Given the importance placed on CLI usage by many in the Linux community it's weird that a terminal isn't open by default on many Distros. Today I remembered that while on Antergos a few years ago I'd installed a terminal that you could call simply by pressing a hotkey.
Yakuake smoothly drops down from the top of your screen in response to the hotkey (the default is F12) and voila!: a ready to use terminal! Add it to Autostart and it'll run whenever you run a session of Linux, forever saving you having to load Konsole (or whatever) every time you want to use it.
And as I'm running KDE the fact it uses Konsole tech means it has that familiar look and feel, but shows Session tabbing by default foregrounding the ability to run separate terminal sessions and putting it within easy reach of GUI users and a mouse-click.
@sageofredondo@Uraael I did not know that Gnome terminal has those capabilities but I think I still prefer Tabby a little more, and iTerm2 on the Mac a lot more.
I took a look at iTerm2's features page yesterday. I can see why you'd like it: several of those features are unique to Terminal software in my experience and I get the feeling if you got used to them they'd be hard to give up. I feel the same way about the Vivaldi browser; it becomes actually painful doing without those exclusive niceites.
@LouisIngenthron Before Linux Mint, I was a Slackware user (since 1995). Using an old-style distro like Slackware, you see the command shell in each step, which lets you diagnose. Unless the problem is the boot image, which is another kind of more mysterious debugging where you have to get into verbose messages.
A question for #Linux#Wayland users. I am running Debian stable with Plasma and my computer was freezing randomly, and very often. Let's say once per day. I was about to start replacing hardware components to find the guilty party, but then I switched from Wayland to X11 and it has been a couple of weeks with not a single freeze. Is it possible that Wayland is this unstable or am I doing something wrong? My GPU is Radeon 6000 if this matters.
@darth All I can contribute is, that I'm on #EndeavourOS with #KDE, #plasma6 and #Wayland on my #RX6750XT and never got any freezes...
Nevertheless your problem could be any source, from hardware (faulty RAM, heat problem, ...) to software related.
@lemba a few people are sugesting that Wayland issues are ironed out in Plasma 6, while Plasma 5 might be an issue. Though, hardware is still not excluded. Thanks.
Is anyone running Linux on a Lenovo ThinkPad T490 or T490s? I'm thinking about buying a refurbished model since I have to give back my work laptop. #linux#Lenovo
@BrodieOnLinux
I wholeheartedly agree with you on this (the message, not the title). It's why when I first wanted to donate to support Linux desktop I gave it to KDE cause I use/love KDE.
I wrote a post to encourage people to consider supporting projects they use. https://libresolutions.network/operations/bankroll/
Trying to figure out the difference between these two in the Universal Blue ecosystem. I do like the description of both. Although I will note that the name, Aurora, is easier to recall (someone thought about marketing -- Good. Good).
The hard part of setting up a new #Linux#laptop is done. The initial sticker selection is all important. Now, what #distro and packages should I install? I reckon I'll mostly use it for hardware & server side programming.