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airikr, in Basic fonts

For me personally, it’s Victor Mono and Iosevka. Victor Mono for desktop and Iosevka for VSCodium.

folkrav,

Iosevka is so great. Not everyone likes the narrow look. I’ve tried other fonts a couple of times since I stumbled on it a good handfuls of years ago, but I always come back.

mb_, (edited )

You can always compile your own Iosevka and adjust several pieces, I have done that selecting what I consider the best pieces a long time ago.

The compiled font lives in an easy to access internal webserver that I just grab from every computer I use (=

bloopernova,
@bloopernova@programming.dev avatar

I like both of those, but my terminal and coding are always in MPlus Code

airikr,

Nice! That font really looked nice through the smartphone. Will try it out in VSCodium when I can. Thanks!

bloopernova,
@bloopernova@programming.dev avatar

I love a good condensed font:

www.programmingfonts.org/#mplus

It doesn’t support ligatures though.

airikr,

Thanks for the link 🙂

snaggen,
@snaggen@programming.dev avatar

Just looked at the screenshot on the Victor Mono page and the kerning makes me want to rip my eyes out…

airikr,

Why? 😄

WhiteHotaru,

Not OP, but if you look at the Hello World code example, the “HelloWorld” class is visually divided at the l’s and the o and W are glued together. Looks more like “Hel l oWorld”.

airikr,

That’s because Victor Mono are a tabular font meaning equal width no matter what character it is :) I find it nice.

snaggen, (edited )
@snaggen@programming.dev avatar

No, that is not a valid reason to look that bad, JetBrains Mono is a fixed with font and it manages to get the characters evenly distributed.

WhiteHotaru,

If it works for you, that’s fine. You are right with the monospaced font being limited to the boxes. Jetbrains mono uses ligatures to overcome certain spacing limits. On top of this some characters are designed to connect better to their surroundings, as the „l“ mentioned, which is not just a stroke, but connects to the neighboring characters with the top and bottom strokes.

el_abuelo, in Sell Me on Linux

Starting a new business is hard enough as it is - please do not complicated it by adding in something that brings limited tangible benefits to the company, whilst making it unnecessarily harder than what it will be anyway.

Either get fluent now, and then start your business - or start your business with Windows and move on when you’re profitable and can afford the reduction in productively while you learn the ropes.

Do not go anywhere near MacOS - you can’t afford it.

GuyWithLag,

This is solid advice.

Also, the macOS ecosystem is predicated on you being rich enough (or fool enough) to buy it, and everything is nickel-and-dimed.

xohshoo, in Is there an easy way to set up an email client so you get system notifications in GNOME once you receive an e-mail?
d3Xt3r, in Customising keyboard layouts Fedora KDE Wayland

xremap.

  • Actively developed
  • Works on Wayland and is DE/distro independent
  • Written in rust so it’s faster and more lightweight compared to other similar apps written in python
  • Works on AARCH64 (not sure if it works on 16K kernels though, but worth trying)
BCsven, in An Untold History of Thunderbird

“What caused the press to declare Thunderbird dead?” as a user who loved firefox from 2009-2012 it was Mozillas own mailings / web page wording that made everyone think the project had been terminated/no longer supported.

model_tar_gz, in What happens when Linus dies/retires?

I’m training a code and language model to write Linux kernel code and provide snarky comments, of course all based on Linus’s extensive commit history.

Our AI Überherr will be pleased.

princessnorah, in How do y'all deal with programs not supported on Linux?
@princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

CrossOver is also made by CodeWeavers, but includes paid support as well. Maybe it might suit your use case?

www.codeweavers.com/crossover

Steamymoomilk,

Does anyone know how well this actually works? Ive been fighting with fusion 360 to work on linux. Yes i know about bottles and it works okish but it lags alot.

princessnorah,
@princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Are you looking to run games, or other software? ProtonDB has details of what games do and don’t work using it. Proton is also maintained by CodeWeavers, I think it’s basically the gaming support from CrossOver.

tubbadu, in Customising keyboard layouts Fedora KDE Wayland

In system settings under 'keyboard" there should be an “advanced” tab or something similar with a lot of these kind of settings, don’t remember if this specifically is present or not. In case yours is not there you can change the mapping of the keys in a root configuration file that I don’t remember, if you need tell me and it I’ll go looking for it

ProtonBadger, in Is there an easy way to set up an email client so you get system notifications in GNOME once you receive an e-mail?

