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Mandy, in Gamedev and linux

remember the other several occasions where developers hated actually getting feedback from these linux users cause they actually would have to fix their shit? but not many actually did

cause i remember, they only care as far as money goes

lukas,
@lukas@lemmy.haigner.me avatar

Nowadays, they close these bug reports as wontfix with the reason that Linux is only unofficially supported through Steam Proton.

oscardejarjayes, in I'm ditching htop for btop, look how cool it is

bottom users rise up. RIIR!

bjoern_tantau, in Possible to import Flatpak libraries
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

The flatpaks should be in /var/lib/flatpak/. man7.org/linux/…/flatpak-installation.5.html#:~:t….

Edit: I don’t know if it’s enough, but you could try copying the files with cp -a.

Artemis_Mystique,

Thank you for the answer i did this and it worked(I only copied the necessary runtimes not the whole folder)

Pantherina, in Possible to import Flatpak libraries

Flatpaks are all containerized, its really nice. All in the same directory, glad that it worked! You can do the same for the Flatpak user data directories in ~/.var/app/.

Run the Flatpak app once, close it again, then the user data file structure will be there. If you delete the files you simply reset the app, its like Android, awesome.

And if you simply delete all the files and swap in your old files, it will be the same Flatpak app as on the old device.

uis, in Linux empowered coffee, a must have.
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

418 I’m a teapot

woelkchen, in Fedora or Mint for noob?
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

However, in my opinion Mint seems rather outdated

That’s because Cinnamon is actually a fork of an ancient Gnome release that has since gotten much fewer enhancements compared to Gnome (and Plasma).

I’d have to install media codecs via terminal first which suggests that Fedora is for experienced users.

That is factually wrong: fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/38/ChangeSet#Unfi…

Also university wifi eduroam doesn’t work on Fedora for me because legacy TLS connection is not supported in Fedora (at least I couldn’t get it to work).

When the WiFi relies on insecure encryption, the problem will only be delayed on Mint because Mint’s underlying Ubuntu core is just older. Once a newer security policy comes to Mint, it will have exactly the same problem. The actual solution is for you university to update the WiFi encryption. In the meantime, according to fedoraproject.org/wiki/…/StrongCryptoSettings2#Up… the security defaults of Fedora can be rolled back to an earlier level quite easily.

jack, (edited )

That is factually wrong: fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/38/ChangeSet#Unfi…

Okay, after removing all the preinstalled media players plus firefox and reinstalling them through Flathub it might be possible to skip the official tutorial.

Fedora should just preinstall everything as flathub flatpaks.

the problem will only be delayed on Mint because Mint’s underlying Ubuntu core is just older. Once a newer security policy comes to Mint, it will have exactly the same problem.

That is a valid point. Although I can imagine that Mint devs would rather leave legacy TLS enabled to be more user-friendly.

In the meantime, according to fedoraproject.org/wiki/…/StrongCryptoSettings2#Up… the security defaults of Fedora can be rolled back to an earlier level quite easily.

Thanks for the link, I will try this.

korbel,

If you are the one installing the distro, it probably doesn’t matter that you have to copy-paste some commands to install proprietary codes because it’s a one time thing. In my experience, the bigger problem usually is not the first time setup but the maintenance. In case of Fedora they would have to upgrade it every 6 months. That’s why I usually suggest LTS or something rolling but stabe distro like OpenSUSE Thumbleweed.

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

In case of Fedora they would have to upgrade it every 6 months.

The upgrading experience for Fedora Workstation is super smooth, on par with macOS, Android, and so on. Gnome Software just tells the user that a new version is available, the user clicks on the upgrade button and then it’s just waiting a bit and a reboot.

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

Okay, after removing all the preinstalled media players and reinstalling them through Flathub

Technically it’s not required to uninstall the default applications but obviously you’d still wanna do that to avoid clutter.

Fedora should just preinstall everything as a flathub flatpak.

