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Shalade, 1 year ago in We are nearing the halfway mark on our Plasma 6 drive to get 500 supporting Members! Will you push us over that line?

Done, love KDE, I hope 6 kicks ass too!

madmaurice, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) in Is gnome going to become proprietary?

But closed source projects still get bug reports. The users just can’t fix it themselves. So where’s the advantage?

Kata1yst, 1 year ago

Accountability. The Dev is wishing others couldn't see the backlog and their decision process publicly.

WallEx, 1 year ago

So petty

anothermember, 1 year ago in Who uses pure GNOME (no extensions)

I do, I don’t even have Tweaks installed.

I used to be an avid customiser of software, but one day I realised that I spent a lot of time tweaking things and didn’t get a great workflow anyway.

The thing about GNOME is it has a great in-built workflow and I work more efficiently now I just let it make the decisions for me.

I also kind of think that if you’re the type to install a lot of extensions you’d probably be happier with KDE anyway.

MentalEdge, 1 year ago in New Plasma 6 Default Icon Theme Looks

…

I’ll be sticking with papirus.

eager_eagle, 1 year ago

not papyrus, I hope

tho, 1 year ago in I made it to Linux! What is your must-have FOSS or Free Software for linux?

ncdu

rem26_art, 1 year ago

for a bit more context, ncdu is a Disk Usage analyzer that runs in the terminal. If you've ever used WizTree on windows, its kinda like that. Really useful to see whats taking up space on your disk

vhalragnarok, 1 year ago in I made it to Linux! What is your must-have FOSS or Free Software for linux?

For me it’s (outside of the usual stack):

github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper (Input-Remapper, if you have annoying proprietary thing you want to re-bind this is an amazing way to handle that)

This project made Linux viable for me, and I have not looked back at all.

kanzalibrary, 1 year ago in Fedora Linux 39 Released As A Wonderful Upgrade For Leading Workstations & Servers

Now I understand why some people in the comments from other platform said “Fedora is the new Ubuntu”; in popular perspective today! Loud applause to the Fedora Dev team! Respect.

Ordoviz, 1 year ago in CLI tools to quickly find recently opened files by fuzzy search?

<span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;">#!/bin/sh
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># Select a file with fzf from a database sorted by frecency and open it using
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># xdg-open. frece can be found at https://github.com/YodaEmbedding/frece
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">DB_FILE</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">${</span><span style="color:#323232;">FRECE_FILES_DB</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">:-</span><span style="color:#183691;">$</span><span style="color:#323232;">HOME</span><span style="color:#183691;">/.cache/frecent-files.csv}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">item</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">$(</span><span style="color:#323232;">frece</span><span style="color:#183691;"> print "$</span><span style="color:#323232;">DB_FILE</span><span style="color:#183691;">" </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">| </span><span style="color:#323232;">fzf --tiebreak</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">index</span><span style="color:#323232;"> --scheme</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">path)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#62a35c;">[ </span><span style="color:#323232;">-z </span><span style="color:#183691;">"$</span><span style="color:#323232;">item</span><span style="color:#183691;">" </span><span style="color:#62a35c;">] </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">&</span><span style="color:#323232;">amp;</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">&</span><span style="color:#323232;">amp</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">; </span><span style="color:#62a35c;">exit</span><span style="color:#323232;"> 1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">frece increment </span><span style="color:#183691;">"$</span><span style="color:#323232;">DB_FILE</span><span style="color:#183691;">" "$</span><span style="color:#323232;">item</span><span style="color:#183691;">"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">xdg-open </span><span style="color:#183691;">"$</span><span style="color:#323232;">item</span><span style="color:#183691;">"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;">#!/bin/sh
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># Update frece database
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">DB_FILE</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">${</span><span style="color:#323232;">FRECE_FILES_DB</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">:-</span><span style="color:#183691;">$</span><span style="color:#323232;">HOME</span><span style="color:#183691;">/.cache/frecent-files.csv}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">tmp_file</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">$(</span><span style="color:#323232;">mktemp</span><span style="color:#183691;">)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">fd -H . ~ </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">> </span><span style="color:#183691;">"$</span><span style="color:#323232;">tmp_file</span><span style="color:#183691;">"  </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># use ~/.fdignore file to exclude certain dirs
</span><span style="color:#323232;">frece update </span><span style="color:#183691;">"$</span><span style="color:#323232;">DB_FILE</span><span style="color:#183691;">" "$</span><span style="color:#323232;">tmp_file</span><span style="color:#183691;">"</span><span style="color:#323232;"> --purge-old
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rm </span><span style="color:#183691;">"$</span><span style="color:#323232;">tmp_file</span><span style="color:#183691;">"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span>

