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TCB13, in Just learned about AppImageLauncher
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The best launcher you can get for AppImages is to just drop the thing and move to Flatpaks that don’t take 2 seconds to launch apps.

beta_tester,

Some apps are only available as appimages.

Neverthrless you should ask the maintainer and work towards flatpaks.

unsigned,

As someone who tried to maintain a large application flatpak I would say it’s pain in the ass to work with and things break often. The way it’s configured and how permissions are set needs to be simplified.

wiki_me,

Have you tried nix? I wonder if it works better.

TCB13,
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Some apps are only available as appimages.

Yeah I know, I was just joking around, still AppImages are annoying.

M500,

Looking at you Bitwarden.

Appimage and snap. Why no flatpak?

There is a flatpak, but I’m pretty sure it’s a community version.

TCB13,
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Appimage and snap. Why no flatpak?

I know why. They’re most likely running into this scenario as well.

KISSmyOS,

The community flatpak of Bitwarden doesn’t have this issue.
Because it only lets you copy to the clipboard, lol.

TCB13,
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Because it only lets you copy to the clipboard, lol.

Fair enough. :P

JetpackJackson,

Wait why is appimage bad

Kusimulkku,

From the “universal package formats” that’s the one I’ve had issues with when using it on a distro not specifically mentioned to work, it was supposed to be universal! Though not sure if that’s an issue with whoever packaged the app or anything specific with AppImage. Poor experience anyway.

Also no repo model. I like package manager to deal with shit. We have sorta solutions for that but not quite like snaps and flatpaks.

Also the dependencies stuff is weird. They advice you to think of the oldest (LTS?) distro you think the app will be used on and use deps compatible with that one. Which just seems, I dunno, icky, for lack of better word.

But for a random one-off app, I think it’s fine. I prefer flatpak but it’s fine, I wouldn’t avoid it or anything.

JetpackJackson,

Ah ok. That makes sense. Thank you for taking the time to write out a long reply

TCB13,
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Performance… or lack of it. Overhead.

gens,

It’s not.

___,

It’s not. These are opinions. Snap on the other hand… THAT is bad.

JetpackJackson,

I can agree with that

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

Perhaps it’ll start working with Wayland in 6.1 then ;)

youngGoku, in It either runs on Linux or refund

Minecraft and Dota2 run on Linux :)

coolmojo, in Are there any downsides to using Homebrew as a package manager on Linux?

You can also use AppImages. The appman and am script is handy way download and update apps. Have a look at the following website for details:

portable-linux-apps.github.io

It has up-to-date brave.

alt,

You can also use AppImages.

I’m not necessarily opposed to it, as I do use them if they’re inaccessible to me otherwise and if it’s official and up-to-date. But for security-sensitive apps (like a browser) I would rather not rely on it. Furthermore, it seems it’s unofficial anyways.

portable-linux-apps.github.io

This is a cool resource. Thank you!

ultra, in GNOME is (Gradually!) Dropping X11

That channel seems really cool

theshatterstone54,

Yup. Nicco is a Plasma contributor, and probably on the KDE team (correct me if I’m wrong)

neurospice, in Why are gnome devs like this?

OP is an actual troll, check their post history wtf lol

beta_tester, in My few remaining gripes with linux

GNOME settings are widespread. It’s bad right now. Anything that improves that is good

Vincent, in Why are gnome devs like this?

This is so rude. You've done nothing for the guy (neither have I), and have probably used and benefited from his work (that we did not pay for) in some way - and then to single him out and ridicule him? There's an actual human on the other side there...

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

I used for a bit, I even configured it to open in a separate monitor when booting, it was cool for a while

FutileRecipe,

I used for a bit…

What changed?

namelivia,

It was cool but really I didn’t need to watch all that information

pastermil, in LibreOffice 7.5.8 Is Here as the Last Update in the Series, Upgrade to LibreOffice 7.6 Now

Don’t tell me what to do!

nottheengineer, in My few remaining gripes with linux

That part is stupid indeed. If you run X, do xinput and find your trackpad. Then do xinput list-props on that to see all the settings there are. Xinput can also change them with xinput set-prop and they reset after a reboot, so feel free to fiddle around.

