Time for this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News! In this one, we have a terrible feature being added to #Windows, we have the # KDE #Plasma 6.1 beta, and a 5 year plan for #GNOME!
@thelinuxEXP can't believe what Microsoft is doing with Windows 11 now tbh. Thought they would want people to move across from 10. If they add stuff like the recall thing to Windows 10, they are screwing themselves over even more
Update 1: Thanks for all the responses! I’ve gotten a lot of very good comments saying I should stick with Mint, and that’s sitting comfortably in my top two picks right now. Between new distros, I’m most interested in Arch’s rolling release model, as it provides some benefits for me for reasons I didn’t really get...
I have been using Arch Linux with i3wm for around 5 years for work, on my ThinkPad. I am fairly comfortable with pacman and setting up a distro. I have previously tried Mint, Manjaro, KDE Neon, Elementary, and MX Linux, all for the same use case (Work: where I need a browser, Slack, and a MongoDB GUI)....
before the issue, wifi app was configured not to start automatically because I sometimes change the mac after logging in. I usually enable it afterwards with iftop and then systemctl start NetworkManager.service && sudo nm-applet...
Uma das paradas que mais me preocupa em #Linux é ter uma galera cabeçuda demais, às vezes, tentando explicar coisas que não são muito óbvias pra um usuário médio (ou levemente acima da média) de computador. Por isso também eu quis escrever esse tutorial. Passei umas 2hrs tentando achar um lugar na internet que indicasse um caminho de maneira suscinta, direta, sem pular passos demais, sem deixar nada muito implícito. Consegui achar um vídeo que facilitou as coisas, mas escrevi esse passo a passo pra ser mais um suporte a quem se deparar com o mesmo problema que eu
Released back in March of 2018 was the Amarok 2.9 music player for this KDE project. Shipping today is finally Amarok 3.0 as the first major release in six years and now ported to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.
@thomholwerda On the flipside, those things are supported by Fedora and there may be other Fedora users with the same problem so you raising the question and getting help might help others out as well and possibly even for those not running Fedora that stumble in from a search engine about your issue. All that to say, you're definitely welcome to ask about it there.
@thomholwerda It's a community distribution and not a commercial one. Think of it less as a support entitlement and more of an opportunity for the community to come together to help one another out and potentially make things better for users of those things in the broader Linux/open source world. Reporting bugs and problems is useful way to contribute, even if your immediate personal goal is just trying to get your laptop to work better with it.
There's been so many Windows enshitification moments where people say this is our best opportunity for helping more people get their freedom trough #Linux.
Now we have maybe the best of these moments yet – W11 demanding new PCs, W10 being killed off, and this whole Recall shit.
Yet, after all this, I've never seen any really newbie friendly website explaining why and how to try Linux – with simple text and elegant design.
It seems to me the #Gnome designers would be perfect for making this.
@codemonkeymike Off the top of my head: short & sweet at the front, internal links to longer texts explaining more, no technical lingo, lots of screenshots only of GUI. Needs to cover at least:
Reasons to drop W (mostly inside a link, no reason to expand on the front page b/c most people there are likely interested)
What software can you run and what can you not, inc easy workarounds and who might not be able to switch
@jhx nice post. Reminded me I first encountered Linux when my friend got a cable modem (maybe 1999) and I only had dial up, and I started to research if he could be my ISP.
my #iphone6 smashed on the floor. touchscreen is slowly degrading; some letters impossible to type; and some buttons impossible to click...
Starting to think i have reached my limit... (cc @limitesnumeriques )
@marieverdeil i'd look for something like a oneplus 6 or oneplus 6t. you should be able to find it used for an ok price, it has quite decent hardware, and was / is widely used, so there's a bit of momentum around it regarding driver support and stuff like that.
also, it's common to need to ask for vendor-approval to unlock your phone when installing other operating systems. this can get icky and annoying for various reasons. that's not the case with these models, you can just unlock it yourself.
