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Brodie Robertson

I didn't know they were real but I caught myself a wild #Linux From Scratch user so I had to ask the simple question, why

Video Release: youtube.com/watch?v=TkkKNfYKJJ

Audio Release: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho

yesterday at 0:53 | Open on linuxrocks.online
Anders Rytter Hansen

@BrodieOnLinux@linuxrocks.online I'm so impressed that this guy got into such advanced stuff only after 4 years of having a computer πŸ˜„

yesterday at 9:17 | Open on sharkey.world
Brodie Robertson

Give me your most controversial Linux takes that nobody wants to admit are actually true.

I'll start, Photoshop isn't actually a big deal for most people and it being missing is easier to complain about than fixing the real issues on the #Linux desktop

10 May at 5:22 | Open on linuxrocks.online
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Phantomwise

@BrodieOnLinux Desktop environments are not necessarily simpler to use and configure than window managers.

I tried kde and it was hell. It's all so overcomplicated and confusing... I think it mostly depends on the user. Back to hyprland for me, which at least preserves my sanity. We're very happy and are going to make lots of baby tiled windows together.

10 May at 14:09 | Open on kolektiva.social
TheFrenchGhosty

@BrodieOnLinux Linux (and not just the kernel) is almost all corporation, and the independent stuff is used as free work for corporation

And people seems fine with it...

10 May at 15:13 | Open on libretooth.gr
TukanDev
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Brodie Robertson

You know he's right, the funniest part is the Linux Foundation spends twice as much on "Blockchain" than on #Linux development youtube.com/clip/Ugkxejrh2Zs30

9 May at 8:57 | Open on linuxrocks.online
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DaniΓ«l Franke πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

@BrodieOnLinux

Does that have to be worded like a tabloid headline?

9 May at 5:19 | Open on berlin.social
Pascal Leinert
Tobias Hunger

@BrodieOnLinux Your system probably is using this already (provided you run a systemd-based distro): The mechanism to run things as a different user is used in there for a long time now. The new addition is a binary that triggers the existing mechanism with a slightly different configuration and tints the terminal while doing so.

The mechanism itself is more solid than what sudo does, uses less code, exists in your OS already and gets rid of one more "set user id" binary. What's not to like?

9 May at 7:22 | Open on linuxrocks.online
Brodie Robertson

I've seen a lot of interesting discussion regarding Mint's choice to downgrade some apps to the GTK3 version, later fork them. Whilst a lot of people have been critical let me provide another perspective

Projects like Mint do not like the state of GNOME/where it is going, instead of just sitting around whining about how much they don't like it they've taken it upon themselves to fork tools and maintain them for their own project. You may disagree with that choice but this is the spirit of FOSS

3 May at 4:46 | Open on linuxrocks.online
Brodie Robertson

The same can be said about COSMIC from System76, they have had serious disagreements with the direction of the project so they said "fuck it, we're just going to build our own desktop and run it the way that we want to run it".

Could problems just be resolved upstream, maybe. But they have decided that this time has passed, any attempts made didn't go the way they wanted so they've decided to go off and do their own thing.

3 May at 4:47 | Open on linuxrocks.online
🌱 Ligniform :donor:​

@BrodieOnLinux I respect the decision. Not liking something and then not doing anything about it achieves nothing. Forking it and taking it in their own direction is great

3 May at 4:51 | Open on infosec.exchange
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Brodie Robertson

Looking at the GNOME Foundation expenses stresses me out even from the outside. You may have heard they were running a deficit for the past few years but it wasn't a small one. 2021 ran a 600k deficit, 2022 was 300k

29 April at 6:52 | Open on linuxrocks.online
Brodie Robertson

Is this Factorio dev one of my viewers lol
29 April at 2:26 | Open on linuxrocks.online
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Nick Bisby

@BrodieOnLinux Theres also no decorations on i3wm/swaywm. Which is kinda the point. I dont WANT decorations. Client side decorations just force them in an inconvenient way.