Even though not Fedora-based but that’s pretty much what I have on SteamOS: Firefox, VLC, etc. all from Flathub. Because of the 32bit dependencies, Flathub is my preferred way to install Steam on regular Linux distributions anyway (for obvious reasons not on SteamOS).

ares35,
@ares35@kbin.social avatar

That’s because Cinnamon is actually a fork of an ancient Gnome release

mate is what originally spawned from gnome 2. while cinnamon was built from gnome 3, it has been completely separated from it for a decade.

both are under active development, run current applications, and offer what would be described as a more 'traditional' desktop environment (compared to gnome shell or ubuntu's unity). they're both lighter-weight then gnome, with mate being a bit leaner than cinnamon.

mint would be my suggestion for op, and any of the default mint desktops, including their other option--xfce, would be suitable for op's use case.

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

while cinnamon was built from gnome 3, it has been completely separated from it for a decade.

both are under active development

I followed Cinnamon’s git closely for years. The commit “Renamed files to Cinnamon” was the last commit to the majority of files over years, despite the fact that Cinnamon had several formal releases in that time. It took literal years for its development to actually get off the ground and not just get some light touches in JavaScript files. The slow start reverberates until this day as you can see with its slow Wayland adoption and OP’s “Mint seems rather outdated” comment. IMO Cinnamon isn’t even the best choice for people who want a Windows7-like workflow. Gnome with Dash to Panel achieves the same with less technological legacy.

ElNuevo, in How can I make a smart TV streaming device (Chromecast, Kodi, etc) use speakers connected to my Linux computer?
@ElNuevo@lemmy.lemist.de avatar

If you’re willing to replace your Chromecast, you could configure your raspberry pi (or whatever Linux based replacement) to use a remote Pulseaudio server.

beta_tester, in KDE Plasma 6.0 Approved For Fedora 40 - Including Dropping The X11 Session

The future is here old man

el_gringo_loco, in I'm ditching htop for btop, look how cool it is

Yeah, that looks very cool. Wish I could use it as my wallpaper or a widget in gnome

zShxck,

Open btop in the terminal, then (note the terminal window must not be in fullscreen) right click with the mouse on the top bar of the terminal window and select “Always on top”.

dadaredone, in Fedora or Mint for noob?

No questions it’s mint, it runs and looks very good.

WuTang, in Gamedev and linux
@WuTang@lemmy.ninja avatar

That’s true. But I won’t hold my breath as the bar getting low to get a better&better out-of-the-box experience on linux (and it’s good), it will bring its lot of smelly gamer on their racing chair which don’t care usually, they don’t mind to exec this fishy binary to get 5fps. They will come by simple fact that MS, eventually, would have been too far in BS in their Ai-Ads-OS.

Just check this community on YouTube, Twitch and forums. Shitting on AAA title which are a monstrosity of complexity but because it fails sometimes, those smelly, pretentious douche can get quite incendiary quickly.

That’s why I wish that those tiktok games (apex, fortnite,) never ends on linux.

dlove67, in What can you do on Linux that you can't do on Windows?

I like Linux better

All the other reasons don’t really matter.

Subject6051,

Yeah, I need new friends, I am gonna replace my best friend with you.

Samihazah,

Friends shouldn’t be platform exclusive.

BaumGeist,

Surprisingly profound for just another windows v linux slapfight. I recently watched Cory Doctorow’s DEFCON talk on enshittification, and something he brought up is how once-good, now-shitty social media platforms held their users hostage by being the only platform with all their “friends” (or at least that specific group of people)—the alternatives being to organize dozens of people to migrate to a new service or losing all those friends.

Real friends aren’t platform exclusive

Lexam, in Linux empowered coffee, a must have.

Moccamaster, this is the way.

bitsplease,

Drinking coffee from my Moccamaster as I type 👌

Only drip machine I’ve found that can rival a good Ole fashioned pourover

Rambi, in Thanks to dust I deleted a 70 gig file on my drive

A 70gb log file?? Am I misunderstanding something or wouldn’t that be hundreds of millions of lines

Mo5560,

I’ve definitely had to handle 30gb plain text files before so I am inclined to believe twice as much should be just as possible

Moobythegoldensock, in Fedora or Mint for noob?

I’d say Mint.

Mint is planning to add experimental support for Wayland this winter, so he’s probably only 1-2 years away from full Wayland support in the DE.

entropicdrift,
@entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

They said they’re targeting 2026 in the post where they announced Wayland.

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