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Nibodhika , to linux in Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux!

That’s a bad example, Debian is bad because people use it wrong and it breaks is not a really strong argument, same can be said about every other distro.

I believe Debian based distros are popular because Ubuntu used to be very beginner friendly back in the early 2000s, while other distros not so much. Then a lot of us started with it, and many never switched or switched and came back.

Nibodhika , to linux in Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux!

Yeah, Manjaro just works, until it doesn’t. Don’t get me wrong, I love Manjaro, used it for years, but if it breaks it’s a pain in the ass to fix, and also hard to get help because the Arch community will just reply with “Not Arch, not my problem” even if it’s a generic error, and the Manjaro community is not as prominent.

I could also mention them letting their SSL certificate expire, which doesn’t inspire a lot of trust, but they haven’t done that in a while.

Nibodhika , to linux in Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux!

I like it as a concept, but it gets bothersome to maintain on the long run, sometimes you just want to install something not write configs.

I think Gentoo has a nice middle ground, where you can install packages as a one-off without adding them to the world file, which makes it very meat to maintain both your regular packages and some random things you’re trying out before settling in on adding them permanently.

That being said I’m currently looking into writing some ansible for kick-starting machines, so I’m very much moving in that direction. Why not use nix then? Few reasons:

  • Using Nix means I’m forced to use Nix, whereas with Ansible I can use whichever distro I want, more than one even.
  • I don’t want to have to define EVERYTHING, I want to be able to bootstrap systems quickly, but after the initialization I want to be able to mold each system to what I need without worrying about making it reproducible.
  • Nix uses a language that’s only usable in Nix, in short I would need to study and learn something that’s only usable on one specific distro.
Nibodhika , to selfhosted in Notification when new app versions are released

I use diun and rss feeds. So far I’ve had different levels of success with different services.

For example for Immich the RSS is a lot more useful because it lets you know when you need to run manual steps.

Nibodhika , to linux in Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux!

It is, that’s what Windows does. It’s also possible to compile programs to not need external libraries and instead embed all they need. But both of these are bad ideas.

Imagine you install dolphin (the KDE file manager) It will need lots of KDE libraries, then you install Okular (KDE PDF reader) it will require lots of the same library. Extend that to the hundreds of programs that are installed on your computer and you’ll easily doubled the space used with no particular benefit since the package manager already takes care of updating the programs and libraries together. Not just that, but if every program came with it’s own libraries, if a bug/security flaw was found in one of the libraries each program would need to upgrade, and if one didn’t you might be susceptible to bugs/attacks through that program.

Nibodhika , to linux in Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux!

I was read/writing on NTFS partitions back in 2004, so your information that Linux doesn’t work with NTFS is at least 20 years old.

Nibodhika , to linux in Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux!

I understand sudo needs a password,but all the other stuff I just want off.

Sudo doesn’t need a password, in fact I have it configured not to on the computers that don’t leave the house. To do this open /etc/sudoers file (or some file inside /etc/sudoers.d/) and add a line like:


<span style="color:#323232;">nibodhika ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
</span>

You probably already have a similar one, either for your user or for a certain group (usually wheel), just need to add the NOPASSWD part.

As for the other parts you can configure the computer to not lock the screen (just turn it off) and for updates it depends on distro/DE but having passwordless sudo allows you to update via the terminal without password (although it should be possible to configure the GUI to work passwordless too)

Nibodhika , to linux in Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux!

I say that covers around 99% of the awk/sed I use.

Nibodhika , to linux in Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux!

Adding to what others have said I also think Mint is a great option. But I strongly encourage you to install things via the package manager when available, I find that a lot of times when someone complains that something (that should work) doesn’t work on Linux is because they’re trying to install things manually, i.e. the Windows way (open browser, search for program name, open website, download installer, open installer, follow instructions), that’s almost never the correct way on Linux.

Nibodhika , to linux in Rectangle for Linux?

That’s my understanding from what OP said, i.e. it just moves the window doesn’t fill the quadrant.

Nibodhika , to linux in Rectangle for Linux?

My guess is that for example if your screen is 1920x1080, and the window is 800x600 OP expects that move to right rescales it to 960x1080 and top-right to 960x540, but that shortcut might be just moving the 800x600 window without resizing.

For OP if that’s what you’re asking, KDE does that, not sure if Cinnamon does, it’s expected to be kind of minimalist and similar to windows. KDE has had that built in for decades, it’s not a new thing, so I think that if Cinnamon was going to have it it would already do.

Nibodhika , to linux in Does anyone know how to execute a script when a certain sound plays?

First thought was a chrome extension that detects if the button is on the screen, that should be easy. But since you don’t want that you could check how the site receives the information that you’ve got a call or an email, it’s either a periodic pull from the page, or most likely a websocket message from the server. Regardless you can use something like mitmproxy to intercept the communication and do things with it docs.mitmproxy.org/stable/api/…/websocket.html this will allow you to analyze specifically what the page is receiving, so if there’s information on who’s calling or the subject of the email, or whatever it will be captured here in text which is a lot more easy to parse and analyze than audio.

Nibodhika , to linux_gaming in Linux share on Steam bounces back to nearly 2% for March 2024

It’s ready for a lot more than that, can you tell me something that Linux can’t do without mentioning a third party company that refuses to support Linux?

Nibodhika , to linux_gaming in Linux share on Steam bounces back to nearly 2% for March 2024

My computer illiterate mother in law that has been using Linux for years strongly disagrees.

Nibodhika , to linux_gaming in Linux share on Steam bounces back to nearly 2% for March 2024

They also sell non-DRM software. And most importantly they invest the money they make from selling those games into developing Linux so it’s better for everyone, I’ll take a corporation that uses my money to make things better for myself than one that sells “only” DRM free" games (when it’s convenient, because GoG also sells DRMd games in case you didn’t knew)

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