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prunerye, in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?

Mint, and anything else that requires PPAs. Last time I distrohopped, I had a rule that if I couldn’t install Librewolf in under a minute or two, it wasn’t worth the trouble.

Mind you, this was before flatpaks were big, but I also own a potato and don’t want to waste space on flatpaks.

dreugeworst, in Why do you use the terminal?

Because you can’t (easily) program gui apps to automate tasks, but combining a few terminal programs to get more complex behaviour is really easy

Quazatron, in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?
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I’ve been using Xubuntu LTS on my work laptop some 10 years now. All the customization I do is remove snaps and add flatpaks. It just works.

I have RHEL and derivatives on my work machines, where I spend most of my day. I don’t like the RPM package system, which they tried to improve upon several times already. I don’t like Gnome, is too opinionated for me.

I had a colleague who used Gentoo, to claim superiority. His laptop spent most of the day burning kilowatts with the fans blowing. Not for me. Having everyone build packages from source is very unneficient. "Oh, but the security of building your own binaries! " Well, did you look at the code you’re building? No? Well then.

I end up always going back to the DEB ecosystem, with a XFCE desktop. Lately I’ve been using Manjaro with XFCE and Flatpaks, no AUR.

BaroqueInMind,
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What's the benefits of using Flatpacks over Docker shit?

Quazatron,
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As far as I know, docker for services, flatpak for desktop applications.

BaroqueInMind,
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Couldn't I simply use docker for both and eliminate redundancy?

SpaceNoodle, (edited ) in File transfer to USB drive fails after 4.3 gb

As another commenter mentioned, it’s rather silly to use a USB stick to transfer files from one HDD partition to another. However, there’s absolutely no need to use a Live USB session, and their description of how to access files on block devices was … wrong.

There are programs you can find for Windows to access Linux filesystems, but those tend to be flaky; NTFS support for Linux is mature enough to accomplish what you need. You should be able to install NTFS support with apt and access the Windows partition like any other drive - I’ve done this. Googling “Linux Mint NTFS” should find you what you need.

bartolomeo,
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Thanks, I edited my response.

their description of how to access files on block devices was … wrong.

What was wrong about it?

SpaceNoodle,

/dev/sd* are block devices, not directories or mount points.

bartolomeo,
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Does that mean you can’t copy or rsync a file from one to the other?

SpaceNoodle,

That means that you have to mount them first.

bartolomeo,
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Ok, thanks.

dinckelman, in nix warnings

It’s exactly what it says. Your nix config has a setting that has no effect without enabling the experimental feature that uses it. Either enable the feature, or remove the setting

callyral, in Why do you use the terminal?
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Not having to go through a bunch menus to do stuff, not using the mouse, having –help for commands…

Or just for simplicity. For example, I use simple commands to manage my files: mv, cp, ls, rm, mkdir, etc.

There’s also Neovim, my preferred editor, which runs on the terminal.

I prefer to use GUI for visual things, like drawing, since that’s what it’s best at.

tetris11, in Live (Animated) wallpapers programs for linux
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Are there any programs that can animate a cat to chase my mouse across the desktop? Or a guy who runs up window borders and tries to wrangle the mouse?

MyNameIsRichard,
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Are there any programs that can animate a cat to chase my mouse across the desktop?

oneko

Kory,
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Neil,
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I tried oneko for a day and wow… not my thing. Constant distraction and I didn’t get much done that day, lol. Not recommended for the work computer at least.

MyNameIsRichard,
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I agree with everything you say but it’s there for those who are interested.

wildbus8979,

Bonzi Buddy

Jaysyn, in Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them?
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I have a 12 year old CAD workstation that won't run Windows 11, but will run Mint just fine.

azvasKvklenko, in Zorin OS 17 Has Arrived

So basically Ubuntu-based GNOME-skin OS, advertising GNOME’s new features as their own?

greencactus,

Yeah, I don’t get it either. Like 95% of the stuff they promote is already out there in Fedora for a long time. It isn’t anything special to Zorin.

mactan, in Debian Likely Moving Away From i386 In The Near Future

32bit*

Static_Rocket, (edited )
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Lol, the nomenclature has always been a bit scuffed. Do you refer to desktop 64bit as x86_64 or amd64? (There’s history behind those…)

Patch, (edited )

Yeah, I mean if you want to get picky, the actual i386 processor family hasn’t been supported by the Linux kernel since 2012, and was dropped by Debian in 2007.

Most people were generally not particularly affected by that, seeing as the last i386 chip was released in (I think) 1989!

Debian’s choice to refer to the whole x86-32 line as i386 has always been a weird historical quirk.

spider,

Debian’s choice to refer to the whole x86-32 line as i386 has always been a weird historical quirk.

Indeed; there’s also this announcement from 2016.

ICastFist, in Redox OS - an OS built entirely out of Rust
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How long would it take to compile their Rust microkernel alone compared to a similar one done in C? There are many posts around the web complaining about Rust’s long compile times, though thankfully rarely as slow as C++

bartolomeo, in Zorin OS 17 Has Arrived
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This looks beautiful, congrats to Zorin contributors!

CrabAndBroom, in Cool fancy programs?

Fly-Pie is a good one! Also the same person makes modern versions of Burn My Windows, Desktop Cube and other such things.

ruplicant,
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that guy Schneegans makes the most beautiful useless rice! i’m tempted to switch to gnome now…

CrabAndBroom,

Several of them are on the KDE store now too!

QuazarOmega, in Canonical changes the license of LXD to AGPL

Is this a based move? From Canonical? (°0°)

chameleon,
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No, it comes together with a CLA being required to contribute. In other words, Canonical (and only Canonical) is still allowed to sell exceptions to the AGPL.

Yes, the post says there is no copyright assignment. That's extremely carefully chosen wording to avoid mention of the CLA which was made required in the same commit as the license change. It's "just" a super extended license that lets them do whatever, not assignment.

fossphi,

Quite the same case as with matrix. I very much prefer AGPL over all the other permissive licences, but I don’t know, the CLA leaves a bad taste in the mouth

Goun,

Can somebody explain in a few words what’s CLA? Does it limit contributors rights?

ikidd,
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You sign over your copyright on your contributions to the project.

Goun,

Shit that’s awful, so they could theorically change the lisence to whatever they want at any time

QuazarOmega,

I tried reading through it and I don’t understand completely if they reserve the right to relicense in a way that is against the interest of contributor.
They say that the contributor retains the copyright and can do whatever they want with the code they contributed, which is good, they also say that they can sublicense your contributions, which, as far as I know, means they couldn’t make it more permissive, but only more restrictive, at least that is the case with Creative Commons

macattack, (edited ) in The Linux Experiment Channel (From Nick) is on Peertube, and it federates right into Lemmy as a community

To follow through Mastodon/Calckey/Firefish/etc, search for this in your instance:

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