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Shareni ,

No, Debian doesn’t take your apt install … command and install a snap behind your back…

Shareni ,

Yeah, who’d hate using a package manager that increasingly slows down your boot time with every package installed, or that uses a closed source store to provide you FOSS

Maybe there’s a reason canonical has to force it on their users

Shareni ,

AFAIK everything was dropped in the end, and people went back to using audacity

Shareni ,

More like

20 years ago - perl

10 years ago - python

Nowadays - go

Shareni ,

if there’s something that I can adopt as a default goto solution without having to worry about how each system is packaged/configured.

Go is probably your best bet. Simple to use, and you can compile it so it runs everywhere

Shareni ,

Idk what’s up with your fingerprint rant, but the drivers for that have been out for years. Not official ofc, but it works better than in windows.

The issue is that it’s essentially useless because Linux has no support for any type of fingerprint reader, so you can maybe set up your DM to log you in.

Shareni ,

It’s complete crap, on the level of not being able to run the stopwatch in the background and having it restart if you get a notification.

Also, it’s 65EUR if you want to order it in Europe

Shareni ,

I call bs or it was before they started shipping from EU. You literally couldn’t order to Europe or EU countries from the other warehouse while they were stocking it.

It’s got a lot more issues than that. It’s utter trash unless you like want to practice CPP.

Shareni ,

Lucky guy, I ordered it to Germany and they wouldn’t let me use the non-eu warehouse (so they can get rid of their overpriced stock I’m guessing)

Stopwatch - can’t be minimised, can’t see the time while it’s open, restarts when you get a notification (the fixes have been sitting in the PRs for years)

Notifications - don’t get cleared when you clear them on the phone, clearing them on the watch doesn’t close the notifications screen, answering your phone through the watch doesn’t dismiss the call notification

Heart rate monitor - essentially useless since it can’t take periodic measurements, doesn’t work great unless you’re wearing the watch on the inside of your hand, but at least they’ve managed to finally read the sensor docs and program it correctly

Step syncing is a massive pain in the ass and often requires you to “manually” sync them by walking around while keeping both devices active

Battery barely lasts longer than a week even with infrequent wearing (and that’s a massive improvement over the previous 3-4 days max)

Lift to wake up usually acts more like shake to wake

The UI is pretty bad overall

There are like 2 half decent watch faces

Horrific weight distribution and the shitty strap make it feel 10x heavier. Like, my automatic is almost 2x its weight and I barely feel it, while this crap is constantly reminding me it’s there.

The CPP OS doesn’t let you chose what apps to activate nor does it have any way to load your code aside from compiling everything

Updates are only mostly headache free if you use specific PC software. Keyword is mostly, I’ve had some updates take a bunch of attempts to install.

That’s just from the top of my head

Shareni ,

Xkill doesn’t kill the process, it just stops showing it to you

Shareni ,

I mean, org-mode was invented because LaTeX is too hard

Shareni ,

Emacs is older than ed

Shareni ,

73 and 76, but I got them mixed up, ed is older.

That’s for original Emacs though, the gnu version came out in 85

Shareni ,

Nobody’s raving about the install, that’s just useful for people who don’t know what makes a Linux distro.

It becomes your personality after a few years because every update might break anything, and you need to regularly maintain random shit. Also if you forget to update regularly, the chance of everything crapping out rises exponentially.

I hope you’re using something like btrfs, because rollbacks are a must.

Shareni ,

Sure, and not every arch user ends their comments with btw.

But that was consistent across multiple years, devices, and derivatives. It’s usually a 5 min fix/workaround, but it’s still annoying.

linux as business/ company pc?

I am going to ask if I may use linux for work. We are using windows but there is nothing that couldn’t be done on linux. Privately, I am mainly a fedora user but I’d be happy with any OS and DE or wm. What do I need to look out for when I suggest an OS? What does a computer/ linux/DE need in order to be ready for enterprise...

Shareni ,

Does your company have a serious IT department that manage devices?

If yes, then you’ll need to do whatever they say, and be ready to be told that’s not happening.

