st (simple terminal from Suckless) with Solarized Dark color scheme. That’s it - it’s super fast, super simple, super lightweight, and still looks really pleasing. That is, if I am in a window-manager-workflow-mood (then in combination with dwm); otherwise I use the TTY with default configuration, except for the color scheme also being Solarized Dark. Why so minimal? I have a really old ThinkPad and it runs really smoothly with those configurations in Debian.
I don’t think that Fedora will be affected by the changes RedHat has made with RHEL in the near future. It’s still a Community Distro. So there is no need to switch right now.
I’m using Silverblue currently, but i’m thinking about hopping to VanillaOS when they switch to Debian as a Base.
Fedora is 100% community distribution with Red Hat as a sponsor and large contributor. Fedora will always be 100% free and open-source and will never charge to make source-code available if that concerns people. This reflects heavily on their Freedom foundation: “[…] a completely free project that anyone can emulate or copy in whole or in part for their own purposes.”
Red Hat may have a grip on resources and funding for the project, but neither IBM nor Red Hat have ultimate decision-making powers.
I don’t like that the very first thing you see when you click on download is “purchase for $40” and then they list the benefits of doing so, which basically boil down to:
1- custom gnome themes 2- Professional-grade creative suite of apps 3- Advanced productivity software
Number 1 is a joke. Number 2 & 3 I think are basically scams. What apps? They don’t list them at all. If they are proprietary then how can you support these apps with this pricing model, if they are not, then are they just downloadable by anyone on almost any distro for free?
The entire thing smells bad. I vote to stay far away.
I think it’s OK for them to try and sell extras, but I do agree that it shouldn’t be the first thing on the downloads page. At least put the paid and free options side by side, then have the lite version down below that.
just choose the 0 dollar option and install that stuff yourself. They are looking to sustain their development, and users coming from Apple are used to paying fees; Windows users… maybe.
noob alerti heard a while back that the linux kernel was getting “Rusty.” why change to Rust when you have C, and does this not create backward compatibility issue?
and also, does Linus Torvalds always release the kernel updates himself? and does this mean that we are doomed if he dies (like the shit that went down the Tolkien died, with the lame Lord of the Rings crap)
I seem to remember rust support was for writing drivers. Rust is the new language to get rid of buffer overflows and memory issues the programmer in C had to manage manually, so much more secure. And Linus just manages the kernel and doesn’t contribute code, so it should continue just fine without him. And it’s open source, so it can be forked if people don’t like its direction at any time. And there are alternative kernels you can install now that have real time functionality, better timing… if you have a need.
The Rust for Linux project was announced in 2020 in the Linux kernel mailing list with goals of leveraging Rust’s memory safety to reduce bugs when writing kernel drivers.[3]
Please elaborate because if you actually understood the Windows registry you would realize they aren’t the same 😂 maybe you should read some actual code
I’ve been wondering for quite a while what the “Actions” entry in the Search settings does. I suppose this feature has been planned for some time now, but they just never bothered to implement it. No idea why the had that shortcut present though.
On a seperate note, I’ve recently started using GNOME. I like it, but it’s really difficult to find a terminal emulator that matches the theming as far as title bar and window decorations go (Im not a fan of the GNOME console, it’s not as easily customisable as I’d like). They’ve all had white title bars which clash with my dark theming. The only one I’ve found that works nicely is Black Box, which I have been enjoying, but I can’t figure out how to blur the background (maybe I do this through the compositor prefs? I’ve tried setting it in blur my shell but it doesn’t seem to work), so i’d like more suggestions
I’ve tried Kitty and Alacritty, as those are the ones I’ve used in the past, along with Konsole, but that seems sacrilegious so I haven’t tried it with GNOME.
I’ll come back and post pics of my Konsole setup on my main rig in the spirit of the post once I get home :) I use fish and custom theming
It’s possible to get a relatively recent version of Adobe Photoshop, but it’s very clunky due to WINE’s arguably lackluster application support (most of the contributors focus on gaming). The alternatives can do the job though, GIMP (there’s a Photoshop style to make it more familiar) and Inkscape are pretty decent and light alternatives.
<rant> Honestly, and I don’t mean this to hate on either software as I used both a lot before I discovered piracy on Windows: the quality of GIMP and Inkscape is well below most competing FOSS projects, let alone their proprietary challengers.
GIMP is powerful, but might as well be declared abandoned with how they’ve been preparing to port it to GTK 3 for a decade. It has some great features being held back by poor hardware acceleration and falling behind features provided even by alternatives like Photopea. It’s the X11 of photo editors.
Inkscape is okay, but the workflow stinks. BoxySVG is comparatively much more intuitive if it wasn’t lacking in a bunch of features. Inkscape has also basically been abandoned imo, with the project still not managing to get Apple M1 support working on the latest MacOS for nearly a year.
The barrier to contribute to either project is also sky-high imo, with their insistence on using C for cross=platform, front end applications. Normally this wouldn’t be a massive deal but it’s one of the key reasons I think Photopea and other proprietary freeware apps are running circles on these two projects - The turnaround for features and UX is so much better with modern languages. </rant>
This is one of those rare times I’d say “no, that thing does not need to change.” The strength of Linux is its lack of centralization with several strong contenders leading the pack. Packaging is not a problem for expert users, and casual users have options. I personally think flatpak and snap are polluters and wasteful, but haven’t broken one of my systems in a while so I don’t mind using them. Options for packaging benefits both the users and maintainers; only someone seeking to monetize that wants to consolidate. Before you know it, graphical installers will have ads. Screw em
I personally think flatpak and snap are polluters and wasteful, but haven’t broken one of my systems in a while so I don’t mind using them.
I’m in a same boat. I have this and that installed via flatpack/snap and they mostly work, but I don’t like them in a principle. And, while they strictly speaking haven’t broken anything the garage computer I’m writing this with has multiple pieces of software which is installed both via apt and via snap. The one from apt is obsolete/broken, so I should go trough and clean them up, but in the other hand the snap ones (signal mostly) complains every now and then that new version has been installed and that it’ll restart automatically after x days. No matter how many times I run updates the message stays until it magically disappeares.
This installation was once xubuntu 16.04 and it’s been upgraded with different hardware for years and until recently it was pretty sufficient to just open console now and then and run apt update && apt dist-upgrade. After that the system would be up to date, run browser and spotify just fine (that’s what I need from a garage computer, play music and offer a way to quickly search whatever online to help with projects) but now it’s in a state where I can’t just let it do it’s thing. It requires handholding and TLC more and more often and I don’t like it. Just let me upgrade a system for decades which used to be possible (and maybe still is) with Debian.
But I’m getting older by the day, I used to have Debian installations which went trough 3-4 major releases without major hiccups and it was wonderful. I like when things just work and I don’t need to pay attention to the operating system itself, it’s just a platform for me to do whatever I need and the less it gets in the way the better. Of course things are better now than back when we had to build our own kernels, but I suppose some of you here are younger than 2.6.0 kernel, so maybe we’ll not go that far into history.
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