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I hate these. They have nothing to offer except a cleaner install and steam preinstalled. Convenience is a valid reason to create a distribution (perhaps overkill but whatever). However, the issues I have with these “distros” is that afterwords, they are buggy messes. They basically pull a bait-and-switch on the poor user who was told it was as easy to use these distros as Windows. The community really needs to stop championing them as much as they do. But I’m only speaking from isolated experience; what do you all think?

He’s an extremely intelligent guy, just got married! Anyways, a while ago, he was at a family dinner, and I was talking to him about Ayn Rand. I had already read the fountainhead (and really liked it), and was talking to him about Atlas Shrugged, which I had just began reading. He told me he liked Ayn Rand, but that young men often got caught up in her books, and start accepting everything she writes about fervently. Now for objectivism, that’s fine, but he had an issue with her treatment of the family unit. He argued that her writing at success at all costs with total disregard to the family unit was incorrect, and actually a net negative for the individual and society. He argued that these parts of her philosophy were influenced by her youth, where she apparently had… an abusive relationship or a weird family or something? He never went into detail as I didn’t ask. What do y’all think?

wait how do I do a poll

anyways madthumbz on one side tomekgolab on the other. who do you pick?

OK! In order! (sorted best, 10:23 AM EST)

1. Being a dick in public
2. pun
3. unreadable tech meme
4. engagement farm
5. I yap and have social anxiety and it's funny
6. useless rice (wiggly windows)
7. wall of text (+ firecox vs chrome)
8. weird meme (this one wasn't bad it just wasn't funny at all)
9. "I'm autistic"
10. clever subversion (it's a pun) (+ wall of text)
11. narcissism and elitism (+ terminal)
12. unfunny
13. their linux broke cause of nvidia
14. pattern recognition (Although this one was funny cause I think it's actually tux)
15. hannah montana linux (they call this peak funny)
16. use linux for clout
17. larp
18. admission they can't stop fucking their linux shit and they had a better time on windows
19. ok meme but just not funny at all
20. this one was funny! they got GNOME'd! r/gotgnomed

It's so much of a coal mine that it's West Virginia. Does anybody have any better subs to look for linux memes?

I made a post criticizing gnome, and asking people not to criticize linux because of gnome's failures. In the post, I mentioned kde twice. I said "everything is better than gnome", and since kde is in the subset of everything, I also implied KDE was better than gnome (in terms of non-bugginess? yes, probably.). I had no idea about the shitstorm those words would spawn. The post is deleted now.

Why did everybody dogpile me? While some discourse was good, it seemed a whole cabal of gnome users immediately went on attack, assuming that I was only putting down gnome to make kde look better! Even though I only mentioned it two fucking times in the whole post! Look, you can use hyprland, kde, mangowm, i3, openbox, xfce, whatever! Apparently, people saw that list, singled out "kde", and immediately blew their top. They made people like bleak21 and madthumbz look sane.

When there's a post a week here about a gnome issue, I thought it was worth making a post about. Apparently not. I felt like I was on r/linuxsucks101. It was totally disheartening.

I like gnome. some people have issues with the UI. Not me. It was the first thing I used when I tried linux. However, there's a weekly post here about gnome.

My post wasn't a great post, it's true. Looking back, I did the classic loonixtard victim-blame. I was definitely too harsh on gnome. That's on me. Both that statement and the fact that the utter rage in the comments was unnecessary can both be true at the same time.

We stooped to r/linuxsucks101 levels of idiocy. I'm praying this post doesn't get the same hate. I can't take it.

Gnome is shit. Everyone knows that. Running gnome, fucking shit up, and then blaming linux is akin to… hmm… can’t quite think of a windows example… oh well. The point is, you’re running shit software, and this isn’t linux’s fault because there are two ways to get gnome on your system:

a.) install it manually. There is no reason to do this. GNOME has no monopoly at all, and every other option is better; especially KDE

b.) use an installation ISO to install with gnome already there. This only applies to Ubuntu. The reason why is while some distros may offer a gnome ISO, there is, always, a KDE ISO next to it.

