TCB13

TCB13 , 8 months ago to linux in Sell Me on Linux

Dude c’mon facts: lemmy.world/comment/5254969 not even simple bullet points.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/493617f5-28fb-44aa-a340-ec7e2ebf7c33.jpeg

TCB13 , 8 months ago to memes in Communist Filth/Capitalist Filth

Too bad that to have homelessness in the first place you usually require communists doing their communist shit.

TCB13 , 8 months ago to selfhosted in Anyone knows a good lightweight self-hosted alternative to GitHub?

@khoi if you’re okay with that I suggest you check out this gitolite.com/gitolite/overview.html.

In short “Gitolite allows you to setup git hosting on a central server, with fine-grained access control and many more powerful features.”. It doesn’t require some background daemon running, uses the server’s SSH and it is a simple script that deals with access control so you can easily manage your users and repositories. The “cherry on top” is that you control your git “server” using a git repository :P

TCB13 , 8 months ago to linux in Sell Me on Linux

Yes, libreoffice doesn’t really work for live collaboration. But office online is a good solution for that collaboration (…) Therefore, the author’s conclusion (you need windows to collaborate on word docs) is still wrong.

The author isn’t wrong neither he’s right as the actual answer is: it depends. We don’t even have to go as far as “live collaboration” if you’ve to do serious work in MS Office apps just emailing a document to a co-worker that uses LibreOffice can end up badly. LibreOffice works, yes, until you find your custom TOC broken, macros not working, embedded content from other documents not there… images scattered around or even paragraphs ending on a different page just because the MS version of some font is slightly different from what comes with LibreOffice but different enough to totally trash your document. Even Office online has issues with some of the things I described, let alone LibreOffice and this is precisely why people in big companies buy MS Office.

Let me show you even on a very simple document I just made how wrong you are. I created the following document in MS Word and then proceeded to open it in LibreOffice just look at the comments:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f2684d35-6584-4f75-9bc7-677dcf8d85a1.jpeg

It’s all simple formatting a couple of headings, text and a bullet list and yet it fails.

Now even better is that if I change the document in some way in LibreOffice and try to save it I get this message:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5c8a65fc-9dcd-4b1a-9715-78dd9c7066f5.jpeg

So… LibreOffice can’t even ensure that the most basic formatting and features are displayed and saved properly. So much for “it works fine”.

I personally also believe that WYSIWYG editors are highly overrated: markdown is significantly better for note-taking and similar small documents, and reports would often be better off with LaTeX or something similar.

Let me guess you’re someone who works in IT and never had a typical “office job” that includes spending 90% of your time writing reports and pushing spreadsheets around. This is why you don’t get it, you’re not the typical user of MS Office and you don’t share the same use cases the OP, the article author and myself share.

TCB13 , 8 months ago to linux in Sell Me on Linux

I use office almost daily, Libreoffice is fine for local editing and office online works if I have to collaborate.

So you’re essentially making the point of the article “office online works if I have to collaborate” implied that LibreOffice really isn’t up for collaboration.

TCB13 , 8 months ago to linux in Sell Me on Linux

OnlyOffice. Has outstanding compatibility with documents

It might be decent, but is isn’t “outstanding”, advanced formatting and features sometimes fails. Another thing about OnlyOffice is that it is a web app, it might work fine for smaller documents, however when you’ve to load a 50+ page document scrolling around becomes really bad as you’ll have to scroll and wait 1-2 seconds for each page to load.

Things like opening PDFs, viewing various video formats etc, are built-in and work flawlessly on pretty much all Linux distros

It isn’t “flawlessly”. Forms in PDFs aren’t supported properly.

TCB13 , 8 months ago to linux in Sell Me on Linux

I’ll instead “un-sell” you on Linux: tadeubento.com/…/linux-desktop-a-collective-delus…

Given your job I wouldn’t do it:

People who need MS Office because once you have to collaborate with others Open/Libre/OnlyOffice won’t cut it. If one lives in a bubble and doesn’t to collaborate with others then native Linux apps might work and might even deliver a decent workflow. Once collaboration with Windows/Mac users is required then it’s game over – the “alternatives” aren’t just up to it.

Windows licenses are cheap and things work out of the box. Software runs fine, all vendors support whatever you’re trying to do and you’re productive from day zero. Sure, there are annoyances from time to time, but they’re way fewer and simpler to deal with than the hoops you’ve to go through to get a minimal and viable/productive Linux desktop experience.

It all comes down to a question of how much time (days? months?) you want to spend fixing things on Linux that simply work out of the box under Windows for a minimal fee. Buy a Windows license and spend the time you would’ve spent dealing with Linux issues doing your actual job and you’ll, most likely, get a better ROI.

Linux desktop is great, I love it but I don’t sugar coat it nor I’m delusional like most posting about it.

TCB13 , 8 months ago to piracy in Do you donate to FOSS projects?

Why Mozilla?? …locals.com/…/firefox-money-investigating-the-biz…

Payments to nonexistent companies? Funding politics? Reliance on a single customer? And that’s just for starters.

TCB13 , 8 months ago to piracy in Do you donate to FOSS projects?

Calyx fonundation and Signal

Naaaa I’m not going to fund an Android ROM that has inherit and exploitable security vulnerabilities (read on hardware support requirements of the GrapheneOS project and you’ll understand) nor a messaging App that was probably first funded by the NSA and we never know.

I would rather fund someone looking to make a single good cross-platform XMPP native client (iOS, Android, Windows and macOS) with push notifications that actually work and video - not the garbage we’ve today.

TCB13 , 8 months ago to piracy in Do you donate to FOSS projects?

Yes, Syncthing, FreeFileSync, WinSCP, KeePassXC and others.

as well as 10 euro to qBittorrent

I would rather donate to Transmission.

TCB13 , 8 months ago to selfhosted in Is this a bad option for a home server?

Depends on what you’ll be using it for. If your use case is a simple NAS with shares , torrents and whatnot it is probably overkill and will waste way more power than required. If you plan to transcode video then it might not be .

TCB13 , 8 months ago to linux in GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure

Not all animations.

TCB13 , 8 months ago to linux in GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure

Welcome to Linux. It’s dope here. Things are FAST.

Yes, until you decide to use GNOME and suddenly everything “endlessly complex” while you wait for pointless UI animations to finish. :P

TCB13 , 8 months ago to linux in GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure

Also forcing people to go KDE to be again disappointed because their design is bad.

TCB13 , 8 months ago to linux in GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure

What’s the point of going against every tried and true DE experience. Why can’t we just have them, disabled by default so some people don’t freak out.