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Anyone actively using a Linux OS phone as a daily driver? If you currently use one, how is it with normal daily activities? Web Browser? Music players? Map/GPS? From what I've read, web sites have said it's not ready for general useage, but I'm curious to know just how behind it is. Especially given that big OS's like Manjaro offer images that can be used.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/26/microsoft_azure_linux_container/

how strange.

Trying to get rid of shitdows for the nth time.

Imaged my windoze to VM and another disk just to be safe.

Installed Artix community edition. After reboot it won't boot. Stupid grub keeps trying to use wrong NVME. Found a fix grub command. Now panels keep resetting every restart, display scaling is total shit, arranging displays looks like that old windows bug where the windows tile all over the screen, random things don't work, printer won't work, sound keeps resetting to the wrong output every restart. Dumped it.

Installed devuan because everything works with debian. LiveCD couldn't find my network card. Plugged in a usb ethernet that worked, thought it would install drivers. Didn't install shit. Now I'm running some shit fuzzy resolution on a 4k monitor trying to figure out how to install AMD driver and dumped it. Fuck that.

Try void for 2nd time. New hardware. With previous PC it wouldn't work with my sound card. Forgot these fuckers make you manual partition. Figure it out watching some dude on youtube. Looking really nice. But I can't get many programs to work and scaling is shit and something else made me dump it.

Go for PCLinux. Yay, a WIZARD. I fucking love wizards and do not like manual partitioning in a terminal tool. Press next a few times, stuck on Please wait for 30 minutes. Dump it.

Gentooo lets goooo. Wait wtf their livecd is a fucking terminal and I have to reference a guide to get this motherfucker installed. Dumped it.

Do research. Apparently kde plasma isn't absolute shit at scaling. Install artix plasma as I've gotten furthest with this OS toward a usable system. Half the repos now won't update. Some key mismatch shit. Can't get the apps I want. Spend 2 hours finally find some copy paste about fixing keychains in pacman and reinitializing the fucker. Well now it fucking works like it should have out of the box. What shit is this that so much trouble is necessary to pacman? Got yay to work with arch aur. Installed most of the stuff I want. Now the problem is the fucking printer. I installed it through the control panel and selected the correct driver but it still not working.

I'm afraid I may not have the strength to persevere through this printer installation task.

I just upgraded the storage on a ~10 year old Asus laptop from HDD to SSD, and installed Linux Mint 21.1. I had Mint 19 on the old HDD. I was prepared for the ass-pain of trying to get all my stuff reinstalled, but unlike 19 everything I wanted just installed with little fuss and only a little troubleshooting. GQRX-SDR, CHIRP, ProtonVPN, LibreWolf & FileZilla were all included in the software manager so I didn't have to go search on a browser. Didn't have to go hunting for drivers or configurations to connect to the SDR. Even HPLIPfor my also ~10 year old printer installed with no problems, which may possibly be the first time I've had HP software run correctly on first install on Linux or Windows. I had a lot of trouble getting stuff to work on 19, but I also have learned more since then, so I wonder how much of that was just newbie incompetence.

I keep this laptop out in the barn and just leave it there to mess with radios or listen to videos while I work, and I had largely written it off as outdated, but this SSD is fast as hell and it boots and opens things almost just as fast as my new laptop. It's amazing how the only thing that's really progressed in consumer electronics is graphics.

https://excessivelyadequate.com/posts/history.html

TLDR; Add to your .bashrc or .bash_profile:

#Read this number of lines into history buffer on startup.
export HISTSIZE=1000000

#`HISTFILESIZE` is usually set after bash reads the history file (which is
#done after reading any configs like `.bashrc`). If it is unset at this point,
#it is set to the same value as `HISTSIZE`. Therefore we must set it to `NIL`,
#in which case it isn't "unset", but doesn't have a value either, enabling us
#to keep an unlimited history.
export HISTFILESIZE=""

I've plugged and played with Linux Mint and a few others over the years, but I'm looking for something new to try. Tired of the woke policies creeping into development teams. Any recommendations for something not compromised?

https://www.joshwhotv.com/video/.Q2d7nA/how-to-install-librewolf-browser-on-linux-04-aug-2022-charliebrownau

Video - Tutorial - How to Install LibreWolf Browser on Linux - 04/Aug/2022 (Charliebrownau)
- https://www.joshwhotv.com/video/.Q2d7nA/how-to-install-librewolf-browser-on-linux-04-aug-2022-charliebrownau

#LibreWolf #Browser #Linux #Software #Open-source #Privacy #Security #Based #Tutorial

I'm still on Firefox, for lack of anything better. Tried out Brave, but it wouldn't even let you move tabs to the bottom or allow for vertical tabs. Immediately uninstalled that garbage. Also using qutebrowser on the side. It's only downside is that it isn't feature complete, yet. But it is good enough to handle most of my browsing just fine and is philosophically in line with what I expect from a browser.

Firefox with the new proton nonsense has become completely unusable, though, so my plan to hold out until qutebrowser is ready was thwarted. For now I disabled updates, but that's not going to cut it for very long.