DELIBERATELY AND KNOWINGLY choosing worse software that holds a minority of desktop share is insane. Most importantly, it’s your fault. Not linux’s

I think this is a symptom of a deeper issue in the linux community, that for both camps it’s their way or the highway… I’m anti-systemd, but only for age verification and total dependency, I’ve never hated it because it does too much. It’s a piece of software, and therefore does what the devs coded it to do. However, being only a piece of software, I don’t think programmers should always assume it’s present, in general, software should be as standalone and compatible as possible. I think there’s a reason things like POSIX, OpenGL, Vulkan, the linux kernel to some extent, and other open-source libraries and standards that are meant to be universal are considered gold. From what I hear online, I think it’s valid to say systemd does not follow that philosophy (this is not a “muh UNIX philosophy” argument, nobody even knows what that is). That’s fine, that’s the devs’ design; however, it’s obviously up to people to decide whether or not they want to use a piece of software designed w/o that philosophy, and to use it for such a core part of the system. The issue begins when both camps begin expressing such dislike for each other. I’m kinda getting a general idea that the reason this feud exists is developer of a low-level software goes “we’re tying this in to systemd”, and the anti-systemd community goes “why? shouldn’t low-level software be more compatible? I don’t believe it’d be more difficult to add support for other init’s too” and the feud is spawned from that. Some examples are flatpak… wasn’t it called flatpak 2? seems silly in my head, correct me if I’m wrong, plasma’s new login manager, and other low-level software that I think shouldn’t be so dependent on systemd (I’m biased). I don’t think it’s be that much of a struggle to add support for other init’s too.

This isn’t an assertion post saying systemd bad, like another well known member of this sub ;-). I’m asking if you think I have a good opinion, or where I’ve gone so woefully wrong. Please let me know!

(please don’t compare systemd to the kernel. They’re low-level, and swapping them out will lead to varying levels of success, but that’s all they have in common. It’s a false equivalence.)

I'm trying to code a library for accessing external resources, and I figured the best way to do it was with Uniform Resource Locator syntax (URL ;-) . However, I've run into an issue that's made things very annoying:

-- lib.lua

functable = {

  ["https://"]

}

So yeah... I'm trying to create a package manager like nix, but with a few different design philosophies. However, I keep recreating things nix already does from first principles, which surely must be the highest praise possible for nix :-)

I'm serious! Here's some examples:

• should (my version of) nixpkgs be an attribute set?
• hmm, implementing this in a library is much smarter... wait that's just builtins/stdenv!
• how should I control source? I know, flakes! (actually I stole this one intentionally)

and many others. I've barely even started and I've already figured out nix is pretty smart!

After dealing with nixOS, I finally got tired of not having the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS). It makes low-level packages much more difficult to package. This, compounded with other issues I have with nix, such as the language, make me feel like I could make an alternative. I've decided to create "bend" (feel free to offer better name suggestions in the comments!)

I've created and deleted ~/bend/ twice, because I know doing this could be a monumental waste of my energy. I'm not new to that either; I used to be into OSdev and never made anything at all. Now, I've created ~/bend/ for the final time, and I plan to follow through on it. I'm not experienced in lua at all, and before I settled on it, I thought of other options like YAML, JSON, Guile Scheme (like guix), and some other ones before I settled on Lua.

Here's the plan:

• Similar to nix, one file calling other files shall dictate the whole system. It will also be reproducible
• Unlike nix, there will be almost zero abstractions. This is to remedy all of the documentation issues I've had with nix.
• Perhaps the biggest benefit against nix, the nix lang will not be used (obv ;-)
• Packages will be written in lua

Most of these, you may notice, are semantic changes only. Not these:

• Bend will not avoid the FHS
• Bend will utilize mount namespaces for almost all packages to ensure reproducibility
• Every package will have options you can set, like nixOS
  • unlike nixOS, every package will have options. The won't be declared in seperate files
• Bend itself will be written in lua. this is an intentional feature in contrast to how nix is written in C++
• more will undoubtably be added. For instance, if I created an OS out of this, I would attempt for it to have init freedom. However, that's so far into the future it's not even worth considering right now.

