Comments by "Winnetou17" (@Winnetou17) on "DistroTube" channel.

  1. A classic case of "If you really want to poison yourself so much, as least do it with the good stuff". That is, if you want/need Windows and other MS programs so much, just use Windows and be done for. No need to jump through extra hoops, while also compromising on ... literally everything.
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  2.  @peterhutt4807  Why sad ? I actually like that I don't have the surprise spoiled.
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  3. Regarding logging in as another user (either fully, or just in a terminal session) is that yourself can be a danger. Say, you do take a break and come back some time later and forget that you're logged in as root (I know, in terminals you have a different prompt, but not everybody is used to that). And if you forget that you're logged as root, you might do things that you don't want to do. Commands that you run and that create files or folders, they will be owned by root. And you might find out later that your user doesn't have access to them or that some daemon cannot interact with said files anymore or things of that nature.
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  4. One important piece that I don't think it was mentioned (let me know if I missed it) is that Varia is open source, using Mozilla Public License Version 2.0
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  5. In regards to "Ed". Is there any other editor in this 14 text editors list that can open/operate a file of any size ? I ask because at one time I had a log file which was like dozens of GB big. From what I remember I couldn't open it neither in vim neither in nano, because they tried to load the whole file in RAM, so unless you have excessive RAM sizes, it will crash. I don't remember exactly what I did, I think I searched how I can split it and chunked it.
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  6. A bit curious that a low-end OS, especially one that has "Legacy" in its name is 64bit only. No love for 32bit anymore. Oh well, by this time I guess only Gentoo makes sense to install on TRULY old hardware.
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  7. Hey DT, don't change the keyboard! How else are we going to know how strong and complicated the password is ?
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  8. LoL sweetmelon3365 and folksurvival, I think you need a thicker skin. I mean, I don't want to say there is no chance that the dev is a cuckoo-head, you never know. There has been signs, so it is good to be guarded. But also not overreact.
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  9.  @miljantrajkovic1862  Yeah, tell that to my grandma! You people (you and Edward) are insane with statements like "noone is using the applications grid" or "I don't know anyone who uses the applications grid". Having keyboard-centric power-user interface is very good, but it shouldn't be at the expense of mostly-mouse driven interfaces that casual people (which are the vast majority) know, like and use. This is one of the STILL ongoing problem for Linux which really hinders it's mass adoption.
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  10. The hell is wrong with you ? Firefox is an excellent browser (still). And it's the most standard compliant browser. And while I'm certainly not a fan of current day Mozilla, and their focus on SJW and less on things like ... proper financing, I still think that "dumpster fire" is a bit of an exaggeration. Checking the landscape, it can be (MUCH) worse...
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  11. Stallman also doesn't use it for the priciple of it. I've never understood, and it pains me, the people that saw Stallman using really old hardware having basically a severely handicapped experience and then they thought to themselves "hmm, nope, I don't want to do that, no FOSS for me". Like, nobody is asking you to go to the same lengths as Stallman, he's just showcasing you just how bad of a situation we're in. If anythink, it should be more of a reason to start contributing to FOSS one way or another, so if people get in a situation where they HAVE to go full FOSS, they won't be so behind in features.
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  12. If they start talking about socio-political issues, you tell them politely that it's out of scope of the FOSS project. If they continue to do so, then they are not respectful and can be booted off from the project.
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  13. Don't want to be an apologist, but I think the reason is about what he said that a new browser has bigger chances. Because of the baggage. Firefox is 2.88% but on the decline. Linux is 3-4% but growing.
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  14. #HeyDT Genuine question: you stumbled a bit on opening things and getting shortcuts and so on. You've had rofi opened multiple times with "Help and Tips" there. Why don't you try it ? I don't know for ArchCraft how useful it actually is, but I do think (and hope) it should've answered at least some of your questions. And people spent effort making it, it would be a shame to not check it, but get frustrated on things not working.
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  15. C, done properly, is difficult too
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  16. But isn't that exactly what he's saying here ? A project should be about a single thing. Firefox should be a good browser, not save the planet.
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  17. Until snaps can have custom repositories, people complaining about it will never stop, even if Canonical will be spotless for, say, 10 years. And while I don't actively complain, I support the camp that complains about it. Really, having the backend closed source is simply a risk. A risk that at one point it will be gone. Or it will turn for the worse. It might not happen, but noone can guarantee it won't. There are many people who will happily use it, and if it goes to the doodoo simply switch to another package format. But some other people prefer stability. That is, they prefer to settle on the better (preferably best) format and then never have to deal with it again. Canonical really is wrong with this approach. For snaps' sake, I hope that they either make the backend open source too, or someone creates a custom backend for a snap repository so people can bypass Canonical's nonsense.
