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eager_eagle, in what's your opinion on typst?
@eager_eagle@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve used it for a few documents and loved it. There’s a learning curve, but I’m glad they’re not carrying the technical debt latex has, so it’s definitely worth the effort IMO.

juli,

Sounds good, thx.

chronicledmonocle, in PCVR on Nobara KDE?

I’m just waiting for Valve to support their new Quest SteamVR app with Linux hosts. Once they do I can destroy my Windows 256gb install with impunity.

Grass,

Damn when I saw the update news for it I was hoping it had linux support especially considering the amount of other Linux stuff valve has going on. I feel ripped off…

chronicledmonocle,

An engineer at Valve said they’re working on Linux support for it, so it’s definitely something they’ve got their eye on.

Grass,

That’s good. VR on Lennox has been unsexy so far

Montagge, in Is Ubuntu deserving the hate?
@Montagge@kbin.social avatar

Snap isn't that bad
Ubuntu is fine
People are not

NotAnArdvark, in As a normal, boring user that does nothing special other than browse the internet and the occasional "casual coding" -- what am I supposed to do with 32GiB of ram?

Here’s a little script I’ve put in my $PATH, called memsum:


<span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;">#!/usr/bin/bash
</span><span style="color:#323232;">/usr/bin/ps -eo rss,command --sort -rss </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">| </span><span style="color:#323232;">egrep $1 </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">| </span><span style="color:#323232;">awk </span><span style="color:#183691;">'{ hr=$1/1024 ; sum +=hr} END {print sum}'
</span>

Now you can go: memsum firefox or memsum whatever and see that, actually, apps use a ridiculous amount of memory these days.

I can get Firefox up to 8GB by using things like Office 365.

Signfeld,

Thanks for this, it’s so easy to just run this script when I’m curious.

I got the warning “egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E” so I just swapped that command to get rid of the message.

olafurp,

Browsers often use a lot of unreserved memory marked as free for whoever wants it. This is how you get 16GB browser sessions.

ShortN0te,

www.linuxatemyram.com

sebsch, in As a normal, boring user that does nothing special other than browse the internet and the occasional "casual coding" -- what am I supposed to do with 32GiB of ram?

Mount your .cache dirs into memory via tmpfs

GustavoM, (edited )
@GustavoM@lemmy.world avatar

Does it improve performance in any way? Seems a bit obvious, but I’ll ask anyways for the sake of curiosity.

Acters,

Yes, and if you have an ssd, it will decrease the amount of usage that the limited(albeit ridiculously high) read/write cycles the ssd is capable of. However, it is unlikely you will hit those limits with that kind of usage, lol

Also, memory is faster always, but your usage is negligible. You can disable swap(linux/mac) or page file(windows) to force memory to be used, and your drive is used less. Firefox can be configured to disable disk cache and increase ram cache. Also, it will be noted that this cache is marked as temporary ram cache. any application that needs more ram can delete the temp cache for usage(dynamic ram usage)

But that’s it. The best thing to do is live your life and be happy that you are future proofed for any task that may arise.

ultra,

yes.

spacemanspiffy, in How many of you run a Linux phone (Pine64, Librem etc) as your daily driver?

Been using a Librem 5 since May, and am typing this on it now. I love it.

eruchitanda, in Looking to switch to Linux in the somewhat distant future
@eruchitanda@lemmy.world avatar

I’d go for Linux Mint/Fedora Linux.

Another thing, I would’ve play with it first on a VM, like VirtualBox.

I wouldn’t immediately wipe Windows if I were you. I’d do dualboot with Windows.

Then, when you’re ready, stay with dualboot system or go full neckbeard /j

thespezfucker,

I’m actually thinking of dualboot on windows, gonna mess around to a VM!

lemmyvore,

You can also run many distros “live” from the install media without installing anything, to get a feel for them and to check that mosts things work (network, sound, movies etc.) You can make a bootable stick and choose the live option when it boots.

Diabolo96, (edited ) in Flatpak can look daunting...

That’s why I think AppImage is the best. Despite needing to pack everything it needs it’s always far more lightweight than flatpak. I’d rather download a 50mb appimage than several gigabytes of an entire OS libraries and then the updates requiring roughly the same size. That and I have a shitty internet

Chewy7324,

In my experience updates aren’t that big. The flatpak cli ux is just confusing to read how much data actually has to be downloaded because of deduplication.

Diabolo96, (edited )

I have like 4 gigs of flatpak updates I keep unchecking because at my horrible internet speed it would take the entire day if not more to download. Honestly, if you’re right then this is a horrendous design flaw.

CrabAndBroom,

TBH I dislike Appimage purely because I can’t be bothered to go and check them all individually for new versions all the time, it feels like being on Windows again. I don’t mind a little bloat for the sake of convenience. But that’s just personal preference of course.

Diabolo96,

There was an app that dealt with this but it’s since been abandoned.

_haha_oh_wow_, in Kernel 6.6.6 is out 😈
@_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works avatar

“It’s all for you daemon!”

MaxPower, in Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - Reference Poster / Cheatsheet [Dark mode in details]

Great but what I’m missing is the information that “usr” does not stand for “user”, like many people think or even say. If it would the name could actually be “user” and not “usr”.

The chart actually does not say what exactly it stands for. It’s “user resources” AFAIK.

It’s worth clearing this up in my opinion.

callcc,

Thanks for the input. Things are complicated: askubuntu.com/a/135679 . Apparently it originally meant “user” but then slowly was used for system stuff. So people invented backcronyms.

SpaceCadet,
@SpaceCadet@feddit.nl avatar

That’s just retconning/backronyming it.

/usr does historically stand for user. It’s where the user home directories were on old Unix versions.

zephr_c, in Shortcomings and regressions in Plasma 6 wayland for artists using and configuring graphic tablets

Fedora has always been where Red Hat goes to force the adoption of not quite finished software. If you are not okay with that, you shouldn’t be using Fedora. This is not the first time they’ve done it, and it won’t be the last.

raghukamath,

I understand that and henceforth I won’t be suggesting any artist to use fedora. meanwhile it would be nice to get attention to these bugs.

zephr_c,

Fair.

mactan, in What are you most excited when it comes to linux in 2024?

wine Wayland driver

southernwolf, in Kernel 6.6.6 is out 😈
@southernwolf@pawb.social avatar

🤘🏻

averyminya, in Is linux good for someone tech illererate.

Can you remember a password?

I tried helping someone with their steam deck and they got stuck because they didn’t know what they set their password to.

That aside, start with running Linux on a liveboot USB. It is very easy. See how it is for yourself and decide from there

HotChickenFeet,

In fairness, I frequently forgot my steamdeck root password, because the need to use it was so few and far between. If you’re always in game mode, then there’s almost 0 reason that I’d need my password.

averyminya,

I agree, but this was instantly. Like sub-10 minutes. . .

0ops,

Been there. Frustrating af

offspec, in Can anyone tell me what format this uh.. nested dictionary is?

It’s probaly Lua

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