The Linux Experience

[UnbornTao]

22 hours ago, kavaris said:

Ha. You into Artix? I know people who are real into Gentoo but, ALas i will never have the time to investigate~anything more than what i wouldve looked at before, Arch & Debian-based, due to time restraints, and the amount of stuff i got going on now. I have done LFS, but that too im not sure i have time to maintain, given the direction ive already started. But LFS is def very interesting too, and i may return to that world someday. Theres just so much i got to do first.

I use Cachy, which is Arch-based. It's working great. Yeah, not much time or desire to tinker with it, although I do have vanilla Arch installed on a VM with Hyprland and stuff. Debian-based distros tend to be more reliable, stable, easier to maintain.

Gentoo is for the real, hardcore nerds, I've heard.

Edited 15 hours ago by UnbornTao

[UnbornTao]

12 hours ago, Joseph Maynor said:

Linux is for the back end.

That's what she said?

[UnbornTao]

6 hours ago, glassfire said:

Linux causes an addiction. I was to learn a lot to feel comfortable on linux because it better supports old hardware. Now, when I am comfortable, I realize I learned too much to return to windows.

Yes, the learning alone is worth it for many, depending on your needs. And there are also plug-and-play options.

[Leo Gura]

18 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

That's what she said?

[UnbornTao]

5 hours ago, Joseph Maynor said:

I guess it depends on what profession you're in.  If you're a programmer, maybe Linux is enough of a front end for you.

You can also just use it on your personal computer, and dual-boot. If you desperately rely on Adobe software, kernel-level anticheat games, Microsoft Office, or any other platform-specific program, then Linux likely isn't for you - unless you're willing to adapt to arguably worse alternatives (depending on the app). For many, the benefits outweigh the costs. But this isn't always the case.

[glassfire]

When I see topics on 4chan about desktops, almost all those screenshots are from linux.
In my opinion, KOReader is the best reader for ebooks, but it doesn't even run natively on windows.
Kodi for linux can run with opengl 2.x; but for windows, can't.

[kavaris]

~part i

The more I got a chance to think about what im tryina capture, as well as what im tryina express through The Unix Philosophy

Its not necessarily about "design patterns or programmatic architecture", or how to code things (though, on Linux that is important given the nature of Linux, and, atleast in its case, the ability to design things in a somewhat complimentary way...)

Rather, its more like, the ability to gain *insight into a system (Linux, and the programs within it, ideally) and to understand those systems. If even its "just enough to use the system", which is what we are really targeting at first, right.

Like its more subtractive in a way, and more about stripping it all down (more like a Philosophy or spiritual practice)

Afterwards, it can then take on these analytical, additive elements, something i kindve think of as "applying even pressure". Applying even pressure around all facets of the program, or the kernel, or around the environment, etc., like you are then applying everything evenly, whether it be "researching" or "updating" or "maintaining" or "fixing an ongoing project..." i mean, there's any countless number of things that is implied by The Unix Philosophy, or the stages that come after the initial 1 Unix Stage (that somewhat encapsulates it... though there is more that i want to say... And those are just the bare basics)

1 Unix Stage
2 Unix Terminal/Shell
3 ...

^Like its something like that, is what im tryina say, atleast from my perspective. I mean, everyone is attacking it from  different point, so you have to acclimate it somewhat from your own perspective, and try to get it to be more Unix-like, Unix in the Philosophical sense we described here (not the Old Unix-literally speaking, as I dont know whats in them old books/articles)

Edited 10 hours ago by kavaris

[kavaris]

part ii

I tried looking for people who, i thought wouldve understood this instinctively (as it seems fairly obvious), cause like i thought this was just everyones assumed mind set, right? But apparently, not many people understood this, or atleast, they couldnt internalize it as such... (def., there is alot, alot, alot of ppl who havent even started on the first like, first literal stage?)

As im not really saying anything different than what actualized dot org is, and its relationship to the self experience, the system, atleast from the very first point of Philosophically delving into the self. I guess thats the problem. I started looking for people, in a world where they wouldnt have already mastered self inquiry, so therefore the fundamentals around the keyboard were also sortve an unknown~atleast on that plane/dimension i was in, which is a long story as to what im speaking to~but you can imagine.

Edited 9 hours ago by kavaris

[UnbornTao]

@kavaris Your writing above feels scattered. What are you trying to say, and why? Who are you writing for?

Edited 8 hours ago by UnbornTao

[Hasson_Miah]

I am using Linux now and my 14 year old cousin installed it for me because my laptop kept crashing and he told me this would help, it did. 

Everytime I boot the laptop Linux keeps asking me for an authentication key which sucks. 

On windows whenever I closed Edge it did not log me out of my google accounts, solved this using Chrome on Linux. 

I tried downloading a screen dimmer for Linux and I have no idea how to install the software after the download it gave me an error. 

Very technical to use but faster than windows.

[kavaris]

2 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

@kavaris Your writing above feels scattered. What are you trying to say, and why? Who are you writing for?

Which one

[kavaris]

@UnbornTao And if you cant be specific, then i cant be more specific, specifically for you. Its a give and take situation. If you want to know what something means, you have to learn how to use the quote feature.

[kavaris]

I guess whats great about Linux then, though i havent really thought of it in terms of really separating it out, given the walls or the ways we fall into our own niche, is that, you are playing w/ a puzzle that, for all intents and purposes doesnt end. I mean, thats touching on the nuts and bolts aspects, w/ regards to how you are throwing yourself into this dilemma~although its a dilemma you can absolutely solve. And then you can take it anywhere you want, i mean, people are def working on it, from the standpoint of what they like, and what they decide Linux should be, what it should do. I personally dont get too deep into it, but you can really build whatever you want, like...

I was using watchamakalit, FVWM95, which i do still have on my laptop, and that was gonna be a project. Like thats one of many projects, and really its like, theres so many ways you can attack it. You know, its like, James and the Giant Peach, and theres alot of ways to bite around it, and surely ive only mentioned a very small area that I happened to be investigating when I started.

I mean, because theres so many ways to view it from, theres too many possibilities and its hard to explain it from any one point~unless presented w/ the right topic/keyword... Like I mentioned "Sound/Audio", and thats like its own separate thing (one of many things). It is its own project. Some areas have been more built up, over time, and some areas of Linux are still a little behind. Like sure, the Desktops, for the most part (And last time i checked) they were a little behind. Its another project, another place to investigate, to try building it the right way~where its not all sketchy (there might be better Desktops out there, i dont know, Again im living in 1990 probably)

Im just following the little voice in my head that told me someone was interested in Linux, so I continued said broadening of said interest.

Edited 5 hours ago by kavaris

[kavaris]

2 hours ago, Hasson_Miah said:

I tried downloading a screen dimmer for Linux and I have no idea how to install the software after the download it gave me an error. 

Theres a few options that could help w/ this, the most obvious thing being, if you havent updated your package manager, as itll error out the packages cause of the package database not being sync'd w/ everything. I mean you might know that by now. Its jus good to remind people anyway. Try it if you havent though.

Edited 5 hours ago by kavaris