#Endeavour Linux

[sludge-life-daily]

listening to sad songs and mourning the loss my my beloved arch linux install.

[autismbedamnedmyboycanworkagrill]

Man I somehow felt the urge to get an rss reader and install linux on an 18 year old computer (almost 19) as a trans guy, should I just get the programmer socks and stupid amount of stickers already or what

[unidentifiedfuckingthing]

most disappointing thing about moving to linux is using FOSS programs with huge userbases and finding out that theyre wildly buggier than they were on windows. in hindsight like, of course, the number of people on windows is probably an order of magnitude higher, but it kind of feels like. you cant do that. its supposed to be the other way around

[styluscat]

A Linux laptop with a Windows virtual machine on a second monitor goes the hardest when it comes to setups, and you can't change my mind.

[blanket-hugger]

or just don't consume culture, its faster

genuinely wild to me when I go to someone's house and we watch TV or listen to music or something and there are ads. I haven't seen an ad in my home since 2005. what do you mean you haven't set up multiple layers of digital infrastructure to banish corporate messaging to oblivion before it manifests? listen, this is important. this is the 21st century version of carving sigils on the wall to deny entry to demons or wearing bells to ward off the Unseelie. come on give me your router admin password and I'll show you how to cast a protective spell of Get Thee Tae Fuck, Capital

[redhat-official]

tumblr I want to paint the chromebook

what do I paint it

[wishfuldeity]

here we go!!!

even tho i know i put all the stuff i need right now onto other drives it like, what if i forgot something important? what if i accidentally selected the wrong drive to install to? (i checked at least 5 times)

i have done this several times on my laptop but never on a system with more than 1 storage device..

tempted to daily drive linux on my desktop...

everything important is stored on drives separate from C:/ so it should be easy, im just looking at GPU passthrough stuff for hoyoverse games b/c they dont seem to like being run outside of windows.

[linux-opinions]

Unlike that other anon imo different distros do have meaning. Alpine, Gentoo, arch, debian, nixos, fedora, etc etc. they all have different features and different factors for picking them. What we don't need is someone to put a gnome skin on Ubuntu and call it a new distro.

At the core distros matter, but sometimes it is better to pick the "core distro". There are exceptions like with Linux mint and endeavour and forks that offer whole new features (Nobara, pop!_os, fedora silverblue) and thats great!

So, in short, a distro becomes meaningless if it's a fork of a fork of a fork of a fork without anything really new or outstanding.

certified centrist take 🤙

[needs-more-duck]

...just realized I could be linuxposting here too

ah. the trials of "no one has packaged this for void and I don't want to be the one who does"

back on endeavourOS (which is to say I hit F7 a lot while rebooting and chose the endeavour startup instead of my beloved Void) and have now made a new dots branch for "what if arch" specifically (as opposed to the "what if Wayland" branch that's just about ready to go into main

DISTRO SHENANIGANS ASIDE I have been really loving my Wayland adventure! it's been the smoothest wm/de/compositor jump I've ever made and hoo boy Niri is so nice for how I work. It's been fun shinying up my graphical session from the much more rough "I got it good enough and I'm not spending another minute on this" I've had going on previously. Niri is just really *pretty* and it has had the effect of making me actually care about theming beyond just "is it dark" and "is the bar minimal" (now it's "is it dark AND CUTE" and "is the bar minimal AND CUTE AND USEFUL") (the bar has been on the floor. don't worry about it)

in conclusion: I have not thought of anything besides Linux for a week and a half now (kickass choir concert I am still recovering from excepting) and now I shall be shifting back into "MUST LEARN MUSIC" and "how can I improve my choral library" choir mode [the most exhausted thumbs up you've ever seen]

[rockafirevevo]

im at my wits end if anyone has a bit more comfortability with linux and specifically with nvidia drivers i would really like some help. details of my dilemma under the cut

so i built this pc, i don't think most of the hardware specs really matter but the problem is that the GPU is a PNY/NVIDIA quadro k6000. it's a much older one, and the consensus online seems to be that it's just a piece of garbage [which i am. inclined to agree with at this point. it seemed good at the time bc i was having a tough time justifying the cost of a PC to begin with and it had the most processing power of anything in budget. whatever. ill do more research next time but i certainly cannot afford to swap it out now]

it uses older drivers, 470xx, which i cannot get to work on linux (specifically, i've tried endeavour and manjaro so far.)

