Flaky

Flaky, 3 months ago

How Not to Drown by CHVRCHES feat. Robert Smith

Flaky, 3 months ago

I think the only thing holding me back from going for immutable Linux is desktop virtualisation. VirtualBox and VMware can’t be installed on an immutable distro AFAIK, and libvirt isn’t all there for Windows guests.

Flaky, 3 months ago

Mainly GPU acceleration without passthrough from the last time I tested (Modern Windows is slow without it and passthrough might be an issue on immutable distros), but shared folders is something I use quite a bit on VMware. I remember trying virtiofs when I used passthrough, and it was suffering.

Flaky, 3 months ago

Hmm… I’m gonna keep tabs on that one then. Good call.

Flaky, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I’m seeing a lot more hate for Facebook than Apple in one of the cross-posts, but yeah I agree.

Flaky, 3 months ago

While it’s not an alternative right now, I think Servo’s focus on being embeddable might help it in the long run. A big issue with Gecko is that it was difficult, if not impossible to embed. It’d be nice to see something like Vivaldi that runs on Servo.

Flaky, 3 months ago

I was more talking about Vivaldi feature-wise, FWIW. There’s features I’d like from Vivaldi that don’t have a close equivalent to Firefox, not even from its forks (tab tiling’s my go-to example), and maybe in the distant future, there’d be a browser like it running on Servo.

Flaky, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

It’s exactly this. Bluesky has its problems but there is a massive overreaction from the fediverse crowd that it makes it hard for me to sympathise with them even if I agree on the principle.

EDIT: JSYK, the Bridgy Fed developer is working towards making the bridge opt-in! tech.lgbt/

Flaky, 3 months ago

I think the fediverse, and that includes Lemmy, have this warped idea of what Bluesky is and what ActivityPub/the fediverse actually is. They think ActivityPub is the de-facto protocol for microblogging, when it has glaring issues that Bluesky wanted to solve with Atproto (the queer.af debacle is a great example of this, imagine if you’ve got an account on queer.af and you want to move your data to a new instance). If you’re a Linux guy, you might have seen parallels between ActivityPub/Mastodon vs. Atproto/Bluesky and X11 vs. Wayland.

Flaky, 3 months ago

What about Pop!_OS? It fits all the criteria. It’s an Ubuntu distro by System76 (known for their computers that run Linux) that foregoes Snaps for Flatpaks, so you get Ubuntu’s reliability/stability without the Snaps. It does default to its own spin on GNOME, however you can install an alternative desktop environment just fine.

Flaky, 3 months ago

EndeavourOS might help with all of this but even then I wouldn’t put a newbie who just wants to try Linux on it. Arch doesn’t even have a proper GUI-based way of installing packages and there’s not really an incentive to (Arch users say it’s because PackageKit is shit, Arch developers say it’s because PackageKit doesn’t work with Arch’s rolling package releases). PackageKit isn’t actually supported on Arch and KDE Discover will go out of its way to tell people that it’s not supported on Arch. Maybe someone who has experience with the command line I’d recommend Arch/Endeavour for, since you WILL be using it on Arch, no way around it.

Flaky, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Very Years & Years - as it would be, Olly has a unique songwriting style at this point - but also got a bit of Danny L Harle’s magic in it too. Probably the first UK entry I’m proper hyped for.

Flaky, 3 months ago

For me, it was when Windows 11 didn’t even give me the luxury of moving my taskbar to the top of the screen and I had to use a third-party application to do so, which was janky as hell. It sounds very small, petty and superficial, but small things like that can immensely affect one’s experience and workflow. “You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone” is an applicable phrase to that.

Sure, I can just use Windows 10, and I do in fact have a Windows 10 VM in VMware (since WINE has issues with MusicBee and WACUP, and I’m trialing the Apple Music app for Windows as well), but Windows 10 will no longer be supported next year.

Flaky, 3 months ago

Yeah, in Windows. Windows and Arch are two completely different beasts.

I get the sentiment (Arch has provided the least friction for me when I needed something niche/specific) but putting OP on Arch is still pushing them into the deep end IMO. If OP is open to trying Arch however, I’d throw out a recommendation for EndeavourOS which is just a pre-made Arch setup.

Flaky, 3 months ago

There have been projects that skin Lemmy to be like a forum, based on phpBB code if I recall. Don’t think the projects are active though.

Flaky, 3 months ago

I think another hinderance is that the people asking questions get ignored, dismissed or shouted at, even if they tried whatever it was they tried. The Linux community doesn’t do this as much when someone who tried Linux runs back to Windows, thankfully, but if you’re a Chromium user who tried Firefox, or a Bluesky user who tried fedi, and found that the former of those was better for your needs, prepare to have angry nerds flaming you for your blasphemous act.

Flaky, 3 months ago

Yeah, even less nerdy people hate that. I’ve had friends who aren’t well-versed in fediverse/Linux culture complain about ROM hacks in particular doing this.

Flaky, 3 months ago

Levelhead if you’re a fan of precision platformers. It’s very much a cuter Mario Maker but it does have its own “story mode” of sorts as well.

Flaky, 3 months ago

I miss the old splash screens with the shiny progress bar, tbh.

Flaky, 3 months ago

I have been blindsided before, but honestly right now I’m in the same boat on that. Disney isn’t interested in app deployment or distribution, just to advertise their products to kids.

And even so, my copy of SAMHTR is still on my Steam account and the files are there to use with ScummVM (which I believe LucasArts actually did when the game hit Steam)

Flaky, 3 months ago

I think the new games are, Hit the Road was LucasArts and was part of Disney’s publisher sale on Steam a little while back.

Flaky, 3 months ago

Same thing is happening with Misskey. A lot of interesting features there that don’t federate. Wonder how Bluesky is going to handle that in their protocol.

Sidenote: a lot of confidently incorrect people in the comments for this (not you). Not really getting people on-board with fedi, are they?

Flaky, 3 months ago

Submarine is one of my faves, as well! Daydream and Twisted are two other faves of mine from the album.