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TenTypekMatus , in My little brother loves the dualboot setup I installed for him. He says "It's like iOS"
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Just try it with my brother. He plays a LOT of EAC-protected titles and somehow loves Wilndows 11. I tried convincing him to the penguin distros, but he’s very anti-penguin as in anti-Linux. At least I told him how to speed up Windows and he agreed, so I ran a debloat tool from CTT. But at least I convinced my grandma to switch to Linux Mint.

jman6495 , in My little brother loves the dualboot setup I installed for him. He says "It's like iOS"

From now on I’m only refering to arch as “the nerd OS”

minorsecond ,

What does that make Gentoo?

PolarisFx ,
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The nerd OS for irritable people. I could use Arch, but choose to retain what shreds of sanity I have left.

minorsecond ,

Haha, that’s perfect

jman6495 ,

The OS for masochists?

DoctorZook , in Sometimes, I get tired of Linux

Sometimes I get tired of people publishing clickbait videos to hustle ad revenue.

julianh ,

Sometimes I get tired.

KrimsonBun ,
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Sometimes

LoafyLemon ,

Some

Solemn , in Coders, what is your workflow on Linux
  1. Setup my vimrc.
  2. Clone the project, and realize that whatever repo managing system they started using 3 years ago requires setup steps not in the README and breaks everything at the slightest touch.
  3. Build the currently relevant project in whatever build system they started using 3 years ago (CMake is quite nice).
  4. Fix my vimrc to be compliant with whatever tabbing they use.
  5. Realize that for some reason, someone made a commit in the file I’m reading that uses 3 space tabs. And worse, someone approved that PR.
  6. Make changes via vim.
  7. Debug via print because setting up gdb or JTAG on embedded systems is usually more effort than its worth.
  8. Realize it’s a timing issue and reluctantly go find the JTAG debugger.
Croquette OP ,

It’s funny how the JTAG debugger should be the first thing that we use, but just like you, I don’t want to use it until really necessary.

But the moment I setup everything, then I wonder why I’ve waited so long to do the setup haha.

flashgnash , (edited ) in Need Advice on a Distro for Gaming/Programming and Media Server

Nobara’s probably the “it just works” one for gaming and you can code on pretty much anything

If you want to tinker NixOS is the one imo. Has one config file with fairly simple options like to ensure steam is enabled it’s

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">programs.steam.enable = true;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">programs.steam.openFirewall = true:
</span>

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># nixos-rebuild switch
</span>

And it installs and configures everything for you

Also because every time you are rebuilding your system it saves every iteration so if you totally fuck up your system you can just boot an earlier build and away you go

As far as I’ve used it pretty much everything on NixOS “just works” as long as you’ve got the right config (which can be searched on search.nixos.org or just googled

BitSound ,

I like and use NixOS, but if this is the first time OP is using Linux, I’d recommend sticking with something like Pop. When something goes wrong, there’s a pretty good chance that there will already be a SO post for Pop or Ubuntu on how to fix it.

flashgnash ,

True yeah, this is why I suggested nobara first

azvasKvklenko ,

For basic stuff is pretty easy, but once you try to go outside of what’s in option, you might find yourself in a deep rabbit hole. Definitely not a beginner distro.

flashgnash ,

I’ve yet to find anything particularly difficult to do, 99% of things have options/packages and you can still install stuff with snap/flatpak/appimage if not

teolan , in Thunderbird 115 - odd lack of packaged options beginning to raise eyebrows?
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They do progressive roll-out. With last year’s update the Flatpak also waited for the to say “this is stable enough, ship it”

selawdivad , in Coders, what is your workflow on Linux

I mainly use Python, so my workflow is the same on every OS: Neovim and a shell, usually one of each in a vertical split. This transfers nicely to remote SSH sessions too, and even works in Termux on my phone!

Have you investigated whether it’s possible to test your cross-compiled builds in Qemu, rather than copying them to the host?

Croquette OP ,

It’s possible to use QEMU, but since my primary goal is to use the hardware (GPIO, ADCs, SPI, etc.), it isn’t as useful for me in that case since I want to physically interact with the board. There is certainly a point where I will use QEMU more, but for the moment, it’s not practical.

krnpnk , in Mix and Match Terminal With Nautilus File Manager in Linux

Seems like the whole article can be condensed to “Dragging and dropping text does what you expect. Dragging and dropping directories/files will insert the absolute path”.

elmicha OP ,

Yes, if you already know that you can drag and drop between unrelated programs, it will work like you expected it.

If you don’t know it, you can pick it up by looking over the shoulder of your friend or co-worker, or you can read articles like this.

LoafyLemon ,

You can also just give it a try, like most of us, but hey, who am I to judge.

zaphotz , in Need Advice on a Distro for Gaming/Programming and Media Server

I just use ubuntu lts with the grafics ppa. It just works and is very well supported by third party vendors. e.g. steam works very well, docker cuda etc is available via ppa.

You can still play around with everything even if some call it Linux for noobs. But I can play with it wonderfully and work (R/Python/cuda/cpp and data science/ml stuff) at the same time without something always breaking or changing. Also, you’re most likely to find help and tutorials for ubuntu.

Snaps are annoying but still largely optional. I just replaced Firefox with the deb version via the mozilla ppa. And if snaps are too annoying just use debian.

It is also very practical to know debian/ubuntu because they are the standard systems in companies.

Adderbox76 , in What is KDE Neon, in simpler or more practical terms? How's your experience with it?

It was good. Never had an issue with it. I’ll generally stick with Plasma desktop centric distros because of the features that they offer that Gnome desktops don’t. I switched to Manjaro KDE not because I had an issue with Neon, I just simply was bored and wanted to learn new console commands for the basics after years and years of apt.

pglpm OP ,
@pglpm@lemmy.ca avatar

Exploring and learning are the essence of life :)

exscape , in What is KDE Neon, in simpler or more practical terms? How's your experience with it?

Off topic, but according to Kbin this thread has 22 upvotes and 0 downvotes.

pglpm OP ,
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Thank you for the info. From what I understand, one only sees up/downvotes from one’s own instance (lemmy.ca in my case). When I posted it I saw it going down to -3 in a couple of minutes, so I was wondering if my question was really dumb…

I got lots of great advice in this post!

I’ll delete my edit :)

Sir_Simon_Spamalot , in Need Advice on Best OOTB Experience for Gaming/Programming/Media Server Rig

Don’t forget Linux Mint! May not habe the latest & greatest, but one of the best OOBE along with Pop

HiddenRetro ,
@HiddenRetro@lemmy.world avatar

Mint is always a solid choice!

mothringer , in Thunderbird 115 - odd lack of packaged options beginning to raise eyebrows?

I know Gentoo has it masked for testing with this note, which is probably the same reason why other distros without the same mechanism don’t have it at all:

Testing. An upgrade from 102 isn’t recommended due to downgrading most likely not being possible. Back up your profile before attempting. Fresh install should be fine. Bug

mrmanager , in This week in KDE: Plasma 6 features
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Will be fun to try this when it comes. Maybe at the same time as the new Cosmos desktop from system76…

Hazdaz , in Is there really no viable alternative for Photoshop on Linux?

All the software developers will say “there’s GIMP” and then anyone who’s actually used GIMP will laugh in their face, amd now you see why so much of the open source community is such shit.

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