illy [Shrimple-mode] :protomoji_orange_flag_lesbian: (@illyBytes)

1mo

so, i'm checking elementary os out of curiosity in a virtual machine (mostly because previously i had issue with fractional scaling which doesn't exist on live cd, and i didn't feel like installing this distro - snug.moe/notes/am5z1lvqhajwhsf6)

and at the start, it asks me whether i want to try or install elementary OS or try or install elementary OS

hm,,, yes?

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sugar :4 🏳️‍🌈 @sugar@snug.moe

1mo

i find it interesting that installer outright has a virtual machine warning

considering how much gpu acceleration tends to suck in those, yeah, that makes sense

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sugar :4 🏳️‍🌈 @sugar@snug.moe

1mo

hm, so i tried to install librewolf from the app store

doesn't work, okay, let's see,,, it got installed from flathub, and when i try to run it, i get the following error: bwrap: Can't resolve /var/run/cups/cups.sock: Too many levels of symbolic links

how fun, i wonder why that happens

searches for the error message

askubuntu.com/questions/1569675/flatpaks-not-launching-bwrap-cant-resolve-var-run-cups-cups-sock-too-many-l

right, elementary os is based on ubuntu lts, and ubuntu is slop

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sugar :4 🏳️‍🌈 @sugar@snug.moe

1mo

well, had to install 0.9.0-1ubuntu0.1 rather than the version mentioned in the post, but it worked

anyways, my point in testing elementary isn't necessarily for testing elementary (while elementary itself is banning slop from its code, the fact is that the distro is based on ubuntu, and well,,,), but rather pantheon desktop environment (mostly because, i currently use kde, and, ugh,,,)

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sugar :4 🏳️‍🌈 @sugar@snug.moe

1mo

hm, supposedly fractional scaling is supposed to work in so-called "secure session"

,,, but the only setting i can select on a vm is 100%, which is odd

i wonder if it's due to not having gpu drivers?

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sugar :4 🏳️‍🌈 @sugar@snug.moe

1mo

i kind of like pantheon desktop environment, except of course the problem is that i would either need to use elementary os (which is based on ubuntu, which,,, ugh) or arch linux (i really wish arch linux had a policy banning llms) or gentoo (which, i guess is an option, but,,, i don't feel like recompiling stuff all the time - and elementary is not a part of gentoo repos proper, but rather is an overlay)

or maybe there is some other distro that has pantheon, repology is down right now

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sugar :4 🏳️‍🌈 @sugar@snug.moe

1mo

okay, so repology's domain was stolen by its registrar, and changing /etc/hosts lets me access it

it seems that guix also has pantheon, albeit with an old version that doesn't have fractional scaling

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illy [Shrimple-mode]

@illyBytes@shrimp.imsofucking.gay

1mo

@sugar ooo fae could ask for on their issue tracker for someone to update it maybe?

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