openSUSE Reinstalled perfectly, restoring my backups now. XFCE didn't happen because I forgot that Xorg hates multiple monitors with different resolutions. So I'm going to see if Gnome is stable. Right now what I need is stability.
@thelinuxcast man I know I have done that with xorg, but I don't have to anymore, but IIRC, I did it with XFCE and it worked perfectly. But surely a xrandr command can get it done..
The thing I learned just now is that if you're going to do Plex. Do it on Ubuntu.
The amount of pain and suffering I went through doing it on openSUSE was enormous. On Ubuntu it just worked. Now whether that's because the permissions are already correct or Ubuntu is just better supported, IDK
I'm going to be a lot more wary of companies who raise their prices on streaming services. Rumor has it that Spotify is going up. I will probably go to local music before that happens with Jellyfin or Plex.
TV is going to be the hard one because we pay a buttload for that and are struggling to find a cheaper option without buying a "smart" tv so we can integrate OTA.
That latest update to openSUSE killed gaming. IDK what's going on, but Steam won't launch any games and neither will bottles. So something to do with wine? IDK. Bummer.
So I'm 20% through Tress of the Emerald Sea. The adventure has just begun, and already the poor girl has gone through hell. I'm at the point right now that if she doesn't succeed in getting her beau back, I will riot. #Books#bookstodon
@thelinuxcast please look up "First and Only" by Dan Abnett, if it doesn't score very high, something is wrong!! I have the entire series on Audible, I listened to the first one twice. Dan Abnett is my fav author!!! You got to try him...
#2YearLinuxChallenge Check in. Haven't done one of these in a while. Back on Qtile for now, loving it again. But it was a pain to get working again, tbh.
@thelinuxcast are QTILE docs messed up? My config works, but I have had to steal code from others. The docs have very little code to crib from. I did not see
@thelinuxcast I'm getting Qtile all dressed up in X11, liking it a lot, and I mean a LOT!! Wayland worked ok, but some of the apps I run in wine didn't work so well.
I'm going back to Xorg. At least until there's a Window Manager/Portal combination that works well enough for my use case. #Hyperland is close, but close isn't close enough for a production system.
Finished The Thief by Megan Turner today. Not a bad book. Didn't see the ending coming, which was nice, or at least I didn't see it all coming. Still not much in the way of action, tbh, which is fine. Will do the second book later this month.
Ok, also kinda agnostic about this game, but the more I'm reading these toots, the more I'm getting hyped for the Lions to make it happen for the sheer joy of it
Looking for #recommendations for a #movie to watch this evening. I'm currently very into slow-moving spy thrillers of the post-war, cold war period, and the more paranoid, the better.
Anything in the vein of The Third Man or The Spy Who Came In From the Cold would be awesome.
@thelinuxcast I want to know 3 things, can you call, text, and take normal pictures! It doesn't seem too much to expect, but I an never sure they are capable!!
In the early 2000's, #Linux distros had avoided packaging #Xfce because of its closed toolkit roots even though Xfce had been #OpenSource via the GPL since 1999.
#Slackware was the first major distribution to package Xfce at 3.8 in 2002! #Debian followed with Xfce 4.4 in Etch in 2007.
@linuxuserspace About the time Gnome2 went into the dumps, I switched to XFCE, and it's been my daily driver ever since. I've always like that it avoided the drama of other desktops
This is the first time one of my Distrobox's has failed me. It's not the fault of Distrobox, of course. Arch just continues to have a shitty PGP situation. Reminds me why I don't use Arch as my daily.
@thelinuxcast I have 2 Arch installs, one by hand on my Desktop computer and Arco on by laptop, both bare metal, just updated them both, no problems, but also no distrobox...I haven't any need for
