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oh, good to know, thanaks friend
 
oh, there are windows, printers and wifi antennas, just old HP printers
on windows, they use the color ink, and there is no way to make they use just black ink
 
on linux, you tell use just black, and they obey you
on Windows or HP they do what windows or hp want, and not what you tell them to do
 
they "want" and "make you" spend more money 😐

Just use tor instead of fumbling around with proxys

I am trying to use V2ray to bypass the GFW and I am running Kubuntu on my laptop.
 
it says in the github repo, we need to set up the system proxy. 
 
are these the correct setup?? 
 
if so, then why doesn't my V2ray desktop work... 
 

Yeah, that should work fine.

Great write-up.
I want to add some things myself to the list of reasons why I don't think Linus is having a good time with GNU/Linux (haven't watched the videos about it, just heard him talk about it on the WAN show).
 
1) Linus is not a techie. People might think of him as one, but in reality he is a sales person. He was one at NCIX, and he is one on Youtube. He has very little understanding of software in general, much less about OSes and GNU/Linux. I think he often overestimate his knowledge and since he now realize how little he knows, it becomes frustrating. It's like when "the smartest kid in the class" moves to high school or university and all of a sudden they realize that everyone around them is as smart if not smarter than them, and suddenly they have to really try hard to keep up with the classes. I know a lot of those myself, and to a certain degree I was one of them, and it sucks. You go from "I am the king of the world, I am so great" to "holy crap I am struggling and all my classmates seem to have an easy time". Your natural instinct is to go "it's not me that's the problem, it's the school".
Except Linus was never the smart kid in the class, just smart compared to his audience which mostly consist of teenage boys that use their computers exclusively as gaming consoles.
 
2) Linus' setup is really exotic. I am pretty sure he made several videos about how he struggled to get it working in Windows even, and that's the OS the hardware makers primarily focused on when making the hardware. If the hardware is a pain to get working on the OS it was built for, it probably won't be easy to get running on GNU/Linux.
 
And number 3), which I think is the biggest reason and the reason you gave, Linus is suffering from baby duck syndrome. He is used to Windows and can not grasp that things might be different on other operating systems. He sees "different to what I am used to on Windows" as "wrong". 
 
 
Also, who the hell gave him the advice of running Manjaro? He specifically said he wanted a distro that would let him find documentation easily. 
Ubuntu has over 95% of the GNU/Linux desktop market share. He really should have gone with that if he wanted something beginner friendly. Hell, even if you try and pull the "yeah but guides for Arch will usually work for Manjaro"... Arch has 0,11% of the GNU/Linux desktop market share. He chose a terrible distro to start with.
It's like watching a person who has never ran in his entire life decide to try a marathon because "I know how to walk. I have walked my entire life. How hard can it be?". Then when he realize it might be a bit though running a marathon and ask for advice, someone tells him "you should run bare foot and with a backpack full of rocks. It'll be as easy as walking if you do that".
It's no wonder he is whining about how running sucks and how he really wants to go back to walking again. He should get himself some proper running shoes and stop carrying around a backpack full of rocks. Also, he should not expect the experience to be pain free if he has never done long distance running before.
 
 
 
 
I just posted this as a status update but I want to post it here as well, before people start jumping in and going "Linux sucks. It's so hard. You have to be a nerd to use it!". I strongly recommend you people watch it in full before commenting, or else the discussion will just be, as Mental Outlaw puts it, "tribal gorillas throwing poo at each other".
 

I love how all of these posts posts follow the same formula 
Linux is great All the problems are Linus' fault Linux isn't windows Open source is better Linux is better even though I had all these stupid issues. It just feels like a bunch of people running between Linus and Linux with shields raised.
 
I run Linux on my laptop and my nas (for a few months now) and I can say: Linux is frustrating, it's community is annoying and full of elitism, every complaint Linus has made I can related to.
 
I don't know if Linux users want more people to use Linux so it becomes more popular, or if they want want to forever be the gatekeepers of their promised land. 

Rich people letting someone program it to bring beverages. I can guarantee that there are more than 100 people worldwide that can find a use for it.

okay, I don't think this is practical AT ALL.
why companies do this kind of thing???
 
copy open source solutions online and skin it so that the locals can be hyped??? 
 
I'm from China btw, but still. I think it is silly...

okay, I don't think this is practical AT ALL.
why companies do this kind of thing???
 
copy open source solutions online and skin it so that the locals can be hyped??? 
 
I'm from China btw, but still. I think it is silly...

I must say, I'm a pretty big fan of this one

The floor cos why not 

 
Basic bitch MacBook wallpaper

new wallpaper for pc

 

Clean desktop. I don't like icons on it.

Tesla China just Tweeted out some Sweet new Wallpapers so this is what my phone looks like now:


 
And the link to the Tweet:
My Desktop still has got the LTT Lan-Cave Wallpaper.

Which part? Most of this is probably a no, but I wouldnt know. If you mean the desktop stats, I have heard rainmeter is similiar to conky but I don't know anything about it, both have to be scripted however.
 
OS: Arch Linux
DE: Plasma
Theme: Layan
Cursor: Layan
Icons: Tela Manjaro Dark
Kavantum: Layan (QT Theme Engine)
Aurorae: Layan (Window Decorations)
Dock + Panel: Latte Dock
Fonts: Fire Sans, Cutive Mono, Droid Sans
Plasma Plugins: Dynamic Wallpaper
Wallpaper: https://www.dynamicwallpaper.club/wallpaper/ma10m2ab50s Converted to Plasma Dynamic Wallpaper friendly format
Plasma Widgets: Application title, Global Menu, USwitcher, Event Calander, Weather Widget, Caffine, System Tray, Simple Menu, Folder View
Desktop Audio Visualizer: Glava
Conky: config based on lux-hud (Most of whats on the desktop itself), will probably post on github when im done with it

Coming back to this thread:
 
Rotated my second monitor to a portrait mode and switch the wallpaper to a more 'city' feel.:

this was the wallpaper for my chrome book but I don't have it to take a screen shot of the desktop but

this was press views of the hong Kong protest
you see three Sony camcorders I call them "the unofficial press cameras of the hong kong protest"
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1362802-REG/sony_pxw_z90v_pxw_z90_4k_hdr_xdcam.html
 

Why not spice it up a bit ? (with some linus!) 
My Desktop: (excuse low res....)
Mine is simple too....
I barely use it or modify it tbh, i like to use folders.
 

here is my desktop
this was a screen shot taken from sacra 2019 of Lisa during adamas
its 16:40 min in the vid
 

btw my favorite wallpaper

This is what it looks without my glasses:

For both work and play.
 

New wallpaper checks out:

Yes, my favourite color is green. I try to keep everything as minimalistic as possible and I access everything except the programms with a shortcut key (so win+e/i/r/t and ctrl+shift+esc). Damn you unnecessary junk in the windows taskbar. 
 
I am doing a tun of research at the moment looking into buying a Ryzen 4th Gen Zen 2 gaming laptop so stay tuned for that.