TheAnonymouseJoker, 1 year ago in Linux holds more than 8% market share in India, and it's on the upward trend

I feel like UnknownOS users are the Anonymous Illuminati underground users that escape any surveillance.

autumn64, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) in I made it to Linux! What is your must-have FOSS or Free Software for linux?

Welcome! Some of my must-have FOSS software for GNU/Linux are:

• ONLYOFFICE: Similar functionality to that of MS Office, but free and open-source, very nice compatibility with .docx documents and all the excel formulas I use are still there.
• Boxes: If you like or need virtual machines, Boxes is one of the best FOSS solutions out there, I have made Windows, BSD and Linux virtual machines using Boxes and they work flawlessly, and the drag-drop feature to send files from the host to the guest machines is absolutely nice.
• Konversation: In my opinion the best graphical IRC client, with HexChat also worth noting.
• Kdenlive: I have used many video editors in my life, both FOSS and proprietary, but Kdenlive is the one who made me stay. I have even remastered old 80s Betamax videos using only Kdenlive.
• TeXstudio: If you like LaTeX, this editor is absolutely wonderful and it works out of the box.
• Prism Launcher: If you like Minecraft, this is the only launcher that actually worked on my Fedora installation, and it’s so easy to install mods, resource packs, shaders, etc. that I already consider it to be the best FOSS launcher for both premium and non-premium instances.
• HandBrake: I just love this open-source video transcoder so much.
• fre:ac: I have used this FOSS audio encoder since I was a kid when I wanted to convert mp3 music to a format that my DSi could read. Nowadays I still use it to convert from and to any type of audio and it just never fails.
• RaccoonLock: A modern-looking and private password manager that is wonderful if you just want to store your passwords locally in your PC and you do not care about syncing them with other devices (although such feature is partially possible through the creation of backups).

It’s also worth mentioning other FOSS software like VLC, VS Code (though it’s not entirely FOSS, with Codium being an actual FOSS version), OBS Studio, GParted, PDF Mix Tool and FreeTube. Welcome to the GNU/Linux world! I hope you enjoy it and you find these utilities useful :).

MondayToFriday, 1 year ago in PSA: GNOME Shell replace from another TTY

According to this article, gnome-shell --replace no longer works starting with GNOME Shell 3.30.

avidamoeba, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Tried it, wow, it did indeed vomit in my face.

tekeous, 1 year ago in Who uses pure GNOME (no extensions)

To answer your question about lack of dock and system tray, I use the top left hot corner to snap windows in Activities often, and I launch mostly from the built in Applications menu. Don’t use the dock much. As for system tray, it’s a fairly minimal work computer so I boot it every day, run slack, browser, etc. and I know there’s nothing really on the background. Don’t need an icon for slack, it’s always on my screen. In my GNOME-based work environment it’s either running and I can see it or it’s closed.

Euphoma, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) in Who uses pure GNOME (no extensions)

I only use an extension for tray icons. I use it kind of like how I would use a tiling window manager with a keyboard based workflow and non tiling windows. I just hit the super key and type app names to launch stuff and drag windows around with the super key. Instead of alt-tabbing I hit the super key to see the overview and click on the window I want.

In the newest gnome versions, there’s a menu that shows you what apps are in the background, so if you know what apps are already open. I’m not a huge fan of that but I wouldn’t really care if my tray icons didn’t work because its close enough.

tekeous, 1 year ago in Who uses pure GNOME (no extensions)

I’m using pure GNOME with the exception of a single extension which tiles windows on my screen on a grid(gTile) because I have a massive screen and five windows. I also have an icon pack if you’re counting that. Rest of it is stock and I quite like it. It gets out of my way when I’m trying to work and the alt+tab and other features are always fast. Top left hot corner is a godsend.

candle_lighter, 1 year ago in I made it to Linux! What is your must-have FOSS or Free Software for linux?

Bottles makes using Wine real simple.