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dramaticcat, (edited ) in What are people daily driving these days?

I will get hate from everyone over this, but I daily drive Manjaro because I can!

I know how to install Arch, I choose to use Manjaro.

WitchHazel,

I don’t hate you for it but I did the same thing until Manjaro broke itself

LeFantome,

I also used Manjaro and it broke on me multiple times. I did not realize how badly it was messing up the AUR until I switched. I use EndeavourOS now.

May I ask why you use Manjaro?

zxqwas,

In my case it was because Ubuntu broke on me for whatever reason (and the threat of snap packages looming).

I did not feel like putting anymore effort into getting the computer back to working so I just switched to something not Ubuntuoid at semi random to anything that promised an easy installation.

A year later and it’s still working. I’ll notify you when it breaks so you can tell me “I told you so”.

Discover5164,

me too, but i will switch to arch or nix soon. not because it broke, just to have a frash start. after 3+ years i have a shit load of stuff i don’t really need anymore

mactan, in Winewayland.drv: part 11: Mouselook support · Merge requests

looking forward to trying wineland someday. got some weird cursor snapping issues on Wayland for now that need gamescope to work around on some games

WeAreAllOne, (edited ) in What are people daily driving these days?

OpenSuse tumbleweed + kde plasma for a peace of mind 👍

csfirecracker,

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

WeAreAllOne,

Indeed there are my dude!

milkjug,

I am amongst you scholars and noblemen.

bizdelnick, in How to work with selinux and podman?

What distro you use?

GravitySpoiled,

why is that relevant?

fedora kinoite

bizdelnick,

There can be a package with corresponding selinux policy in the repo. It is highly likely as Fedora use selinux by default and your case seems typical.

d0ntpan1c, in Why are there so many (rust) GTK apps and so little Qt ones?

No specific rust experience with either, but some thoughts on the popularity reasons outside of the language:

I suspect a bit part of this difference in framework popularity may be due to GTK being more attached to gnome and friends, and by extension, Ubuntu (for better or worse, the most used desktop distro for quite a while) Most of the time that’ll be mainline Ubuntu which has always been GTK.

So if a developer or company is going to target something, then it may come down to “what is the ideal platform to build on for Ubuntu as our main target? GTK? Cool, that’s what we will use.” Of course, either framework is just fine, and either framework targets other OSs as well. I don’t have any experience with either, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the choice of GTK more often is akin to Swift + Apple’s toolkits for iphone development being more popular by a large margin than Ionic/Capacitor, React Native, Xamarin, etc, even though the others provide some benefits (and some significant context-dependent downsides, of course)

If i remember correctly, Qt was not fully FOSS for a while, so GTK was much more widely adopted and recommended early on. But that was pre-2005, I think.

drwankingstein,

I generally don’t really think this is the case, there are still plenty of apps from other languages in QT. in fact, for cross platform apps, QT is immensely more popular then GTK is. Rust itself had disproportionately less apps developed in QT then other stuff, (Python for instance). especially when you consider cross platform. and at least for open source anyways. closed source I cant comment on

Chewy7324, (edited ) in Winewayland.drv: part 11: Mouselook support · Merge requests

Awesome. Now playing 3D games on wine wayland should work fine. The previous patches already enabled Vulkan [1], but mouselock was missing.

I can’t wait to no longer have xwayland running. Almost all apps could work natively on wayland, except Java.

[1] gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/…/4522

slembcke, in Requesting advice on converting a Laptop Keyboard from QWERTY to Colemak-dh

Yup, don’t. People already covered why. I will add that I tried learning dvorak for quite a while and it didn’t stick until I went cold turkey. It was very frustrating hunting and pecking for a couple days, but I made pretty quick progress. IIRC I was back up to 20-30 wpm after a week which was “usable” at least, and back to 60-70 wpm after a month. I had regular wrist pain before switching, and it was basically gone after. I don’t think it helped my typing speed. Like I can do 90 in bursts for a bit longer, but generally I “cruise” much slower than that. ;)

aBundleOfFerrets, in Winewayland.drv: part 11: Mouselook support · Merge requests

neat

kent_eh, in One of these 6 will become Plasma 6. Wallpaper Which one do you prefer?

Probably 2, but as I always use my own images for my desktop anyway, the default wallpaper really doesn’t matter to me.

ShortN0te, (edited ) in Why are there no playback controls in LibreOffice Impress?

Why are you posting this here? This is not Linux specific.

Better ask on the bug tracker or on any libreoffice related forum/subreddit/lemmy instance.

zzzzzz,

Well, if they hadn’t posted here, I, for one, would never have become aware of the issue, and I’m glad I have!

panbroggi,
@panbroggi@feddit.it avatar

I saw a Libreoffice community but wasn’t very active… so I thought here I could find users of the software and experts on the possible technical issue. Hope this doesn’t bother too much.

Gork, in on arch btw.

I remember being endlessly entertained by the rotating cube animation between workspaces in the old Beryl implementation.

I told my wife, “but does your Windows do this?” Followed by rotating the cube. She was like, “I don’t care.” And that was that.

I shall tell this story to my grandkids.

JoeBidet,
@JoeBidet@lemmy.ml avatar

check wayfire :)

github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire

crackdroid,

Oh yeah! That’s ticking a few boxes for when I eventually switch from X(11).

