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risencode, in Why more PC gaming handhelds should ditch Windows for SteamOS

Yes, the extremely popular handheld PC gaming market.

freebee,

It’s small, but growing very fast. While actual PC has stagnated, no?

sleepyTonia,
@sleepyTonia@programming.dev avatar

Hasn’t Steam just beat its record of simultaneously online users? And while I’m sure Steam Decks contributed to this, we’re taking of numbers an order of magnitude bigger. Hell, PC gaming is doing so well that we’re seeing until then console exclusive games come out on Steam.

UsernameIsTooLon,

I think the problem is that it’s super popular for those who already own a PC and have a huge Steam Library. I got console friends wanting a Steam Deck but ultimately don’t want to buy one because it means rebuying their games.

KarnaSubarna, in Docker team is considering distributing Docker Desktop as a Flatpak and Snap
@KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml avatar

I personally found Portainer more useful as it doesn’t require a VM unlike Docker desktop.

bloopernova, in Your favorite linux projects for weekend
@bloopernova@programming.dev avatar

Create a dotfiles repo in git. Gives you a way to track changes to your .bashrc or .zshrc

indigomirage,

That is the next item on my to-do list. I’ve already installed my own gitea container to run at home. Yes, I could use a public repo (set private) but I wanted I learn how to do this and besides, I wanted to cast a wider net for which files to store but not worry about inadvertently publishing something with passwords embedded…

bloopernova,
@bloopernova@programming.dev avatar

With extra bonus: write an installer script that symlinks the files to the correct place. Use Ansible, plain old Bash, or Python depending on your preference.

RanceMcGrew,

rcm

github.com/thoughtbot/rcm

rcm will do symlinking for you and is pretty awesome. Been using it for this purpose for years

Joker,

Or GNU stow.

indigomirage,

I’m waffling between that or just setting up a bare git repo. Am prepping a VM or two to explore the pros/cons of each approach and to dive into the implications.

It’s funny - this project idea seems to free bubbling up everywhere this past week. I’m sure I’m seeing the consequences of search algorithms, but on Lemmy, it’s nice to see what is a definite and pleasant coincidence.

lemmyvore,

When in doubt always do a git init . and a git add, git commit every once in a while. You’ll never regret it.

krash,

I didn’t really see the benefit of this besides having a snapshot or backup of my home folder for my use case (I don’t have that many config/text files that needs tracking), but I can recommend chezmoi for those interested.

joborun, in Periodic reports, Linux and User Agents

How to choose a browser - see link in bottom

If MS was to sell less licenses than there out there, or claims more than actual, I would suspect there would a tax-ivasion liability against them. So if they have claimed sales of 3bil then they brag of 4bil users, someone would notice.

On the other hand, in terms of anonymity of browsing you’d rather be identified as one of the many with the exact same setup than being unique. TB actually used this to even the mozilla version that was most popular, and even advised not to adjust the default screen size or window size to merge with the “croud”.

But you have a valid concern, when rags come out and say 97% don’t use linux/bsd when in fact 14% do.

Using vanilla ff or chrome is the worst possible way to protect your personal information. digdeeper.neocities.org/articles/browsers

testingtesting123, in In-progress COSMIC apps: terminal, file manager, text editor, and settings
@testingtesting123@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

It is looking very promising. I was a bit skeptic at first, but everything is looking quite polished. I am wondering, Will the terminal have support for images, in similar way to kitty or iterm2? And also another thing, Will the file manager has a three pane view? (macos finder, or ranger (tui) style)

I know those two things are missing from gnome equivalents, and are quite handful for productivity, at least for me. Being more advance than gnome, but simpler than KDE would make COSMIC appealing for a lot of people I think.

BlanK0, in Why more PC gaming handhelds should ditch Windows for SteamOS

Ideally it would be better to see eventually a variety of OSs based on linux, maybe forks of steamOS.

But for the time being, definitely adopting steamOS would be better.

vojel,
@vojel@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Well there is bazzite or chimera

Caboose12000,

or even nobara for steam deck

WindowsEnjoyer, (edited ) in When Windows 10 dies, I am going to jump ship over to Linux. Which version would you recommend for someone with zero prior experience with Linux? **Edit: Linux Mint it shall be.**

Depends. Whatever choice you pick - go with Plasma (KDE) desktop. Most of below choices have alternative desktop flavors that offer Plasma instead of Gnome.

If your goal is to play games - something like Bazzite might work.

If your goal is to have a desktop experience with some gaming, something like NobaraOS or PopOS would work.

If your goal is only desktop experience - ubuntu will work.

