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geoma, in Breaking Windows to let the penguin in...

Snap is not good. Flatpak is.

skullgiver, in Any C# devs want to share their setup?
@skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl avatar

I only dabble in C# these days, mostly because Microsoft doesn’t bother porting .NET Forms to Linux, but my most recent GUI framework experiments were with Avalonia and that felt quite good. Not everything works as well on Linux (no Fluent design background blur, though I believe it does work on Windows and macOS) but functionality-wise, it’s pretty complete.

My IDE of choice is Rider, and the Avalonia plugin has some nice previewing features and a good chunk of XML/C# binding autocomplete.

There’s a paid option for Avalonia that will take your WPF application and instantly turn it into a cross-platform app, but that’s clearly focused on enterprise users (starting cost: $5k per app per platform for startups, four times that for “enterprises”, lol). I can’t blame them, though, because porting WPF to macOS + Linux + iOS + Android + web browsers + Tizen + (eventually) VisionOS by simply swapping out the SDK is pretty amazing tech.

LunaCtld, in I feel like I'm missing out by not distro-hopping
@LunaCtld@lemmy.world avatar

Own story (skip to the “—” if not interested):

Don’t worry yourself. If Mint works for you and you don’t have a good reason to switch. Just stay.

I started out with Mint as well. Switched from Cinnamon to Mate early on because I wanted to run a fancy compositor called Compiznand stay on that for like 2 years.

I still had a lot of free time, so I got “bored” by everything being so low maintenance compared to Windows 8. I checked out Arch and ran it for a bit with KDE 4 I think.

At some point I got a proper PC (was a crappy Laptop before) and wanted to Continue running KDE, so I chose KUbuntu because of that. I ran into some issues and a brick when upgrading that I couldn’t solve, so I went back to a rolling release distro to not need to worry about major updates again. I went with Manjaro as I thought it would be more stable than Arch (I didn’t have a problem with Arch, just craved max stability in general then).

In the meantime I since learned that Manjaro and Arch are about equally as stable from problems I needed solve and me sometimes running Arch on my old laptop when out.

I have been on Manjaro for about 7 years now (never re-installed), love it, KDE and don’t care about all the political stuff. I don’t care that people hate on Manjaro, never encountered a problem I couldn’t solve and will happily continue to use the distro until it breaks on me.


You can use whatever you like. Distro hopping can be fun, but is also a burdon and might prevent you from making your PC your home.

I wouldn’t switch especially for political stuff. Just use what you like. If you don’t wanna miss out, just watch some YT Videos of people testing out Distros/DEs or run some in virtual machienes. If you have a secondary device, you can also do hopping on that.


I hope this can help somewhat. Use whatever you like, don’t fret about political stuff. I used to kinda distro hop (not really) and now couldn’t care less about it.

You can easily check out other Distros using VMs, Docker Containers or even rented Servers for the most part.

If you have the time and are truely interested in Distro hopping (or just testing out a new DE) just go for it though. Just don’t let others dictate what you run.

Max_P, in Can I install Ubuntu 18 software on Ubuntu 22.04? (Technically Linux Mint 21.3)
@Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me avatar

Install from source is fairly likely to work: wiki.ros.org/noetic/Installation/Source

It doesn’t seem to have any outrageously complicated dependencies to work, just C++, Boost and a few other recognizable names, at least at a glance. They also seemingly have an ArchLinux package, which means it’s likely to at least be buildable on latest everything. Mint will fall in between, so the odds it’ll compile are pretty good.

makeasnek, in Linux Mint 21.3: Empowering tech-savvy Moms with the Perfect Desktop Experience
@makeasnek@lemmy.ml avatar

Love seeing content like this, just regular people talking about why Linux works for them. Kudos, enjoyed the post!

yum13241, in [QUESTION] I installed Apache OpenOffice

It’s decades old is is probably broken. Run from the console and see what happens. More than likely it’s a core dump.

yum13241, in Thinking about making the big switch – recommend me a distro!

openSUSE Tumbleweed. Or EndeavorOS if you want to join the Arch side.

t0m5k1, in Make any Distro Immutable
@t0m5k1@lemmy.world avatar

Sounds great but needs more contributors to gain trust so that it can be used in production.

wurzelwerk, in What are some must have Linux compatible VSTs?
@wurzelwerk@lemy.lol avatar

acmt.co.uk has some high quality linux native mixing/mastering plugins.

BiggestBulb, in What is wayland?
@BiggestBulb@kbin.social avatar

I think this is the perfect post to bring up XWayland.

That being said, I haven't used it yet (so I can't comment on whether it works flawlessly)! Can anyone elaborate on their experiences with it? I'm curious on it and don't have my hands on a Linux machine at the moment

Miyabi,
@Miyabi@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

I have had a problem where some apps will just open to then show up as black. I can’t seem to figure out why its not working. It is what it is.

mactan,

not flawless but barely noticeable that it’s there. only time I’ve ever had issues was with cursor warping in one game

BiggestBulb,
@BiggestBulb@kbin.social avatar

Interesting, thank you for sharing. I'll have to give it a go next time!

beeng, in Home Theater Laptop

Media keyboard and auto launch website jellyfin at start up

jackpot, in Breaking Windows to let the penguin in...
@jackpot@lemmy.ml avatar

next theyll find out about coreboot and framework laptops lol

UnfortunateShort, in Best DE for touch screens but also normal use

GNOME or KDE. These are your choices.

Thcdenton, in What are some must have Linux compatible VSTs?

This looks cool

plugdata.org

feedum_sneedson, in Breaking Windows to let the penguin in...

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