endeavour installs with generic drivers by default. manjaro Has an option to install with proprietary drivers, but if i try that, the installer just hangs forever. i think it might be because the drivers are old enough that they aren't bundled in, and it can't connect to the internet to pull down alternative drivers so early on in the install.

installing drivers manually after installing the OS itself seems to be the thing to do, except that when i do, the OS loses the ability to see any information about the monitor. in practice, this means that it gets stuck at a completely absurd tiny resolution (i think it's like. 600x300. not usable at all) and will not respond to any attempts to set the resolution manually. the only way to fix this is to uninstall all of the NVIDIA drivers and then im back where i started. ive tried so many things i can't even remember them all to list them but suffice to say nothing's worked so far. i have the same exact issue on both endeavour and manjaro.

i really like the convenience of aur so i don't really want to go to a non arch-based distro but i will if i have to because it is driving me insane that i spent so much money on this thing and it refuses to play any of the games that i was hoping to play on it. i also don't have a lot of confidence that distro hopping will even do anything since i did already try once and manjaro is supposed to work super well with NVIDIA. and it just doesn't.

[possibly-j]

My Linux Journey

This was originally supposed to be a post on learning Linux but I got to rambling so enjoy my story about my journey with Linux. Expect a post on that topic at a later date.

~The early days~

I think my introduction to Linux was honestly quite smooth. See I'm poor and am not inclined to sail the seven seas when I can get by on a free option. And as I looked for free software I started to pick up that the safe ones were always "open source" and seemed to always support, sometimes primarily, Linux. Eventually my curiosity was piqued and I decided to look into it. I was confused by a lot of things, but I was setting up a Minecraft server for my friends and saw people recommend Linux, specifically Debian, for the job. So after unsuccessfully installing it once (I don't know how I think I got scared about formatting the drive) and not understanding how formatting works and deleting the operating system by writing it over with 0's (I keep adding comments but seriously where did I get the impression I had to do that?) and reinstalling I got it set up, downloaded everything I needed, and got it working in a few days. This taught me a lot. The command line, which I wasn't unfamiliar with but rarely used, was my new best friend, or rather only friend. I learned how to do updates, navigate the file structure, download software, and use Nano because, well, I had to. But most importantly, I like how clean everything was compared to Windows (subtle foreshadowing), and I wanted more.

~Adoption~

I was building my computer and really wanted to make the jump to Linux, so I researched and landed on Kubuntu. I installed it, smoothly this time, got some software, got confused by Snaps, opened Blender and- green bar. I had a new AMD graphics card, so driver issues weren't unexpected, but it deterred me enough to just install Windows instead. I did decide though to try on my laptop since it was older and mostly used for web-surfing. I installed Pop! OS because I thought the tiling was cool (more subtle foreshadowing) and... It worked great! I quickly got used to the nice GUI elements it provided and my prior knowledge of the terminal made it easy enough to fix odd issues that came up. However, and I'm sure everyone who knows anything about Linux sees this one coming

~Distro Hopping~

I'll save you most of the details but I think it went like this

Pop! OS, got mad at Gnome, switched to Manjaro with KDE (Which will be my DE of choice for the rest of this), wanted Arch but wasn't comfortable enough with the command line yet.

Broke something, switched to Debian, liked it on server thought I might like it on my laptop.

Wanted newer software, switched to OpenSuse Tumbleweed.

I used OpenSuse Tumbleweed for I think a year straight. It's just that good, but I can't leave good enough alone so

Alpine Linux, because I thought it was cool. Actually planning on moving back to it once I'm done needing my laptop to always be working because it meets that "clean" criteria like no other in my brain (See I told you it was foreshadowing).

And right now Endeavour OS, because I wanted something with good documentation and didn't feel like setting up Arch.

Oh and I use i3 now, to finish off the foreshadowing.

There were a bunch of short lived ones throughout that, but those are the memorable ones. Also I installed Fedora on the computer I built a few months back and now use it over Windows whenever I can.

~Where I am Now~

If it isn't obvious, I'm sucked in. I've almost built Linux From Scratch, three times, installed Gentoo a few times, and even tried expanding my horizons further with FreeBSD, which I love but the software support isn't great for my needs. Linux is natural to me and I even have my own bits of obscure knowledge on fixes for odd issues with my hardware. I have weird opinions about init systems (Weird because I don't actually care much, I just like OpenRC more than SystemD because it's simple). Windows feels slow to use, and not for hardware reasons it just takes me twice as long to do anything. I really love tiling window managers like I don't understand how I lived without them. I primarily use open source software when I can but flatpaks and web applications fill in the gaps nicely.

