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The best one is where the install size is negative that peak joy.
I'm glad I'm not alone in this joy
And the system gets quicker!
I love looking at my NixOs rebuild result (using nh) and seeing -50MB.
... Then I remember I'm on nixos and it doesn't matter much
Don't hate, but I actually like the GUI update manager in Mint. Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
That just runs apt and prints it nicely to you
That is exactly the sort of behavior every gui should do.
It's so simple but it's huge for normies.
Oh, I'm well aware. It's just that sometimes I like a cushion on my chair, you know?
Exactly what I expect it to do!
The key here IMO is that you decide both when and how.
No such option with Windows, but if you like the GUI and are used to using that, I don't see why anyone of their right mind would have a problem with that.
Personally I prefer to open a terminal and press the up key so I don't have to type the command again, it takes 30 times until I get to the correct command, so it's clearly slower, but hey we all have our little quirks.
history | grep
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You can do reverse search but Iβm too lazy to remember the sequence right now
ctrl R then type
Never tried history | grep though. Thanks for the tip!
Oh thanks for this. I've been using history | grep $something for the longest time, but i always end up copy pasting the actual command cause i didn't remember how to invoke the number, and copy pasting is so quick that you end up never looking up how to do it properly lol.
I had the problem that all old kernel images were kept when updating through the GUI updater. This led to my root partition getting fuller and fuller*. I needed some really obscure commands to remove those old images, since then I only update via terminal. I guess it was some kind of bug, but for me as a standard user it was a really serious one.
*I need to say I made the mistake of splitting root and home and giving the root partition only 40 GB, because I read internet advice's about needing to change my distro frequently, turns out that was not the case
I do believe it's not just one of the things to keep getting better, it's a blueprint for the things we want to build in the future. From software to society. More individual participation, less corporate involvement, zero corporate ownership of essentials.
My current enemy is the stranglehold of corporate OSs in the mobile space. That really really needs to go for good.
I agree, however, rather than individual participation, I would say Linux represents a victory for the collective spirit. Yes Linus has spearheaded the kernal development for years, but without all the other contributors sacrificing countless hours, Linux wouldn't be nearly as successful (and ubiquitous) as it is. Linux demonstrates that we, as a community, can come together to work towards something we know is good and right, without the drive of monetary gain or social recognition, but just because it's fun, or fills a need, or helps us learn.
That's one of the biggest reasons I think Linux is so evangelised on Lemmy specifically: because it epitomises the power of collective altruism in a world increasingly dominated by corporate greed.
Ive said that Linux turned tech and computing back to fun for me, after hating interacting with computers and devices more and more. Linux is just fun to learn and rewarding.
Sometimes I have to remind myself how horrible locked down maliciously coded OS's are and how good I have it with Linux.
The thing with Linux is that it's 100% freedom. It lets you do whatever you want with it, there's plenty of tools that facilitate customization and management.
By contrast, when I use windows at work I often find it won't allow me to do what I want.
"What do you mean that's not possible?"
exactly. That and being forced into stuff I don't want. The amount of times i've about exploded in anger at windows forcing updates on me that make everything worse..
For someone living in linux for a while, interaction with windows is simply infuriating.
Returning to Linux reminded me that devs/tech people have a good sense of humour. Like the old days.
Gave me a chuckle that pacman launches pacmen(?) to nomnom for progress. Love it.
Promise: "Linux is cool! You can update and just use your running system while it handles it, then restart when you feel like it!"
Reality: "Heehee Linux is cool...wakka wakka wakka wakka wakka wakka wakka..."
.....Cβ’ β’ β’ β’ β’
Windows got so bad that Linux attracted genuine user base. 10/10 marketing from Microslop
Poor zypper gets forgotten again!
Zypper is the Gen X of package managers.
Free as in freedom. One of the last living things from the hippie movement, by the people, for the people.
I unironically pacman -Syu'd today and it broke 3 applications that depended on ffmpeg (yes it did update ffmpeg correctly) all from official repos
Tried to build them all from source for like an hour but the compilation also fails, ended up symlinking the libavcodec.so into it's previous' version name and everything works again with zero issues (who designed this shit?)
You sure the guys running pacman are sitting on the right hand side of the bus? Seems a bit more like they should be in the back doing a skill check for luck and rolling a d20
Can't say I've been happy with the direction that Ubuntu is going, but at least I can still do regular security updates on my old af Ubuntu release without fearing that it will randomly decide to upgrade to a new major release. Plus, there are still plenty of distros that are just fine, and switching is only as annoying as a reinstall.
I troubleshoot linux for a living but it doesn't hurt to know other OSs ...
Windows has had for a while third party repositories like winget and chocolately that work just like our beloved repos.
I think the two I mentioned recently joined and renamed as "uniget"
I think this is true of open source more generally.
In the long run there's no way that the actual desires of humanity can be out-developed by an extremely privileged group of front-runners, rent-seekers, enshittifiers, etc. (eg. proprietary software)...
Eh, you'd hope. I can't definitively say why this happens for now, but I'm seeing a surprising amount of "little bugs and quirks" seeping through, more than it used to. And that makes me worried.
I'm so glad with making a decision to escape the Winslop subscriptions at every mouse click.
At least until the AI slop updates don't reach the kernel (at least they're banned from some parts of it).
Linus was openly not-anti-slop recently, so I don't have enormous amount of hopes.
I know this is a Linux community and therefore we love to hate on Windows...
but for anyone that hasn't used Windows in a while, they actually finally implemented relatively decent package manager in the form of "winget". When you add the wonderful UniGetUI on top of it you get a pretty good experience.
It had issues early on with consistency but the last ~year or two has seen it get a ton of improvement. It's much more reliable than it used to be.
Obviously "it's about goddamn time" and it doesn't hold a candle to mature package manager like what's available on Linux.
But if you've not experienced it before, and are forced to use Windows sometimes, it's worth checking out.