If not, I’d suggest a stable distro, encrypt the disk, and use flatpak/nix to install fresh packages. Fedora could work, but I’ve had bad luck with it, and wouldn’t want to risk my device crapping out because of an update.

The rest is really going to depend on your work and your it department.

Shareni ,

Damn you broke my brain for a second there. I thought you meant that nixos replaced k8s, and was wondering what the hell are you talking about.

Shareni ,

Separate your system and user lists. Use home-manager for example for your user packages. I think separating those configs is the official recommendation.

As for the rest, I’m using nix on MX because of declarative package management. Screw going back to imperative and having to remember what packages to install. If it’s something I use often it goes on a list, if I don’t nix shell comes to the rescue.

I’d rather mess around with dev envs for nix than distrobox.

Would being a Linux "power user" increase my chances of getting a job in IT/tech?

I’m trying to get a job in IT that will (hopefully) pay more than a usual 9 to 5. I’m been daily driving Linux exclusively for about 2 1/2 years now and I’m trying to improve my skills to the point that I could be considered a so-called “power user.” My question is this: will this increase my hiring chances...

Shareni ,

If you’re a developer and you don’t know how to deploy to Linux servers you’re useless.

Welp, found your red flag

Shareni ,

DD-MM-YYYY is better, but still causes issues. ISO 8601 though, now that’s a superior format.

Shareni ,

That really depends on what you’re doing. It’s only really useful when you’re regularly SSH-ing into other machines for work. Otherwise you’re wasting time every day so that you might save a second once every few years.

Shareni ,

Linux almost never needs to reboot after an update

Doesn’t it often need a reboot to apply some updates?

I rember reading something along those lines then I was researching why Fedora installs some updates after a reboot. Most

Shareni ,

I was talking about regular fedora. It’s not that you have to reboot, but you don’t get to use those updates until you do. The most obvious example is updating the kernel and its modules.

Is there a text editor/notes app that adds Unicode symbols?

For example, there is Material Notes which has a editor toolbar with bold, indented, stroke, etc. But this is rendered, exported to json or syntax like Markdown. This app too, in which i write this on lemmy, does the same. We have ☐, ☒, •, ‣ in Unicode, 𝗕𝗼𝗹𝗱, 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡, s̵t̵r̵o̵k̵e̵, so...

Shareni ,

Org-mode does this already

Shareni ,

Export to latex (and to pdf)?

Shareni ,

“even though there is evidence that Chromium is even less secure)”

That’s not how double negatives work. The alternative would be:

Even though there’s no evidence that chromium is more secure.

Shareni ,

Thanks, had a network error and jerboa said it failed to comment

Shareni ,

Not really:

  • RHEL is paid if you need more devices than the free license provides
  • SEL and Ubuntu Pro don’t have any free licenses as far as I remember
  • you can mostly use windows without paying anything
Shareni ,

the most popular

Citation very much needed

one of the most stable DEs on Linux

Hardly, but I’m guessing you’re thinking of reliability instead. Not really surprising when it’s so stripped down that vanilla GNOME is pretty much unusable. When you extend it, in order to get a proper DE, that goes right out the window.

That fact makes it especially funny that vanilla GNOME is by far the fattest DE around. How it manages to use up more resources than KDE is beyond me.

Shareni ,

Ubuntu, RHEL and Fedora use it as the default and they are very big distros. Idk if it’s enough but that’s what I know.

I mean, that’s pretty irrelevant. If you were for example at least comparing the downloads of fedora Vs spins, that would be a beginning of something.

Idk. KDE was unstable for me and it always has bugs after major releases. They should test things better.

  1. In case it wasn’t obvious: stability is not reliability
  2. So does GNOME, especially when you have a lot of extensions
  3. KDE is pretty crap in both regards

Personal opinion.

Is that why every distro comes with vanilla GNOME? Oh wait…

But hey at least it’s getting better over time.

Meanwhile over the years KDE got lighter than GNOME while constantly piling on features.

