Guenther_Amanita

Guenther_Amanita, 2 months ago

Thanks! I’ll do that too, thanks for the suggestion!

Guenther_Amanita, 2 months ago

It is in fact part of the launcher. You can change it in the settings of the homescreen and decide between a digital or a round version.

Guenther_Amanita, 2 months ago

I sadly, and I don’t say this lightly, have to agree.
When first using KDE, I was totally baffled by the amount of themes you can download.

But I quickly learned, that most of them are either more than 5 years old, look ugly/ incoherent, or cause this blurriness issue OP mentioned.

For my taste, Breeze (or to a further extend, Lightly) looks phenomenal by default, especially since Plasma 6. I only change the color scheme a bit (usually just adaptive colors, based on wallpaper), but that’s it.

Guenther_Amanita, 2 months ago

Definitely! The only “good” 3rd-party themes are the ones from Jomada (Edna, Moe, Itchy, etc.) and from Vinceliuice (Graphite, Canta, Layan, etc.).
Those are well thought out, coherent and look professional.

If you scroll through the top ones, then you almost exclusively find ones that got their last update years ago, and now look extremely incoherent or buggy.
And even if you find newer ones, then they often lack the polish.
Man, it just sucks…

But hey, maybe there is just not that much demand anymore, because the defaults look great nowadays?

Guenther_Amanita, 2 months ago

I wouldn’t even eat raw button mushrooms like you suggested.

In the best case, they can’t be broken down by our bodies, so all the nutrients wander through us and get wasted.
In the worst case, the agaritine found in them, which easily gets destroyed by cooking btw, may get classified from suspectedly carcinogenic to carcinogenic.

Guenther_Amanita, 2 months ago

Debian. I don’t see much benefit of Ubuntu LTS compared to plain old Debian. It’s exactly what you wanted.

Alternatively, AlmaLinux is a good choice if you like Red Hat stuff (RHEL clone), but the difference between Ubuntu LTS and Debian would be almost not noticeable for you I think.

Guenther_Amanita, 2 months ago

Debian is community run, which often means all changes and features get implemented because the community wants that, not some corporation. One notable example of that is Snap.

Also, I found (minimal install) Debian a bit more minimalist than Ubuntu server, which is great imo. I just want the bare minimum for my services to work, and pretty much the only thing I expect from my server to have is SSH and Docker.

Guenther_Amanita, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

You can use my post as reference and guide: feddit.de/post/9087676

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I would also recommend checking out Distrobox, especially for DaVinci Resolve. This decouples your programs from the host OS, which allows you to run DVR on any distro and get the newest software, containerised on Debian for example.

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I personally am a huge fan of Fedora Atomic, especially uBlue. It’s almost the same as regular Fedora, but way more reliable and with a new concept in mind. uBlue already has Distrobox pre-installed.

Guenther_Amanita, 2 months ago

Depends. Are you happy with MacOS and want to stay in the Apple ecosystem?
If yes, then just keep it. It is perfectly tailored for your hardware.

If you are annoyed by it or want to try out something new, then try Linux.
The 2015 MBA has a Intel CPU afaik and general hardware support should be fine from what I’ve heard.

Instead of Ubuntu, I would recommend Fedora, either the Gnome or KDE variant. If you prefer minimalism and the coherence/ well-thought-outness of MacOS, then use the Gnome (“Workstation”) variant, and if you prefer customisability, then the KDE-spin.
You could also take a look at the Atomic variants, they are a newer concept with a few benefits (and also drawbacks) compared to the regular versions.

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As a small tip: no matter if you decide for the mutable or the atomic versions, use Distrobox! While Python is pre-installed, it is a system dependency, and you wanna keep your dev environment isolated from your host OS. If you wanna change the Python version for example, this might otherwise brick your install.

Guenther_Amanita, 2 months ago

I wouldn’t call Linux a “not quite pain-free experience”.
IMO, the experience has been dramatically improved in the last 2 years or so, and the only pain for most people is just that it’s a new OS with new workflows and approaches.
Or what would you call painful?

Just as a background, I’m no IT-guy, just casual user who’s into this weird OS :D

Guenther_Amanita, 3 months ago

That all sounds great, thanks!
Do you have any tips for an “easy” start, where everything is already pre-configured?

Guenther_Amanita, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Thanks! I saved the comment for later.

What advantage do you see in Nix compared to Distrobox?
I personally enjoy DB because of its simplicity.
I just open BoxBuddy, create a new container from the dropdown-list, and then just start using my Debian or Arch container on top of Fedora Atomic for example.

The two main benefits I see in Nix are the reproducibility and the big repo. But in case of the repository size, Debian and Arch (+ AUR) are extremely big aswell.
Are there any other big benefits, that I can’t get with Distrobox, but with Nix?
Just as a small side note, I’m no power user and tend to use my PC more like a casual guy.

Guenther_Amanita, 3 months ago

Thanks for your great explanation!
How up-to-date are the packages, compared to Flatpaks?

