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Seriously guys...I came here to get away from you. You have ALL of Mastodon for this
Y'all have Desktop Environments?
Y'all are still using xorg?
I am definitely going to need my morning coffee. I see the word "Y'all" and I'm somehow thinking "shouldn't it be Xall if we're taking about X11? Wait what's wrong with my brain"
professional tip for those who decided to rock Debian on a laptop with two GPUβs.
Envycontrol will take the headache away from manually configuring your xorg & xrandr, trust me, compared to the Debian documentation this will save you hours of your life.
...who... IN THE FUCK!!! Reads Debian docs?
Arch are the true Linux docs, maybe Gentoo docs, worst case Ubuntu forums.
Run a ton of Debian, only time I check their docs is when I'm trying to remember what the current stable release is called.
I do that. Why not? Best source on Debian specific stuff.
mandb -su | man man
Can it force apps to use iGPU when dGPU is on? It's one of the things I miss from windows and couldn't figure out on linux
I still remember the old times before xorg.confs were modular. The truly hard times.
I was there, Gandalf, I was there when the modelines of xf86config failed...
I remember when /bin/sh was the default shell, when you had to build grep from source. LILO was our bootloader. Dmesg was our seer. We made fire from a friction drill. Knapped our own blades from flint.
Simpler times.
... I don't remember building grep, nor do I remember a time before bash.
Are... Are you God?
I was there when the dark magic was written. In the time before git. The shell had not yet been born again.
The great wizard Stahlman still held sway in the high court, his Gknights of Gnu were just building their kernel. Lo gaze upon their mighty works and see they lie in ruin.
Torvalds was the true vanguard, he lead us to build the mighty kernel, to reverse engineer the binary blobs, coax the meaning from machine code, a thin line from serial to stdout.
No heirarchy but those inherited from the libraries. User space was our land, ~ was our home, #! was our flag. No gods, no masters, only code.
Genuinely curious. When was your first time touching Linux/GNU?
'94 but I was on Usenet (actually probably not usenet but definitely one of the "readers") when I heard about it first. That would've been around '93. Me and a buddy were pretty nerdy and his dad worked at Bell Labs and they got a couple floppies. That was my start. It was just the kernel and Gnu Utilities. Literally Linux+Gnu. Shortly after that I grabbed SLS Linux, that became Slack. Then Debian, I was in the listserve when Ian would still answer questions and fix bugs. I hope he's found the peace now he was searching for in life.
I've contributed to quite a few open source projects over the years, nothing foundational. I didn't really know anybody from the old old days. Just a geeky kid lucky enough to have a computer and a modem at the time. I am very privileged to have grown up when I did and where I did.
I don't envy the kids coming up now. Completely abstracted away from their systems to the point where they actually think it's magic. I had a very junior engineer ask me how to print a pdf the other week at work. I can't imagine how modern education and tech have failed them. I hope I'm wrong but it feels like LLMs are talking away curiosity and hacking. I'm sure that's just me being a crusty old bastard though.
Speaking of I've been having fun playing around with this as of late.
You'd need to have access to the prompt tooling, or worse yet the RAG, otherwise you're just hoping that a user feeds your email into an LLM. The hidden ascii though, old tricks are new again.
I'm close, 93 also I think, slack on a 386.
Got stuck in vi, had to reboot.
Remember thinking how awesome 6 virtual consoles were. I think my tmux addiction came from there.
Lol! I thought vi was genuinely a new layer of the OS, like an embedded console. Ended up creating 10 files containing exit, or quit, or ^c, until I hit the escape key and the cursor changed....then I rebooted from frustration and actually read the man page. The controls are all from this dumb terminal keyboard that had useful decals on them. That's where navigation with kjhl came from and :q to quit.
https://pikuma.com/blog/origins-of-vim-text-editor
Rage quitting vi/vim really is a right of passage.
Remember ed?
Funny how vocal Wayland haters used to be until they tried Wayland.
I mean, there was a point in time, quite some years back, when I had to do up modelines, but Xorg can generally handle things without an xorg.conf.
It has improved, but most developers working on Xorg have moved to Wayland. I'm not saying Xorg isn't still useful at times, like forwarding over SSH, but Wayland has more isolation & security considerations, which can be seen as both an advantage & limitation. However, Wayland compositors have implemented most controls & protocols now to fill in the gaps.
Do you really think ppl don't break their wayland setup? For example, some systems don't get a mouse cursor in wayland umless they switch the cursor to software rendering. To do that, they must often set an env var for the wayland process, but there is no standard way to do it. Half of them starts tinkering with their PAM and the others with their .profile . Sometimes this breaks every way to log in.
I'm sure some people do, but for the most part it is much better than X in that regard.
Dunno. Me and a friend had issues with Wayland, so we switched to X11 and that's already like forty percent of Linux community.
Every config: get it to a place that works and create a .WORKING backup copy
A new Linux meme? I don't believe it
I felt this one.
Me too. π€£
Me, yesterday, tinkering with remote desktop.