You may want to dual boot, especially if your classes are online. Iāve seen issue after issue using a Windows VM for online exams. But, for me itād be worth asking a buddy or using the computer lab to get around an invasive OS as your daily driver.
For sure, but online exams for college see VMās as a cheating option since the base OS isnāt accessible by the exam software to restrict. Iāve seen on going workarounds, but these exam programs always adapt, making more settings changes required for a VM to work on a test. As if a difficult exam wasnāt tough enough. Windows provides the exam softwareās the lockdown capabilities they desire, so alt OS options arenāt allowed.
For those purposes yes you need dual boot. However, of youāre learning a new OS, dual boot is often just too inconvenient the rest of the time. Itās way easier to spool a VM because you canāt get your phone to connect and troubleshoot that problem later (compared to log out and restart to get a picture off you need) for example.
Iām saying have both. Itās just bytes on disk.
Every time I boot into Windows, it tries to force me to sign into a Microsoft account. I have to unplug my Ethernet cable to get past it. I just got over it and installed Mint instead. I almost never boot into Windows unless itās for something specific.
Iāve never been able to daily drive Nix, or for that matter stand using it in a VM. Iāve always hated every aspect about it. I currently use Arch, but for stability reasons am switching back to (probably, might end up going for something debian based) Fedora on my desktop. The overall structure of Nix is justā¦ Itās not meant for a normal person to daily drive, itās designed for replicability. You donāt interact with it the way you would a normal OS.
That being said, a lot of people around me love Nix, and do daily drive it. I donāt know how they can stand it, but they do.
Well I hate to disagree with all the doomers here, but I don't think flatpaks are the devil. Flatpaks are as good as the person shipping them, there are not many flatpaks that actually have official dev support so a lot of these programs are packaged by volunteers in their spare time. So no, they may not have the best default settings.
That said, I run flatpaks almost exclusively on Kinoite I've never had an issue with flatpak theming or my cursor changing. Some applications are very obviously made for GNOME or KDE explicitly but flatpak doesn't have anything to do with that. Of course if you are running a WM rice or something with very specific theming then that's another story. You can customize a Linux desktop in countless ways, you can't really expect these applications to keep up with that by default (flatpak or not). It's the same concept as something like Discord or Steam, it will look the same for everybody but you can theme it if you put some effort in.
IDEs are another issue, the whole concept of an IDE is antithetical to a sandbox in the first place so it's simply not a very good use case of flatpak. Flatpak isn't a one-size-fits-all solution, that's why even the Fedora immutable desktops give you additional options like rpm-ostree, podman, buildah and toolbox.
The problem occurred on Brave browser using standard KDE.
Anyway this explains it nicely. I guess flatpak itself is ok but a lot of things are in the hands of package maintainers and if they donāt set things up correctly then there will be issues. Makes sense
I honestly wish more programs did the app by app theming thing. I donāt need my desktop theme applied to every program I open. I would much rather the program to have a consistent design language that works, rather than slapping themed buttons all over the place that donāt fit with other aspects of the program.
Iāve never been able to daily drive Nix, or for that matter stand using it in a VM. Iāve always hated every aspect about it. I currently use Arch, but for stability reasons am switching back to (probably, might end up going for something debian based) Fedora on my desktop.
Fingers crossed theyāll open that EU warehouse sooner rather then later. And theyāll sell more then their keyboards from it (Iāve been looking forward to at least those with affordable shipping for ages)
While oracle has definitely always beenā¦ problematic, it is refreshing to see something actually written by a real, rational person. It may just be corporate fodder, but itās good for people in this case, something very rare - just like SUSEās not-so-subtle PR statements.
Work. Software development is so much nicer on Linux and I grew to really enjoy the power and flexibility of the terminal. I started with dual boot on my PC and eventually deleted my Windows partition and went full Linux.
Many things have substantially improved significantly in the last 10 or so years such as gaming, drivers and overall desktop user experience to the point where I dread trying to use a Windows machine. Plus Iām pretty comfy now and like that I have full control over my machine when I use Linux vs whatever spyware MS is trying to shove down peopleās throats.
It still qualifies as community driven since they have no financial incentive to keep maintain their version of the distribution, but they would certainly be affected by the upstream messing with how the source is provided. What they could ultimately do would be āhard forkingā, i.e. taking the available state of the original project and keep developing their own version on top without ever keeping in sync with, say, Ubuntu anymore. Instead they will become their own thing that at some point will have strayed from the original significantly enough to be fundamentally different in their packages, configurations, repositories, etc.
