Any other Linux users here? And has anyone fully migrated?

[diapered]

If i remember specifically in dolphin's case it's related to it's internet and device features, i think the wiimote support also needs some deep access too but i don't remember why.

OHHH ok, I can see needing to support peripherals like a wiimote needing wide access: bluetooth modules etc. Which I think would fall under device access, but it probably needs even more. That does make sense.

 

[ShanaFlameHaze]

Yes, I used an old laptop with Debian for 2 years straight as my only computer.

I was just using it for VScode, browsing and watching anime though, never played any games on it.

For these tasks, it was really fast and reliable. Windows would barely run on that old thing.

 

[ObscureJigglypuff]

Sorry for derailing the thread
But i want to fully
migrate
to
death.

 

[SpikeSlania]

Sorry for derailing the thread
But i want to fully
migrate
to
death.

Well, then we have good news for you! There's a distro that should meet you requirements called "Suicide Linux" that will delete itself if you make any mistakes in the terminal!

 

[diapered]

Damn you made me realize, all of the flatpaks are potentially unsafe here. I truly live on the edge, I guess.

More like livin on a prayer!

But seriously, I am now completely in love with Garuda and one of the reasons is I have not needed a single flatpak: everything I have needed builds with absolutely no issues. Even desktop zoom! (ugh, yes I need it for work) I was stunned! It works better than the flatpak version on my manjaro machine! I guess that is the benefit of Arch, it is as rock solid as you can get O_o

The Garuda assistant is great! I let it handle updates and no breaks (been using for about a month now) and I feel it is taking care of everything to make Arch easy to maintain. Have not had to use cl at all! I have been using octopi as the software manager and my only complaint is that it is not as "clean" looking as pamac on manjaro. Yes, I know I could install pamac, but since that is developed for manjaro, I didn't want to. Regardless, octopi works great, so install that during setup (the installation also has a nice helper) if you want to take garuda for a try.

I know endeavor was also recommended in this thread (or maybe other?) but I feel like I don't need it. From what I understand, less gui tools and not as user friendly and I am already happy with garuda. Makes me sad to let manjaro go after all these years, but garuda

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

More like livin on a prayer!

But seriously, I am now completely in love with Garuda and one of the reasons is I have not needed a single flatpak: everything I have needed builds with absolutely no issues. Even desktop zoom! (ugh, yes I need it for work) I was stunned! It works better than the flatpak version on my manjaro machine! I guess that is the benefit of Arch, it is as rock solid as you can get O_o

The Garuda assistant is great! I let it handle updates and no breaks (been using for about a month now) and I feel it is taking care of everything to make Arch easy to maintain. Have not had to use cl at all! I have been using octopi as the software manager and my only complaint is that it is not as "clean" looking as pamac on manjaro. Yes, I know I could install pamac, but since that is developed for manjaro, I didn't want to. Regardless, octopi works great, so install that during setup (the installation also has a nice helper) if you want to take garuda for a try.

I know endeavor was also recommended in this thread (or maybe other?) but I feel like I don't need it. From what I understand, less gui tools and not as user friendly and I am already happy with garuda. Makes me sad to let manjaro go after all these years, but garuda
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Ah but maybe you missed the joy of using the Arch install script tho... XD. I also really like Arch and AUR packages. Garuda looks dope. What do you use for AURs? Yay?

 

[Yousef Yousef]

Me, kinda. (I use arch btw)

 

[SpikeSlania]

But seriously, I am now completely in love with Garuda and one of the reasons is I have not needed a single flatpak: everything I have needed builds with absolutely no issues.

Now build Sonic Robo Blast 2 without a Flatpak :p One of these days I will learn how to properly configure .exe fan games. Though when I end up playing FFXIV again will end up going Flatpak instead of Lutris route since the Flatpak has an option to auto log you in without having to input your password every time. I might be going to CachyOS again sometime soon since I heard gossip about GE going to be changing Nobara to an immutable setup. Haven't confirmed them, but the source was reliable and sounds like something GE would do

 

[Mister_D]

Linux is perfect.....for web-browsing. I wouldn't switch over until all programs support it. Especially ones you will use in the near future.

 

[diapered]

What do you use for AURs? Yay?

This is something I wanted to learn about. No, I am not using yay (I am to lazy for cl these days for software management). When looking in octopi, I am using "chaotic-aur" as the repository for aur packages and I guess these are "pre-built" from googling but I am not sure what that means?