29 April at 5:18 | Open on mastodon.social
jokeyrhyme

@BrodieOnLinux whilst most GNOME design decisions work well enough for my personal use case, I'm definitely keen for more strong competition in this space (opinionated batteries-included desktop environments)

Perhaps COSMIC, XFCE, KDE and others can see enough (Wayland) polish to at least give users viable alternatives, that way GNOME's design won't have the massive impact it currently has (and maybe they'll reconsider)

29 April at 5:25 | Open on aus.social
Henri

@BrodieOnLinux Looking on my Windows desktop (at work) seems like 80% of apps have client-side decorations. I gotta say the experience is quite inconsistent across apps, but most people won't notice the subtle differences.

29 April at 8:17 | Open on mdon.ee
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Charadon

@BrodieOnLinux Personally, I don't think it'll get cancelled since the Arc series has been a hit with pre-builts. Would suck though if they abandoned the line, since I have an Arc 770 lol

25 April at 1:01 | Open on 8bit.red
Brodie Robertson

Hit me with your worst Linux takes, I'm sure you've all got some bangers.

20 April at 1:19 | Open on linuxrocks.online
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Carlos SolΓ­s
@BrodieOnLinux Immutable distros with Flatpak would probably be the standard already, if only the end users could choose to "sudo" a Flatpak into full system access at will.
20 April at 4:12 | Open on hub.azkware.net
FSMaxB

@BrodieOnLinux Linux desktop systems would be subject to an endless flood of viruses and malware if they were more popular.

20 April at 6:15 | Open on mastodon.cloud
Niklas
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Brodie Robertson

This ZSH Plugin Manager Is Really SUS #Linux #YouTube

This video was only possible because of the thread by @dylnuge

youtu.be/pHVbjLTFmVo

17 April at 0:33 | Open on linuxrocks.online
Arataka
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@BrodieOnLinux @dylnuge How sussy baka...I fucking hate that I did that and I swear on my grave that I will never do that again

17 April at 2:08 | Open on mastodon.social
Brodie Robertson

You've seen package managers
You've seen piping curl into bash
But have you ever seen sourcing a script from curl every time you launch the shell
15 April at 7:35 | Open on linuxrocks.online
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Gianmarco Gargiulo :tux: :kde:

@BrodieOnLinux NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

15 April at 7:38 | Open on mastodon.uno
MrClon
MrClon

@BrodieOnLinux oh my fucking god, it's official recommendation:
wiki.zshell.dev/docs/getting_s

I don't see any explanation except of:
1) Backdoor (backgate actually)
2) Terminal stage of stupidity

15 April at 8:12 | Open on lor.sh
Brodie Robertson

Windows users seem to have 2 states of being:

1. Windows is the only useful operating system, I don't like or dislike it, I just use it

2. Why does Microsoft keep making Windows worse, why do we keep seeing more and more ads

Is there anybody that actually likes Windows

15 April at 3:07 | Open on linuxrocks.online
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Steven πŸŽƒ

@BrodieOnLinux Type 3: Taylor Swift-themed novelty accounts

15 April at 5:42 | Open on zeroes.ca
rust_

@BrodieOnLinux@linuxrocks.online i stick with windows primarily because that's where the software i use works, and ive set up my workflow to work with the way windows is structured... with windows 11 specifically, i use startallback to replace the taskbar, and microsoft's own powertoys to run applications and find files. i find it to be a lot easier than sifting through folders in start menus just to find what i want

ive grown familiar with the windows interface and software that works only on windows..thats not to say i havent toyed with linux (i liked the gnome interface, kde looks interesting to me)

linux for me is unfortunately hard to switch to as i'm the subset of people who use adobe products and clip studio paint for creative work, and unfortunately there's been no FOSS software i've seen that's able to replicate adobe animate's symbol/tween/shape tween/bitmap features, or editors that could work for YTP editing (not including resolve, as that barely works as is on linux!)

