I deal with a lot of VMs for varying purposes, and it seems frequent that my purpose for opening firefox is derailed by some kind of nag. For example, I frequently get the “you haven’t used firefox in a while” in vms that I rarely use firefox and have to go disable the “meta refresh” option in the “about:config”....
Yeah also I think we should be careful about calling anything we find annoying Enshittification, otherwise we’ll dilute the concept and it loses all meaning. I see this happening with hyperbole all the time, for example one of the strongest words in the dictionary “hate” have almost no meaning as people use it for even the mildest dislikes instead of utilizing a richer vocabulary. Let’s reserve Enshittification for Xitter and friends.
Inspired by a post since deleted, I feel bad for probably coming off judgemental about the poster’s taste in the movie that drove him to consider sailing....
don’t want to subscribe to too many streaming services, each just having a few things I want to watch. Also I broke my neck and I’m now on disability, there’s no budget to waste, at all.
Like to watch old shows and “rare” movies that aren’t available anywhere.
I was Nobara user, then I am using Fedora right now. I want to use things like Hyprland etc. and ya know, Its damn cool to say I am using arch btw. So I’ve decided to use Arch Linux. But everyone says its always breaking and gives problems. That’s because of users, not OS… right? I love to deal with problems but I don’t...
It’s always a good idea to be aware of .pacnew/.pacsave files. If you ignore them everything might still work but you might end up using old configs. This might not break anything but could have security or performance implications. A system can slowly “rot” this way while still appearing to be fine.
Dangerous opinion, I’ve recently moved to Fedora after Ubuntu and after customising it on the GNOME desktop, it’s literally Ubuntu (But better) in every way except no snaps....
This looks like a fallacy in the argument. Ubuntu is generally known as being very stable as well, they tend to avoid breaking changes over the lifetime of a release and there are LTS releases to boot.
I didn’t downvote but for a lot of the time the core devs were mostly 1-2 ppl working some evenings because they have dayjobs/lives. They released many updates to 2.10, and they’re often feature releases not just bugfix releases. At the same time they almost completely rewrote the backend to use a new graphics library GEGL, which they also wrote from scratch. As for GIMP 3 they have also redone a lot under the hood to allow for easier development of new features moving forward and custom old GTK widgets updating to GTK3 required rearchitecturing as they work fundamentally differently from modern GTK3/4 versions.
So that’s why I don’t joke, there’s also nothing to forgive. Let’s hope that GIMP 3 will get more interest from devs with its more modern and capable architecture.
Many of us have. I enjoy KDE but COSMIC looks very slick and when listening to the developers it sounds like it’s really thought through. They have considered so many details. For selfish reasons I’m glad to see it’s already being worked on for openSuse.
Here is the rationale for the Journal. In short it is really not that simple and it has a lot of advantages over simple text files and it saves disk space.
Ah well, I’ve used Virtualbox, Vmware and KVM and I found them all useful for my purposes. Vmware is very slick and has an edge on easy Gfx acceleration for Windows guests but since they’re now owned by Broadcom that might become a problem.
I’m happy with Virtualbox on my desktop and KVM on a few servers. I don’t really care to take sides.
I’m working on a some materials for a class wherein I’ll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we’re including a section we’re calling “foot guns”. Basically it’s ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers....
Yeah screwing with the network interface of the machine you’re SSHd into is something nearly every sysadmin have done at least once.
That or changing something, rebooting the server and subsequently being unable to contact it again due to said change. I’m always scared and feeling I’m taking a risk when upgrading a major OS version over SSH, yet Ubuntu never failed me in that, it’s the silly things that got me, like messing with fstab.
I often hear folks in the Linux community discussing their preference for Arch (and Linux in general) because they can install only the packages they want or need - no bloat....
I find it bloated if the system have things I don’t need are noticeably using up RAM and CPU. I couldn’t care less about extra unused packages on disk, they’re dormant. I don’t care about a few daemons or resident apps I don’t use either if they’re idle all the time and use minimal RAM. Bloat for me is something that noticeably affects my running system.
Meh I can get a Win11 guest that interacts well and conveniently with the host and its peripherals and if all I’m doing is running tax software, office365 or compile my Rust app to test it cross platform - vbox is perfectly fine. I’m not running anything demanding.
I’m not taking a stance against KVM it’s great, but rather saying that for some of us it’s not that big of an issue which solution to use, it just needs to be convenient.
I used linux intermittently in the last 15 or so years, migrating from early Ubuntu versions, to Manjaro, Pop!_OS, Debian, etc. And decided to give Arch a try just recently; with all the memes around its high entry point, I was really expecting to struggle for a long time to set it up just as I want....
I don’t use Arch at all but isn’t EOS using Calamares? You click a few times, selecting language, timezone and click install, then go make a coffee while it installs. Difficult to be way faster than that. You can save maybe 30sec by not having any options.
There are other distros with the same points, they’re not unique, save for the wiki. A lot of users of other distros refer to the Arch wiki. The AUR is much celebrated but I personally found it annoying having to carefully vet every package and having moved to another distro I don’t miss it.
