I’m sick of Windows, and especially what it’s become, and the way its trending looks like it will only get worse. I’ll be building a brand new PC this summer and want to choose a Linux Distro instead. In preparation, I’d like to try out a virtual machine with a Linux distribution. I am solidly familiar with Ubuntu, but I...
clean install: you make a backup, nuke the computer, install a fresh upgraded copy of the distro you want from a live usb, copy your data again to the computer....
Looking up guides on how to install wine can vary. Some say, “sudo apt install wine” and others have you install the 32 and 64bit versions. My machine is 64 bit, but some guides tell you to enable 32bit....
My favourite DE has got to be Cinnamon, as much as I like KDE and XFCE, I prefer the simplicity of cinnamon where as in KDE has a bit too much of everything in the customization scene and XFCE I find a little tricky to get tiling working right....
hey #linux users on the fediverse, is there a way to tile windows on KDE Plasma 6? I've seen some stuff about Bismuth but it doesn't look like it's functional anymore, is there anything similar?
@pixel If you figure it out, please edit your post so I get a notification (since I boosted).
I'm not on Plasma 6, yet, but I know the Plasma 5 that I am running already made it harder to use my tiling window manager (XMonad) -- and several things that used to work no longer do.
I dread having to use a non-tiling window manager again. (Though I also dread having to configure a different tiling window manager, and I know XMonad won't survive the Wayland migration.)
@BoydStephenSmithJr on windows I use power toys to get some light tiling tools and tiling as a layer on top of a more traditional window system is so flexible that I really, really enjoy it and I'm hoping I can achieve a similar workflow
Tbh I am a messy person, I trained myself to be organized but I still struggle to not lose my keys and I want something like the apple tag but FOSS, I’ve thought of an ESP32 or ATTINY with a bluetooth module but I don’t think apple uses that? It has to be durable and friendly with LineageOS, samsung stock and my dad lol.
If you are attempting to try out a #Linux desktop for the first time because you've had enough of Microsoft's shit but are feeling a need to scream in order to express just how frustratingly weird and annoying this operating system is...
I'm here for you. I promise to do my best to both validate your emotions and guide you towards the knowledge you need to be free.
Why is it that in modern #Linux OSes we have to stick with the original format when saviing files with the OS dialogue?
Isn't it an easy task to convert say a JPEG to PNG? I'm a #Gnome user btw.
@Junicast It is not the FileChooser's job to be a transcoder. It is complex & unmaintainable enough as it is (nobody wants to touch that code)… now imagine needing to bundle the equivalent of ImageMagick+Poppler+GStreamer across multiple OS platforms 🤯 That'd be a technical, security, and legal nightmare.
File format export/conversion is the apps' job, and it's a specialized job, as every encoder has tunable parameters. The FileChooser just lets you pick a location for the app to write to.
@Junicast For example, the default JPEG encoder found almost everywhere is utter shite compared to MozJPEG, or now JPEG-LI. I explicitly have to use specialized apps when encoding JPEG because of this. Same goes for PNG if I want a PNG with -30% filesize in exchange for much longer encoding times, but some may favor speed over size efficiency; don't even get me started on video codecs…
I feel like #linux should try to become the most accessible operating system. The open source nature of it seems like it would be better at catering to the needs of communities with disabilities, and yet it doesn't appear to be competitive in #accessibility
@cubeofcheese Being open source isn't what makes the competition better at accessibility. Having giant piles of money to pay developers to make things accessible has historically done that. Sadly nobody wants to pay open source developers to do that.
I think that #systemd should do package management. I hate when I have to install some software, but it only has a .deb package. I think that a unified packaging format for Linux would be good.
#Flatpak takes a lot of space and doesn't work well with CLI software. #Snap relies on a closed backend and is not very fast.
The #CVE count of the #Linux#kernel is not looking good these days compared to any other #OS is it. Maybe time to switch to #FreeBSD or some other system which doesn't claim to find hundreds of significant vulnerabilities every day
@mort why would the amount of found CVEs say anything about how secure or insecure something is?
Just because tool X has no CVEs does not mean it's safe. Like the XZ issue we had before.
Also having lots of CVEs doesnt mean its insecure. There are also LOT of moving components, like required kernel modules, configs, programs, libraries and alike.
So, alltogether judging something by using CVEs is a pretty useless indicator imo.
