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    [–] atk007@lemmy.world 117 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Katie Tightpussy ??? Is she a bond girl from the 80s?

    [–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 80 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Also Jenny Tightpants. I dunno what's going on in this pic but I'm pretty sure it involves roleplay.

    [–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Ik them from my twitter days, they are just funny lil posters

    [–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Happy to have wasted 2 years on this platform as opposed to the deeper circles of hell.

    [–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago

    These are prob some pro Linux sysadmins, these are their fursonas, they come to your place insinuating sex, instead they install Linux.

    "Wait, I was running Tumbleweed, where tf did Mint come from??"

    [–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 93 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    trick question installing linux is better than sex

    [–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Depends. Arch Linux, yes. Linux Mint, no.

    [–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago

    (Didn't say BTW, casts doubt on the whole story.)

    [–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

    ... so how does one become this absolute slut just going around installing Linux on various devices attaining consent via seductive tactics?
    You wanna see what this flash drive can do?

    I only ever did it to family & friends ... :|

    [–] rovingnothing29@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

    I only ever did it to family & friends

    So Alabama style?

    [–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

    'I'll give you the Alabama penguin, if you don't shut op, step-roving!'

    [–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 47 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    gonna laugh when they come back confused about nixos being her fetish.

    [–] Johanno@feddit.org 37 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    Hey! I feel insulted using nixos. Well it is a fetish....

    Don't use Nixos! I love it, but I don't know anyone who I could recommend it. I guess dark souls players are some candidates

    [–] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    Well, I hated Dark Souls but love NixOS, no idea what that says about me, but probably something. I don't like my games hard only my day-to-day life? Or something.

    Edit: Recommend it to Steam Deck users.

    [–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    That's funny. A local guy at my drop zone raves about his nixos 'build' every time I see him. I have to remind him that the true love is based on hate and revulsion, which is why I'm on manjaro.

    [–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    I want to have a stable system that can easily be recovered. I am setting it up in advance for a computer I do not have yet and will need running relatively quickly and I don't like the default DEs that come with other distros. Am I canidate? (Also maybe a future homelab setup?)

    [–] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    One of the big issues I've heard that Nix users have is that you have to write your configs yourself using the Nix syntax, but the documentation isn't very detailed.

    If that sounds challenging to you (in a bad way) you may want to look elsewhere. Note that I'm not a Nix user so I can't go into specifics, unfortunately.

    [–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

    The 4-5h I've spent using it so far were pretty easy until I ran out of detailed documentation like you said. The syntax seems pretty easy so far but some things being functions confused me at the start.

    Infodump about my progress that I only now realized is unlikely to be of interest to anyone but me :/

    I started off copying the dot files from other devices but that didn't really work for browsers so I decided to use home manager. After having trouble finding out how to configure programs without their own wiki pages I watched a video on NixOS which helped me fix a bunch of problems and recommended some things I wouldn't have found out about other places. Flakes fail when I try to use them (I have enabled them in the configuration and the error didn't seem to be because of it). And when I enable the kitty shell integration it only sources the bash profile, leaving without the system wide config that I got without. This would not be an issue if I knew how to configure the bash profile which is in a different location on NixOS compared to other distros that I've used.

    [–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 days ago

    Yes, definetly. Still: the leaning curve is just very steep.

    [–] Johanno@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago

    Learning curve is steep. Everything is fine as long as you don't need to compile some c program that isn't available in the existing packages.

    Have fun figuring out which libraries it expects to exist in a normal Ubuntu that are not in nixos.

    There is flakes which I haven't even touched yet, but people claim it makes everything easier.

    I have kde as DE but you can do whatever you want on any Linux system

    [–] ftbd@feddit.org 7 points 3 days ago

    I can highly recommend it for servers. On my desktop machine it's not as convenient as e.g. arch, but it's nice to only have to deal with one distro.

    [–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    If they install Arch on her PC & the girl starts spontaneously saying 'Arch, btw', does it count as some sort of memetic STD?

    [–] pelya@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

    Install Gentoo, sex (with the command line) guaranteed.

    [–] dil@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    I told a girl I could help her remove bloat from her life and she got mad?

    [–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

    She expected sex, ofc she was mad.

    [–] FishFace@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Before the YoLotD we just need one more audio subsystem. Then it'll be ready!

    [–] Laser@feddit.org 30 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

    PipeWire doesn't need replacement, which can't be said for its predecessors. PulseAudio, OSS and raw ALSA had their shortcomings. PipeWire blows Windows audio out of the water in my opinion

    [–] FishFace@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Yeah, they all had their shortcomings, which meant they had to be replaced instead of evolved, because in the Linux community it is extremely hard to evolve a project in a better direction, but creating a new project is easy, and even getting that project into distros can be easier than evolving older projects.

    Unfortunately this means that rather than being natively backwards-compatible, you end up with a tower of cards of compatibility layers which tend in my experience to collapse...

    [–] Laser@feddit.org 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    While you might have a point somewhere, I'm not sure it applies in this particular case.

    PulseAudio was or still is (I don't know actually) developed, but you don't just change a system's architecture.

    creating a new project is easy, and even getting that project into distros can be easier than evolving older projects.

    I think this downplays the achievements of PipeWire. Not only is it, contrary to what you write after, backwards-compatible; but if such a project was easy, why aren't more people / companies doing it?

    In my opinion, PipeWire turned Linux systems from being last in multimedia to maybe first place even. Remember capturing the screen or a window before? In fact PipeWire was only extended to audio because the design proved itself so well, so it actually did evolve. Just not from audio to better audio, but from video to video and audio. Saying that starting such a project [edit: is easy] might be technically correct, but then doesn't make any point.

    [–] goatinspace@feddit.org 9 points 3 days ago

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