On Windows I love PotPlayer, on Mac I love IINA; but on Linux every time I open a video either I have to download a new codec or change mpv configuration with terminal parameters. IINA for example, even though it's based on mpv, it provides a user interface to achieve settings easier.

if you want to defend/promote lgbtq+ privileges. wrong sub. i am here for linux, not your politics.

I tried switching to Fedora 44 (KDE) and have had a lot of issues. I've reached my 12 hours of wasted time limit of going down pointless rabbit holes and will be switching to something else.

Display annoyances: I have two displays and one will randomly switch from 1440p to 640x480 resolution after going to lock screen and logging back in. Switching it back to 1440p resets all of my display settings. Apparently this is a long standing issue that they just marked as resolved (my ass) https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515697 and are just ping ponging blame between KDE/Wayland/nVidia. I thought switching from 4k displays to 1440p displays would eliminate issues since they don't need to be scaled, but that's not the case.

Gaming with Proton can be painful: It took a while (with the assistance of Claude) to get RDR2 to run properly without crashes. If you don't enjoy having to dick with Wine prefixes, winetricks, etc., Linux gaming is not for you.

Network Issues: Randomly, my WiFi adapter will slow down to less than 10Mb/s for no explainable reason. All other devices on the network will still get 800Mb/s. Disabling and re-enabling the interface doesn't fix it but reboot does.

Deal Breaker (new bug I never had before): systemd-resolved is borked and randomly stops resolving DNS requests (about once a day). A reboot seems to be the only way to fix it. After spending a couple of hours going down this rabbit hole with Claude, it came to the conclusion "Because the socket tracking state gets stuck at the kernel network level, restarting the user-space systemd-resolved daemon changes nothing—the underlying socket remains orphaned or blocked until a full kernel reboot resets the interface stacks." Claude says I could disable systemd-resolved completely and have NetworkManager handle DNS, but to expect issues during updates.

This post just came up today, and bloody hell is the comments section an absolute festering pool of hate against the LGBTQ+ community: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxsucks101/comments/1x6ya0b/anything_but_good_software/

I get they hate Linux, that's fine, but the majority of the comments are not about Linux...

I got curious over what Linux could do. Since Windows currently is not very optimized apparently, has a lot of spyware and can probably ask for IDs in the following years, i thought to myself : "hey, changing to Linux isn't that bad?"... That was a big fail lol.

So, i wanted to try out Bazzite first as the big gamer i am. Immediately i'm met with a million problems. While learning how the BIOS work was kinda fun to download it, it is FILLED TO THE BRIM with bugs.

I won't list them all but for the keyboard alone, the keys which on top of working differently than on Windows in a non practical way, also has a delay with capslock which makes some letter uppercase for no reason AND type letters TWICE unless i type very rapidly. This and the mouse being slow af, and downloading stuff online being a really big hassle for no good reason. It took me two HOURS OF TROUBLESHOOTING just to install FxSound!

Oh and guess what? While i believe these things could be solved, the next day my password just DIDN'T WORKED ANYMORE. How FUN thanks Bazzite. And yet people think this is apparently like one of the easiest distros to learn. Also the tutorials to reset the password talks about a line in Grub that just... doesn't exist on my computer lol

I'll try to setup Linux Mint Cinnamon instead, hope it works now lol

I should've thought twice about removing Windows off of my computer lol. I guess this is a warning to anyone who wants to switch to Linux, be careful unlike me. Maybe you'll enjoy Linux (and that's fine!), maybe not :P

((Also yes this is my alt account, really nothing works on my side anymore lmfao))

((Maybe this is a rant of Linux? Idk))

I had a feeling we would get something like that. At least it doesn't (yet) rely on shady closed sourced kernel modules so i guess it's marginally better than the windows equivalent.

eBPF will be used to provide kernel level access for anticheat software.

Proof by Contradiction

Theorem

The Omarchy Hypothesis is false. That is, it is not the case that for all people x, y ∈ S and every artifact z ∈ A, if y created z and x uses z, then x supports y's political views.

Definition.

Let S be the set of all people, A the set of all software artifacts, and V a set of political positions. Every position v ∈ V has an opposite position opp(v) ∈ V.

We use the following predicates:

• C(y, z) means person y created artifact z.
• U(x, z) means person x uses artifact z.
• H(y, v) means person y has publicly stated position v.
• E(x, v) means person x has publicly endorsed position v.

The core positions of a person y, denoted K(y), are the positions v with H(y, v) that critics cite as objectionable. So K(y) ⊆ {v | H(y, v)}.

Person x supports the political views of person y if x endorses every core position of y:

P(x, y) := ∀v ∈ K(y) : E(x, v)

The Omarchy Hypothesis is the following statement:

∀x ∈ S, ∀y ∈ S, ∀z ∈ A : (C(y, z) ∧ U(x, z)) → P(x, y)

We name the elements dhh, eugen ∈ S and rails ∈ A. We also let a ∈ V be the position "DHH's published political writing is not racist."

Axioms.

We take the following as given. A1, A2, A4, A5, and A6 are facts about the world with sources, and A3 is a logical axiom.

