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airikr, in What's your favorite music player on Linux?

Qmmp

danielfgom, in What's your favorite music player on Linux?
@danielfgom@lemmy.world avatar

Lollypop. Simple interface that shows me album art. I can’t always remember band names or artist names but I know what the damn album cover looks like 👍

procrastinare,

Agreed.

The feature I like the most in Lollypop is the party mode. It lets the user select various music genres from your library and it plays songs that match the selected options

danielfgom,
@danielfgom@lemmy.world avatar

I must try that. Thanks 👍

lntl, in What's your favorite music player on Linux?

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Lojcs, in What's your favorite music player on Linux?

Nothing honestly. Couldn’t find a music player that doesn’t look like a file manager, has good search and queue features and doesn’t make strong assumptions about how music is organized. Tried to run Musicolet through waydroid but it doesn’t support Nvidia gpus

Otherwise_Direction7, (edited )

Have you tried Lollypop?

Lojcs,

It assumes music is organized by albums. No options to view by folder or track.

Corgana, in Linux reaches new high 3.82%
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I’m one of the converts. Didn’t like Windows 11 at all, decided to try Ubuntu/Zorin before going back to 10 and ended up staying. I’ve tried various distros many times over the past ~15 years but it never felt “ready” to me until now.

BCsven,

The last few years have had great improvements. For any average user (like a kid or adult that just browses web, streams video, zoom calls, etc) there is no reason a Linux desktop can’t be their main system.

Limit,

I’ve been really happy with fedora, specifically the KDE spin. Looks amazing and a lot of things just work.

dbx12, in Is it actually dangerous to run Firefox as root?

Without any judgement: why are your servers running X11? Just because you dislike SSH’ing to them?

HiddenLayer5,
@HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml avatar

Mainly that. I want to be able to have multiple terminal windows open and have them stay open independent of my main PC. Part of the reason I have a file server instead of plugging all the drives into my PC is so I can offload processor heavy operations onto it (namely making archives and compressing files for long term storage) so I don’t have to use my PC for that.

People have mentioned programs like screen but IMO it’s way more annoying to juggle multiple terminals with it than if they were just windows, and also screen doesn’t scroll so whatever goes beyond the top edge is just inaccessible which I find really annoying. I’ve also been screwed by mistyped file operations on the terminal before (deleting stuff I didn’t mean to mainly) and I just find it safer to use a GUI file manager where it’s a lot harder to subtly mess something up and not notice until it’s too late.

dbx12,

Hmm, I see. The perfectionist in me would want to shed that processor load though ^^

blobjim,

tmux has long been the better replacement to screen. SFTP makes it so you can use desktop software for file system operations.

Hexarei,
@Hexarei@programming.dev avatar

screen doesn’t scroll

Screen (and any other muxer) can scroll just fine. You just have to learn how to do it in each one. Tmux, for example, is ctrl+b [ to enter scroll mode.

mistyped file operations

Get a good TUI file manager. I use and recommend ranger.

tslnox,

Screen uses Ctrl-a Esc (you press Ctrl+a, release them and then tap Esc, then you can scroll with arrows or pup/pgdown)

nmtake, in How do I have Japanese fonts displayed in Fedora?

Most cases will be solved with these settings (but some applications may need additional tweeks):

  1. Use ja_JP.UTF-8locale, or
  2. Use https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_configuration/Examples#Japanese
gary_host_laptop,
@gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml avatar

I was trying to do that but I’m unsure what to edit to do that, since most tutorials are using either a Debian based or Arch distro.

I was using a similar guide, and it also talked about the locale.gen, but that file was never to be found, I just searched a bit more into that and this popped up. So it seems Fedora handles things differently, but now I’m unsure what commands to execute since I’m not sure the ones in that thread are also valid for me.

SnotFlickerman, in Linux reaches new high 3.82%
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gs.statcounter.com/faq#methodology

Considering their methodology, I wonder how many of these are Steam Decks registering as “desktops” when they visit a website in the web broweser?

Fizz, (edited )
@Fizz@lemmy.nz avatar

I would consider the steamdeck to be a linux desktop if someone is browsing the internet on it.

SnotFlickerman, (edited )
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I agree, but it’s definitely marketed as a gaming console of a sort, and not really marketed as a full-fledged PC.