while i have tried krita, i still have some issues with it that the current stable release hasn't fixed yet, and even then, this would still leave the adobe products waiting to be replaced... i know in a linux machine you could either use WINE or a VM, but WINE support is up in the air + unstable, and VMs are just gonna make me prefer using a proper windows machine (which was what i did when running debian stable w/ gnome originally)

whats weird is that i always hear about updates fucking with peoples computers, the dreaded 'patch tuesday', boot loops, ads in file explorer, being nagged for bloat features, performance issues, etc... but i've never had any of these problems on my install of windows 11, like i have copilot, i don't use it, but im never bothered about it by microsoft at all to use it...this might be because im using MSEdgeRedirect with StartAllBack to put the taskbar on the left side of the screen and style it closer to windows 7...looks nicer that way in my opinion

i want to bet that at some point down the line that microsoft will find a way to drive me off of windows somehow, which would probably only be when they forcefully refuse to let me use startallback or the such, and make me pay per month to even use my operating system. and if i do make that switch, i can at least know that i've been able to make my experience on linux pretty much great the first time, and i'm sure with enough tinkering i can get...something figured out to replicate my drawing and animating stuff. just a matter of what happens

@BrodieOnLinux@linuxrocks.online i stick with windows primarily because that's where the software i use works, and ive set up my workflow to work with the way windows is structured... with windows 11 specifically, i use startallback to replace the taskbar, and microsoft's own powertoys to run applications and find files. i find it to be a lot easier than sifting through folders in start menus just to find what i want

ive grown familiar with the windows interface and software that works only on windows..thats...

15 April at 6:09 | Open on lethallava.land
elly
@BrodieOnLinux Not really, it's just a tool... and they tend to get more and more annoyed (rightfully so) with more and more bloat added to the OS, changing interface and so on.

Windows 11 is absolutely atrocious, even my most stubborn friends said they'll need my help with getting used to Linux once M$ drops support for W10. It's perfect timing too, since new driver for Nvidia cards will be ready by then.

Many of my co-workers comment on me using KDE in the office and think it's "fast" and "pretty", but they wouldn't switch to Linux because "nothing works on it" (in regards to M$'s tools). I tried explaining to them that you can use webapps, there are ""native"" clients for teams or thunderbird instead of outlook and even full O365 replacement in form of LibreOffice but they're well, stubborn for the lack of better word. Favourite party trick is showing them Steam running on it with windows-only games, it somehow blows their minds.

The only solid argument I've seen in favour of Windows is backwards compatibility, but realistically speaking, it's not that important since most software can be easily patched to run on newer systems and we seem to be moving towards flatpak-powered future anyway. Plus, wine has better compatibility with very old windows games/software than windows itself.
@BrodieOnLinux Not really, it's just a tool... and they tend to get more and more annoyed (rightfully so) with more and more bloat added to the OS, changing interface and so on.

Windows 11 is absolutely atrocious, even my most stubborn friends said they'll need my help with getting used to Linux once M$ drops support for W10. It's perfect timing too, since new driver for Nvidia cards will be ready by then.
15 April at 6:37 | Open on donotsta.re
Brodie Robertson

Spice & Wolf is back after 15 years, how can anything else compete
4 April at 12:54 | Open on linuxrocks.online
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MattZ
Pie-jacker875

@BrodieOnLinux this caught me off guard yesterday and I'm thrilled

4 April at 13:00 | Open on linuxrocks.online
MrClon

@BrodieOnLinux i agree. Nothing can compete with medieval economy.
Wolfgirl also ok

4 April at 13:21 | Open on lor.sh
Brodie Robertson

Update as this sitation is evolving very quickly, Lasse Collin (the original XZ maintainer) is aware of the backdoor and will begin work soon to clean up the project.

Jia Tan has also committed to the kernel in the past so now they're also scrambling to analyze some code.

30 March at 23:20 | Open on linuxrocks.online
Brodie Robertson
Brodie Robertson

Btw Happy Easter to the busy distro maintainers and security researchers

30 March at 2:07 | Open on linuxrocks.online
Brodie Robertson

It's rare to see a 10.0 and it actually feel justified
30 March at 0:04 | Open on linuxrocks.online
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π˜‹π˜ͺ𝘳𝘬

@BrodieOnLinux I wonder what software could that be.

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This results in a modified liblzma library that can be used by any software linked against this library, intercepting and modifying the data interaction with this library.

This sounds like a two-part attack. First compromise the library, and then β€œwait” for an update or so of another software using that library.

I wonder in what other application the attackers managed to hide the code that does the malicious things.

30 March at 0:28 | Open on gts.0x7be.net
oh hey it's corruptdropbear
TukanDev

@BrodieOnLinux ohh boi cant wait for video about this one to drop.

30 March at 1:24 | Open on linuxrocks.online
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