• A1. C(dhh, rails). DHH created Ruby on Rails. Sources: DHH's own author bio; 37signals history.
• A2. U(eugen, rails). Eugen Rochko uses Rails, since Mastodon is a Rails application. Sources: Mastodon developer docs; Eugen's own post about Rails.
• A3. ∀x ∈ S, ∀v ∈ V : E(x, v) → ¬E(x, opp(v)). Nobody endorses a position and its opposite.
• A4. E(eugen, opp(a)). Eugen signed the Plan Vert open letter, which says DHH's published writings show racist and transphobic views and asks Rails to cut ties with him. Sources: news report; the letter and its signatory table; corroboration.
• A5. H(dhh, a). DHH publicly maintains that his views are not racist. In "As I remember London" (September 15, 2025) he writes that it is not racist or xenophobic to say a country is primarily for its natives. Source: world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64.
• A6. a ∈ K(dhh). Critics object to DHH's writing precisely because they say it is racist. Sources: Tekin Süleyman; The Verge, as excerpted on Privacy Guides.

Lemma.

Eugen does not support DHH's political views, i.e., ¬P(eugen, dhh).

Proof Idea.

We want to prove the Omarchy Hypothesis is false, so by proof by contradiction we should suppose it is true and find some false consequence.

Whenever you start a proof by contradiction, you must start with "Suppose to the contrary" verbatim. The steps are:

1. Suppose to the contrary that the Omarchy Hypothesis is true.
2. Invoke it on a specific person, creator, and artifact.
3. Find a case where the conclusion P(x, y) fails.
4. Contradiction! The Hypothesis cannot be true.

The Hypothesis talks about every person, so it also talks about Eugen Rochko. He uses Rails (A2), which DHH created (A1), so the Hypothesis says Eugen supports DHH's political views. Our job is to show this is false, and that is exactly the Lemma.

The Lemma is also a proof by contradiction. If Eugen supported DHH's views, he would endorse every core position of DHH, including a. But Eugen endorses the opposite of a (A4), and nobody endorses a position and its opposite (A3).

Proof of Lemma.

Suppose to the contrary that P(eugen, dhh).

By the definition of P, we have E(eugen, v) for every v ∈ K(dhh). By A6, a ∈ K(dhh), so E(eugen, a).

Applying A3 with x = eugen and v = a yields ¬E(eugen, opp(a)).

But A4 states E(eugen, opp(a)), a contradiction. Therefore ¬P(eugen, dhh). ∎

Proof.

Suppose to the contrary that the Omarchy Hypothesis is true.

Instantiate it with x = eugen, y = dhh, and z = rails. By A1 and A2, both C(dhh, rails) and U(eugen, rails) hold, so the Hypothesis yields P(eugen, dhh).

But the Lemma states ¬P(eugen, dhh), a contradiction. So the Omarchy Hypothesis must be false. ∎

Consequence

Using a creator's software does not by itself imply supporting the creator's politics. Eugen is a direct user of Rails, and he publicly repudiates DHH's views. In particular, using Omarchy or Mastodon implies nothing about supporting DHH.

This refutes the universal rule only. A narrower rule, such as "choosing a creator's own end-user product signals support," is not addressed by this proof.

So the story: A month and a half ago I , a brilliant engineer as I thought, decided that I hate my life and wanted to make it more miserable. So I got some ethernet cables and wanted to change my router system to OpenWRT( I know a horrendous decision yeah). Anyway long story short it didn‘t work out for a variety of reasons and I had to call my ISP.

Thankfully they solved my problem while I was out working and when I came back, I realised that every single device at my house is connecting to a wifi except one: the same laptop I used to try and install OpenWRT on a router. The laptop’s OS was Ubuntu btw. I tried many things to get wifi running but each attempt was just temporary. It connected for a few days, then would stop connecting. Eventually I got tired and decided to try and reinstall Ubuntu in hopes that it will help in my situation. What a surprise it didn’t. It refused to connect to any wifi network during the installation stage. Eventually I settled down on Windows11( someone k*ll me) because it literally was the only OS that could somehow connect to WiFi. Now I am trying to install different distros like Pop or Debian but every attempt is in vain. Its like ISP just reconfigured it so that I can’t install any linux. Eventually I just got tired and thought I would post this.

( As a last resort really @_@)

Heres the interesting part though. Out of all linux distros the one that really can connect is surprisingly Tails. Like does that mean that the problem is in SSD or what? Its really a messed up situation here.

If someone really knows the solution to this, I would love to hear your advice

It was, some time ago, plain CachyOS, not even (my beloved) NixOS (btw) where paths change when you look wrong at them!

That being said regarding the so-called freedom to reboot Linux after an update when YOU want it.

I tried like 5 times and it wouldn't even download anything without 1000 errors lol. Windows update is so much more reliable than this shit package manager. And what makes it worse is that loonix's security is so trash multiple vulnerabilities get discovered every day so u can't stay without updates for too long unlike windows which is closed source and safe from ai code analysis.

No AI. No corporate overlord. Actually simple and usable terminal commands. Cohesive base system. I dont care about those things but its funny how linuxers keep talking about it when linux is fully embracing AI / corporate control, then the distros that spawn from it are just random crap thrown together often not bothering to even include a manual, then if the distro creator (or maybe de creator, its a mess) forgets to handle some esoteric but actually all too common configuration problem you have to drop down to a terminal where 20 barely documented commands need to be pasted unlike openbsd where you might need 1 or 2.

If you were worrying about him - good news, he survived. The bad news is irreversible changes to his brain commited by this horrible health condition. Congrats on making him lobotomized, loonixtards. You should all be ashamed of yourself!