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  • Lets go through the summary and see if anything is wrong or misleading:

    Linutil is a distro-agnostic toolbox designed to simplify everyday Linux tasks. It helps you set up applications and optimize your system for specific use cases. The utility is actively developed in Rust 🦀, providing performance and reliability.

    • It is not distro agnostic. There is Arch and Fedora specific code, which are not separated into modules, but part of other scripts. Outside of the package manager, it also relies heavily on systemd.
    • Installing “Diablo II Resurrected loot filters” is not an “everyday task”. A lot of other scripts are similar, very specific, “one time use” things, not “everyday tasks”.
    • helps you set up applications, maybe, but only if you count running sudo pacman -S networkmanager as “helping”, even when it ignores existing network configuration.
    • “optimize your system for specific use cases”, it does nothing of the sort. There’s no kernel parameter tweaking, no other cpu scheduler, no IO options being changed, or anything remotely similar.
    • “The utility is actively developed in Rust” except for the ~70% that is shell scripts. (according to GitHub)
    • “Providing performance and reliability”, which is not something that’s determined by the programming language.

    So lets revise the short description, to exclude any incorrect/misleading statements:

    Linutil is a toolbox. The utility is actively developed.

    Alongside all that, the “installation instructions” include the biggest sin of all:

    curl -fsSL https://christitus.com/linux | sh

    TL;DR Never trust Chris Titus, or any “Linux YouTuber”, with your Linux machine. They do not know what the hell they’re doing.




  • I can personally vouch for how toxic the Discord server and its moderators/admins are. Went there for support (Hyprland was crashing on startup on AMD, sway worked fine), and was told something along the lines of “if you can’t figure this out you’re stupid and you should stop using Linux”. Figured out the issue on my own and stopped using and recommending Hyprland after that.