Spectacle8011

Spectacle8011 , 2 months ago to linux in There is a school in Wisconsin that uses Linux

My friend’s response:

Yep, but they make shit so much easier

They took my 2 weeks of turning CSVs into other CSVs into 2 days

🤷‍♀️

Spectacle8011 , 2 months ago to linux in There is a school in Wisconsin that uses Linux

Oh, so you should suck up to Microsoft being incompatible with their own standard because they’re incompatible with their own stabdard? Is that basically what you’re saying?

I don’t use Microsoft Office, but I use Adobe. If the people I collaborate with or I work for use Adobe and need to edit my files, I’m not going to give them something done in Scribus instead of inDesign. That would be doing a bad job and also limiting their choices significantly with who they can go with in the future to edit their files. Same principle applies to Microsoft Office.

Spectacle8011 , 2 months ago to linux in There is a school in Wisconsin that uses Linux

VBA scripts. I have a friend who works in the radio/telcom industry…but ends up doing a bunch of other stuff. This friend makes extensive use of VBA scripts to get the job done. You can’t do that on the web version, and you can’t do it in Calc.

Word is just for document interchange. Other businesses and clients use Word documents, and they don’t display reliably correctly in any other program but Word.

Spectacle8011 , 2 months ago to linux in Linux continues to be above 4% on the desktop

Adobe Creative Cloud doesn’t work in CrossOver.

Spectacle8011 , 2 months ago to technology in Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps

Just disable Javascript; it will load fine.

Spectacle8011 , 3 months ago to linux in Fedora 41 will drop GNOME's X11 session

what else is there aside from games?

The Steam client…

Spectacle8011 , 3 months ago to linux in Linux hits 4% on the desktop 🐧 📈

Have you tried setting up Affinity Suite with the community guide?

Spectacle8011 , 4 months ago to linux in What would you change about your favorite Linux distribution?

In this case, many of these dependencies are required for a lot of games to work properly in Wine. Dosbox is used as an emulation tool. I don’t know of another package manager that doesn’t give you an option to install all of the optional dependencies.

Spectacle8011 , 4 months ago to linux in Signal usage survey, what versions do you use? Wanted for potential Flatpak adoption

That seems like the wrong place to link to. Shouldn’t you be linking to Sealed Sender?

Spectacle8011 , 4 months ago to linux in What would you change about your favorite Linux distribution?

What I want to do is install all of these Optional Dependencies that are part of the wine-staging package without specifying every one of them:

<span style="color:#323232;">Optional Deps   : giflib
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-giflib
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  gnutls
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-gnutls
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  v4l-utils
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-v4l-utils
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  libpulse
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-libpulse
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  alsa-plugins
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-alsa-plugins
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  alsa-lib
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-alsa-lib
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  libxcomposite
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-libxcomposite
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  libxinerama
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-libxinerama
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  opencl-icd-loader
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-opencl-icd-loader
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  libva
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-libva
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  gtk3
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-gtk3
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  gst-plugins-base-libs
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-gst-plugins-base-libs
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  vulkan-icd-loader
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-vulkan-icd-loader
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  sdl2
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  lib32-sdl2
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  sane
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  libgphoto2
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  ffmpeg
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  cups
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  samba
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                  dosbox
</span>

–asdeps doesn’t seem to do that. apt has –install-recommended, I think, or something similar. And for all the bad things I could say about apt, that’s a nice feature.

Spectacle8011 , 4 months ago to linux in What would you change about your favorite Linux distribution?

pacman would allow me to install weak dependencies with a simple command-line option rather than black magic wizardry that rivals ffmpeg filtergraphs.

Spectacle8011 , 4 months ago to linux in Signal usage survey, what versions do you use? Wanted for potential Flatpak adoption

The concerns about AWS servers are around metadata. If metadata were not a concern, why not just use Whatsapp? They use the Signal protocol so messages are end-to-end encrypted by default, and most people already have it or are willing to download it as compared to Signal.

Spectacle8011 , 4 months ago to linux in Signal usage survey, what versions do you use? Wanted for potential Flatpak adoption

I don’t think Signal is interested in doing that.

Spectacle8011 , 4 months ago to piracy in Netflix: Piracy is Difficult to Compete Against and Growing Rapidly

It’s the fault of copyright. Restricting what shows you can stream to your users instead of, for example, being required to pay a royalty, inevitably leads to this situation. Netflix being the sole company allowed to stream every show and film would result in a monopoly that would be bad for everyone as they progressively sought to increase profits year over year. One company having all that power would not be a good thing for anyone, including content holders.

The solution is simple: every streaming service should be allowed to stream every show/film in every country. Then, piracy can only compete on price. That requires significant copyright reform, however, and is very unlikely to happen.

Spectacle8011 , 5 months ago to linux in The History of X11

I don’t disagree, but this video is absolutely worth the watch. I’ve read a fair bit on X history but there’s a lot in here I didn’t know specifics of or didn’t know about at all.