Once you’re done, just slap your settings into a script and run that on startup, then you’re set.

Kidplayer_666,

I’m on wayland

aport, in My few remaining gripes with linux

What

Kidplayer_666,

Oh, it didn’t add the text

dino, in Everyday Use of GNU Guix

We need more GUIX here. Not using the distro but really interested in knowing more about it. Hype seems to be solely focused on NixOS lately.

worldofgeese, (edited )
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I try to write about it as much as I can here! There’s also !guix

velox_vulnus, (edited )

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  • theshatterstone54,

    Building a kernel

    Can’t you just use the standard Linux kernel? You can just tell GUIX to use the standardized kernel in its config file

    velox_vulnus,

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  • Spore,

    You can swap it with the standard one. It’s on another non-official channel called nonguix.

    velox_vulnus,

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  • Spore,

    There is a pre built distribution, you need to configure binary cache to get it. Refer to the “Substitute for nonguix” section: gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix

    dino,

    I heard the opposite, that guille is easier to learn than NixOS language.

    theshatterstone54,

    I find it more intuitive, if that makes sense.

    Spore,

    Guile and Guix is way better documented than Nix. The language have more features, so you don’t have to use a hack to load packages, can actually know what is accepted in a function instead of blindly copying what others do, and it comes with a formatter.

    highduc,

    I think the language is harder but more powerful than Nix’s.
    Imo a better manual and examples would help a lot.
    I’d say one of the biggest issues is the one with proprietary drivers - you can’t really find examples and guides on how to get drivers working because it’s kept hush-hush, and to install them yourself requires knowledge on how to set things up, knowledge which beginner users don’t have ofc.
    I’m a big fan of Guix and Guile but atm I couldn’t switch over due to this.

    Spectacle8011, in Audacity 3.4 Released with Music Workflows, New Exporter, and More
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    I don’t work with music at all, so most of this update doesn’t mean much to me. However, it’s nice to see the export window was improved—I want my single-click behavior, damn it.

    The telemetry is limited to update-checking and error reports. Distributions will disable update-checking because they already handle updating Audacity. Error reports need to be manually submitted. It’s possible that most distributions just disable networking altogether when building Audacity, if it even exists in their repositories at all. Fedora’s package is waaay out of date. Arch disables networking altogether.

    Audacity has still instituted a CLA. This is quite worrying. But nothing has happened yet.

    folkrav,

    A CLA isn’t worrying and in of itself. Not all CLAs are made equal. No idea about Audacity’s specifically.

    Spectacle8011,
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    I should have specified that the Audacity CLA allowed Muse Group to relicense Audacity from GPLv2 to GPLv3. Yes, I agree with you that not all CLAs are bad. While you keep the copyright to all your contributions, because the copyright is assigned to them (? I’m not actually sure about this), they can relicense it. The CLA agreement.

    You grant MUSECY SM LTD, an affiliate of MuseScore and Ultimate Guitar, (“Company”) the ability to use the Contributions in any way. You hereby grant to Company , a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, fully paid-up, royalty free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute your Contribution and such derivative works.

    There was quite a lot of confusion and outrage about this at the time, so I can’t recall whether Muse Group specifically said they wanted to include Audacity in Apple’s app store or this was given as an example of why the CLA could be beneficial. My rebuttal was this is not a particularly noble cause. There was also the argument that the FSF requires you to sign a CLA for its own projects so it can reserve the right to relicense it if it benefits the project. My rebuttal to this was…well, it’s the FSF. The day the FSF relicenses their software under a non-free license is the day they die.

    All in all, I’m not worried yet.

    Streetdog, in Using Asciiquarium for Aquarium in Linux Terminal
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    There’s something fishy about this!

    LunchEnjoyer,
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    😅

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