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mekuso

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Linux user, rabbit owner, game developer, AI PhD. In that order

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WanderingInDigitalWorlds, to linux
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Seriously looking into Linux for my PC because Microsoft and their overzealous approach to AI is making me nervous as heck.

I'm going to settle on Ubuntu as my familiarity with that Linux distro is high enough; I do need to check for any major changes with CLI commands, reworking of OS features, and the like before switching over. I don't want any surprises.

Over the next few days, I will back-up anything I need in the future digitally.

mekuso,
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@wendigo @WanderingInDigitalWorlds +1 for Linux Mint. If you think you want Ubuntu, you probably want Mint. It's simply Ubuntu without the bad decisions Canonical has made the last few years. It's significantly more beginner friendly

tuxedocomputers, to KDE German
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👆How the upgrade to Plasma 6 works

Finally: In the next few days you will receive a notification on your device with TUXEDO OS, that your system is ready for the upgrade to TUXEDO OS with Plasma 6.

Read more:
https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/How-the-upgrade-to-Plasma-6-works.tuxedo

mekuso,
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@tuxedocomputers Will Tuxedo OS 3 be based on Ubuntu 24.04, or does this really only update Plasma?

mekuso, to random
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@tuxedocomputers Is it possible to subscribe to the Tuxedo blog as an RSS?

mekuso, to random
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@tuxedocomputers The vast majority of PCs, both Windows and Linux, are vulnerable to LogoFail vulnerability. I'm assuming this goes for Tuxedo computers as well? Is this something that Tomte will fix automatically or is further user action needed?

itsfoss, (edited ) to linux
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What's your pick? 🐧

#linux

mekuso,
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@itsfoss Linux Mint. It's basically Ubuntu without things like snaps and ads in apt. Extremely user friendly, probably more than any other distro, and has a noob friendly community.

mekuso, to linux
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Does anyone know why the Solitaire games on GNOME are called Aisleriot? What does that mean? Like, a riot in an aisle in a shop?

mekuso, to random
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@tuxedocomputers Is Tomte supposed to remove old kernel versions after a while? Because for me, on TuxedoOS on an Infinitybook, apt upgrades and Tomte will occasionally fail with cryptic error messages. The solution seems to be to manually remove old kernels every once in a while (to make room on the boot partition, I assume?)

This could be tricky for beginners to figure out, so this would be nice if Tomte handled automatically

mekuso,
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@tuxedocomputers it's not that I need it, it's that TuxedoOS on the Infinitybook is configured by default in such a way that a casual user will need it, or else they won't get any updates for anything after a couple of months of use. I just figured you would want to know, if you weren't already aware of this issue.

thelinuxEXP, to linux
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I keep seeing people online saying that isn’t ready for professionals, or that the Linux desktop isn’t for doing real work, or this usual « year of Linux desktop » meme.

So I thought I’d address the topic, because Linux is undeniably already being used by professionals all around the world, and definitely has a lot of tools to do professional work, either or proprietary:

https://youtu.be/BlUFXUA9R48

mekuso,
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@thelinuxEXP After working in a multi-OS team, I can say with confidence that people on Windows were, on average, significantly less productive and also regularly hindered by their OS in various ways. Not that Linux is perfect or anything, but neither is Windows.

mekuso, to linux
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@tuxedocomputers Ever since Tuxedo OS upgraded to kernel 6.5 I've had lots of crashes that happen after my InfinityBook has been up and running for a couple of hours. Rolling back to 6.2 fixes the issue. Is this a known problem?

WPalant, to linux

Just replaced distribution-supplied Firefox and Thunderbird by the official builds. Yes, package managers are very convenient, but the delays they add to urgent security updates just aren’t acceptable here…

mekuso,
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@WPalant If you want rapid updates and still want the convenience of integrated updates, you also have the option of Flatpak. Haven't used the Flatpak build of Firefox myself, though.

mekuso,
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@WPalant What's so troublesome about it?

thelinuxEXP, to ubuntu
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If you’re like me, you started using Linux with . And while I’d argue it’s still a good choice today, they have made a few decisions you might not like.

But if you don’t want to re-learn another distro, without using something you’re no longer comfortable with, where do you go?

Well, here’s a list of distros you can move to if you know and like the Ubuntu base, but you don’t like Ubuntu as a distro anymore:

https://youtu.be/EzNiiyahH68

mekuso,
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@thelinuxEXP Another option I recently learned about that's not on your list is Ubuntu Sway Remix. Contrary to what the name implies, it doesn't seem to want to be an official Ubuntu flavor. In particular, it comes with Flatpak and no snaps. I would assume that they're going to change the name sooner or later.

Anyway, it's a cool option for people who want an easy way to get into tiling window managers.

anderseknert, to linux
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Any #Linux users using #brew to manage (at least a few of their) packages? Developing on Mac myself and it feels really convenient being able to target both Mac OS and Linux using a single tool, but I have honestly no idea if anyone on Linux is using brew. Are they?

