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marcdw , in What distro(s) do you use?

Currently… Slackware on main laptop. Slint (Slackware-based) on mini-pc. MX Linux (fvwm respin), Void, and OpenBSD on old laptop. NsCDE is desktop on all except MX.

Sophia ,

I love to see Slackware representation in these threads, easily my favorite distribution of all time.

cfx_4188 ,
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I’ve gotten used to Slackware in 25 years.

dirac_field , in What distro(s) do you use?

My laptop is on Manjaro and has been running flawlessly for years …such a great experience with gnome 40+

My desktop is also on Manjaro, and things could not be more different. No Wayland, no animations in the gnome desktop, visual glitches since the last update …guess it doesn’t play well with Nvidia drivers. Anyone managing something decent with gnome+Nvidia?

croobat , in uhhh... what do I call the "subreddits"?
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Sublemmies?

Fabrik872 ,
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I like the idea to put lemmie in every word it is like with batman. Users should be called Lemmiathans.

ryomensukuna , in DEBIAN 12: More Relevant Than Ever as a Linux Desktop

Debian sid(testing) is better for regular desktop usage because of security patches and bug fixes but debian stable is good for servers

shreddy_scientist OP ,
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Debian sid works for both servers & workstations??

lightrush , in What are your thoughts on the upcoming COSMIC DE?
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Skeptical. Writing a graphical UI toolkit is a freight train of work. I’m positively curious about anything that’s not GTK but I’m not sure going with a new toolkit is the right decision. Qt is the mature kid on the block that’s been proven in more environments than I can count. Moreover it’s a complete application framework with a ton of convenience libraries needed for speedy development already included. I guess those can be supplanted in the form of separate Rust libs. Personally I’d have gone with Qt for such a project but I’d be happy to be proven wrong.

kartonrealista ,
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This is coming from personal experience/opinion, but after trying to create a simple app in GTK4 Rust bindings I was so confused because of how alien the programming style was compared to typical Rust programming. After trying Iced it was much simpler and made so much more sense, no silly decorators or anything, you can define the view and the update loop separately, and interactions are handled by messages using pattern matching. The inheritance based OOP doesn’t work well with Rust, and Iced has none of it, because it was made for Rust specifically.

I’m guessing QT bindings are similarly in a different style of programming and can’t imagine that meshing well with native Rust code. Iced has a lot of merits to it and having the opportunity to both help it develop and use a native Rust framework in a Rust project makes a lot of sense.

milltertime_3227790 , in DEBIAN 12: More Relevant Than Ever as a Linux Desktop

Good breakdown. I might end up using it on my next desktop

shreddy_scientist OP ,
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Fedora is also worth a look, Debian was my first distro so I always appreciate keeping up with it. But Fedora is SUPER stable and also a top option for privacy and security, so I switched over.

Generator , in Linus Torvalds -- Creator of Linux -- defends gun regulation, woke communists, womens rights AND trans rights. Linux is political!
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Maybe because he’s not “American” and comes from a country with regulations like the rest of the world, and people care when they vote to make things work.

And like most of the rest of the world, there are more than two political parties, and is not a drama show.

Andreas ,
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He has American citizenship and lives in America, he’s talking about America here. And I promise you that other countries, yes even those in the magical fantasy land of Europe, also have lots of political drama despite having more than two parties in the government (They tend to form alliances based on left/right and split into two blocks anyway).

Generator ,
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I know, im from Europe.
The drama is not compared to USA, we don’t vote on celebrities.

In my country we even have a party for the animals and climate, so when USA still trying to vote for basic rights, we already ahead and vote for animal rights and more climate change.

nachtigall , in Which distro has the best GUI in your opinion?

Deepin is great too. Unfortunately it is not fully translated so that you come across Chinese quite often.

Adda , in Lemmy GUI app for linux?
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Welcome. Sure, Linux Mint’s WebApp Manager or Peppermint OS’s Ice are here for you. But jokes aside, sadly, no. Lemmy does not have a native Linux application as of now. But you can make use of the fact that the browser UI is a PWA which can be installed like a regular app as well.

CannotSleep420 ,

Proper PWA support isn’t in v0.17.3 (although mobile browsers will let you add it as an app). However, PWA support was merged into the main branch. I’m not sure which release it will be a part of though.

Ephera , in Ubuntu Flavors Will Stop Using Flatpak

by making it clearer about what an “Ubuntu experience” is.

The user experience will be worse, because they can’t use Flatpaks without jumping through extra hoops.

So, I guess, a “Ubuntu experience” is a bad experience. Not going to argue with that.

AgreeableLandscape ,
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Ubuntu is the stepping stone from Mac/Windows to Linux. Like the tutorial level. It’s also one of the most “corporate” Linux OS vendors outside of RedHat. Of course it’s shitty lol.

rysiek , in Ubuntu Flavors Will Stop Using Flatpak
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Now do the same with snaps.

Tiuku ,

Probably the whole point is just to clear the field for their snapstore

musicmatze , in Red Hat donates $10,000 to OBS Studio, Flatpak to be official for Linux
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Good news on one side (10k for OBS) and bad news on the other side. 😂

joojmachine ,

Why bad news? It means that there’s an universal package with official support for every distro instead of them just supporting Debian/Ubuntu and everything else being just… kinda there and unnoficial.

musicmatze ,
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I am not in favour of these flatpacks/snaps or whatever these things are called. Packages should be distro packages, always. And the vendor of the software should never be responsible of packaging, thats literally the job of the distribution.

TheAnonymouseJoker ,
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You are ignorant due to assuming Flatpaks are same as Snaps or AppImages. Flatpaks are incredible. AppImages are next. Snaps are worst.

ChinaNumberOne , in Reasons to consider NOT switching to Linux

Ideology over functionality

imagine actually thinking this is a bad thing, i’d take ideology over functionality anytime possible

milo128 ,

if you’d read it you’d see the author has no problem with people who choose ideology over functionality, only people that try to force others to.

birokop , in Gnu Guix System Review

Isn’t this missing the entire point of guix?

fishinthecalculator ,

You mean reproducibility and bootstrappability?

adrianmalacoda ,

Being a free software GNU distribution is also the point of Guix, and it’s part of what attracted me to it (although its practical abilities are nice as well).

fishinthecalculator ,

Yes I definitely agree: free software is also a requirement for bootstrappability and reproducibility.

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