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Re: Has modern Linux lost its way?

Posted: 2015-02-24 09:00
by Moonshine
mardybear wrote: This image represents modern Linux sound, since the introduction of pulseaudio - not complicated at all hey? FWIW, sound worked quite well for most old Linux users back in the Alsa-only days.

For those who are not aware, the same programming team has now provided the Linux community with the simplicity of systemd - just because it works, doesn't mean it's necessarily a good thing :wink:
Always had a lot of trouble making dmix work (my sound card has no hardware mixer). With pulse, everything just works. So yes, sorry, I'm pro-pulse, too :)

Re: Has modern Linux lost its way?

Posted: 2015-02-24 09:14
by schnuller
Your posts would have more reputation if you had a history in this forum.

My posts don't have reputation because i have a history ...

Re: Has modern Linux lost its way?

Posted: 2015-02-24 11:01
by Moonshine
schnuller wrote:Your posts would have more reputation if you had a history in this forum.

My posts don't have reputation because i have a history ...
No offence, but that's just childish. I don't care if my posts "have reputation", I'm just stating my opinion, based on my experience.

Re: Has modern Linux lost its way?

Posted: 2015-02-24 11:17
by schnuller
stating ones opinion
also known as: chat
experience
With more than 20 posts people could know if you have got experience.

Most people who do have got experience seem to be gone ... It was good, as long it lasted, though.

I for one have checked quite some communication channels of linux during the last weeks and months.
It sure *has* lost it's way.
The good news: I will leave those channels to the new gang.


And i will do it ... hold your breath ... ta-da: Now.

Re: Has modern Linux lost its way?

Posted: 2015-02-24 11:21
by Moonshine
schnuller wrote:stating ones opinion
also known as: chat
experience
With more than 20 posts people could know if you have got experience.

Well, sorry I wasn't born with 200 posts on a forum which isn't even in my native language :D

Re: Has modern Linux lost its way?

Posted: 2015-02-24 12:22
by thanatos_incarnate
schnuller wrote: And i will do it ... hold your breath ... ta-da: Now.
"This will be the last time,
I think I said that past time"

Re: Has modern Linux lost its way?

Posted: 2015-02-24 12:32
by JLloyd13
schnuller wrote: I for one have checked quite some communication channels of linux during the last weeks and months.
It sure *has* lost it's way.
The good news: I will leave those channels to the new gang.


And i will do it ... hold your breath ... ta-da: Now.
please do so. Your ways are not just childish, they border on trolling. Stop going after other users for no reason. Your behavior is something I'm more used to seeing on the Arch forums, except those people usually have some useful info hidden in there between the elitism

Re: Has modern Linux lost its way?

Posted: 2015-02-24 19:43
by mardybear
schnuller wrote:
My posts don't have reputation because i have a history ...
At least this post had some useful information.
And i will do it ... hold your breath ... ta-da: Now.
I doubt it ... you'll just create a new account and keep on trolling.
As a Linux elder, would be great if you spent some energy mentoring those will less experience. Nobody is born knowing Linux, or anything else for that matter. Me thinks cantankerous elders are just as big a problem in modern Linux than newbies who have not yet taken the time to learn or don't have enough experience.
JLloyd13 wrote:
Your ways are not just childish, they border on trolling
Border (?) on trolling...
In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people,[1] by posting inflammatory,[2] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[3] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29


schnuller's recent greatest hits...how in any way does this benefit the community?
With more than 20 posts people could know if you have got experience.

Your posts would have more reputation if you had a history in this forum.

Such myths (netinstall will install a lean system) say a lot about todays debian users.

deep down in the hacker universe ...

What is that localectl? My first guess is that systemd took it over too ? Wow: Soon i won't be able to do most easy things in Linux anymore ....
lol.
Well: i am getting old. I will get used to it. I have to.
:-)
(Iron Maiden, huh? ).

The best idea is to go back to Windows. It has wrecked your brain and you will not be able to use other operating systems anymore (I guess you are not able to use Android, google store, neither, huh?).

i doubt you are up to that level.
In 8 years you would have shown it, if you were. At least once or twice.

not that much to analyze, not much time needed. of course i know your posts for years and they've always been like that, no matter what the subject is (back then it usually was ubuntu). The question is: what do you come here for? Only to tell that the world is your oyster? Init that getting boring, ...

