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   aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 19:01:35 JST aeva

   fuck I installed a KDE metapackage and removing the metapackage didn't also remove all this fucking KDE

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     Thomas Frans 🇺🇦 (thomy2000@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 19:01:33 JST Thomas Frans 🇺🇦

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     @aeva Just list all the packages starting with a k or q and remove them. The rest is just collateral damage.

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 19:01:36 JST aeva

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     my two biggest fears are alienating everyone I've ever loved, and accidentally installing KDE and not being able to remove it, and let me tell you, I'm not on a roll tonight

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 19:01:38 JST aeva

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     • Oblomov

     @oblomov I installed kde-full out of curiosity and perhaps a bit of gullibility, since I've heard harmful misinformation and communist propaganda like "actually KDE is light weight now" and so on. My Linux machine is 15 years old. It's GPU can barely handle Dear ImGui, and KDE kept pegging the CPU every few seconds. It's positively grotesque.

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     Oblomov (oblomov@sociale.network)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 19:01:39 JST Oblomov

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     @aeva WTH kind of setup do you have? IME the only thing faster than KDE in logging in are plain WMs like AwesomeWM.

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 19:01:40 JST aeva

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     • Oblomov

     @oblomov KDE took so long to log in that the screen went asleep

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     Oblomov (oblomov@sociale.network)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 19:01:41 JST Oblomov

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     @aeva let the light embrace you, make the switch and refuse to use anything that doesn't have a K in it ;-)

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     chfkch :nixos: :rust: (chfkch@ruhr.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 19:02:26 JST chfkch :nixos: :rust:

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     @aeva
     Go install #NixOS and you will not have this problem again.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 19:02:59 JST clacke

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     @aeva apt-get autoremove --purge
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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 19:10:22 JST aeva

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     • Oblomov

     @oblomov buddy do not tell me night is day I'm in no mood

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     Oblomov (oblomov@sociale.network)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 19:10:23 JST Oblomov

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     @aeva last time I installed KDE on a low-end system, it defaulted to no fancy effect and as a result it was more lightweight than GNOME who insisted on doing everything through the non-existing 3D hardware acceleration. I'll confess to not being a primary KDE user anymore, but from what I see with other machines I administer (including my mom's laptop, that uses the KDE Neon Ubuntu fork) this seems to still be the case at large, though it's possible this is distro-dependent.

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     AstraLuma :blobfoxcomputer: (astraluma@tech.lgbt)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 04:50:36 JST AstraLuma :blobfoxcomputer:

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     • dpflug

     @dpflug @aeva omg that readme

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     dpflug (dpflug@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 04:50:37 JST dpflug

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     @aeva
     The official stance is that they are evil, evil binary blobs. But you can use https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix to get them and other naughty proprietary software as long as you don't mention it in official channels.

     Edit: I didn't find a more approachable package listing, but you flip through https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix/-/tree/master/nongnu/packages if you're looking for something specific other than microcode.

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 04:50:39 JST aeva

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     • dpflug

     @dpflug what is the current guixsd stance on things like important microcode updates for security vulnerabilities?

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     dpflug (dpflug@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 04:50:40 JST dpflug

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     @aeva
     I'm trialling GuixSD specifically to avoid this sort of problem.

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 04:50:41 JST aeva

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     welp, I uninstalled something important on accident trying to get rid of all the stray KDE packages, and now my GUI is gone. I guess this Linux install is probably toast now 🙃

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 04:50:42 JST aeva

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     really loving the energy the people trying to tell me that KDE is great actually are bringing here