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21 days 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.
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.
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.
Why would you carry around your secure password vault in your pocket? #thatsjustdumb
Windows 95b
DK is really small, and doesn’t try to do anything other than manage windows, and has a very simple shell script for configuration. I use sxhkd, polybar, and bemenu (with a frequency script) for everything else that I need.
I ran sway for a few months but it was missing one crucial ability that I’ve grown used to, which is to rotate the windows through the stack.
DK (similar to BSPWM or i3/sway). I have zero interest in “DE’s” like KDE or Gnome, or anything heavily reliant on using a mouse.
Oh no! Anyways …
Not sure why you’d think that though, as the art & music assets are needed by a client, not by the server. They could release the code for both the client and the server, and distribute the assets separately (usually not the kind of thing you want to distribute via SCM anyways).
I do wonder what their reasoning was. Having the code for an MMO client and/or server would make it much easier to write exploits, but it also means community supplied fixes and features. The problem is that people writing exploits/cheats tend to have a financial motivation.