I had to search for what Germans call "summen". It is neither silence nor singing (neither fish nor meat).
My dictionary gave me several proposals (hum, croon, buzz, haw, fizzling), but also purr (which is said to be the sound of lazy cats, enjoying life, too. Besides the other meaning). Hence i picked that. If my dict is correct, than it hits the nail, regarding your posts.
I can tell the meaning of your post before i even read it: There are no problems. Never. Ever. Whatsoever.
I never was disappointed.
The only problem i see: You need someone else, who speaks about problems, to tell him that there are no problems. If everyone would do it like that, there would be absolute silence.

Re: Has modern Linux lost its way?

Posted: 2015-02-24 20:37
by Head_on_a_Stick
mardybear wrote:schnuller's recent greatest hits...how in any way does this benefit the community?
I find him rather entertaining...

Re: Has modern Linux lost its way?

Posted: 2015-02-24 21:58
by mardybear
Never seen a more blatant history of repeated trolling...
Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
I find him rather entertaining...
Then you either condone his behaviour or just want to stay on his good side - shame either way. Thought you worked in medicine - [edit] do no harm. Take an average weighting of the 10 most recent posts, on the whole have they been harmful or beneficial? Educational and informative? Welcoming and helpful?

Also either way another trollish mission accomplished - break up and disrupt the community.

An elitist membership and attitude was prevalent in debianuserforums.org. The forum is now essentially defunct with probably less than a dozen posts per week. Who would want to join the discussion? And no, not everything can be blamed on systemd.

Re: Has modern Linux lost its way?

Posted: 2015-02-24 22:26
by NkfzGx3ok
Assuming we are talking about desktop/distribution/GNU/whatever Linux and not just the kernel... No! Not at all!
I've asked this several times the past 15 years at points and seen people ask constantly year after year about random things - My ultimate conclusion is that *Linux can never lose its way because it has no set destination, the majority take it where they want it and re-invent wheels when the old ones are boring to them... or they bolt on fake chrome spinners... just f*kin look at emacs! :lol:

Re: Has modern Linux lost its way?

Posted: 2015-02-25 00:34
by JLloyd13
@mardybear

I'm sooo glad its not just me noticing this. Users such as this are hurting our community. We should be welcoming to new users- Debian is supposed to be the universal OS, not elitist.

Thank you.

Re: Has modern Linux lost its way?

Posted: 2015-02-25 00:58
by dasein
mardybear wrote:Never seen a more blatant history of repeated trolling...
Just check out any of his many sock puppet/alt-accounts. They all read the same.

Re: Has modern Linux lost its way?

Posted: 2015-02-25 03:15
by mean_dean
mardybear wrote:how in any way does this benefit
far too often I wonder that about the answers posted on this forum...sometimes even the questions....

Re: Has modern Linux lost its way?

Posted: 2015-02-25 09:13
by thanatos_incarnate
JLloyd13 wrote:Debian is supposed to be the universal OS, not elitist.
I somehow agree, but I'd still reserve the right not to help people who
expect a lot of hand-holding just because they didn't read the community rules
on how to search for help yourself before asking a question.
I also think it's perfectly OK to politely tell people when they're lazy or ignorant
about rules:

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=47078

Re: Has modern Linux lost its way?

Posted: 2015-02-25 11:32
by mor
Yes our nadir/jalu last aka schnuller is very good at getting on peoples' nerves, he sometimes (yes, not always) even does it on purpose.
But you are failing to read between the lines and you are now stuck looking at the finger that points to the moon.

Nadir is trying to give voice, admittedly in a kinda fucked up way, to a series of preoccupations that go far beyond the putative elitism often associated with old school *nixers and debianists.
We may not like the way he is telling it and we may disagree on the fact it is a real issue, but it is undeniable that the level of questions and answers you read on the various channels of our "linux" world is on a free fall.
He's not talking "in the last months", not even the last few years and it certainly isn't because of systemd (although it is easily the proverbial last straw).

The decline happened slowly but steadily in the last decade at least, and was inevitable with the increased use of the various linux based systems.
Some (well, quite a few good ones actually) are genuinely concerned that what they lived as a great passion about something, is gonna get lost in a race to clock beans as a measure of greatness.

Many have lost interest in sharing with us what they know exactly because of this. Not all those who know stuff have gone away, but we're definitely shorthanded, and it is not by covering the umpteenth "how to install the real firefox" or "I am stuck with a black screen after upgrade" threads that this is still a place of learning.
Nadir is simply trying to call the community up on the fact that we're no longer learning stuff, we're mostly just patting each others' backs for being users of one distro.

Could he have been less assholish about it?
Of course, but he's who he is and even in the face of how he acts, to put him in the troll category is just shortsighted.

Now, can you go beyond that?

Bye

Re: Has modern Linux lost its way?

