Arching Vivaldifarians.

guigirl

TRG got tired of GoodcommunityOS (no wonder ) and swears on Arch Linux GUI now

I watched that t'other night, & was initially intrigued by the title & his opening words, coz IMO he has a good positive mutually-supportive relationship with eznix, so i thought it was odd if he was now dumping on him. Then, ofc, as the video went on, it became apparent that it was all parody. I do think however, he needs to be a bit more nuanced in his delivery, as it would be too easy for some viewers to take him at his word & actually believe he was genuinely dumping on eznix.

I mean, quite apart from the obviously sarcastic mention of biological enhancements, i already was smelling a rat anyway from many things, not least his banging on about ALG finally being an ISO freeing the proletariat from the tyranny of Firefox.

PS: @hlehyaric please pull your finger out. We're all counting on you to See The Light, & come on over to the land of unicorns. You need to be able to sing the song One Of Us, One Of Us. At the moment, instead, you're One Of Them. Euw!

@npro said in Arching Vivaldifarians.:

With OpenSUSE-TW on the other hand the commitee could have a meeting about it

Heehee. OMZ, dependency hell. Such fun.

npro

guigirl

@npro Show off!

Well done.

However, only a B+, coz...

Light bright retina-murdering theme, eeeeeeeek!
Horizontaller, aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhhhhhh.

However, bumped up to A- in consideration of extra effort displayed by moving to the morally superior VM.

npro

@guigirl thx . It's vanilla, not my fault

However I don't have a problem with it 'cause this monitor I'm using lately is crap and with dark themes I can't see anything

guigirl

@npro How are you going with your greasemonkeying? I've never used it at all, so have no idea if it could possibly be a decent substitute for uM/uBO?

npro

@guigirl That's what I'm hoping by digging into it, still too early. Need to get the passthrough working first.

guigirl

Presumably, a certain VQA fella will be happy today.

I suspect i might download the KDE ISO & take it for a spin.

Many hours later...

Or not.

Ach, Calamares has completely spoiled me. So now when a totally Slacko person encounters her first Slackware ISO in the wild, expecting to just lazily click click click her way thru' yet another Calamares, she suddenly realises that she'd much rather go drink some scotch & worry about this actually needing to think caper, another time.

npro

@guigirl dead to us

guigirl

@npro Yeah, me too.

"Life"'s too short.

Slacko 1 Slackware 0.

guigirl

A few days ago i discovered that somehow samba had become [re]installed in my Arch Plasma, so i removed it [again], sans-drama. Presumably it had returned sometime due to being some optional dependency from some other package that i actually do want.

Yesterday, i discovered samba was also installed on my Lappy [which, for several months, has been Mint Cinnamon {long painful story, pl-ease don't ask!}]. I therefore went to nuke this unwanted package there as well. Nope, I'm sorry Dave, i can't do that. The super hyper mega glorious packaging system that is apt, in its infinite wisdom & supreme competence, makes samba a hard dependency for heaps of apps & packages that i do want to retain. With great irony i noted that most of those apps are also ones i have, & want, in Tower's Arch, which as i said does not have that stupidity.

Buntu
Apt

npro

@guigirl said in Arching Vivaldifarians.:

@npro Yeah, me too.

actually dead to us =/= "dead to us"

but anyway

@guigirl said in Arching Vivaldifarians.:

samba - Mint Cinnamon - Buntu - apt

well we have lots of guests here using apt so maybe they could advise or refute what you are saying

Since you dislike both and you would like to be samba (extrapolate: bs) free (that's what happens when you rely on Calamares- , ), there's only one mainstream (i.e. including a decent DE) option that I can think of for you, use OpenSUSE Leap ! with KDE for that old laptop, where you can cherry-pick whatever you like with Yast2 (which has no real competitor), creating a nice lean system, and not having to care much about it. Only thing is that 15.4 will be released "soon" (i.e. in June) so you 'd have to upgrade, (and point upgrades didn't always work very reliably for me without some extra cleaning up/fixing in the past), but it will have Plasma 5.24 which is going to be LTS, which is not bad at all I'd say for an old laptop meant for just watching movies and stuff, right?

guigirl

@npro Welcome to our forum, @TRG -- hope you'll have fun here.

npro

@guigirl Wait until I start talking about Slackware

guigirl

@npro No wukkas, i'm so slack i can't be arsed to read it.

npro

@guigirl said in Arching Vivaldifarians.:

so slack

Fine... it's me, OTB. Did you at least watch my videos?

guigirl

@npro said in Arching Vivaldifarians.:

OTB

Well phew, at least you're not wearing those annoying tight body shirts...

guigirl

@npro said in Arching Vivaldifarians.:

about Slackware

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/sl3gtp/as_an_openminded_linux_user_im_trying_slackware/

guigirl

https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/sl63kx/falkon_32_released_best_kde_webbrowser/

Notice the Vivaldi mentions were downvoted? Peeps!

npro

@guigirl
I swear it wasn't me...

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guigirl

@npro said in Arching Vivaldifarians.:

OTB. Did you at least watch my videos?

When you posted, i'd not watched his latest one on Slackware [it was in my feeds & coz i'm silly i thought i'd already seen it when in fact i'd not ]. However, just this moment i've finished exercise-biking my way thru it. I really do like OTB; i find him very comforting somehow. His vid on it is really good, but it only bigly reinforced my conviction yesterday to abandon the VM before even getting right into it.

I'm just not the target demographic. It wasn't needing to have to manually setup the partitions [though t'other night i certainly was not in any mood for that], it was my dawning realisation as i read up more & more about SW about just how much i'd be on my own, eg, needing to manually manage all dependencies myself. There's simply no use-case for me that justifies that, ie, no decent cost/benefit ratio for my satisfaction.

I mean, hey, i enjoy sticking rusty pins into my eyeballs as much as the next gal, but that's just too far out for me to want to bother.