Thank you. So in theory the community-driven derivatives are always free, at least in theory, not to depend from the upstream corporation-driven ones. So itās more a matter of possible implications in the workflow, than in not being really community-driven.
Linux needs better multi-monitor support. Itās better than itās ever been, but itās still janky and giving black screens on tertiary screens at times.
EDIT: Itās funny how the comments are all over the place. āworks for meā, āitās broken on KDE but works on XFCEā, āitās broken on XFCE but works on KDEā, etc. I think thatās a good sign there are problems with multi-monitor support.
Xfce have a hard time recognize recently plugged in monitors. I have to restart the PC with the monitors plugged in to have a 50/50 chance to make it work. Or just switch to Cinnamon and make it wok right away.
I havenāt had any multiple monitor problems since switching to KDE that werenāt actually Nvidia driver issues. My āTVā is a third monitor on a long ass HDMI cable.
My only remaining issue is that wayland has slightly more input latency when playing games, enough that itās noticeable (or a very convincing placebo effect).
This makes it so that I have to use X11 and that I have to disable compositioning when playing games as my displays have different refresh rates. All in all, not a big problem but looking forward to be on wayland for good soon.
Plasma is probably the worst out of the few bigger DEs. If you donāt replug the monitors the same way to the video card, the toolbars you have configured disappear and you cannot copy it from a different display or even make all toolbars identical on all monitorsā¦
How many people total do you think use more than display? How many Linux users or users that would be willing to use Linux would want more than one display? Iām betting itās a lot if not most. So while it may not be a big factor it probably is a factor that applies to most. Then you add up all the other stuff that just doesnāt quite work right and you lost the incentive or motivation to switch.
Funny because Plasma was the only desktop I tried which game me weird monitor issues Even Windowmaker worked flawless for me, and my XFCE(Desktop) / i3wm(Laptop) never failed with 3+ monitors
Yeah, KDE was also my first DE but immediately switched to Gnome for 3 Years. Till now after having an AMD card. I guess a lot has changed, i also got way too much issues years back then with Nvidia.
I also saw a difference shortly before switching to AMD with animations on KDE (Gnome went nice with Nvidia). They were either loading, caching or just lagging or smth when hitting the Overview feature (Similar to Gnome super button). This small uncomfy issue instantly went away with AMD for unknown reason.
Iāve been messing with this on and off for a few years now and I still havenāt seen support for multiple monitors running at different scaling levels (like running a 4K monitor at 125% alongside a 1080p monitor at 100%). This is a feature I use in Windows on one of my setups. I hope this gets some attention soon. I run Linux on most of my machines but this problem still gets in my way on others.
Plasma on Wayland can do that Iām pretty sure, and if you donāt have an Nvidia GPU Wayland is fine nowadays. Hell, even if you have an Nvidia GPU itās mostly fine nowadays.
I had the reverse experience. I have had no issues with multi-monitor (OpenSUSE, nVidia driver direct from nVideas own maintained Opensuse rpms) but on Windows Iām having Windows open black, or delayed, not recognizing external display, etc. Too many variables to make proper apples to apples comparisons.
Because for what it was made to do and what I want to use it for, itās utterly ideal. Itās easy, itās direct, it works seamlessly with any programās command line, and I can run anything network-wide on any linux machine on my network out of box with no fiddling around. No check for version, no missing packages to hunt up, no libraries to download and verify; I type, I save, it runs, Iām done. If I need to integrate command line tools on six separate programs and/or five to eight scripts in two languages to do a stat/resource/network check on my Linux machines, I can do them all from one script and I can do it to six separate machines over ssh in a loop in under 200 lines of code and throw the results up on a webpage in apache with another thirty if I want to make it pretty in html. Then I set it to a cron job to run once an hour and forget it for months; it keeps on keeping on, I just check that webpage to see everything is fine, in separate tabs even. And I can do all that very very very fast and literally out of box; if I add a brand new machine, all I do is copy my base bash library over and set permissions and itās ready to go.
Those scripts will always work, on every linux machine, every time, in the same way; they will run in ubuntu, solus, fedora, arch, debian, raspberry pi, probably slackware I havenāt checked, the scripts do not care. Ones I wrote ten years ago are still running just fine.
Bash is kind of like the general of my script and cli army; she does not need to know everything herself, she just needs to organize the troops to do their jobs, and tell me if someoneās slacking off because python decided to be a dick about a package or php is being cranky or apache just wonāt speak to anyone no idea wtf is going on there or otbr vanished into the ether or all my wifi drivers are in revolt after an update. She does not stress me at all; she is the finder of my stresses before the drama hits critical, and this is why she is my favorite.
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