Welcome to Linux town, man. Debian’s been bloody flogged into a million distros, but it’s OK. Arch will be too.

That’s a fair statement.

Your username is amazing .

True, but not all Linux is FOSS, even though there is some significant overlap.

I haven’t run into any file managers that hide the path with no option to show it. Which one(s) are you talking about?

I don’t understand what exactly you are arguing for.

Most folks don’t care. They won’t be shopping for an os.

I’ve been getting people on Linux for 20 years… Trust me, they don’t care about features, they care about being able to do their old workflow. These ppl are happy using a Chromebook.

This is how we get the memes like “Linux user recompiles kernel just to open Firefox”

Don’t worry about memes, haters gonna hate.

My main concern is also boat.

i just have unpopular opinions

Sure, but you chose a weird place to strut around yelling them loudly.

How is your experience with screen sharing?

I know this is the preferred way to do it now, but I sometimes worry that abstracting where things are configured in an is that configures everything in a file.

You used to only have to check two places to change a hostname.

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I also find value in this.

Lately I get a lot of flack for running Debian with xfce but it looks and acts the same every time.

I’ve been through my various stages of customizing and living on the bleeding edge. But now that i have my wish and I work in linux daily, I just want the os to stay out of the way.

You can process these with bash string manipulation alone, but sed and awk will do this pretty easy.

just like ssh -X

No, that’s not what’s happening. X11 forwarding is telling the server to treat a TCP socket as a display, and after passing xauth, the frames are just shoveled into an ssh session. Waypipe is serializing Wayland messages so they can be redirected to multiple portals, specifically over a socket. They don’t really work the same at all.

I didn’t know XFCE supported Wayland

Some parts of xfce do, xfwm4 does not.

so I casually ran vncserver, which launched xfce4-session

This is because your vnc is configured to do so.

except that it attached itself to the Wayland display (proxied to my local machine) rather than X display of TigerVNC. And here come the full XFCE right to my local machine (which is running Plasma).

This part doesn’t make a lot of sense.

If invoking xfce4-session works, it means you are doing so over vnc, not waypipe.

All of this produces a feeling of anguish… Maybe I cannot stand knowing that this could be the standard everywhere.

I have similar feelings about the lack of alcohol taxation and the low rate of rice cooker adoption in the west.

You are struggling to accept the imperfect world as it is. You should stop introspecting on the symptoms and try to figure out why you are unhappy with other people’s choices.

Be careful.

Because it only formats stdin streams to into string(s), xargs can be very dangerous, depending on the command to which the arguments are being passed.

Xargs used to be a practical way to get around bash globbing issues and parenthetical clause behavior, but most commands have alternate and safer ways of handling passed arguments.

find -exec is preferable to xargs to avoid file expansion “bombs”, plus find doesn’t involve the shell, so it doesn’t care about whitespace problems.

At least the GNU copy pasta is alive and well.

If this is your first recovery from a security incident:

1. Stop panicking.
2. Establish what you know and don’t know
3. Whatever data is not 100% clean, consider compromised.
4. Separate your data from your roommates and don’t worry about theirs
5. From now, assume your own network is hostile.

but what actually happens is that the amount of memory needed to run programs exceeds the amount of physical RAM, but swap is still available, so the OOM killer doesn’t give a shit.

Stop giving technical advice, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

it I didn’t make me feel compelled to go harm some Windows users or anything like that, but your mileage may vary

I’m happy to let the conversation take its course, but I take exception to this. You damn well know that’s not what I meant.

Except electric cars are hell expensive and linux is free.

That was literally my point. Some people bought electric cars because the could, not because they wanted to effect any social change.

But other FOSS software (like the ActivityPub protocol) can for sure make a very sizeable dent in the amount of doomscrolling in one’s life.

Is activity pub only used on Linux desktop apps? Can’t a Mac or windows user participate in mastodon? Fediverse use and Linux are separate issues.

This false equivalence between Linux itself and the path of our collective salvation from social media, corporate manipulation, etc, etc is a big problem for Linux, because Linux is just a tool.

btrfs is widely praised… and also a product of Facebook. Google has poured Fons of money into FOSS development. Should we shun these tools?

Especially now, with a sizable influx of users to Linux, articles like the one Op posted create a completely false us v them narrative that just isn’t there.

You want to fight the evil social media? Drop them.

Look, I appreciate your enthusiasm, but you are treading into virtue signalling territory and your article has the superior tone of those who bought electric cars in the late 2010s to lord it over the rest of us.

Using Linux is not going to stop your doom-scrolling, nor is using Linux by itself telling the big corpos anything at all. Stop conflating using Linux with “sticking it to Facebook”.

Linux is a tool, and it is a tool that allows freedom of its use. That’s it.