~Closing Notes~

I love Linux, probably a bit too much, but it's just a fun time. It works well for me and I've spent enough time in the ecosystem that it's what I'm used to. I see a lot of new Linux users on here so if you're new, welcome! Don't let the often toxic community (at least on Reddit, I don't know about here) get to you. My absolute favorite part of Linux is that you get to have choices. Make use of that, find what you like, and don't be afraid to reinstall Arch for the 10 millionth time. There's a lot to learn, and maybe my story will be of some help. To those more experienced than me, how the fuck do you understand chmod

:q!

[mapleleafletmsx]

show me proof you use arch linux

Technically it's not Arch Arch but once you install Endevour it's basically the same

I've tried to install Arch on multiple occasions, it never installs properly, so I have to use Endeavour

[nyaahilism]

swapping (lol) Linux Mint Cinnamon for Endeavour OS with Kde Plasma

ฅᯫ᳐ •֊• ᯫ᳐ฅ

Mint was good for being such a newbie but I want customization options & Arch capabilities!! And to have to use the terminal more...

Wish me luck (៸៸᳐>⩊<៸៸᳐)~♡

[onewomancitadel]

an old fashioned blog post

I hope everyone in SEQ will be alright... I am thinking of one of my readers once upon a time who was from Brisbane which is where the cyclone is making landfall!

I am away with only my laptop at the moment which has increased its bluescreens of death and it seems like even with Libre Office backing up every minute I have still ended up losing writing. It was "only" my original fiction, not fanfic, and only a few minor edits lost, so not as huge a deal as when I once had to rewrite a quarter of an entire chapter (but I did it fairly speedily from memory and I was quite proud of myself) which for Skimming Eye sits around 2,000-2,500 words.

But of course I am leaving out the fact that there is an old desktop here I might try unearthing since it may well be more stable than this newfangled machine. It is a project to occupy myself.

I mentioned Libre Office because I am making the move from Word. Firstly because I am logged out and secondly because I am thinking of switching over to Linux in the near future since I am tired of Windows being stupid*. Apparently it also runs Sims 2 better; one day it will be considered stupid and girlish to use Linux I sure hope (ha). Yes I'm familiar with distros and I know things. I find openSUSE attractive because it has a distro called Tumbleweed - I herd u like Tumblr so I put Tumblr in your OS so you can Tumble whilst you Tumble etc. For the purposes of anybody trying to computersplain, I am probably not going to use openSUSE.

*If I have to use third party programs and registry edits to fix this dump then it isn't good is it. All I play are old games that hardly run on Windows anyway!

I finished True Grit recently - the novella - and it was painfully good. Genius, swift prose. Maybe one of my favourite protagonists ever. Proof that men can write girls plenty easily. Interesting reading that some of the reception to it and Charles Portis' writing is that because he can be comic (especially deadpan) his work is considered "less serious" in the canon. Silly.

I am quite sly on my blog about original fiction and ironically they are projects which feel less serious and more freeing than fanfiction. Fanfiction by nature has limitations imposed upon it. These are powerful limitations. Limitation and necessity is the mother of invention etc. and this in some way can make fic feel both easier and harder to write. I'm especially glad that the discourse has finally caught up and accepted that original fiction and fanfiction are separate disciplines but honestly they had to learn the hard way (the way it always is). Once upon a time you'd be drawn and quartered in the public square for such an opinion. But you will note that original fiction suffers when you apply fanfiction practices to it. I especially hate the false intimacy of it. In fandom, you are close to each other by proximity. There are fewer hierarchies. When you publish a work, I am not your fellow fan or a friend. The comfort that one enjoys in fandom - or ought to enjoy, certainly in feminine-dominated ends - is not the comfort extended to professionally published authors who are profiting off the endeavour and contributing to a body of literary canon for which we are all participants and critics.

Of course the reductionist will say, Vergil and Dante wrote fanfiction! Which is blatantly untrue. You are comparing separate practices of copyright cultures as opposed to actual literary traditions. And make no mistake: fanfiction is a literary tradition - that theoretically should be the most free and experimental - but it has its mores and its craft.

