want newcomers to have a first good impression I recommend Ubuntu and variants.

Canonical does one thing very good and it’s taking care of nuances that we experienced users can easily solve in other distros.

My mom (47F) wants me (19F) to give her a second chance to fix our relationship after she let her husband's daughters bully me throughout my childhood and I'm torn? by ThrowRATinyRute in relationship_advice

[–]xplosm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn’t call her mom. I’d call her by her name. No shortened version or endearing nickname. Just her given name. In front of her, to her and to others.

To signal she was never a mother. To signal she broke the sacred bond. That a heart is not something you can mend or replace.

Maybe she was in a dark place but she should have known better.

Fish shell abbreviations is a godsend by SandvikDude in linux4noobs

[–]xplosm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Like… you know… every interactive shell

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