I think the main reason to choose Arch is it’s for tinkerers/hobbyists. Its community is very enthusiastic which is always nice, though many can become a bit obnoxious on forums.
What was the first ever distro you installed and used? For me, it was Mint as I seemed like the closest thing to Windows minus all the forced updates and chappy changes....
I’ve been using Haruna for a while instead of VLC because it works with Wayland. Menus can be hidden, lots of options: configurable hotkeys, VAAPI enabled, allow multiple instances, etc. It remembers position in last video when reopened, overall it’s very nice.
I have many nerdy friends who have been Linux users for ages. But most of them don’t know such a thing as Openwrt exists or have never bothered to give it a try. It’s a very fun piece of software to play with and can be extremely useful for routing traffic. Wondering why it isn’t more popular/widely used.
I used dd-wrt for a few years, but I realized I didn’t need it as my new router have the functionality I want. I also realized my router had much better throughput with the stock firmware.
Since nvidia drivers do not properly implement implicit sync, this protocol not existing is the root cause of flickering with nvidia graphics on Wayland. This MR being merged means that Wayland might finally be usable with nvidia graphics with the next driver release....
Ever since I’ve received the upgrade, my PC has been giving me a ton of issues. I really don’t want to reinstall. I’ve reported over 5 bugs so far and will report more when I have the time. Some of the major ones so far:...
How to combat creeping firefox enshitification? (lemmy.sdf.org)
I deal with a lot of VMs for varying purposes, and it seems frequent that my purpose for opening firefox is derailed by some kind of nag. For example, I frequently get the “you haven’t used firefox in a while” in vms that I rarely use firefox and have to go disable the “meta refresh” option in the “about:config”....
Released: NVIDIA 555.42.02 Linux Beta Brings Wayland Explicit Sync, GSP Firmware (www.phoronix.com)
What drew you to the high seas?
Inspired by a post since deleted, I feel bad for probably coming off judgemental about the poster’s taste in the movie that drove him to consider sailing....
Choosing Next OS
I was Nobara user, then I am using Fedora right now. I want to use things like Hyprland etc. and ya know, Its damn cool to say I am using arch btw. So I’ve decided to use Arch Linux. But everyone says its always breaking and gives problems. That’s because of users, not OS… right? I love to deal with problems but I don’t...
Fedora
Dangerous opinion, I’ve recently moved to Fedora after Ubuntu and after customising it on the GNOME desktop, it’s literally Ubuntu (But better) in every way except no snaps....
Apple introduces M4 chip (in revamped iPad Pro) (www.apple.com)
GIMP 2.10.38 Released with Much-Requested Backports of GTK3 Features (9to5linux.com)
What are your favourite fun/unnecessary extensions?
Pop!_OS COSMIC Desktop is coming! (news.itsfoss.com)
Source code.
Systemd wants to expand to include a sudo replacement (outpost.fosspost.org)
How to Get Started Using Virtual Machine Manager in Linux (Posted in response to Virtual box and VMware) (www.maketecheasier.com)
If you run Windows make sure to install the virtio drivers...
What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?
I’m working on a some materials for a class wherein I’ll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we’re including a section we’re calling “foot guns”. Basically it’s ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers....
When do you consider a system to be bloated?
I often hear folks in the Linux community discussing their preference for Arch (and Linux in general) because they can install only the packages they want or need - no bloat....
VirtualBox 7.0.16 Released with Initial Support for Linux 6.8 and 6.9 Kernels (9to5linux.com)
How do you prefer to install compilers, interpreters, sdks e.t.c
Usually, I prefer manually installing the packages needed for getting started with a new language or technlogy....
Tried Arch for the first time | My experience and impressions (lemmy.ml)
I used linux intermittently in the last 15 or so years, migrating from early Ubuntu versions, to Manjaro, Pop!_OS, Debian, etc. And decided to give Arch a try just recently; with all the memes around its high entry point, I was really expecting to struggle for a long time to set it up just as I want....
Your first distribution
What was the first ever distro you installed and used? For me, it was Mint as I seemed like the closest thing to Windows minus all the forced updates and chappy changes....
Haruna 1.0.2 (haruna.kde.org)
As a linux user, do you know about/use openwrt?
I have many nerdy friends who have been Linux users for ages. But most of them don’t know such a thing as Openwrt exists or have never bothered to give it a try. It’s a very fun piece of software to play with and can be extremely useful for routing traffic. Wondering why it isn’t more popular/widely used.
Do you daily drive Wayland, if so since when, if not when will you?
I’ve been on Wayland for the past two years exclusively (Nvidia)....
Are AMD laptop discrete gpus good in linux?
I want to buy used laptop with rx6600m and r7 5800h...
Explicit sync Wayland protocol has finally been merged! (gitlab.freedesktop.org)
Since nvidia drivers do not properly implement implicit sync, this protocol not existing is the root cause of flickering with nvidia graphics on Wayland. This MR being merged means that Wayland might finally be usable with nvidia graphics with the next driver release....
Is anyone having major issues with Plasma 6?
Ever since I’ve received the upgrade, my PC has been giving me a ton of issues. I really don’t want to reinstall. I’ve reported over 5 bugs so far and will report more when I have the time. Some of the major ones so far:...