 

[Leon]

This is something I wanted to learn about. No, I am not using yay (I am to lazy for cl these days for software management). When looking in octopi, I am using "chaotic-aur" as the repository for aur packages and I guess these are "pre-built" from googling but I am not sure what that means?
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The chaotic aur is basically a custom and screened version of the aur to guarantee functionality and safety, in garuda's case it's guaranteed to work with garuda's latest update, another way to put it is you can be sure the chaotic aur version should work on garuda or any distro that supports it.

For what it's worth, garuda can be made to support aur, flatpak and even snap as well, though i've only seen the need for a couple of programs to need something from either, namely my vpn client needed a aur package and i needed a specific version of a program from flatpak.

 

[SpikeSlania]

This is something I wanted to learn about. No, I am not using yay (I am to lazy for cl these days for software management). When looking in octopi, I am using "chaotic-aur" as the repository for aur packages and I guess these are "pre-built" from googling but I am not sure what that means?
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Probably the main reason why I'm hesitant to go back to CachyOS. I like having the app gui store fronts for my apps, especially the Gnome APP Store, though right now I'm on Nobara and GE doesn't like those store fronts and he gut them and made his own package manager so it is a bit weird being on a Fedora based distro and having aur files instead of RPM. Though now seems like GE has his sights and creating a stand alone flatpak store app and moving Nobara to be an immutable, so guess I will be going CachyOS again and reexperience Octopi and Fish

 

[diapered]

The chaotic aur is basically a custom and screened version of the aur to guarantee functionality and safety, in garuda's case it's guaranteed to work with garuda's latest update, another way to put it is you can be sure the chaotic aur version should work on garuda or any distro that supports it.

For what it's worth, garuda can be made to support aur, flatpak and even snap as well, though i've only seen the need for a couple of programs to need something from either, namely my vpn client needed a aur package and i needed a specific version of a program from flatpak.

Thanks! That makes more sense than some of the answers I googled. "pre-screened" is a good way to put it. Yea, that is one worry I have that down the road I might need a flatpak or something from AUR. I believe you mentioned you use pamac on garuda @Leon ? I know in manjaro that pamac will handle that, is that what you do?

Oh yea, and I also like the OTB snapper support with the btrfs assistant. I haven't looked too much into it, and it looks a little complicated, but if I do break something that should make it pretty easy to undo? That does make me feel a little better about being "closer" to arch (compared to manjaro).

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

This is something I wanted to learn about. No, I am not using yay (I am to lazy for cl these days for software management). When looking in octopi, I am using "chaotic-aur" as the repository for aur packages and I guess these are "pre-built" from googling but I am not sure what that means?
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It's funny I installed Arch specifically for uncurated AURs and to force me to use the cl and read the wiki, so pretty much the opposite. XD

 

[rugal]

i have use linux mint for years and i do not miss windows
linux have no annoying thing you need to shutdown or uninstall like windows

linux is faster and in my opinion better than windows
if you use epic game or steam you can download it and run epic game and steam game on linux

or use lutris to run steam and epic games you can even run other windows games in lutris
and lutris is easy to use


the firewall controll and settings are mutch easier on linux than on windows

note
all type of emulator work in linux mint and retroarch work like a dream in linux mint

if you really need windows than install linux mint beside windows
note that it depends on if you have more than 1 hard drive if you have 1 than make a partition and split that hardrive in half so windows you half the size and linux the other

check these things first before install linux
1 do your cpu work well in linux
2 do your gpu work in linux since not all gpu work in linux most nvidia work but not all of them


good to know
1 need to learn linux since sometimes you need to use terminal comand to fix things or install a program
2 some program you did have and used in windows are not on linux
3 need to check what driver to install if you use nvidia gpu since sometimes the driver that linux mint recomend is for a newer nvidia card than the one you have

4 if you absolutely need to use a wine program you need to learn to use winetricks and wine to run the program

5 some times you need to change setting in wine or lutris to play some windows games

6 sometimes you have problem uninstall a program in terminal command because you did install wrong package so if you have linux mint 19 and you by misstage install a package for linux 20
the terminal do not find the package so it can not uninstall if that happen do not waste time in terminal looking for the package instead open synaptic package manager and unistall the package there since synaptic package manager alwasy has all package install on you linux mint

7 some times you need to install flathub package from the source to get the latest version

8 the program manager do not always have a system package that is the latest version but the flathub in program manager is almost always the latest version