Shareni ,

Pre-blowback: fucking children is fine if they consent to it

Post-blowback: friends explained to me that it hurts the children and that they can’t consent

Shareni ,

You can’t replace it.

Zig?

Shareni ,

And I think they rewrote a bunch of C libraries in order to have a better cross-platform compiler for C and zig. Or something along those lines

Shareni ,

The more snaps you have, the slower your machine will boot. It’s uniquely shit technology that should die already.

Shareni ,

MX > stock

Shareni ,

sysVinit is only the default, it comes with systemd as well.

The tools are useful no matter the init system, and make life easier, especially for beginners.

In essence MX is just Debian with tools to make desktop use easier.

Shareni ,

From my experience it’s barely lighter than KDE. LXQT/LXDE destroy it in every benchmark and in every test I’ve tried.

Shareni ,

Just install a few of them, see what works, how much resources they use up, and what allows you to open more than one browser tab. Hell do it in a VM, Arco-B has a wide range of DE’s to choose from in the installer.

Shareni ,

It’s about 300mb lighter than KDE in my experiences. On 2gb of RAM, that makes a difference.

And both LXDE and LXQT use half as much RAM as Xfce.

LXDE is gonna be fine too; but it lacks a lot of the polish that XFCE has. I honestly like both for different things.

I’d rather be able to open more than 5 tabs than have a fancy UI. That’s why Xfce is on my newer devices, and I install those 2 whenever someone needs an ancient laptop revived.

Shareni ,

The point is that LXQT and LXDE use half as much ram as Xfce. I’m not saying OP should use KDE.

Shareni ,

How would it reach terminal velocity in a vacuum?

Shareni ,

Terminal velocity is the maximum speed attainable by an object as it falls through a fluid (air is the most common example). It is reached when the sum of the drag force (Fd) and the buoyancy is equal to the downward force of gravity (FG) acting on the object. Since the net force on the object is zero, the object has zero acceleration

Objects in a vacuum have no drag and no terminal velocity…

Shareni ,

XFCE I find a little tricky to get tiling working right

Just replace xfwm4 with i3wm for example. That and the fact you can use most Xfce tools outside of Xfce is why it’s my favourite.

Shareni ,

FOR THE EMPEROR!?!!

Shareni ,

WAAAAAAAAAA…

I MEAN, LONG LIVE ROWBOAT GIRLYMAN!!!

Did I just solve the packaging problem? (please feel free to tell me why I'm wrong)

You know what I just realised? These “universal formats” were created to make it easier for developers to package software for Linux, and there just so happens to be this thing called the Open Build Service by OpenSUSE, which allows you to package for Debian and Ubuntu (deb), Fedora and RHEL (rpm) and SUSE and OpenSUSE (also...

Shareni ,

standards

Also, different solutions have different benefits and downsides, and are better in different scenarios.

Decision of Next Os

I was Nobara user, then I am using Fedora right now. I want to use things like Hyprland etc. and ya know, Its damn cool to say I am using arch btw. So I’ve decided to use Arch Linux. But everyone says its always breaking and gives problems. That’s because of users, not OS… right? I love to deal with problems but I don’t...

Shareni ,

That’s because of users, not OS… right?

It’s a factor, but constantly upgrading to the newest version of software does come with risks. I’ve had Arch and derivatives fail to boot on multiple devices plenty of times after an update.

Some people say that they run arch for years without having any issues, but that’s either extreme luck or bs.

I love to deal with problems but I don’t want to waste my time.

You can usually just use a btrfs snapshot to rollback, boot, and try to update later. But there were situations when I had to use arch-chroot, and it can be problematic to install new packages in that situation.

All setups have tradeoffs, but I’d wholeheartedly suggest a stable distro like MX and nix + home-manager. It avoids all of the previously mentioned issues, and comes with other benefits. Do note that you might need to make or copy a hyprland.desktop file because home-manager can only alter files in your ~.

Shareni ,

It’s not pretty, but it’s uniform, obvious, and easy to understand.

go is good grug friend who chase away complexity demon by limit damage of big brain developer

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