I don’t know if Lemmy can do it yet, but I remember Reddit and also Facebook( I think) lets you set a minimum account age to post in a community. So we might want to get our mods to do that.
So yeah, Xfce looks the same as it did 10 years ago.
And?
Desktop environment is meant to launch apps and give me windows and maybe have a file manager. Xfce does that. It's a desktop environment.
Hey, "modern" desktop environment enthusiasts, if you bring Compiz back from the dead, give us luddites a call, will you? Ohhhh you kids should have seen it back in the day. Windows and Mac users saw Compiz in action and were, like, "wat." You don't get them to react that way to modern Linux desktops, no. And all that is lost now. Thanks Wayland.
I’m not familiar with any differences the surface go might have from other surfaces I have used but the surface kernel has always fixed every issue I have had with them. I currently use a surface laptop 4 and I can’t even use Bluetooth without the surface kernel. As far as breaking the install goes, the instructions for installation and switching are truly as simple as copy and pasting 5 or 6 terminal commands. I really would recommend the surface kernel before any other fixes.
I use awk a good bit. Not as much as when I was doing data work, though. It’s better than cut at splitting on whitespace in many contexts. Lots of other nice uses like variable scope, regex, and summing
I use awk all the time. a very common and probably simplest reason I use it is it’s ability to handle variable column locations for data.
if you know you always want the last field you can do something like
awk ‘{print $NF}’
but usually using it as for performing more advanced operations all in one go without having to pipe something three times.
sure you can do grep cut grep printf, but you can instead do the pattern matching, the field, the formatting, whatever you need to all in one place.
it’s also got a bunch of more advanced usage of course since it’s its own language. one of my favorite advanced one liners is one that will recognize if it is going to print a duplicate line anywhere in your output and prevent it. in cases where you don’t want to sort your output but you also want to remove duplicates it is extremely helpful and quick rather than running post-processing on the output in another way.
all that said main reason I use it is because I know it and it’s fast, there’s nothing you can do in awk that you can’t do in Python or whatever else you’re more comfortable with. The best tool for the job is the one that gets it done quickly and accurately. unless your environment is limited and it prevents the installation of tools you’re more familiar with then there’s no real reason to use this over Python.
I'd argue running a laptop from the 00s is the least boomer thing to do. Buying a new Macbook every two years while complaining that you don't have enough money and joking about how you're spending your kid's inheritance is the boomer thing to do.
I am still sad my laptop from 2007 (Compal FL90) died earlier this year. It was still pretty powerful, and really full of ports. I could even add USB3 ports with express card if I wanted to. And unlike with modern laptops, the keyboard had some travel.
Currently I use HP 255 G7. I wasn’t using it because that old laptop simply suited me better. It’s fine, but… I am still looking for a cheap used ThinkPad. But it does have a DVD drive, so that’s nice (yes, I do use that).
Yes! Awk is great, I use it all the time for text processing problems that are beyond the scope of normal filters but aren’t worth writing a whole program for. It’s pretty versatile, and you can split expressions up and chain them together when they get too complicated. Try piping the output into sh sometime. It can be messy though and my awk programs tend to be write-only
awk will always have a soft spot for me, but I can see why not many take the time to learn it. It tends to be needed right there at the border of problem complexity where you are probably better using a full-fledged scripting tool.
But learning awk is great for that “now you’re thinking in pipes” ah-hah moment.
My two cents; install uBlue’s Microsoft Surface Images. Here you can find the (WIP) documentation on how it differs from other uBlue images. I’m sure the following lines should pique your interest:
“Replaces the stock Fedora kernel with the Surface kernel
My personal take on what uBlue is, would be that it’s how Fedora would love to ship their Atomic variants if they could ship everything without worrying about those things they can’t (like hardware acceleration, codecs etc). Furthermore, uBlue even has device-specific images; which is just fantastic if you happen to own such a device.
Last, but definitely not least; it’s the best platform in which the transition to Ostree Native Container has been realized. As such, this allows some very unique ways to maintain a distro. For example; if something broke (for whatever reason) on vanilla Fedora Atomic, then… well, you (the uBlue-user) wouldn’t even have noticed it. Because that breakage simply never hit your device. Instead, uBlue’s maintainers noticed the issue -> somehow applied changes to the image so that the image doesn’t ship the issue (by either not shipping the breakage inducing update of the specific package or by shipping the workaround/fix with the image) -> the very next time you update your system (which happens automatically in the background by default) you just go on with your life as if nothing had happened in the first place 😅. So, in a sense, your system is managed such that breaking changes/updates don’t hit you; while they do hit non-uBlue users.
And I haven’t even touched upon how uBlue enhances tinkering or how it allows one to manage (a fleet of) self-customized images etc.
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