Okay, my concern was that if I have, say 1.4G in zram, that would unpack to, say, 2G, which, when added to 7G, would go over the 8G limit. I was worried that RAM might be saved in its uncompressed manner, when saved in the swapfile for hibernation.
I’m over tinkering with my OS. So I’m looking for a distro that “just works” out of the box for my laptop. Also I want to test an “easy” distro I can install for my grandpa....
I’m far from an enjoyer of snaps BUT snaps do support other custom stores and aren’t tied to the snap store, contrary to popular belief.
Also, the fix for making snap startup times has been developed and released but most existing snaps haven’t patched their snaps to support it (last I heard, the only notable exception (aka the only known snap to have good startup times) is the Firefox snap).
Could be a partner, roommate, coworker, or somebody you volunteered with. They could have stopped for any reason from leaving, getting sick or hurt or even dying to just getting sick of doing that one thing and stopping.
When I started living by myself a while back, I realised how much random housework was being done by my parents. There’s the obvious ones like cooking, shopping and doing the dishes. But there’s also meal planning, cleaning, buying non-obvious essentials like toiletries, and more, which I wouldn’t normally think about.
Windows XP -> Windows 7 -> Windows 10 -> Linux Mint -> Manjaro -> ArcoLinux -> Arch -> Arco -> Arch -> Arco -> NixOS -> Arch -> Ubuntu (beginning of 2023) -> NixOS -> Arch -> NixOS (summer 2023) -> Debian (for a month when beginning University), -> NixOS -> Arch -> NixOS -> Fedora (in Jan/Feb 2024, seems like it could be the one) -> Void (wanted to love it but I hated my few days in it) -> Arch (temporarily, waiting for the COPR repos on Fedora to update its packages for F40) -> Fedora 40 (where I still am)
Going from Windows XP to Linux Mint took over a decade. Going from Mint to Fedora 40 took about 2 years.
NixOS is immutable, so I can’t compile from source (I needed a specific Assembly Editor for university and it only supported full system installation, I could not get it working on NixOS). I desired a static release, so I was switching to NixOS, but then there’d be something I can’t be bothered to figure out or weird issues, so I’d switch back to Arch. But then my desire for a stable static release would return.
So on and so forth until I figured out Fedora is perfect. It lacks the 1337 Haxor feel of an advanced distro, and dnf is super slow (First thing I do on a new Fedora install now is get dnf5), AND my SDDM theme broke on Fedora but worked everywhere else (something to do with qt5-qtgraphicaleffects), but I rewrote the theme, aliased dnf to dnf5, and I still get the 1337 haxor feel by using my own scripts, including a bemenu logout script, which makes me feel like a boss when I use it, for some reason, probably because I wrote it myself.
This is the first time I ever find myself kind of disagreeing with the Mint team. As others have said, some of the most popular packages on Flathub are unverified so popular programs like Inkscape are not going to show up as Flatpaks?
I think just a warning, like what Flathub does, and maybe a dialog before installing, warning the app is packaged by an unverified packager, would have been enough.
Completely unrelated but your use of FP really confused me at first, as I’ve been studying for a Programming exam, half of which is on FP (Functional Programming).
Interesting point, however, is that the only major issues he had were with OBS and him macro keypad, and everything else worked for him. That is a very good thing imo. It’s a testament to how far Linux has come. Now we just need to ensure all the Wayland work gets completely done across all desktops and then it’s a matter of time before even stable and “conservative” systems like Debian and Mint get it all supported, at which point Linux will be ready for all, and we can move our focus to Mobile Linux and whatever else the next new big and shiny thing is on the desktop (Personally, I think the only issues after these would be making sure accessibility is all well and good, getting GNOME to finally support VR, and that’s about it. I can’t think of anything else).
Just in time! I’m finishing my first year of uni this week, and just added a GTK or Qt app to my TODO list for the summer. While I found myself preferring Qt over GTK, I will still save this post and hopefully come back to you in a few weeks. Cheers,
The feature you’re referring to is called Fractional scaling. What Desktop are you using? Are you using Fedora Workstation (GNOME), Fedora KDE, or something else?
Agreed. As a self-proclaimed Linux fan, I’m also trying to give an unbiased perspective but I still find myself presenting things as nicer than they are sometimes.
I know that a lot of work is being done across all Wayland desktops to get this supported but I don’t fully know about the levels of support, as I don’t use a DE and I have no need for fractional scaling. From what I’ve heard, KDE Plasma supports pretty much everything now, which includes fractional scaling.
Less than an hour a day, when I was spending all my days on that other platform back when I used that. So the switch to Lemmy was a healthy choice for me. I’ve been applying some strategies to do the same to YouTube.
Even if that’s so, I have had many occasions where I thought that for something simple, ChatGPT could do the job. I ended up having a back and forth for hours (last case of that being yesterday) until I got it fixed. For most cases (but not yesterday’s) I found it much faster by looking it up online.
Fedora with Hyprland, Qtile Wayland and COSMIC. I’m hoping COSMIC will be stable and featureful enough to meet all my needs by then so I can use it full time.
Setting up a swap file on top of using swap-to-zram for Hibernation purposes? (Fedora 40)
So here’s my situation:...
Linux admin with 20 years experience, looking for "beginner" distro [Solved, the real beginner distro was the Debian I've used along the way]
I’m over tinkering with my OS. So I’m looking for a distro that “just works” out of the box for my laptop. Also I want to test an “easy” distro I can install for my grandpa....
What vital task did you not realize someone was doing regularly until they suddenly stopped?
Could be a partner, roommate, coworker, or somebody you volunteered with. They could have stopped for any reason from leaving, getting sick or hurt or even dying to just getting sick of doing that one thing and stopping.
What is/was your distrohopping journey?
For me it was:...
Do I have schizophrenia or I am scammed by psychiatrist?
Hello,...
Linux Mint Will Hide Unverified Flatpaks in Software Manager (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
I deleted windows and installed linux (youtu.be)
Not op but thought this may be interesting
I've created some mock-ups for new Linux apps
cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/12767626...
7 Common Linux Myths You Should Stop Believing (www.howtogeek.com)
How much time do you spend on Lemmy?
I usually spend 1-2 hour on Lemmy since I am not a good reader(and also non native) so it takes some time to read all the content I like on Lemmy....
Has anyone made Linux Reddit Archives?
I think it would be great to have a archive so that the various documentation, comments and hacks / workarounds could be searched....
Discovering the Freedom of Linux: My 25-year Journey Away from Windows (www.youtube.com)
NixOS 24.05 released (nixos.org)
What are your must-have programs?
Trying to discover new/unheard Linux desktop programs (Sorry for the confusion)....
Is it normal to get hard around gorgeous females?
Hi, I am 19M. I always feel horny around beautiful girl. However I don’t like it because it makes me uncomfortable around them....