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  18. #HeyDT ! Why don't you make the tier list in HTML ? It shouldn't take more than 30 minutes, and doing the list will be MUCH easier. Hunting the layers to precisely click to add a new item and resizing the layers to fit everything in is so silly. Let me know if you want me to do it and share it via pastebin or something.
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  19. You're not wrong, but overall is not that gimmicky. It's actually really good on old hardware, out of the box (you could, of course have a manually configured Arch or Gentoo for better results. I guess Debian too). Remember that DT chose the "Full instalation".
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  20. My homie asking the CPU usage and the kernel version but not reading the top part of that conky part. Interesting that there it says 2 GB of RAM being used. I guess it takes into account the cache/buffer part too. But, having multiple tools for the same job, but lacking util-linux and a full featured browser like firefox is ... questionable. I'm curious if there is a good reason behind that.
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  21. I think a very good example of how good & useful is awk is the example of a log like the apache access log (in the default format) and properly filter the requests that responded with a 400 or 503 response, given that you can find 400 and 503 in the request address, or in the size or the time it took to complete. Also to filter all requests that are longer than a second for example and many other things like that. It's basically Excel powers in CLI over column-structured data/files (which are common in commands outputs or log files)
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  22. I disagree with the ranking. Yeah, if you know already what to expect, what do you have to do, it is easy. But, in some cases, let's take Gentoo, you do have to learn quite some things for it to work. And as nice as the wiki is, there's still things that you kind of need to know before hand, otherwise you'll be in for a bad time. Like someone mentioned, when it breaks... well, it's not so easy anymore, now, is it ? And just the amount of what you need to learn, what packages do what, what an OS requires in general and so on, there's a lot to learn. That's objectively difficult. Of course, there is such a thing as something being difficult no matter how much you know. I'd say that it doesn't apply here almost at all. Everything related to installing and maintaing an OS is knowledge based. There's no realtime dexterity or attention/observation/perception contest where if you do not act in less than 1 second to an event you lose. Back to the Gentoo example. I can bet you that more than 99% of people who a) didn't used Linux before or know that much about it and b) are not developers, now these people, if you would task them to install Gentoo (as their first Linux install) I bet you that more than 99% won't be able to do it in less than 24 hours. On a computer where compiling everything needed takes less than 4 hours. They'll have A LOT to learn. Well, maybe some may be able to do it faster, if they skip on the documentation, and happen that the code examples all work. If you take out the "time to learn" parameter from the equation, most things in life become easy.
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  23.  @danielalvesldiniz  Yeah, it literally is since early-mid 1990s. But I think it matters less right now. What matters is that is on the rise. Multiple people excited for its future. With some companies, like Valve, commited to improve it. Firefox, sadly, doesn't have that. And I'd so wish it did. For me it still runs very good. Though not perfect, as some websites simply don't check for Firefox (which is closest to running the actual web standards)
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  24. About the safety - that is in theory. In practice, Ubuntu surely has at least 100 things more important than replacing the very stable coreutils. And that can wait until they pass all the tests. I think it's mainly the license as well.
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  25. Gentoo FTW! I don't know DTs answer though, though I wouldn't be surprised if he answered that some time before. If any case, you might have your answer in the next #heyDT.
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  26. It's interesting that in all programming 0 means false and non 0 means true, but in the exit codes it's the opposite, and bash knows to do that, to treat a 0 exit code a true value. Neat showing. Basically you'll never use it directly in the CLI (other than maybe testing if you wrote it correctly), but it's one of the foundations for effective, useful scripting. Basically all install scripts use this to check files, directories and permissions, to make sure they're doing the things correctly.
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  27. I don't get your last complaint. A LOT, really A LOT of people, more normie ones, complain when switching to Firefox that it doesn't have the conveniences of Chrome. Exactly like that Sync Service. WHAT THE FLYING F is stopping you on not using it ? It's not for you, it's for the normies. If you were in their shoes, you'd realize how immensily annoying a comment like yours is. It's literally being damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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  28. It's a quick look, not a review. And not giving a reason or at least something else to do instead is the definition of waste of time and space. Give me my 5 seconds back!
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  29. Hey DT! Wouldn't it better if most of those distros that some call them pointless, to be simply customizing scripts, to be ran after the base distro installation ? Wouldn't that achieve mostly the same thing, except it will be simpler for... everyone ?
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  30.  @maxcontreras.  Interesting, thanks for the info! And cheers! Your english is very good, I didn't had any problems. Granted I'm not a native speaker either, I'm from Romania.
