The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Rust Troony]

The last time I tried making a bootable W11 drive off of Ubuntu it was so tedious I instead made it off of a Windows laptop with Rufus.

This is microsofts fault. they make it harder to make a functional iso through normal means, because you are meant to make one through the Microsoft Media Creation Tool goyim. Rofus and ventoy are the only flashers that works around it.

Just use ventoy, makes life so much easier.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Ventoy didn't work for Windows isos for me, I had to use WoeUSB

 

[acid_ra1n]

Ventoy didn't work for Windows isos for me, I had to use WoeUSB

i think it only works for ltsc which if ur gpu isnt new is what u should be using anyways

 

[analrapist]

The last time I tried making a bootable W11 drive off of Ubuntu it was so tedious

Everyone's so programmed to suck packaged-software cock to make Windows ISOs boot, they've forgotten how EFI even works: boot from /efi/boot/boot[arch].efi. Microsoft doesn't make it easy, but it's not that complicated. WoeUSB is one approach, but it depends on a fat stack to make it go. The big "problem" is that install.wim is bigger than FAT32 supports... but Windows is quite tolerant otherwise. WoeUSB's big stack is all about splitting that .WIM file to fit on FAT32. So, the quick overview to DIY:

0. GPT partition your USB.
1. Make 2 partitions on your USB: Your EFI partition, formatted FAT32, 1GB, and your NTFS partition, ~7GB; this will all fit in 8GB. Copy everything from the ISO to the NTFS partition.
2. Copy everything BUT install.wim to FAT32. You can probably copy everything and install.wim will just fail anyhow due to being >=4GB, but I don't remember that specific.

And you're done. I've tested this with both Windows 10 and Windows 11, most recent being 23H2 which is a bit old but I don't install Windows often.

 

[AnOminous]

Ventoy didn't work for Windows isos for me, I had to use WoeUSB

For whatever reason, I haven't had this problem, although some people may object that Ventoy is far from open source. But if I install fucking unintelligible binary blobs just to have NVIDIA cards work reasonably well, I can cope with that.

I haven't tested with Win11 though because I'd rather install cancer in my lungs than Win11 on anything at all.

 

[Godai Yuusaku]

A lot of super nerds (and I include myself in this) have this tendency to assume that basic things they take for granted are understood by the non-technical. I mean really basic. I realised my mental model was very broken when a lot of people I knew didn't even understand Google Search and Chrome were separate (but related) things on their phones.

I don't understand why people can't accept their computer use is not the norm and just get on with doing what they want to do.

This idea that we have to cater for users that honestly have no interest in the platform is holding the platform hostage.
That is why things like Omarchy, Hyprland, Suckless and the like got a lot of attention because they embraced what the platform is.

Yep. You would think people would get it after what, 16 years?

You also have to keep in mind these people don't understand computers and actively don't want to understand it.

 

[hog cranking frog]

You also have to keep in mind these people don't understand computers and actively don't want to understand it.

Half the time it's these people saying "Linux needs to do X or get better about Y before anyone will take it seriously" unironically in 2026.

Don't cater to retards.

 

[SchizoDaemon]

Half the time it's these people saying "Linux needs to do X or get better about Y before anyone will take it seriously" unironically in 2026.

Somebody tells me something along the lines of "Multiplayer games don't work" 15 minutes after I am playing Helldivers 2.

What they mean is "<Garbage Game that requires kernel-level anti-cheat and comprises my whole PC> won't work on Linux."

Don't cater to retards.

People only really know most of the time how Windows works and have no real conception of what is happening underneath.
I have worked in development professionally for close to 20 years now, and during that time I've met developers that didn't understand how to exit Vim or do basic command-line functions like change a directory. A lot of people don't seem to understand what the path does.

Simply knowing my tools reasonably well somehow put you leagues and bounds above many other developers.

It used to be like a rite of passage at a company that you install your own OS on the machine given to you.
Your job requires you to understand how the computer works, and it was a basic competency test to see if you could get Windows/Linux installed.

 

[I AM UNDOUBTEDLY FIZZED8%]

YouTux responded to the OpenMandriva alleged accusation conundrum by claiming we need more women in the Linux community since they're more civil than men in tech and would fix said community.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

The only women in Linux we're gonna get are the "women" (men) kind.

 

[Dread First]

The only women in Linux we're gonna get are the "women" (men) kind.

Or Linus Torvalds's woke daughter desecrating her father's legacy.

 

[AnOminous]

It used to be like a rite of passage at a company that you install your own OS on the machine given to you.
Your job requires you to understand how the computer works, and it was a basic competency test to see if you could get Windows/Linux installed.

When I worked in a court with a batshit stupid firewall that refused to let me access basic shit I needed, I put Peppermint OS on an end stage laptop just to be able to access even basic legal resources. On the occasions I could use something necessary but the firewall was blocking it, and someone asked me what wizardry was I using? No real wizardry, I'm just using the free "wifi" (hate that term) from the pizza joint next door.

Also Peppermint was seriously awesome. Not sure if it still is.

 

[acid_ra1n]

my computers so fucking secure man my goddamn printer doesnt work so fuckin hardened man

 

[innocent jogger]

The only person I know that started a new OS somewhat successfully is Andreas Kling.

Terry Davis would strongly disagree.

 

[innocent jogger]

my computers so fucking secure man my goddamn printer doesnt work so fuckin hardened man

Yeah, well I threw away my battery and power supply. Let's see you hack my fuckin laptop now.

 

[Baguette Child]

My filesystem is a cursed labyrinth that may or may not contain a dangerous minotaur, good luck trying to extract any useful information from it hacker chuds

 

[pweasedont]

Ver archivo adjunto 9276399

My filesystem is a cursed labyrinth that may or may not contain a dangerous minotaur, good luck trying to extract any useful information from it hacker chuds

You should totally, totally format all your partitions as davfs2

 

[DavidS877]

You should totally, totally format all your partitions as davfs2

Doesn't everyone just use rclone to mount their OneDrive account as their root filesystem?

 

[pweasedont]

Doesn't everyone just use rclone to mount their OneDrive account as their root filesystem?

Almost, I use public S3 buckets for my personal data and passwords because sharing is caring

 

[Vhailor]

Is there a way in the Linux to "merge" two windows in one? I was watching Twitch stream with VLC and using Chatterino for the chat, so I tilled them together but alt+tabbing only brings VLC and I have to do additional action to bring chat. I am using Fedora with KDE.