IIRC, I used Nix a while ago to install a program, which was supposedly hard to build for Linux and crashed all the time as Flatpak. Sadly, the Nix version was almost a year old and also not great.

But I think I’ll take a look into it again. I began using terminal apps a lot more and also became a huge fan of image based distros, and I think Nix packages have similar benefits as immutable distros.

Guenther_Amanita, 3 months ago

Understandable.

I personally often use Unixporn similar to how other people use Pinterest when they want to get inspired for decorating their room.
I really can’t deny the accusation that this community is responsible for “some” of my DE-hops 😅

Guenther_Amanita, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Exactly that is my point. By applying stricter rules to posting, including tagging, we could create exact that database.

I use Unixporn similar to how other people use Pinterest for decorating their home, not only to see cool setups. I personally think that my use case is also valid and not that rare.
If people already make the effort to post, why not make that more searchable and give others like myself the ability to filter?

Guenther_Amanita, 3 months ago

Thanks for sharing your view point, makes sense. Totally understandable!

Sadly, I’m nowhere qualified/ capable enough to host a reasonable website, let alone one that collects content like I imagine it to be.

Guenther_Amanita, 3 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Wie @KissMyOS schon korrekt gesagt hat, ja.

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Ich persönlich hasse aber den Begriff Mittelschicht. Meiner Meinung nach existiert er nur, damit sich die Leute, die etwas mehr als die anderen (blöd gesagt 3000 vs. 2000€ Netto) verdienen von den “blöden Unterschichtlern” abgrenzen können und sich näher an der Oberschicht sehen.

Würden meine Eltern beispielsweise checken, dass sie als Angestellte deutlich mehr mit BG-Empfängern und dem Kassierer als mit ihrem CEO gemeinsam haben, wären sie vermutlich deutlich pissiger auf den Chef, der selbst eigentlich nichts beiträgt und nur arbeiten lässt.

Ganz einfache Frage: Hast du Angestellte? Verdienst du einen Großteil deines Lebensunterhalts passiv, z.B. durch Firmenanteile oder oder Leute, die deine Arbeit erledigen? Ist es arg schlimm für dich, wenn dein Handy kaputtgeht?
Wenn die Antworten nein lauten, dann Glückwunsch. Du gehörst zur Arbeiterklasse, genau wie 90% der meisten Leute. Und jetzt hör auf, dir über die Definition von “Bin ich Mittelschicht, wenn ja, obere oder untere?” Sorgen zu machen, zeig Klassensolidarität, und beweise den parasitären Kapitalisten, wer in unserer Gesellschaft die Hosen an hat! ✊

Guenther_Amanita, 3 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Ich hab zwar absolut keine Ahnung vom Häuslebauen, aber aus rein logischen Gründen würde ich die Sauna in den Keller bauen, genauer gesagt neben/ in die Waschküche.

Egal, wie gut sie isoliert ist, es geht immer Wärme nach außen verloren. Im Garten wäre sie tatsächlich weg, im Waschkeller sinnvoll genutzt, damit die Wäsche schneller trocknet und das Haus noch von unten heizt.

Meine Meinung: übertreibs nicht. Beziehungsweise, so lange du kein Hardcore-Saunagänger bist oder ständig Freunde da hast, die mitmachen, reicht eine kleine Kabine auch vollkommen aus. Alles andere wäre Verschwendung.

Es gibt auch so Sauna"fässer", die man sich per Anhänger mieten kann. Vielleicht findest du von dem Anbieter auch was, was man ohne große Installation kaufen und einbauen kann. Eine Sauna zu bauen ist verdammt kompliziert, man muss viel bedenken, z.B.

• Abluft
• Brandschutz
• Energiekosten
• Stromversorgung
• uvm.

Guenther_Amanita, 3 months ago

I really like that post!

It seems like OP put a lot of work and creativity into the meme, while intelligently criticizing a problem and not just using “Windows bad hurr hurr” as the base.

I wanna see more of those kind!

Guenther_Amanita, 3 months ago

Ja, auf jeden Fall! Ich versuche da auch immer auf dem aktuellen Stand zu bleiben, aber wie gesagt, den Teufel an die Wand zu malen bringt auch nichts.

Ich bin politisch nicht (so sehr) involviert genug, um da einen korrekten Einblick zu kriegen. Ich hoffe einfach, dass die CxU(/ Anti-CanG-Parteien) einfach nur ein laut bellender Hund ist, der hofft, durch das Zähnefletschen seine Niederlage zu kaschieren. Wir werden sehen, was dabei rauskommt, und jetzt schon den Kopf in den Sand zu stecken bringt ja auch nichts :)

Guenther_Amanita, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

My recommendation would be to use Logseq.

It’s similar to Obsidian (“Second Brain”/ PKM), but with the journal function as backbone.

It relies heavily on crosslinking, is markdown-based, very efficient and a joy to use once you “got” it, and supports a hell lot of features, including TODO, plugins, a knowledge network (“graph view”) and much more.

I use it for everything (external brain) and pretty much never loved a piece of software this much!
It sounds like it is THE tool you’re searching for!