LostWanderer

Honestly, pretty cool that they were able to create a working emulator and assembler to interface with this UNIVAC-1219. I got a lot out of it, despite being early on my programming journey. I can’t wait to see what The Science Elf and friends get up to next!

Ah, LLM glazing in the news…Given that LLMs aren’t that profitable, they have to scare people into believing this bubble won’t burst like a bloated cyst.

Yeah, openSUSE Tumbleweed is a pretty solid distro…And really flexible, customizable in the way that approaches Arch without all the headaches that can come with knowing Arch. I don’t even mind the daily updates, it’s just something that people should be aware of. Particularly if they are compelled to be up to date (like myself). There is only a few problems that I’ve had and most of them were because of me. One was because SELinux was being a bastard (but it could be fixed with two commands). Hell, updating using Zypper is probably the fastest way to get them done, I don’t use GNOME software, as it can get irritating to update NVIDIA drivers (as it will ignore my agreeing to the licenses).

I like that YaST Software is a solid way of installing packages and software without much fuss.

Rolling is not for the faint of heart; hell openSUSE Tumbleweed is certainly an update everyday (though they have fairly stable pushes). I really love Solus because they have a designated day of the week when they update and perform tests before pushing their updates out!

Oh they are, better break out the adblocker, as I’ve not seen an ad in a VERY LONG TIME. Resist that nasty Google by kicking them directly in the BILLFOLD. There are other methods like NextDNS, that can act as a better defense against their advertiser arts!

Yeah, well there is a first time for everything! I am the person that any arch installer fails for, EndeavourOS was probably the most infuriating failure…As it wouldn’t automatically set-up my drives and told me to do it manually. I try that and GPT keeps changing my allotted GBs to every partition, it’s a thing for me to find every problem.

Something fundamental must have been wrong with your install and you needed to do a total reinstallation of Ubuntu. As personally I had no issues with that, I was able to install the Flatpak for Warehouse and then used Warehouse to install/manage other flatpaks (I prefer that over installing yet another store).

So you say, but, the installer…Man that thing doesn’t want to work with my system (even with secure boot off). It was the one that had the most failures with not creating a boot record, failing to install the Linux kernel, or the NVIDIA drivers. Other distros have very polished and sleek installer experiences (rarely issues as a bonus). CachyOS, in my personal experience I don’t find it to be a good one. On paper, it is (I did a lot of reading to figure out how to get CachyOS installed).

This is what I always hear, but Arch eludes me…

I’ve developed a deep appreciation for openSUSE Tumbleweed as a rolling release, that gives me more up to date repos for software and packages.

No real struggles save for me being a goose on the loose and doing something “that seemed fine”, but didn’t work like it was intended. ROFL or SELinux being its strange self after an update. That was easy to fix with an auto touch command and a few others (forgot to document).

I was pretty successful doing the terminal commands necessary to make flatpaks work on Ubuntu in recent memory, as out of the box the distro is Snap centric. Its odd you had so many issues on a fresh install of Ubuntu. Oof, sounds like my legendary problems with Arch.

Yeah, Mint requires some workarounds on older hardware. Its possible, but, probably not worth it unless you’ve got a burning desire to use Mint on that hardware.

I am exaggerating for effect, as all of my Arch experiences (never being able to pass the installer without a fatal error or showstopper) are all I know. Its quite vexing that getting other distros installed and configured is easy for me.

I do recognize the power of and capabilities of the distro. Yet, its never been at my fingertips; I must not know the soft, gentle latin curses required to make an Arch install successful.

I even tried to install EndeavourOS and CachyOS. To be met with failure and the need to retreat to another distro.

I’d recommend Ubuntu or Mint for most new users; straight up Debian only in cases when the user don’t need the latest or greatest in terms of updated packages. As Debian is great, I’ve used it as extensively as Ubuntu…

However, Debian is built against older drivers and kernel, making it stable, if not a bit stale.

Ubuntu is a bit fresher with a higher kernel version (packages can still be behind something like openSUSE or Arch, Debian based distro truth). However, flatpaks allow for more recent software versions!

It’s always a matter of time with Arch…Always. Hell, the damned thing wouldn’t install the 4 times that I tried. (checks notes) Failed to install the boot loader, fatal issue with installing the OS, failed with installing the kernel twice. You got lucky, I swear Arch (LOL) hears the mad shit I talk and readies the mortar to blast my chosen installer with condensed malice.

Any other distro and it’s installed within 9 to 15 minutes, then I’m ready to customize…

CachyOS is still going to demand more from you than Bazzite in terms of computer skills…Manual interventions (because the Arch Team cannot help themselves but move too fucking fast). Not like I can complain about that, given I have openSUSE Tumbleweed installed and am in SELinux range.

Bazzite is nice, as it can be as simple or as complex as you’d like!

LMAO Cursing your friends isn’t nice, CachyOS is for those that are comfortable with Linux…And the dreaded Arch.

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Oof, so it wasn’t JUST a problem is in the chair situation for me. I really thought that it was simply me being too inept at the time to, figure it out immediately when on Windows. I’d eventually get it to work but that would require restoring a backup of when audio worked previously. As I didn’t trust sketchy files, my experience having to fix our family PC due to…My parents downloading whatever looked cool, only for it to fill our hard drive with porn and slowing down the PC with too many processes that were collecting data or worse. ROFL

LOL Yeah, I mean Linux has always had audio problems, but I find that I can solve Linux related ones mine faster than on Windows (when I used that garbage). The time it took grew smaller as my knowledge grew. Pulseaudio will randomly shit the bed and take Alsa with it. So about three terminal commands and 5 minutes later my sound is often repaired. It is weird that a billions of dollars sort of company can’t get that shit right or make it a speedy fix at the very least. The troubleshooting tool would take fucking forever and often shit the bed. Touching the Powershell was cursed, but Linux made the terminal a blessed experience!

ROFL Excellent video, very meme worthy and how I think Linux from Scratch actually goes! Also, the casual disdain for GNOME is immaculate (it’s just the most boring desktop that ever lived).

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