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yrmyli, in what caused you to get into Linux?
@yrmyli@sopuli.xyz avatar

Windows 10/11 happened.

pineapplelover,

Windows 7 was cool, windows 10 was trash, didn’t think it could get any worse until windows 11. Holy fuck

Diplomjodler, in what caused you to get into Linux?

Microsoft anti-consumer shitfuckery. I’ve never had any problems with Windows on a technical level. It has its share of annoyances, but so does Linux. But the ever increasing drive to take away control from the user in order to squeeze out the last penny of revenue just got too much.

krimson, in What are people daily driving these days?
@krimson@feddit.nl avatar

Arch for many, many years. Absolutely zero reasons to switch. I used to distro hop alot back in the day but I don’t bother with that anymore. I need a system that works and Arch gives me exactly that.

jaykay, (edited )
@jaykay@lemmy.zip avatar

Why distro hop from arch if you can make any distro out of it anyway lol I use arch btw

bizdelnick, (edited ) in Broke a partition. Is there any way of saving it?

Try testdisk. It can find a filesystem, copy files from it or restore the partition that contained it.

Sanyanov, in Just install EndeavorOS lol

Arch is easy to install; it’s a headache to manage.

If you want a stable Arch, you need to check the updates and take very granular control over packages and versioning.

While some nerds may like tinkering with their system in all those ways, for regular user Arch is simply too much effort to maintain.

corship,
Sanyanov,

Useful, but still it kinda makes you read through all the update news, which is…why?

I’d like to just hit update and not bother.

corship,

Then you’re on your own. What the duck 🦆 do you expect to happen if you can’t even invest the 10sec to skim over a message (in the few events that there even is one) to see if it affects you and any manual intervention is required.

Sanyanov, (edited )

A fully functional system, just like any other normal OS?

You hit update - boom - you get one, seamlessly, with no breakages and no other user interaction. And that’s how it works pretty much everywhere - except, you know, Arch.

If you’re fine with it - that’s fine, go ahead and tinker all you like. But don’t expect others to have the same priorities.

corship,

Yeah just like the FORCED Microsoft updates that broke like hundreds of businesses?

notebookcheck.net/Microsoft-reimburses-travel-age…

Dude go touch some grass

Sanyanov, (edited )

Man that’s news from 2016, like, it’s a bit rare occasion, y’know. You’re way more likely to get borked by Arch even after reading all the instructions, and it did happen numerous times.

Touching grass is what I do when you take steps to intervene in your system to make an update work.

I see you are an Arch maximalist, but that goes beyond reason. Even Arch proponents are normally not as aggressive on the topic, and admit Arch is too complicated in that regard.

corship, (edited )

You’re just going to shift goalposts every time I’ll post something.

Not recent enough. Not enough cases. That’s different.

And lastly you’ll just claim I do it because I’m an arch maximalist, despite not knowing anything about me :)

UnfortunateShort, (edited )

It is actually very easy:

  1. You setup auto-snapshots (almost trivial)
  2. You update
  3. Evaluate
    3.1) Repeat goto 2
    3.2) Rollback goto 2

The only problem here is that snapshots (and btrfs for that matter) are not the default behaviour. I would really appreciate Endeavour having this as the default setup. It is very likely what you’d want.

Sanyanov, (edited )

True, but if snapshots turn from first line of catastrophe response to a regular tool, this is not a good experience.

Also I believe Garuda has enabled snapshots and btrfs by default.

UnfortunateShort,

Yes, Garuda does, even with bootable snapshots, but it’s otherwise not as clean as Endeavour. As far as I can tell, mkinitcpio/GRUB2 or their setup thereof causes more problems than it solves. My system was bricked multiple times until I switched to a dracut/systemd-boot setup, which works flawlessly since quite a while.

As for the user experience, there are 0 distros you should perform a (major) upgrade on without taking a snapshot first. I had broken systems after apt upgrade. From my point of view rolling vs versioned release are basically occasional mild vs scheduled huge headaches.

blotz, in Anyone want to try this "nyancat" docker image? It's pretty big -- 23kIB. :^)
@blotz@lemmy.world avatar

Why wrap a CLI tool in a docker container? Wouldn’t it be simpler to directly compile nyancat to multiple architectures if the goal is to make it run on all platforms?

flashgnash,

I would imagine it’s just to experiment with docker

FooBarrington,

If you really wanted to, you could create an actually portable executable :)

brakenium,

That looks really interesting! Does this exist for other languages like Rust?

FooBarrington,

Yes, some people tried it, and it seems to work: ahgamut.github.io/2022/07/27/ape-rust-example/

brakenium,

Very interesting, might have to check that out sometime

AnUnusualRelic,
@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

Like go?

GustavoM,
@GustavoM@lemmy.world avatar

Because I’m doing this as a “self-learning” process. Plus, docker is an excellent tool and even “silly” images like this one can give me an edge while looking for (more) jobs, so there’s that. Coding could grant me the same “edge” as well yes, but docker has “more value” since it requires you to code -AND- to have some knowledge/depth regarding typical “dockerization” processes.

Granixo, in Any experience with teaching kids Linux?
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SuperTux, Tux Math, Tux Paint and SuperTuxKart.

Easiest way to get kids involved with Linux.

nayminlwin,

I did get him into TuxPaint and GCompris. He liked playing around in GCompris.

The problem is I have to compete with youtube and roblox… So I have to lock these out for him to use anything else.

semperverus, in ADWSteamGTK makes steam look more inline with GTK
@semperverus@lemmy.world avatar

Now do Kwin/Breeze!

moonsnotreal, in systemwide subtitles for linux
@moonsnotreal@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Would LiveCaptions work? https://github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions

iloverocks,

Yes it work with English content very well. You can rerout all your audio to it via helvum. The big problem is that it only has 3 languages supported English, French and Polish. So it technicality works but not in German unfortunately. But I can say now it partly works on Linux.

nottheengineer, in New nvidia driver makes my 240hz monitor have no input

Nvidia driver updates break things all the time. Just rollback and wait a few weeks before you try updating again.

interceder270,

Nvidia driver updates break things all the time.

No they don’t.

nottheengineer,

Which distro and GPU? I’ve had a terrible experience with my 1070 Ti across Windows, kubuntu and arch and I didn’t even try Wayland.

lemmyvore,

I’m on Manjaro with an 1660. Never had any issues.

MonkderZweite, in Ubuntu Linux Squeezes ~20% More Performance Than Windows 11 On New AMD Zen 4 Threadripper Review

and makes it 100% slower with Snaps.

yum13241, in EndeavourOS Ditches Xfce for KDE Plasma with the Galileo Release

I’m in favor. KDE’s workflow is more familiar to everyone.

llothar, in A symptom of linux past traumas

If you have a choice - use Onshape. Fully featured CAD system, on par with SolidWorks and such, works perfectly on Linux out of the box.

uis,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

FreeCAD

BastingChemina,

I will try it.

It’s more expensive than Fusion360 but if its working well I might be interested.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

I’ve seen Fusion360 in the Snap store.

llothar,

There is a free tier with limitation that your designs are open for others to see. Not ideal, but perfectly fine for tinkering.

netwren, in GitHub - Acly/krita-ai-diffusion: Streamlined interface for generating images with AI in Krita. Inpaint and outpaint with optional text prompt, no tweaking required.

This is wickedly cool and I was wanting something like this last night. Crazy that I stumble on it the morning after.

jaykay, in do the Linux/other distros developers play videogames??
@jaykay@lemmy.zip avatar

I really wonder how you imagine Linux devs

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