sirocyl

@sirocyl

noted computer gremlinizer

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working on a @styx-os.

"accidentally-vengeful telco nerd"
—Tom Scott

platform sec researcher, OS dev, systems architect, composer; Other (please specify). vintage computer/electronics nut.

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styx linux OS project

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sirocyl @sirocyl5/7/2023, 9:07 AM

Sugar Meowth @dosmeow

gravis again @cathoderaydude5/6/2023, 4:03 PM

been trying linux as a desktop os for the first time in many years on my laptop. pleased to see it is still, unquestionably, as linux as ever

💤🌵🤖@cactus5/6/2023, 4:44 PM

this right here is what Sartre meant by "condemned to freedom"

sirocyl @sirocyl5/7/2023, 9:07 AM

i pray

that whoever is using @styx-os never hears the name "xorg" in vain. or any other context.

do windows users see "DWM" in their UI? No. Do Mac users fret about WindowServer? No.

shut the goddamn hell up GNU/

#styxposting #FOSS #open source IS a trash fire

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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

Plum @plumpan5/6/2023, 4:04 PM

Oh no, who put you in Wayland hell :(

EDIT: What distro is this, this is hilarious. I WANT TO KNOW WHO DID THIS

gravis again @cathoderaydude5/6/2023, 4:11 PM

fedora latest, after I installed kde-desktop and switched to sddm this is how it came up

Plum @plumpan5/6/2023, 4:15 PM

I knew it.

If you're up for messing with DEs, I'd give the whole XFCE spin of Fedora a try. Or Ubuntu (Xubuntu). Juggling DEs on the same install tends to get... messy. As you've seen.

But that's also part of the fun, isn't it?

cthuflu @cthuflu5/6/2023, 5:40 PM

but also if you uninstall the plasma or gnome groups it uninstalls sddm and so many tools that are unquestionably not plasma or gnome

Plum @plumpan5/6/2023, 5:49 PM

The Fedora "spins" are basically the distro but coming with a different DE out of the box. So it's not uninstalling the other DEs, it's uninstalling the whole OS to try a different DE. Not something worth doing outside of "fucking around to find out on a spare computer" testing.

Because when you try juggling DEs, silly things like you described happen. It's not just the UI it's whole sets of tools and program groups and it just gets.... so, so messy. :(

cthuflu @cthuflu5/6/2023, 6:04 PM

my main desktop is one those such environments where it started with plasma, and I swapped the group for xfce after some performance issues.

I kept trying to solve it wanting to automatically remove sddm and so many dependencies, but there is no way to pin a package.

Plum @plumpan5/6/2023, 6:06 PM

Pin how so? Apt can do mark-hold so I'm sure yum can do similar... but that's very quickly getting into dependency hell.

cthuflu @cthuflu5/6/2023, 6:25 PM

i couldn't find a way for yum (now dnf) to do so for keeping a package in those groups. Otherwise it's "do not track this package for installs or upgrades" with a plugin