Posted: 2015-02-25 13:46
by JLloyd13
mor wrote: Nadir is trying to give voice, admittedly in a kinda fucked up way, to a series of preoccupations that go far beyond the putative elitism often associated with old school *nixers and debianists.
We may not like the way he is telling it and we may disagree on the fact it is a real issue, but it is undeniable that the level of questions and answers you read on the various channels of our "linux" world is on a free fall.
He's not talking "in the last months", not even the last few years and it certainly isn't because of systemd (although it is easily the proverbial last straw).

The decline happened slowly but steadily in the last decade at least, and was inevitable with the increased use of the various linux based systems.
Some (well, quite a few good ones actually) are genuinely concerned that what they lived as a great passion about something, is gonna get lost in a race to clock beans as a measure of greatness.
Well, ignoring systemd for a second- and your odd acceptance of a user who has multiple accounts- I'm going to propose a theory. I think the reason why there are more dumb questions here are because there are more new users here, and that's not a bad thing. Today's new users are tomorrows contributors. Maybe the old timers just can't remember being new- I do, I got into Linux about 4 years ago, and yeah, I asked some pretty stupid questions. It happens. New users sometimes would rather ask their question than consult google. Is that right? No. But it's hardly criminal. The amount of learning I've done in 4 years is amazing- these new users will improve, if we don't scare them away. The idea that their learning nothing is false, just help them politely and point them towards the wiki and man pages, they'll learn. I did. More and more new users are coming into Linux- But we shouldn't feel threatened by it. I'm not someone who cares about all the market share crap- I'm happy with it as a niche, doesn't mean we need to be jerks to new users.
Many have lost interest in sharing with us what they know exactly because of this. Not all those who know stuff have gone away, but we're definitely shorthanded, and it is not by covering the umpteenth "how to install the real firefox" or "I am stuck with a black screen after upgrade" threads that this is still a place of learning.
Nadir is simply trying to call the community up on the fact that we're no longer learning stuff, we're mostly just patting each others' backs for being users of one distro.

Could he have been less assholish about it?
Of course, but he's who he is and even in the face of how he acts, to put him in the troll category is just shortsighted.

Now, can you go beyond that?

Bye
A good response is saying "Iceweasel is the same thing, also next time use google/wiki/man pages." what schnuller does is not that. He doesn't help. He doesn't direct them towards documentation. He says things like this:
The best idea is to go back to Windows. It has wrecked your brain and you will not be able to use other operating systems anymore (I guess you are not able to use Android, google store, neither, huh?).
That is crap. That is not helpful or useful in the slightest. It is directly antagonistic, not just getting on nerves- it really is pretty much trolling.

Re: Has modern Linux lost its way?

Posted: 2015-02-25 14:37
by MALsPa
The internet is full of people like nadir/schnuller, sitting behind their computers trying to come up with what they think are clever put-downs and insults. That's just the way it is. You can either let it bother you or just laugh it off, whatever. schnuller seems to be a fairly intelligent person; I just figure he's got some sort of issues and he tries to compensate for those by trying to be a forum jerk. I keep thinking that I'd like to put him in a room with my ex-wife -- that'd be entertaining, for sure. :twisted:

Re: Has modern Linux lost its way?

Posted: 2015-02-25 15:39
by mor
JLloyd13 wrote:" what schnuller does is not that.
In a way what I was trying to tell you is that you don't know what he does.

I was just saying you have to look beyond what, at first sight, seems trollish behavior.
True, he's used multiple aliases (and he's not the only one), but don't confuse the trickery of having contemporary multiple accounts to **** with other users, with the silly but also harmless practice of dumping one and after some time coming back with another… even Prince did that. :lol:
Indeed there's hardly ever much mystery around every new nick and he never hides behind them: you need to digest a little more than a handful of posts to make sense of him, that's what I'm telling you.

For better or worse his contribution to this board is far more important and deeper than you can fathom and his behavior, although certainly debatable at times, also yields from the fact that "he's been there, he's seen things", which in his case is true.

Now I'm starting to feel like I'm defending him, which is not something I want to do because there's no need, moreover I kinda sorta see it differently so is not even like through him I further my own point of view.

Bye

Re: Has modern Linux lost its way?

Posted: 2015-02-25 17:10
by JLloyd13
For better or worse his contribution to this board is far more important and deeper than you can fathom and his behavior, although certainly debatable at times, also yields from the fact that "he's been there, he's seen things", which in his case is true.
Yeah, I'm sorry, I don't buy it for a second. I have yet to see any evidence of him contributing anything useful on this board. I'd love some examples. I don't care what he's 'seen', it doesn't take a genius to tell when a guys just being a d*ck.

And, he seems to have evaporated once again- typical troll.