If your goal is to learn and have super awesome Linux desktop - Arch Linux.

Personally I am in Arch Linux for the past decade. Tried many different ones and Arch Linux is the only one that simply “just works” for me. Not suitable for beginners.

crispy_kilt, in Docker team is considering distributing Docker Desktop as a Flatpak and Snap

lol no podman

SpaceCadet, in Random application segfaults on Arch
@SpaceCadet@feddit.nl avatar

I’m pretty sure that it’s not hardware related

Random segfaulting is not something that “just happens” because of an OS misconfiguration, then if the same problem happens on Arch as well as on a clean EndeavourOS live image it convinces me that it is in fact hardware related somehow. As you have already replaced the RAM, my guess is CPU or motherboard issue.

Zen2/B450 is a widely used and well supported configuration on Linux that you normally shouldn’t have issues with, but Zen2 CPUs are rather notorious for having fragile memory controllers, and sometimes dodgy AGESA firmware releases that can cause issues on some CPUs. I used to have a 3600X myself that started crashing at idle around a particular firmware release of my motherboard, and it was fixed by a subsequent release.

BTW the fact that it doesn’t happen on Debian doesn’t necessarily mean that Arch is the culprit. It could just be that Debian is not triggering the fault because of different, perhaps more conservative, compiler optimizations.

As a last ditch effort, you could try resetting your entire UEFI (bios) settings to default, preferably by pulling the CMOS battery.

BTW, is it only GUI applications that are segfaulting? Or other programs as well? Do you have an old spare GPU you can test with?

rollmagma, in Periodic reports, Linux and User Agents

No one cares. Adoption of operating systems in the real world is not done based on popularity charts. Those only serve for memes and flamewars.

Stoneykins, (edited ) in When Windows 10 dies, I am going to jump ship over to Linux. Which version would you recommend for someone with zero prior experience with Linux? **Edit: Linux Mint it shall be.**

You know, as much as people here say they aren’t happy with it, I haven’t seen any specific complaints that detail the problems. What bad change does windows 11 even make from windows 10?

Not saying I don’t see problems with windows, there are… A lot. But what are the new problems with windows 11?

Edit: to the people downvoting as if you disagree with me: I’m literally asking a question because I don’t know much about windows 11. I am not trying to make any kind of statement for or against windows 11, I just don’t know what the current flavor of bullshit is and wanted to.

NAM,

Literally the only annoyance I had with it initially was that I preferred my taskbar at the top of the screen, and you can’t move it, at least not without janky registry hacks, on Windows 11.

I’ve since gotten over it, because for me and the vast majority of people, it’s functionally identical in almost all cases.

The only other thing I can think of that’s still a rare annoyance is that sometimes, completely at random, Windows Explorer, if you’ve just left a window open in the background for a while, will just rip focus from whatever other thing you were doing.

Yes, they’re trying to shoehorn their copilot AI thing into the UX, but that was so easy to disable and forget that I refuse to call it a real problem, myself.

Stoneykins,

Thanks for answering. Idk who downvoted you for answering a question lol

vildis, in Random application segfaults on Arch

Could you try an older endeavour os image?

This sounds very much like a driver/firmware/hardware issue

dino, in In-progress COSMIC apps: terminal, file manager, text editor, and settings

Can somebody explain to me, why we need another terminal, file manager, text editor and such? Just to call them all “cosmic apps”? Also who the fuck is going to use any of this on windows or even macOS?? Why waste manpower on this cross-platform compatibility?

mmstick, (edited )
@mmstick@lemmy.world avatar

It’s been explained 100 times ad nauseam over the last two years. Go read comments from previous months’ updates if you want to catch up.

As for cross-platform compatibility, this should not come as a surprise because everything is written in Rust, and the libraries we use are already cross-platform by default in most instances. Supporting multiple platforms takes almost zero effort on our part. Especially when we could design something from the ground up that’s easy to adapt.

dino,

I really tried to find something, but didn’t. shrug Maybe I am not a target user.

Ludrol, in Random application segfaults on Arch
@Ludrol@szmer.info avatar

I would guess that this is CPU SSD issue you ran an live debian image from an usb and did not encounter any crashes.

NoisyFlake,

But I also ran a live EndeavourOS from USB and the same crashes happened.

danie10, in When Windows 10 dies, I am going to jump ship over to Linux. Which version would you recommend for someone with zero prior experience with Linux? **Edit: Linux Mint it shall be.**
@danie10@lemmy.ml avatar

Yes Linux Mint. You CAN migrate later to other distros without losing your data so feel free to test others out later when you feel ready and know more about them.

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