9 when you uninstall a flathub program in terminal or program manager it always leaves the dependencies so you need to run another command to remove them or always uninstal program in synaptic package manager since synaptic package manager always remove dependencies

 

[SpikeSlania]

BTW, I use Arch. Just finished distro hopping to CachyOS. Took me a hot minute to figure out I was missing the the Extension Manager to get my Dock to Dash extension installed but atleast I'm back on GNOME. Now here's hoping that I stay on Arch for more than a month and can ignore the temptations of going back to Fedora Workstation and PikaOS, think I'm done with Nobara for now. Also surprised they didn't completely gut the GNOME App store, they use it as a front end for flathub so atleast I won't have to get on the website to look for flatpaks and then type the install code in the terminal. Will also need to make it a practice to check for updates once a week in Fish. I actually like Fish for a terminal since it does make suggestions on what to type next and to run updates I just type update.

Edit - I may have made the picture too small, but was trying to cut down on the file size and I'm pretty new to using Krita.

 

[Leon]

Honestly my only real complaint with linux is i still haven't figured out how to copy my settings between installs, not even kde ones, as i use kde almost exclusively.

At some point i'm gonna have to either reinstall garuda or distro hop (had to do the same with windows so no surprise there) but i'd rather not spend a week again getting everything "just right".

 

[diapered]

It's funny I installed Arch specifically for uncurated AURs and to force me to use the cl and read the wiki, so pretty much the opposite. XD

 

[SpikeSlania]

Honestly my only real complaint with linux is i still haven't figured out how to copy my settings between installs, not even kde ones, as i use kde almost exclusively.

At some point i'm gonna have to either reinstall garuda or distro hop (had to do the same with windows so no surprise there) but i'd rather not spend a week again getting everything "just right".

I'm not sure if there is a feature for that. Think the problem is too many variables for even KDE to try to make a profile system to carry over user profile settings with how many different distros use it. Don't think the distros themselves could attempt that either with them having no control over what KDE or GNOME change in their environments which could bjork what ever user profiles they attempt.

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

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I mean, I just really really like to break stuff, and Arch just give plain control to imbeciles like me... And Linux crashing is so beautiful :

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My only complain with Linux is Wayland not being mature yet and having to rely on unstable RustDesk for remote desktoping my boxes. I'll still keep Win10 on the drives tho. When kept offline it still is a good OS.

 

[Leon]

I'm not sure if there is a feature for that. Think the problem is too many variables for even KDE to try to make a profile system to carry over user profile settings with how many different distros use it. Don't think the distros themselves could attempt that either with them having no control over what KDE or GNOME change in their environments which could bjork what ever user profiles they attempt.

Did some looking and apparently there is a way to do this, even over different distros, but it requires moving the /home folder to a separate partition.

 

[diapered]

At some point i'm gonna have to either reinstall garuda

Oh no! What happened? You can't return to a previous snapshot?

Did some looking and apparently there is a way to do this, even over different distros, but it requires moving the /home folder to a separate partition.

Oh ok, so you want to reinstall to custom partition your home?

 

[Leon]

Oh no! What happened? You can't return to a previous snapshot?

Oh ok, so you want to reinstall to custom partition your home?

Nothing has happened, at some point i'll upgrade my pc, get a new ssd or feel like i just need to reinstall, happens every couple of years or so.

I'm just looking into what i might need to do when i do want to reinstall.

 

[SpikeSlania]

Nothing has happened, at some point i'll upgrade my pc, get a new ssd or feel like i just need to reinstall, happens every couple of years or so.

I'm just looking into what i might need to do when i do want to reinstall.

Never really thought about replacing my OS SSD. I always just end up adding more storage devices instead. Though there is a different thought that I have with some Distros, when will the creators end up abandoning the project? Like I love PikaOS but it's ran by only 2 guys. I do tend to favor Fedora for it's longevity but when will Red Hat (IBM) decide to pull the plug on it? Arch is atleast currently receiving funding from Valve

 

[diapered]

Nothing has happened, at some point i'll upgrade my pc, get a new ssd or feel like i just need to reinstall, happens every couple of years or so.

I'm just looking into what i might need to do when i do want to reinstall.

Oh ok I see. Speaking of that. One of my main laptops failed a SMART test recently and so, new ssd indeed! and it was a bitch taking this fucker apart! WHY make this so hard LENOVO?!??!

I hope these leftovers weren't important

And so if you all are still wondering why I love xfce, it is because I can't help buying cheap/trash laptops I don't think they can run KDE without lag...