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  31. @cateatingbread Well, support from Windows 10 expiring might give a push to more people.
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  32. It's an artix very focused to run well on old hardware. This includes being based on debian, so there's little chances of updates breaking stuff. And you don't really need to update that much and often on a 15 year old machine.
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  33. Does that mean that all compilations were single threaded ? And if that is true, does that mean that all compilations would've been 4-6 times as fast as they were ? 20 minutes grub install ?
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  34. LoL
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  35. A few of these are only differences, with Windows not being truly inferior. For example: the backslash. You can use forward slash too (at least in the modern windowses. Maybe in Windows 95 it wouldn't've worked) The case insensitive files.... that might actually by a bonus for a normie user. Lastly, the activation in order to customize... that's understandable. Activating is only using a key, no names required. And since it's not free (for now) it makes sense to have some kind of locked features. And visual customization have 0 impact on actual important things, like drivers and applications. It's not awesome, but I cannot truly fault them for that.
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  36. True, but the successor should frankly rise itself to that name, not have to be specifically chosen by Stallman. And, sadly, I can't think of anyone being so outspoken and uncompromising, while still very clear in the vision and goal as Richard is. Though to be fair I'm not THAT involved to know that many people in this, maybe they are and simply had a low profile, I don't know.
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  37. Gr8 b8 m8, I r8 8/8
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  38. He already did Haiku and also ReactOS. Don't know about the others
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  39. Isn't that overkill to do it in bash ? Seems way to complicated for that, to me.
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  40. Yes and no. The idea is that if it isn't popular, the legitimate reasons are only mild annoyances. You can usually get around by easily (like using something else). But when it gets popular, you kind of feel surrounded by it. It's no longer so easy to circumvent it. It's also easier to get annoyed that something bad is no longer just something in a corner, but it's spreading like a plague. So the popularity part makes you from simply not liking it to hate it. With a passion. DIE SYSTEMD!
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  41. Y. U. Bald Homie, where art thou ?
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  42. I don't think that Notepad++ devs are hypocritical in the slightest. Few things to consider: - are they owned by Microsoft ? No - do they have contracts with Microsoft ? Pretty certain they don't - Notepad++ is 17 years old software that's very praised for it's usefulness on Windows. If Microsoft does NOW something bad, what would the devs that worked 17 years on this project supposed to do ? Close the project now ? Ok, it can be argued that this isn't the first shady thing that Microsoft does, but you get the idea So, considering the above, I think that the devs publicly distancing themselves to what Microsoft did is exactly the thing they should've done. Though I can also argue about not mixing products with ideology. I mean, raise your individual fork at Microsoft, but leave the Notepad++ project completely untouched. But getting back, I don't think they're hypocritical. You can certainly stay in a man's backyard but still fight them over things you don't approve. You don't have to immediately leave. If the differences are many, clear and insurmountable, THEN you'll have to eventually leave.
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  43. It's still better than actual no backup. But, yeah...
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  44. I second that!
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  45.  @DistroTube  If I'm not mistaken, because you liked it, he cannot edit his comment anymore (which makes sense if you think about it)
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  46.  @SpaceBanana  What the hell is wrong with y'all calling an OS an "operative system". It's "operating system" wtf.
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  47. I second this. When did firefox or its CEO supported censorship ? I know they got a bit too woke for their own good (or for my taste). I really hope something changes there and firefox rises back from its ashes. I don't want it to die :(
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  48. From outside, that's a reasonable take to have. If you dig deeper, it seems to be highly unlikely. Most of the people covering the story didn't even mention that the guy was from Microsoft.
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  49.  @maxcontreras.  Ha, correct, I am missing on those. I simply didn't had them in memory when I wrote it, and it's not something I had to dabble in recently. From your list, I know about all, except loc OS. Is that a capital i or a lowercase L ? Never heard of that one. I'll check it out.
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  50. Hey DT! Do you know that when you have a floating selection (like after pasting) you can press the new layer button at the bottom of the layer window and it will merge the floating selection into a new layer. Personally I only use this all the time and I merge or whatever the new layer into another one instead of anchoring the floating selection. I honestly don't really understand the need of a floating layer. It confuses new people greatly. Sorry, not greatly, but MASSIVELY. Why wouldn't the Paste command simply create a new layer is beyond me. Aaanyway, at the end, the cut and paste of the layers wasn't needed. There's a tool to move layers (the icon is a 4-direction arrow). By holding Shift and dragging, it will move the active layer. Without Shift, it will try to guess the layer you want to move based on where you started dragging. There's other options too. Hope these little tricks helped. Cheers!
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