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Atemu, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) in Filesystem mirroring: best backup tool?

I dont want weird archives or anything, just to copy my filesystem to another drive.

For proper backups, you do want “weird archives” with integrity checks, versioning, deduplication and compression. Regular files cannot offer that (at least not efficiently so).

Pantherina, 1 year ago

Ok thanks. Fedora already uses BTRFS, would that work?

Atemu, 1 year ago

Even with btrfs “weird archives” such as Borg’s or restic’s are preferred for backups.

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.

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

The Windows style systray is redundant, I dont understand how you guys think you need it. Android style systray (system notifications) would be far better.

mfat, 1 year ago

I have many apps that still display tray icons and offer useful functions in the right-click menu.

AlijahTheMediocre, 1 year ago

I’ve always found that the right click menu is the same for taskbar, systray, and app drawer. Main reason I say its redundant, at least with an Android like system the apps can display information and options in the notifications.

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)

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.

joel_feila, 1 year ago in Vanilla OS 2 Orchid will be released "very soon"

Was vos 2 going to have kde for de or not.

russjr08, 1 year ago

Officially it will release with GNOME, but others might make a KDE spin.

joel_feila, 1 year ago

Ahh ok I heard on reddit they would but that a while ago

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

I don’t use the dock or a system tray really.

• Each app is opened on its own workspace and it’s always the same workspace. Slack on 1, Thunderbird on 2, Tilix on 3, IDE on 4, Firefox on 5, etc.
• Each workspace gets its own key mapping: Ctrl+F1 for 1, Ctrl+F5 for 5, etc. so switching is quick and easy with no mouse needed.
• To open a new program I just hit Win followed by the first 2 or 3 letters of the name and Enter.

I use the following extensions:

• Burn My Windows
• Pure Perfection
• Clipboard indicator (for clip history)
• System Monitor (to keep an eye on resource use)

makingStuffForFun, 1 year ago

I might try this workspace malarkey. Sounds like a nice flow

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 :).

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

Unknown is TempleOS.

philpo, 1 year ago

That’s more for the Christian fellas, I think.

xtremeownage, 1 year ago

But, it has no network connectivity! That is against God’s will.

(Thus, no telemetry either)

Very interesting os though. Lots of very cool concepts

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

I tried really hard for about a year to use gnome without extensions.

I’d say at best in the end it wasn’t annoying me too much.

Recently tried dash to panel again and yeah. I’m not going back.

I do not understand how people manage multiple programs open without a tray. Do they just memorize in what workspace everything is at all times ?

shinnoodles, 1 year ago

I found it preferable when I started exclusively using the keyboard and keybinds. Tho I ended up using a TWM so I’m definitely not the target audience lol.

drwho, 1 year ago in systemd 255-rc1 Brings "Blue Screen of Death" Support and New Tool To Spawn VMs

What the actual fuck?

guillermohs9, 1 year ago

My thought exactly.

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.

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>

Vorthas, 1 year ago in Your chosen desktop Linux defaults?

EndeavourOS as the distro of choice for easy installation and AUR access.

Depending on the DE, if it’s not MATE, I almost always install Caja, Engrampa, and MATE Calculator since they just have the most sane look and UX to them for my use cases.

• Waterfox as my browser of choice (reason over Firefox is that it offers tabs below address bar as an option in Preferences rather than mucking about in userChrome.css files that often break on updates)
• Vivaldi as a secondary browser for websites that only render right in Chromium
• Kitty as my terminal of choice.
• Clementine as my music player of choice
• yt-dlp for downloading Youtube videos as mp3s
• htop over top, also have gotop for a more graphical look
• exa over ls

wolf, 1 year ago

Interesting browser choices. ;-) I like what I see from Vivaldi, but I rarely need Chrome compatibility and Chromium is in the repositories of all distributions I use, so I never opt for Vivaldi. Just a personal preference or any good reason to use Vivaldi over Chromium etc.?

Vorthas, 1 year ago

Honestly because it’s quite customizable, that’s about it. Being able to customize my software to look and work the way I want them to is a big reason why I use certain programs over others.

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.