GustavoM

GustavoM , 1 month ago to linux in How bad is Microsoft?

The majority are simpletons which (also) love simple stuff. That’s why.

GustavoM , 1 month ago to linux in How bad is Microsoft?

One word:

Recall.

GustavoM , 1 month ago to linux_gaming in Dealing with games that just won't run on Linux

A “ez” solution would be simply stay on Windows and leave Linux as a novelty. A somewhat complicated solution – double booting (apparently Windows can be a privacy nightmare even while dual-booting). A quite hard one would be installing Linux and running Windows on a VM with GPU passthrough. The “are you bleeping kidding me?” approach would be buying another PC just to run Linux while leaving your “main” PC for Windows.

“Is there a sane approach for this?” – yep, there is! Which is, buying a console and use it solely for gaming while leaving your main PC for daily browsing and everything else (i.e Linux).

GustavoM , 1 month ago to linux in Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite prototype that runs Linux emerges from Tuxedo:12-core CPU with 32GB RAM and surprise, surprise, Debian

Orange pi zero 3 is arm-based and can be really viable for daily usage if you are into tinkering.

GustavoM , 1 month ago to linux in GNU Nano gains optional modern keybindings – OSnews

I use both nano and vim, so eh

GustavoM , 1 month ago to linux in Can You Use Raspberry Pi 5 as a Desktop Computer?

I’m typing this on my rpi 4 w/ 2GiB (with three tabs open on my brave browser w/ also a youtube video playing on the background) and its good enough as is for daily tasks.

GustavoM , 1 month ago to linux in Is it possible to use Linux without the command line?

Is it possible to use Linux without the command line? Yes. Should you do it? Definitely not.

GustavoM , 1 month ago to linux in What’s the best ad blocker for you? - Firefox Add-ons Blog

A contrarian take, but nextdns. It may not block youtube ads, but eeeh it works really well for most cases.

GustavoM OP , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to linux in Is it possible to parse a rss reader through ffplay?

Yes! This is more like it. Thank you.

Now to figure out a package that acquires the latest news out of a rss link and prints it in the cli.

GustavoM , 1 month ago to linux in Gaming vs Regular Distros

Is there really a performance benefit to a gaming distro over a regular distro?

No. Gaming distro is a “regular” distro preconfigured for gaming.

GustavoM OP , 1 month ago to linux in Is it possible to parse a rss reader through ffplay?

Thank you for your explanation, but what I had in mind “in depth” was to “store” the latest news acquired from a rss link into a variable (say, $NEWS), and then display it all way down with -vf drawtext=text=“‘’$NEWS’:fontsize=etc:other:attributes” followed by a scroll effect (to the left)… which I’m pretty sure its possible, but I don’t know which package is appropriate for the former.

GustavoM , 1 month ago to linux in What is/was your distrohopping journey?

ZorinOS > Ubuntu > Debian and then Arch. I even tried Alpine linux recently but got “filtered” by the lack of gpu packages. Looks like I need to get my “googling” improved a bit.

GustavoM , 1 month ago to linux in 7 Common Linux Myths You Should Stop Believing

“I don’t value my time. I value my braincells.”

– Me, every time someone says the “…value your time” argument.

GustavoM , 1 month ago to linux in Your Experience with Linux, BSD etc

In a nutshell,

Zorin > Ubuntu > Debian > Arch, while (always) pestering google about trivial stuff, “How do I install something on Linux?” – “Oh look! A package manager! Which package manager is the best?” – “Distros have their specific packages? Cool!”, etc.

GustavoM , 1 month ago to linux in My friend didn't have a great experience with Linux

Just tell him, “Give Linux another shot when you are bored.”.

t. Used to be a Windows tryhard w/ baby duck syndrome, told myself exactly this. Took me a while, but I became a penguin a couple years after.