Now, I've already said I'm not experienced in lua. I picked it up a day ago because I really want to do this. Now, this sounds terrible, but don't worry! There's even more reasons I shouldn't do this!

• making a package manager is a huge, vast, and extremely unwise undertaking
• the devil's in the implementation details
• I'm not sure how much community support this would get
• I have other projects I'm working on. Maybe this could be a side project? If I make the time?
• nix isn't actually that bad, really
• THIS IS A TERRIBLE IDEA

However, I feel the need to do this.

In advance, maybe I can offer the answers to a few questions:

• open source?

you betcha. please give it a few months though, there's literally nothing right now. I've been brainstorming for the past few days, and I finally have a rough plan. this is only an announcement that I want to make to say that I am beginning development.

• will this project be here in 6 months?

that's a more difficult question. I sincerely hope it will. If I give up, I will make a post detailing my failures and why I stopped. I don't plan on letting it slide into oblivion without a fight.

• related: is this AI slop?

AI will be used in a strictly advisory capacity, and will not be used to handle code. AI might be used to help debug issues, but the solutions it offers will not be copy pasted, and might even be ignored entirely. No fix will occur until all parties thoroughly understand what went wrong, why, how to prevent it from going wrong in the future, and how to fix it when it happens again. Then, humans will write a fix.

That being said, there should be a few exceptions. I would constitute these exceptions as boilerplate, miniscule code blurbs, and one-off errors. That's it. I hope that is strict enough. If you don't think so, please let me know in the comments!

• I mean, Nix isn't that bad. In fact, it's revolutionary. You're probably using it wrong

The first two statements are true, and the third one is probably true :-)

• can I help?

This announcement is not a job listing, and I half-expect to be heavily mocked for this whole post. However, if you REALLY want to, and I notice that (I'm sure this won't happen) a lot of other people are actually... excited for this project and also want to contribute... well, I guess I could put the code on github and open pull requests :-)

• there are so many issues with your idea! I mean, <issues 1, 2 and 3>

Nobody is more unaware of these issues then me. Please, let me know where I've gone so woefully wrong in the comments!

• bend is a terrible name!

I kinda like it... but trust me I'm open to better names :-P

• even if this post gets only four views, will you continue with this project?

Absolutely.

• hey what about this? <questions 1, 2 and 3>

If I left out any answers to your questions, please, leave them in the comments! I will try my best to answer every comment!

On a final note, when reading about lua and the first 8 or so chapters of the PIL, I've kinda come up with an image in my head that lua is... almost an absurdly powerful language. I mean:

• witten in ANSI C (an absolutely incredible design decision imo)
• lambdas
• scoping
• the garbage collecter
• easy interface with C
• Everything is a table
• multi-paradigm
• first-class functions

it's kinda crazy to me. DON'T LET THIS DERAIL DISCUSSION!

I think they’re being intentionally dense at this point :\

I think my granny could do better at linux than them. Seriously.

Corsair Carbide Series Air 540

I'm looking for a case, ATX, similar to this. I mean, look at that, it's beautiful. Only issue is it's pretty old in '26 (which isn't an issue in itself but it means I can only find expensive ones off eBay!). Are there any cases similar to this? Let me know!

(I know they kept the series going but really I'm looking for the aesthetics of the size and how cool that front panel looks!)

white is good too! =]

So, I've been having this issue with vscodium that is not present in vscode; vscodium seems to be completely unable to find header files, and I have never been so infuriated in my life with a piece of software. Someone, please, for the LOVE OF GOD help out!!!

so at first, vscode had the same error. However, and handy little note popped up that said: "hey! please run > configure intellisense to fix this" (paraphrased) and it immediately fixed this

Proper finding of header files in VScode

here's the same thing in vscodium, with clangd installed:

First, just look at all these garbage header files. Also notice &lt;stdlib.h&gt; cannot be found. stdio would do the same thing too.

Second, a good example; it can't even find string.h

I looked in the nix support discord, and found this! (it did not help)

HI NobbZ! He's here too! (I think he's in my attic too I'm kinda scared)

I tried his offered solution but to no avail. So FINALLY: can somebody please, help me out with this? I'm going bananas :(