Suddenly i feel nostalgic for xbiff. No longer useful but he was a good dog.

Pantherina, in Dumbest Thing you have done distro-hopping?

Installing GNOME on Kubuntu I think, hahaaha.

UxyIVrljPeRl,

Installed Manjaro sway and now i want back to xfce, but i really dont want to reinstall again…

DidacticDumbass,

DEs get so wonky if you try to change them. I wish it was easier to compartmentalize an envirionment.

Pantherina,

Its possible using homedir backup etc. Or on Fedora Atomic simply switching desktops. But yeah Desktops are all over the place, having a ~/.kde folder where EVERYTHING is stored would be great.

bitwolf,

Ahem

~/.config/kde

FTFY 🙂

interceder270,

Thank you.

DidacticDumbass,

Oh, I am on Fedora Silverblue with Gnome. If it is easy to switch, I think I will give KDE a try!

I like Gnome, and I definitely need to tweak some behavior I find annoying, but I feel I never gave KDE a proper chance because I seem to mess up the panel whenever I look at it wrong, and have no idea how to get back to default.

Pantherina,

Yeeah that panel. The only problem is opening the start menu with “super” though. You can always add a “default” panel.

Maybe do it like this: create a keyboard shortcut ctrl+alt+t for konsole, whyever it is not default. Then remove all panels and run qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer 0 0 1 (alias that to “logout” in your .bashrc, its a horrible command).

Then remove all panels and logout. Log back in, add a default panel and maybe you are already good. Maybe log out again. The only default panel normally always gets the correct start menu. Its a bit messed up.

To switch between silverblue and kinoite you can just rebase, but make sure to backup all your “dotfiles” (the hidden configs for all the apps) and start plain, as you dont want to mix these.

There is a youtube video on exactly that somewhere.

DidacticDumbass,

Ah, thank you for the write up. I will actually do that because KDE something I know I will like and enjoy more than GNOME once I get past some of the weirdness. Mostly, I want to customize it in certain ways, and while GNOME surely is customizable, it is not as easy as KDE.

Yeah, rebasing feels like some scifi future tech and I am ready to play. It is like resleeving ala Altered Carbon.

Pantherina, (edited )

I am not sure. KDE is very customizable and I like the… regular way apps work, trays work, decorations work and all that. Also GNOME is like the anti-poweruser desktop. I like its style, but its like “use a terminal or nothing”. Needing extra apps for every small thing and all…

The downside maybe is stability… and Gnome does some things well, like quicksettings and all.

I also like that GTK is easier to develop for probably, with Gnome Builder and similar tooling. But at the same time, the UI would be pretty much unusable for complex apps like Dolphin.

I tried Gimp 3.x prerelease and well, GTK3 is weird, its already this step away from the more similar styles.

Well rebasing is pretty nice, its swapping out the foundation while keeping the top intact. For things like Kinoite->Ublue-kinoite-main its just a reboot.

DidacticDumbass,

Do you need to pin the last working ostree before rebasing? I guess I want an easy way to switch between working environments without a lot of rebasing.

Pantherina,

Not necessarily if you dont have automatic updates or update manually. Only one backup is kept though, so yeah, sudo ostree admin pin 0

DidacticDumbass,

Neato. I have a strategy now for messing around.

xohshoo, in A new pilot will investigate the use of Forgejo (A non profit FOSS alternative to github and gitea) in german schools

wasn’t sure if I was on linux or esperanto community for a minute there

jake_jake_jake_, in Linux support for wifi in LiveUSB trials with onboard wifi chip and/or additional USB wifi dongle

hardwire for testing? then when settled do the full install. maybe use a different laptop.

devnull, in This week in KDE: Wayland by default, de-framed Breeze, HDR games, rectangle screen recording

I’ve tried running Plasma 5 on Wayland occasionally but due to having NVIDIA card there’s always been bigger or smaller annoying issues so I always reverted back to X11.

