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A comm dedicated to the fight for free software with an anti-capitalist perspective.

The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.

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Free Software, Free Society provides an excellent primer in the origins and theory around free software and the GNU Project, the pioneers of the Free Software Movement.
Switch to GNU/Linux! If you're still using Windows in $CURRENT_YEAR, flock to Linux Mint!; Apple Silicon users will want to check out Asahi Linux.

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Xenia was meant to be an alternative to Tux and was created (licensed under CC0) by Alan Mackey in 1996.
Comm icon (of Xenia the Linux mascot) was originally created by @ioletsgo
Comm banner is a close up of "Dorlotons Degooglisons" by David Revoy (CC-BY 4.0) for Framasoft

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Graphical Aur helper on EndeavourOS, or linux idiocy (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago by ashinadash@hexbear.net to c/libre@hexbear.net

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"Just use cli bro" yeah okay, yay might be less trouble, but I like being able to keyword-search the AUR and flatpak and stuff.

I moved from Manjaro linux(icky, run by libertarians I think, smelly) to EndeavourOS(based, presumably run by commies and anarchsists, sexy) for a bunch of reasons, like Endeavour runs really well even from an old hard drive, it's a great OS. I kind of miss Pamac though.

From Mint to Manjaro I've always preferred the graphical program-installation way, which is probably windows brainworms that just won't leave. Having to yay s and remember xfce4-sensors-plugin without typos is a lot more annoying than just punching "sensors" into a search bar, so Endeavour's lack of a GUI installer is kind of troublesome to me. I tried just installing Pamac but it's made by Manjaro devs and errors out with exit status 8 or 4 more than half the time. Instead of digging in my heels and yelling about wanting Pamac to work, what else can I use on Endeavour to achieve the same ends?

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[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I could give that a try I guess, last time I had an Arch install image it was all cli, very spooky. I'm not that computersmart but if Arch is dingusproof I'd try it.

The main thing that keeps me from swapping all of my computers from Manjaro right away is working out kinks like audio input/output and DE shenanigans. Vanilla Arch though, curious...

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Arch is very dingusproof if you just read the archwiki from time to time. :) but if you don't want to do that, then you shouldnt use arch. Not a judgement call, just reality. If you want the latest packages but a stable release then use fedora.

Fun fact, the arch install media is copy-to-ram meaning that once you boot into it, it lives in memory instead of your usb drive. It's actually more resistant to crashes than graphical install media like Manjaro and EOS where a jiggle of the usb stick can break ur entire install. It's also a netinstaller so you don't have to update your system after you've installed it.

Archinstall is very customizable but you can always get best practices defaults if you go through each option as you would a graphical install (partitioning disks, choosing timezone, choosing arch mirror, picking desktop profile like kde, gnome, xfce etc.). I highly recommend you try it.

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago

Wow that sounds great actually. And one issue with Endeavour is the install image boots KDE by default, so it doesn't run much if your system has 2GB RAM. I think I might, ty!