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@DieserTypMatthias Sorry if freedom is not important to you but perhaps that’s why you’re on lamey.

@communism Only difference between a “server” distro and a “desktop” distro are what packages are included, and given that most all distros put all the packages on their repositories you can start with any and tailor to your needs.

@nichtburningturtle The Pentium II is 32-bit and possesses an MMU, so provided you have adequate memory, pretty much any 32-bit distro such as puppy linux or antix should work fine. Newer Ubuntu which is now 64-bit only will not.

@obbeel Stunned at Microsoft’s audacity? Where the fuck have you been the last 40 years?

@gpstarman I only use Asus and Gigabyte boards, both have the ability to flash the BIOS using the maintenance engine on the board without even having a CPU or memory installed, let alone an OS booted.

@CaptDust It’s great when those odd occurrences of things “just working” actually happen.

@GnuLinuxDude I mostly use HP printers because with Linux they are always plug-in-play and because although they will provide a message telling me my ink is cheap third party ink, they will none the less accept and print with it.

The model I previously used, HP OfficeJet 5258 All-in-One Printer, the printer always worked well but the scanners kept breaking. I went through four of these before I tried an Epson. The Epson initially worked with 3rd party ink then after a software update didn’t so at that point I trashed it and bought another HP, this time a HP OfficeJet 8015e Wireless Color All-in-One Printer which is much more robustly constructed. In fact while taking it out of the box, I accidentally dropped it from chest level and all it did was bounce, no pieces broke off, nothing. So far it has been reliable both for scanning and printing although the scanner is easier to jam but at least it doesn’t break in the process of my unjamming it.

@TCB13 Problem is by being one big bloatware, rather than a set of small discrete tools, if one part of it misbehaves, your entire system is toast instead of just removing, replacing, or fixing that one part. That’s why that philosophy belongs in Windows NOT Linux.

@TCB13 @petsoi It seems to me that systemd is going the exact opposite of the original Unix philosophy of make a tool for a specific task, make it do it’s task well, and then use the necessary tools for the job, systemd is becoming one big piece of bloatware that gets in the way of use rather than helps it.

@jorge Been using this for a long time.

@imgel What I’d love to see for pipewire is a working port of pulse-effects. I really miss the capabilities that provided and it will not work with pulse-pipewire, I’ve tried.

@theshatterstone54 Get no argument from me, another way that Wayland is broken is with an application running on one machine but displaying on another, which was a large part of the original X protocol. Between this and the fact that I’m running Intel graphics for which there exists an in-kernel Xserver, I continue to run Xorg.

@jrgd @potentiallynotfelix It is simply less capable than Spice, no support for accelerated 3D graphics.

@ikidd @potentiallynotfelix It has no support for accelerated 3D graphics, spice with open-gl does this.

@corsicanguppy It’s an issue I’ve encountered more than once and this has always resolved it. If you want to load Spywar back onto your machine, be my guest.

@oyzmo I would start by going into Network Manager, delete all the interfaces, and rebuild from scratch, then reboot and try again.

@randomcruft @fakeplastic I’m not real comfortable with my data on someone else’s computer, but triply so if that somebody is Microsoft, Gargoyle, or Amazon.

@1984 Glad for you. I think some of my issues arise from the fact that I only use it occasionally, keys get stale.

@1984 @Dop I find approximately 10% of the AUR packages at any given time won’t build and a given package may remain broken for many moths.

@pastermil If you want a newer kernel than is provided in the apt package manager, you can download the latest from kernel.org, unxz it with unxz kernel-version.tar.xz, then untar it. It will give you a directory like linux-6.14.6, cd to that directory and do a make mrproper to remove any residual crap that might have been left there by the maintainer or a previous build, then if you want the stock debian configuration copy the current config file from /boot to .config, then make any adjustments to the .config, including some automatic adjustments that get made for your environment with make config, make menuconfig, makexconfig, make gconfig, whatever you prefer. For xconfig and gconfig which are graphical configuration GUIs you may need to install some libs that aren’t installed by default on Debian but ARE provided in your apt package manager. Then make -j$(NPROC) bindeb-pkg, for example on my machine 18 cores, 36 threads, I would do make -j36 bindeb-pkg to fully utilize the CPU cores, on the 18 core machine this takes about 7 minutes, on my 8 core workstation about 18, when it’s done you’ll be left with three or four .deb packages (depending upon whether or not save DEBUG is turned on or off in the kernel config). When you are done install the packages with dpkg -i *.deb, check /boot and your new kernel should be installed.