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12 hours agoIt’s really not. Python virtualenv, Steam, libvirt, composer, krita, vulkan, zed, zoxide, systemd, etc. ~/.local is the domain of various installed packages, not my hand crafted scripts.
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If I hand write bash scripts, or for those single binary downloads, they’ll go into ~/bin. ~/.local is already used by a ton of packages. This helps a ton when it comes to backups or for just finding where I put stuff.
My ~/.local is
283 GB, it’s where podman/docker/etc put containers, it may as well be a system managed folder at that point. My ~/bin is only120 MBand is a lot simpler to backup/restore/sync to other desktops.
I keep a list on my backup partition:
$ cat packages.list appimagelauncher base-devel aws-cli aws-session-manager-plugin bat bob direnv discord docker-compose dog dotnet-sdk erdtree eza fastfetch github-cli httpie k9s krita kubectx lazygit mariadb-clients megacmd minikube mpd mtr mumble nvtop obs-studio ollama-rocm qalculate-gtk restic siege speedtest-cli steam terraform tig timeshift-autosnap tree-sitter virt-manager virt-viewer yazi yq ttf-jetbrains-mono-nerd ttf-liberation ttf-meslo-nerd-font-powerlevel10k ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-common ttf-roboto wine wine-gecko wine-mono winetricks playerctl php php-gd php-sodium streamdeck-ui speedtest-cli zoxide zsh ripgrep fd dry-bin kitty xdotool tmux tmux-plugin-manager sublime-text-4 trash-cli
It also has a good cli interface for mass processing via scripts.
I’m not saying you’re entirely wrong, but holy crap does that ever come off as a whiny and entitled sentiment.
I have a 3090 in one machine and a 7900XTX it my primary desktop. Pretending AMD “works fine and has no issues” is pure hogwash. When I primarily ran the 3090, I had no issues other than than the same standard ones I had with AMD (tearing in Xorg without picom, hardware playback in Youtube, etc).
Every person who parrots “AMD good Nvidia bad” is the same type that believes “if it ain’t open source, it sucks”, and usually is in the “I run some gaming focused, Windows-like distro so I can play my non-open source games” camp.
All I want is a simple questionnaire when someone signs up. “Would you run Linux on your desktop if it didn’t have Steam/Proton support?” that would just lock all you XBox lobby/Windows refugees into a LinuxGaming community.
Are GPU drivers reliable on Linux?
As long as you’re not using Nvidia.
removed please.
Nothing good ever comes from ‘mainstream adoption’ though.
If it works for somebody else, let them.
If it was just another method of distribution I wouldn’t care. When it becomes the only or preferred method, then I care.
If market share is your only metric for success, then I don’t know what to say. Look at the amount of threads/people stating “this basic thing didn’t work so it had to be the distros, switching distros solved my problem rather than trying to diagnose it”. Your idea of a “net positive” is a group of computer-illiterate Windows users who are now computer-illiterate Linux users, congratulations.
And Gentoo? I remember drobbins from when we were on the Stampede Linux team and he was a dick then, apparently he still is. I wouldn’t touch Gentoo with a 10 foot pole.
Native, Containers, Appimages. Flatpak not in a million years.
I really don’t know how to feel about all the Mint/flatpak supporters. It feels like a swarm of Windows refugees that have no interest in learning about the existing culture.
Flatpaks, Gnome, KDE, they’re all just bloat. Back in the 90’s, Unix/BSD/Linux were everything that Windows wasn’t. Fast, stable, infinitely flexible. I cherished grepping for Exim config settings in /etc rather than searching through 250 management console tabs for MS Exchange.
I run Arch and nearly everything I need is available as a package or in the AUR, except for the real niche apps that I can grab via cargo/pip/npm/podman. Occasionally however I find some app I’m interested in and they only support Ubuntu or Flatpak, and I feel like it’s getting worse so it’s not like I can just ignore it.
I just use restic to backup my home (to a local disk as well as weekly remote syncs). Then whenever I switch distros I just restore the files I want.
3·11 days agoThe Hyperion Cantos, all 4 books. Stop wasting money on Dune reboots and make something good.
22·16 days agoLinux has plenty of users who appreciate it for what it is, not how you can make it look and act like Windows. Linux doesn’t need those people.
Personally I’m tired of people telling disgruntled Windows users to switch to Linux.
Linux is not your backup plan, it’s not a “Windows alternative”. Yes, there are projects out there that try to make Linux easier for Windows users, and honestly they can fuck right off. Way too many people are trying to dumb down this incredibly powerful operating system to expand the market into the “gamers” and the “grannies who want to browse the web and send e-mail”.
Just… just stop.
31·18 days agoAs a web/devops dev, I 100% agree with your statement. I use GitHub Copilot in Neovim, Zed, Emacs, most of the time it just finishes my sentences or generates comments/docblocks/unit tests, I’m not using it to generate features.
On the flip side though, the company also went all in on Microsoft Copilot, and holy fuck it’s obnoxious trying to use Excel or Outlook with it shoving itself into your face every time you try to do something. And I have no way to disable it.
Are… are you pronouncing “Arch” as “ark”? I guess it is a weird word, seeing as “architecture” has a hard C, but “look at the arch on that doorway” does not.
11·22 days agoI went from Endeavour, to Arch, to Manjaro, to Void Linux, back to Endeavour over the past 3 years. I use restic for onsite/offsite backups, and man does it feel cathartic to pick and choose which dotfiles you want to restore from backups.
Also the first time I ran Arch, I had tried to switch from systemd-boot to grub and I must have messed something up, because frequently (enough) when
paruwas doing a kernel update I would end up with a hang into an unbootable system that required fishing out a liveUSB to resolve it.Much like uninstalling applications in Windows leaves shit in the registry, pacman can still leave mud in various places.
That being said, I don’t think I’d do a re-install into the same distro however.
Bawk bawk BU-CAWK! – <chicken>
I have a ZSA Voyager and my escape key is on my left thumb, beside the space key.
For the life of me though I can’t imagine why anyone is still using CAPSLOCK, vbU.
Or you know, they could just be Israelis. Israel has compulsory military service, along with countless other countries including South Korea and several other western allies. Good job being outraged though, you’re really sticking it to them!