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar
PoisonedPrisonPanda,

I wonder if thats based on a real story…

SayJess,
@SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

There was a jailbreak tweak for iOS that mimicked Beryl, it was so cool.

rudyharrelson, (edited )
@rudyharrelson@kbin.social avatar

I think I accomplished a similar effect on my first linux distro a long time ago with a program called "compiz" (iirc). "I'm so frickin 1337," I whispered under my breath. Nobody cared except me, though, lol.

PoisonedPrisonPanda,

Nobody cared except me, though, lol.

Life in a nutshell…

be_excellent_to_each_other,
@be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social avatar

IIRC Compiz was a fork of Beryl or the other way around. I could be wrong though.

Last I checked you can still do the cube in kwin under plasma.

russjr08,
@russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net avatar

It was gone from Plasma for a bit, however it’ll be back in the next upcoming Plasma 6 release!

vardogor,
@vardogor@mander.xyz avatar

at least wobbly windows stuck around though. i’ve had that on for like 10 years

russjr08,
@russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net avatar

Yep, same! Some of my friends have told me it’s a bit “silly” for me to have it enabled - but there’s plenty of bad things that occur on a daily basis in my life, I do not think there’s a single problem with having some wobbly windows as a small vice to enjoy haha.

be_excellent_to_each_other,
@be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social avatar

Woohoo!

simple,

“but does your Windows do this?” Followed by rotating the cube. She was like, “I don’t care.”

Wow, that sums up my Linux life pretty well actually

30p87,

Does your Windows do this? doesn’t crash

But seriously, yesterday I cloned my main partition to a new laptop into an LVM volume on LUKS. Because I did not have any way of putting the new NVMe and old SATA SSD into one machine, I just used netcat over an ad hoc network.


<span style="color:#323232;">nc -l 10000 > /dev/main/root
</span>

on the new Laptop and


<span style="color:#323232;">cat /dev/sda3 | nc 10.31.69.1 10000 -q 0
</span>

on the old one. Worked perfectly. Now do that on Windows with builtin tools in live boots.

simple,

Last time I tried to mess with Windows partition I tried to expand it to merge free space in my C:\ drive, but I couldn’t do that because Windows put the recovery partition in the middle, with no permission to remove it. Had to jump through a million hoops to get Windows to remove it.

I mean sure, Windows is easier in many ways. Not partition management. Anything but that. What a pain.

lightnsfw,

Ran into that a few years ago. I think I ended up fixing it by booting linux off a flash drive and moving the partitions around in that. It wasn’t to difficult after I just gave up trying to do it in Windows. Such a stupid problem.

Hamartiogonic,
@Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz avatar

I think I see a theme here. Doing fun normie stuff on iOS/ipadOS is easy. Doing technical stuff is usually completely impossible.

Doing technical stuff on Linux is easy as long as you know what you’re doing. Doing popular normie things on Linux is a bit hit-or-miss. Some things work perfectly, but other things are a royal pita.

Windows seems to be in between the two extremes in more than one regard. Microsoft seems to be working to find some sort of compromise in these things.

andrew,
@andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun avatar

Next time you could even add gzip or some other compression and save yourself a bit of time and bandwidth.

30p87,

The rate was around 100MB/s. So I think the bottleneck was probably the read/write speeds of the SSDs, considering I have ~900Mbit/s down from speedtest.net, and this setup removed every hop except the old and new Laptops Gigabit Lan Port and the Gigabit patch cable between them. But with larger files/partitions over the internet this would probably help

crispy_kilt,

Now do that on Windows with builtin tools in live boots

More like do that in Windows with any tools. It doesn’t like being moved to different hardware one bit.

30p87,

The only problems with my Arch install were

  • /etc/fstab, which I forgot about because I didn’t read the whole install article again
  • custom configs (notable conky) because i8k is not available and all interfaces changed
crispy_kilt,

Btw detected

30p87,

I’d guess many distros would’ve had errors with preinstalled and configured helpers. Debugging them would be a pain

Gentoo, LFS, Arch etc. are installed manually, so one typically knows their system very well, including packages and configs they might have to hard configure interfaces etc. in

30p87, (edited )

I just noticed I did not fully expand the fs on the target machine after shrinking it on the source machine to be sure it fits. No problem, growing ext4 file systems with resize2fs (indirect dependency of linux and base) works on mounted fs’ too, the Kernel just needs to be newer than 2.6 (so since 2003).
Took less than 1 second and works flawlessly, live. Conkys fs_free just jumped from 20 to 76. Still time to clear my caches.

arisunz, in web/low memory alternatives to Krita and GIMP please
@arisunz@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

give azpainter a try, it’s what i used to use for drawing with a 2007 dual core laptop until not too long ago

heads up, the ui is kind of a mess, you most likely will have to re arrange it to your liking and there is a bit of a learning curve there, but it’s a pretty powerful piece of drawing/painting software nonetheless

WeLoveCastingSpellz, in Manjaro OS

Endavour OS

neige, in Zorin OS 17 Beta Released with Quick Settings, Spatial Desktop, and More

Neon and Zorin only bring further division

mvirts, in Why are there no playback controls in LibreOffice Impress?

Who’s up for implementing it? 😁

panbroggi,
@panbroggi@feddit.it avatar

I’m sure a lot of people will be infinitely thankful!!

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