Obviously I have been slow going with updates. This is because I have things wrong with me and I had a tantrum. If people are mean to me I am not going to update. I do not intend to hold my work hostage and to my polite and lovely readers I do admire you and am very grateful for you, more than you could possibly know, and I understand this is bait for trolls but I also don't care anymore. Nothing I have tried has worked. I am sensitive and delicate. So be it. I am not putting out updates if an individual chucks a tantie in my inbox, simple as. I am the only one allowed to have tantrums. This is a dictatorship.

That being said now I am finally being honest I will say that the past year I have been preoccupied with a story I intend to post in full - no updates! - to circumvent how much I have grown to loathe that process. Similarly for Skimming Eye I will do my very best to prepare the last two chapters at the same time (the length of four, good grief) and the epilogue to finally be rid of this beast. Which leaves the elephant in the room - The Rusted Knight and the Fall Maiden - who needs to be dealt with. The work has been sitting complete for a year but admittedly this other story has advanced a lot of the ideas I wanted to explore better. I'm still of half a mind about uploading the the last couple of updates. Tonally, I think my skills have improved in juggling those fairytale aspects working with absurd tragedy that R/WBY does in its odd way. I also think Jaune's POV made it needlessly diffcult. You will see what I mean. I leant too much into V9 trying to reconcile aspects of it I admittedly disliked and simply I think any story with Cinder in it evades that narrative discordance they slipped into that volume. It's the same reason everything was good when Ruby was alone or having visions of Summer and Raven. I wish I could watch V8 for the first time again.

I have never been this straightforward about my work but I am past the point of being secretive, I think... I have been through a lot the past few days that have made me reconsider how much I try to tightly police myself around people in my everyday life so they don't cotton onto the fact I am eccentric or get mad at me and hurt me. And I have realised that honestly I have failed. They still get mad at me and hurt me. The fact that fandom reminds me so much of dealing with abuse is honestly so funny.

I also have a post about Midsommar I am considering sharing. I'm not sure that I want to as it is such a controversial film, but I love stories which facilitate multiple readings - it is so unique in that aspect in that it does not evade ambiguity but celebrates multiple levels of meaning.

I have not given dates for updating because I hate dates. And since I'm still away for a fortnight it will be a while until I'm in a position to prepare posting anything to AO3 as that is my last editing process - I will have Firefox and my word processing document side by side with the prepared HTML code as I do a last final read through and make sure everything is nicely formatted. I'll do that a few times.

I have no idea why anybody would read my stories. That is of course frankly absurd. I don't want to think about it too hard. In some ways people being kind to me is a lot harder than people being mean. I am barely fit for living. I just don't know how to say thank you enough, and I don't deserve it, and I feel so pathetic because it feels so rare and precious and people don't understand how much that means to me - there's this part of me that bruises at the fact most normal people give and receive that type of admiration or affection all the time, and to me it is like water in the desert.

Well, to end this happily I have so many original fiction projects I'm in an embarrassment of riches. I have stories that will take me years to get through so I am ordering them in priority and in terms of research scale that will be necessary to undertake. I think it's extremely valuable to have a writerly identity that exists separately from fandom. So I suppose that is an update. I am very trying.

[crash-stop]

When software changes.

Stuff they don't teach you in art school but probably should - how to cope with changes to software you use regularly. Not been posting to much last few days, I've been trying to work out a problem with ffmpeg that I suddenly found when trying to use methods I was using last year , in the meantime I had swapped linux distros from my usual devuan stable ( 4) to an arch based os Eandeavour os, very different distros but both very good. On revisiting techniques I'd used last year I discovered that newer versions of ffmpeg ie 5 and above no longer support basic things id been doing involving passing ffmpeg output to ffplay in a specific way and while i found workarounds in 6 for some of my command line scripts it seriously restricted working with colourspaces like tmv or monob which are the basis for a lot of my scripts, these only work in ffmpeg 4.4.4 or below as far as I've discovered so far so I had to go back to archived versions of Devuan 4 I have squirreled away to make work and then go on to try and find a solution for a more up to date os. I'm still working out kinks but I have solutions but none which so far work with ffmpeg six or on endeavour os ( there has been a newer change to binutils which mean I cant build a static binary for ffmpeg 4 on endeavour but I can build a static binary on the newest stable version of Devuan 5 ( but not Devuan testing - excalibur) once I have the kinks worked out there will be new work.