The mass exodus from #Windows to #Linux (and #Mac) due to #Windows11 and #AI continues. More and more articles, more and more youtube videos about it, or posts on forums. People are switching. If it continues like that, Linux should have 10% desktop marketshare by the end of the decade (and yes, that's a lot).
I was sad to find a surprising lack of visual scripting apps for Linux. Apple's Shortcuts app is very powerful and can be incredibly useful. It's not like we don't have the technical ability to make something similar.
So I started working on one myself :blobfoxfloofcofe:
My audio VM works generally well (even great) except for one problem: #Ableton Live doesn't see the content in #VirtualBox shared folders.
Does anybody have an idea how to solve this? Note that the guest OS (win) can access normally everything in the shared folders, and it's only Live that doesn't (without errors or anything).
First time using freshly installed #Windows, installing a few bits like an OK browser and some games. Password typed at least 20 times. Three reboots. Settings accessed four times. Seven meaningless notifications dismissed (plus more in launchers like Epic and Steam). The only thing installed via the Microsoft Store throws a system error instead of loading, and there's no "uninstall" button in the store.
But do please tell me more about how difficult #Linux is.
Shout out to Text Pieces! I needed to URL-encode a big ugly string (creating a template form from URL parameters, yay!) and yep, sure enough, it made it stupidly easy.
The next time you need to encode, transform, or convert some text on Linux, reach for this pretty little offline app instead of pasting your data into some random website. 👍
A brief news segment with mostly good stuff from Mozilla and KDE. Plus some great discoveries including downloading YouTube and other videos, processing data and CSV files on the command line, controlling cycling workout gear and graphing your progress, and a top tip for following Mastodon accounts in a normal RSS feed reader.
#Linux#compression
Ah juste un truc absolument génial avec zstd :
Imaginez que vous voulez compresser la sortie d'un dd, netcat ou scp.
Si vous prenez un taux de compression trop bas, vous perdez en ratio de compression.
Si vous le choisissez trop haut, vous perdez du débit (le CPU prenant trop de temps).
Et bien zstd peut s'adapter au débit I/O ou réseau avec l'option --adapt.
Vous aurez ainsi la meilleure compression possible sans ralentir votre débit.
Windows users will be vulnerable to any of their sensitive data being stolen by malware since Recall stores everything in an unsecured database. What do you do if you're a gamer fed up with Windows, but you're not ready to format your whole PC over to Linux?
One option is to get a Steam Deck. It's a portable gaming system, but connect it to a dock or dongle and it's also a full featured desktop PC.
Dziś mija 27 dzień z #linux. I wiecie co? Generalnie jest bardzo dobrze. Może nie licząc paru gier, które działają średnio, ale zmiana systemu generalnie wyszła i nawet przyjemniej się używa tego komputera.🐧
Spotify has gotten an update to its desktop UI, and I'm once again going to argue that it would look so much better on a general basis if it used an integrated header bar on Linux systems. The app is practically begging for it.