If not, what would be the best way to distribute CLI tools for Linux? My apps are mostly written in Go, so basically just a binary without dependencies.

mekuso,
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@nlovsund @anderseknert Flatpak doesn't support CLI apps, only GUI. I've never understood this limitation myself, it's always seemed so arbitrary. It's not like on Windows where GUI/CLI are totally separate, GUI apps on Linux are just CLI apps that happen to also make some graphics pop up as a side effect (that Flatpak enforces).

There really isn't a universal packaging format for CLI apps on Linux. You could argue about snap, but it's Ubuntu-first (like how Brew is MacOS-first)

mekuso,
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@HunterCZ122 @nlovsund @anderseknert Huh, turns out you're right. I don't know where I got that idea.

mekuso,
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@anderseknert @HunterCZ122 @nlovsund I wasn't even aware it was possible until today. Using Flatpak for CLI is quite niche.

mekuso,
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@anderseknert @HunterCZ122 @nlovsund Not really. You could host a Deb repo and make it so that installing your deb also subscribes you to that repo. But that doesn't sound like what you're after, it's a fair bit of work on your part. Trying to get into the official repos of some big distro(s) is probably what makes it the easiest for your users, but I don't know how much work that is.

mekuso, to python
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Today's Python hot take: FastAPI is one of those sarcastic names, like Greenland (which isn't very green). The devs' claims of it being fast is some kind of joke. Because it's not actually very fast at all. A replacement package that's actually fast is Litestar, which also seems generally more wholesome.

peterdrake, to ubuntu
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is surprisingly unresponsive compared to Windows. Launching programs can take 5-10 seconds (with no indication that anything is happening). Resizing a window sometimes resizes the frame and then takes a second to fill in the contents. Even the internet seems slow to respond.

Some of this might be due to the fact that Ubuntu is running off a physical hard drive while Windows was running off an SSD, but that doesn't seem sufficient to explain it.

I would have expected to get more performance without Microsoft constantly uploading data. Does this match anyone else's experience? Any ideas?

mekuso,
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@peterdrake For a more fair comparison, you should probably use... Literally any other distro. Ubuntu is the only one that insists on using snaps to distribute desktop applications, and one of the major downsides is that they're really slow to launch.

That, and of course HDD vs SSD is going to contribute as well.

As for the true question, if Windows would actually be faster or slower than Linux in an Apples-to-apples comparison, I don't know. Linux would probably win on weaker hardware.

mekuso,
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@peterdrake I'm curious who recommended Ubuntu to you. It used to be the most beginner friendly but that was many years ago. That said, it's not exactly a bad distro. It's just that for the very specific matter of how fast desktop applications launch, Ubuntu is not representative of Linux in general, it's lagging behind everyone else significantly.

Most seem to recommend Linux Mint for beginners now, and that's something I can very much get behind. But it's just one of many good options.

nixCraft, to linux
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Patch submitted to the kernel by a four-year-old girl🤠

This patch fixes typos. Four year old girl submitted it with help from her Aunt.

mekuso,
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@nixCraft Most wholesome commit I've seen in a while

carloshr, to linux Spanish
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Best Linux Distro Privacy/Usability for a mid level user

What do you think is the best linux distro for a user who wants to migrate from windows in terms of privacy, usability and respect for the FOSS spirit?

I'm thinking to give a chance to https://elementary.io

@privacy @linux

mekuso,
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@carloshr @privacy @linux Elementary used to feel way ahead of its time, now it feels a bit behind instead. Not exactly a bad distro, but also not my top pick. Linux Mint has been rock solid for me for many years.

WhyNotZoidberg, to random
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I guess I'll never use Gnome again.

mekuso,
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@WhyNotZoidberg There's also QT and KDE. I don't think we're held back by a lack of options

ikkeT, to fedora
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I don't like apps. I find them somehow buggy, like on . While I start if from icon, it says it's offline, and menus don't work. When I start it from cmdline flatpak run... it starts but menus still are gray. What causes this? Some missmatch of libs or libs as nextcloud might use those?

mekuso,
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@Stark9837 @ikkeT Does that mean you're using libfuse2, which is no longer maintained? Or did appimages fix their runtime dependency on it?

mekuso, to gamedevelopment
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What is a 3D game engine for the web, where you don't program in JavaScript? Something open source where you write your game in basically any language except JavaScript, which is then compiled via WASM into a web executable which uses WebGL to display an interactive 3D website/game?

Note that the engine cannot be a game engine designed for making computer games "natively" for Windows/Mac/Linux that happens to support the web, it must be "web first"

Maybe it doesn't exist?

mekuso,
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@cassidy Maybe? It depends on how well it handles web-specific concerns. Since I haven't found anything else more suitable, I guess I should give Godot a closer look. It does seem like a very well thought out game engine overall.

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