MattKC wrote: ↑Thu Dec 08, 2022 4:13 pm ITT we talk about why our OS is superior to everyone else's.

btw I use Arch

arzumify wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 12:25 am I use evolutionOS BusyBox Dinit With Musl @ 88 Miles an hour!

sunfl0wer wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 8:00 pm *per hour

By the way, how's your experience with BusyBox? Because I just can't use distros with it, there's not enough features in it's coreutils implementation for me. I used lots of distros, but eventually stuck with Debian, because it just works.

MattKC wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 1:57 am Laptop hardware is always the toughest to support. For various reasons, laptops just have way more custom hardware in them, while desktops are all pretty much the same. And unless those laptops go out of their way to support Linux (or happen to be popular with Linux users), it's fairly common to have some kind of issue. Hackintosh has the same problem naturally.

I know no one likes hearing about Arch, but I have had far less hardware issues with Arch than Ubuntu, I think because Arch has newer packages/drivers. But it's an ongoing problem for Linux, unless you use a laptop that's well supported (from memory, mostly Thinkpads and Dell Inspirons).

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/s, i use arch

NojusK wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2023 4:33 pm Windows 2000 with extended kernel:

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• I use itunes mainly for my ipod photo and while I should be using rockbox i've had lots of reliablity problems.
• Winamp is my media player, it does have its problems and they are obviously scrapping the bottom of the barrel with there addition of an NFT library, but I find its charm more then makes up for its problems.

NojusK wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2023 4:33 pm Windows 2000 with extended kernel:

• My main laptop (a late 2017 MacBook Air), Mac OS 12.7.3.
• My hefty Ryzen 7 desktop has a dual booting setup with Void Linux for hax'ing fun, and Windows 10 LTSC for gaming fun.
• I also keep an old Thinkpad running Debian for the times I need Linux in a hurry.

ReleaseTheGeese wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:42 pm Very swell. What hardware are you using? How well does it handle common tasks? I have a Core 2 Duo laptop somewhere, I'd love to try running a freak of nature OS like that.

On the subject of my own OSes and setup:

• My main laptop (a late 2017 MacBook Air), Mac OS 12.7.3.
• My hefty Ryzen 7 desktop has a dual booting setup with Void Linux for hax'ing fun, and Windows 10 LTSC for gaming fun.
• I also keep an old Thinkpad running Debian for the times I need Linux in a hurry.

https://www.thran.uk/img/desktops_nov2021.jpg - an older photo of them, for anyone curious.

wisecar wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:55 pm Haven't been here in a while.

Running Fedora 40 now. Life is good.

Joe Robertson wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 12:09 am There is no option for OSX >:(

flatrute wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 8:55 pm Is macOS not just a rename from OS X though?

LOTO wrote: ↑Sun Oct 19, 2025 10:01 am First post on this forum. Greetings, ya primitive screwheads.

As of the death of WIndows 10, I've officially made the jump to Linux. Using Mint Cinnamon, and I feel pretty at home. Inspired my Matt's work of installing stuff on hardware not meant for it, I dusted off my old college laptop, slapped an SSD in there, and did a test run of Linux using that.

Now I've put it on my main desktop PC. Unfortunately, a bunch of the really obscure stuff I've enjoyed making use of in WIndows just isn't looking like it's all that possible, so I've put Windows 10 on a separate drive so I can boot into that if I ever need to, like, run DOS games at 320x200p.

flatrute wrote: ↑Sun Oct 19, 2025 11:10 am For DOS games, using forks like DOSBox-X and DOSBox Pure Unleashed are better than keeping a copy of Windows around.

LOTO wrote: ↑Sun Oct 19, 2025 1:00 pm Unfortunately I've already tried DOSBox-X and I get absolutely horrid screen tearing, no matter the vsync setting. I'll give Pure Unleashed a look at some point.

My solution was to use a decade old, obscure, Korean fork of DOSBox called DOSBox Daum, which works exactly the way I need it to. It does advertise a native Linux release, but as a total noob to the ecosystem I have no idea how to actually install it since it was only ever released on the creator's website as a standalone download.

flatrute wrote: ↑Mon Oct 20, 2025 12:39 am Now that is a first... I assume that the DOSBox-X build you used was linked to SDL1? It is a real old library (like, back in the 9x days) that was only "maintained" via a compatibility layer with SDL2 (that is now also under maintenance since the release of SDL3) and thus are not behaving well with the current Wayland ecosystem of modern Linux.

LOTO wrote: ↑Mon Oct 20, 2025 3:19 am I should be clear that the screen tearing was also present on Windows. Literally the ONLY version of DOSBox I was able to find that didn't have that issue was the Daum fork.

flatrute wrote: ↑Mon Oct 20, 2025 5:22 am May I ask what games that exhibit such screen tearings?

Doublewhammy wrote: ↑Thu Oct 23, 2025 5:36 am Just go with the flow yo... windows 11

LOTO wrote: ↑Thu Oct 23, 2025 9:54 am Not in a million years.

Disregarding the intrusive adware and spyware, my PC doesn't meet the inflated minimum specs for the OS. Though I'll admit it was tempting to go with it after a bunch of the stuff I tried to do with Linux didn't work.

Aidan0504 wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2026 11:51 pm i am sadly maining windows 11 but i use vmware for windows xp and up and 86 box for windows me and below