Looking forward to try out Plasma 6 as soon as it’s released!

derbolle, (edited )

i have a rtx3080ti and am using KDE plasma 5 wayland on Fedora 38(now 39) exclusively for gaming. i made the switch to wayland a month or so ago and i am having a considerably smoother experience than x11. especially with multiple monitors and flatpack apps like discord in the mix.(steam is running native though). no issues that i am aware of so far

aniki,

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  • Aganim, (edited )

    Meanwhile Wayland absolutely hates my year old AMD laptop. It hangs itself on a regular basis, some applications go completely unresponsive every so often to the point they need to be kill -9’ed. Rock solid when running X11, completely unreliable in Wayland. It’s a shame, I want to like Wayland as I think there is no future for X11, but as it stands currently I simply cannot use it yet for my day to day business.

    pingveno,

    Be the change you want to see in the world. File a ticket and work with them to hunt down the problem. Who knows, it could be simple.

    d3Xt3r,

    Which processor/distro/DE are you on? My AMD laptop is an year old as well and I’ve had zero issues with Wayland.

    Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U / Fedora 38 / KDE (Wayland)

    Professor_Piddles,

    Weird, I have a less extreme, but opposite experience. More stuff works better on Wayland for my laptop (Debian 12 + KDE, Ryzen 5500u)

    WilfordGrimley,

    Overclocking is a deal breaker for me. Does this work in Wayland for Nvidia yet?

    Holzkohlen,

    Just tried it yesterday. It is a LOT more smooth for me, but it can’t seem to handle 144hz. I turned it down to 60hz and it seems to be going well for now. I can live with this I think.

    MyNameIsRichard,
    @MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml avatar

    I’ve tried running Plasma 5 on Wayland occasionally but due to having NVIDIA card there’s always been bigger or smaller annoying issues so I always reverted back to X11.

    Yeah, I tried it again this morning and got a black screen with mouse trails. I also have an Nvidia card and will give it another go when Plasma 6 comes out.

    zingo,

    Can’t even login on my desktop on Wayland. Kwin crashes immediately.

    I have a 1050ti BTW X11 runs like a champ.

    Sentau,

    In the meantime please share that these issues exist on nvidia forums. Issues caused by nvidia drivrers shouldn’t come under the purview of the kde devs.

    kilgore_trout,

    Qt6 alone solves a lot of issues. I hope it will be a smooth release.

    carlytm,

    I’m also on NVIDIA, I tried the Plasma 6 Alpha last night (on KDE neon unstable) and to my utter shock, Wayland was pretty goddamn close to flawless.

    devnull,

    Exiting news! Can’t wait for final release to hit the repositories!

    Yesterday I gave Wayland another try on Plasma 5 using the latest NVIDIA drivers, but unfortunately there were several visual glitches and the panel stopped updating itself :(

    NoisyFlake, (edited )

    Same. Really wanted to give Wayland a chance, but having artifacts on blurry windows where the cursor was is just too annoying for me. Plasma team is already aware of the issue but said it’s too huge of a change for 5.x

    To be honest, X11 is not terrible, even with multiple monitors with different refresh rates. I’m running 2x 60Hz and 1x 144Hz without any problems on X11.

    psion1369, in on arch btw.

    My daily driver is Sway on Arch. I’ll help shout out the glory of this setup.

    gianni, in Sell Me on Linux

    As far as video types are concerned, Linux’s multimedia codec support is much wider & more flexible than Windows via Windows Media Player. The app Celluloid for Linux (based on MPV) supports everything under the sun

    csm10495,
    @csm10495@sh.itjust.works avatar

    I don’t think every distro comes with this. How is it a positive in that case? I could install VLC on just about everything (including Windows) and have a similar experience.

    gianni,

    VLC isn’t a native Windows app, as it isn’t a native Linux app. Celluloid uses native styling on GNOME systems & is super easy to install with any package manager GUI that supports Flatpak. Installing apps on Linux is always easier by a long shot compared to Windows, especially with Flatpak.

    I don’t know what is default on most distros, but it is so easy to change in this case that it is hard to even consider the default media player relevant compared to on Windows where there are fewer options for apps like VLC that actually give you a native experience

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