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EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted, (edited ) in Basic fonts
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

This isn’t specific to Linux necessarily, but the best free fonts I like the most that I always install regardless of OS are:

  • DejaVu (included by default in a lot of Linux distros but not in Windows)
  • EB Garamond (a font intended to replicate Garamond but with the Open Font License)
  • Inconsolata (a font intended to replicate Consolas but with the Open Font License)
  • Noto (also included by default on a lot of Linuxes but not on Windows)
  • Vollkorn
bustrpoindextr,

Inconsolata is my ride or die font for programming.

astraeus,
@astraeus@programming.dev avatar

Same, love using it for terminal and vscode

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted, (edited )
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Yeah I fucking love that font. Better than Noto Mono because in Inconsolata the zeros have a cross through them and therefore it’s easier to distinguish them from the letter O.

The only downside is that it hasn’t been updated since 2015-12-04 and thus only has “the base ASCII set and … the Latin 1, 2, and 9 complements”. So it works for most English-speaking purposes, but runs into problems if you try to use certain symbols used outside of that context, like other languages or some special characters. I don’t run into it often enough to be too much of a problem, but it is there.

bustrpoindextr, (edited )

May I introduce you to Nerd fonts you can have your inconsolata and your symbols

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted, (edited )
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Like I said, I don’t really run into it enough to need another piece of software installed on my computer, but that is definitely something I need to keep in the back of my mind. It seems delightful! ^_____^ Thank you!

Also, sorry for the late reply.

minibyte, in what caused you to get into Linux?

I was running XP at the time wanting a change. Meanwhile, a neighbor moved from Window ME to Vista and asked for help setting it up. I had never been SO irritated at an OS in my life.

Enter Debian LTS, which I’ve been running ever since.

jownz, (edited ) in what caused you to get into Linux?

It was love at first sight when I saw xeyes in a desktop environment with multiple workspaces, then the colorized terminal was a cherry on top. DOS and windows 95 were the other main options at this time around the mid-90s. Needing the boot disk and root disk to bootstrap the system was a real adventure for teenage me. The adventure continues almost 30 years later.

RavuAlHemio, in ISC DHCP Client and Relay End of Maintenance

On Arch, the client is in the dhclient package, which is generally also the name of the ISC DHCP client binary.

dhcpcd (DHCP Client Daemon) is not affiliated with the ISC and still appears to be under active development.

KISSmyOS,

I mentioned dhcpd (the ISC DHCP server demon), not dhcpcd, the unaffiliated DHCP Client demon.

RavuAlHemio,

Yes; I wanted to mention that dhcpcd is not affected because the title explicitly mentions the DHCP client (dhclient), so people might go looking for alternative DHCP clients in the comments.

I think it’s a bit confusing that you mentioned the DHCP client (dhclient) and DHCP relay (dhrelay) in the title, then link to the Arch Wiki article about the DHCP server (dhcpd). Yes, dhrelay is contained in the dhcpd package (dhclient, however, is not), but I assume most people will be using a DHCP client and few will be operating a DHCP server or relay.

Dagamant, in what caused you to get into Linux?

Worked as a computer repair tech forever ago. We ended up with tons of spare parts and abandoned computers. I took a few home and looked for things I could use them for. Quickly found Linux and gave it a shot. It was perfect, I didn’t need to spend $100+ for a copy, there were tons of options, and I could do anything with it. Spent the next 20 years using it on every computer except my main desktop because of games. At one point I was 100% Linux and all I played was WoW using WINE. Now I’m back to 100% Linux thanks to steam and proton making a healthy chunk of my library playable.

Any time someone comes to me with an old computer my recommendation is to throw Linux on it and get a few more years of usefulness out of it.

ani, in what caused you to get into Linux?

I found an Ubuntu CD room in the trash, searched about it on the Web, which led me to install it on a low-end PC I had

WildlyCanadian, in what caused you to get into Linux?
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Tried it out cause of curiosity and the allure of not being subject to a corporation’s whims. Discovered package managers, aur, how customizatable the whole experience is and never looked back

I still dual boot Windows for a select couple games that don’t run on Linux (anticheat) but I try to use it as little as possible cause it just feels gross.

JC1, in Prevent display turning off when playing media

I use qtile on X11 and hyprland on Wayland. There is an option on hyprland for exactly that (idleinhibit window rule), but didn’t find a good solution on qtile yet. Anyway I have issues with qtile for other things too (because of X11 mainly).

Lippy, in what caused you to get into Linux?
@Lippy@kbin.social avatar

Curiosity at first after it was mentioned a few times by others. This was back in 2007, and I've been off and on with it over the years and being pleasantly surprised with the amount of progress it had made each time I used it.

I switched for good when I built my new PC last year. I didn't actually mind Windows until it began to get filled with crapware, which has really gotten out of control more recently. It's just as well that Proton has eliminated the last reason I needed to use it.

Vitaly, in Switched to Linux, don't know what to do
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idk try pop os, i really like it

franciscosanudo,
@franciscosanudo@mastodon.social avatar

@Vitaly @m5rki5n pop os is great, after being back and forth with ubuntu, debian and later arch. I just came to the conclusion that I wanted to have something that works out of the box.

Vitaly,
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I ran it for a year with no problems, ubuntu was good but I don’t like snaps so pop os is perfect for me

AccountMaker, in what caused you to get into Linux?

We had to do a presentation on whatever in computer class in the first year of secondary school, and I chose Linux for no apparent reason. I just kinda knew that it existed and thought what the hell.

My ‘researching’ led me to see what Linux offered, to learn about FOSS, listen to Stallman, and I loved tinkering so I made a dual boot (and thus learned about partitions, boot flags and such) and never looked back. Even when I installed linux on my newly acquired PC a few days ago and found out that since the kernel version 5.13 some motherboards receive failure on all USB 3.0 ports and I have to fuck around with that why can’t you just fucking work right away for once

Adanisi, (edited ) in what caused you to get into Linux?
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Originally, it was the price and speed. Then I saw one of Stallman’s talks, and my perspective completely changed.

I stay on GNU+Linux now for freedom. People don’t usually ask me about it, but if they did I’d probably just explain the basics of software freedom and nudge them to install vanilla Debian or maybe Trisquel if the hardware allows it.

lemmyvore, in Prevent display turning off when playing media

Try putting the browser on fullscreen, see if that keeps the screen alive while playing.

walthervonstolzing, in what caused you to get into Linux?
@walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml avatar

My Mac died, at which time I was already a commandline enthusiast, & unable to afford a new Mac.

Cysioland, in what caused you to get into Linux?
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The desire to be alternative and different, and now I can’t use Windows for too long

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