So, imho, that technically skewers the numbers a bit, as it’s not a “desktop” in the traditional sense.

I mean, I’m still not calling 2023 the “Year of the Linux Desktop.” I’m calling it the “Year of the Portable Linux Gaming Console.”

The growth in percentage in Linux in Steam metrics is almost entirely because the Steam Deck.

Mouette,

You cant be sure, Valve pushing Steam Deck and Proton is what made me switch to Linux as lot of games now works but I haven’t bought a Steam deck

tsl,
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As stated from official Valve’s page www.steamdeck.com/en/oled

“Use your Deck as a PC, because it is one.” So Valve did market it as a PC and it’s one of the reasons I bought one more than a year ago. And it’s really my desktop (that I bring with me to places occasionally)c

Fizz,
@Fizz@lemmy.nz avatar

When you are using the steamdeck in handheld mode there is no web browser unless configured from desktop mode. The desktop on the steamdeck is no different to my computer therefore I don’t think it’s fair to wave it off as a console. It’s far closer to a pc than a console.

SnotFlickerman, (edited )
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

It’s far closer to a pc than a console.

Ehhh, you have to spend money on a decent dock to be able to use it with any consistency as a desktop. Sure, software-wise, it’s not a console, it plays PC games.

However, it’s physical form factor is a console. It looks and functions out of the box far more like a Nintendo Switch than a IBM ThinkPad.

It’s literally a gamepad with a screen and no keyboard or mouse. So despite being a PC platform, I would still consider this a “console,” based on outward-facing form factor alone, personally.

Fizz,
@Fizz@lemmy.nz avatar

That’s a fair point. Since we are talking about linux os share, the software that’s running on the device is more important to me than the form factor. What’s running on my steamdeck is so close to what’s running on my desktop pc that when I’m browsing the web on my steamdeck I’d consider myself browsing on linux rather than browsing on specifcally steam os.

silvercove,

Which is still good.

ExLisper, in Thoughts on this?

I took wayland a decade to become usable. It tells me all I need to know about it simplicity and usefulness.

xor, (edited )

You took longer than that to be a useful human, don’t hear anyone saying that about you though

folkrav,

How do you define “usable”, and how long did it take X to get to that same point?

ExLisper,

2 years from the original release to multiple ports, commercial applications, licencing to external groups and people actually asking to use it.

canadaduane, in Is there such a thing as split-screen grep?
@canadaduane@lemmy.ca avatar

Given encouragement to try tmux, here is what I’ve come up with as a “one-liner” (script) that does what I was originally looking for:


<span style="color:#323232;">#!/bin/sh
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">tmux new-session -d -s split_screen_grep ; 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  send-keys "/bin/sh -c '$1' | tee /tmp/split_screen_grep.txt" C-m ; 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  split-window -h ; 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  select-pane -t 1 ; 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  send-keys "tail -f /tmp/split_screen_grep.txt | grep '$2'" C-m ;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">tmux attach-session -t split_screen_grep
</span>

I use it as follows, first arg is a command, second arg is a pattern to search for:


<span style="color:#323232;">$ ./split-grep "cat big_file.txt" "tmux"
</span>
kugmo, in Is DNS Bloat too?
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Embrace GNS.

MyNameIsRichard, in New Linux user here. Is this really how I'm supposed to install apps on Linux?
@MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml avatar

Normally you’d just run sudo apt install … but in this case you are adding a new repository so you have to follow the extra steps of adding the signing key and so on first.

drwankingstein, in Happy new year of the Linux Desktop!

Year of the chromeOS desktop maybe, may faith is low

tsonfeir,
@tsonfeir@lemm.ee avatar

People still use ChromeOS? I just slap Linux on my chromebooks. Cheap new hardware.

drwankingstein,

I actually really like Chrome OS myself. For the people around me who are less tech literate, Chrome OS is actually great. It’s quite easy to support. It’s fast, and it’s got a really good ecosystem now thanks to all the integrations.

BobGnarley,

Which distros do you like best on them?

tsonfeir,
@tsonfeir@lemm.ee avatar

Budgie installed fine and had no driver issues at all on the HP Chromebook 11 G5.

LeFantome,

I have seen stats that both Linux and ChromeOS have around 3.5% market share.

If ChromeOS continues to converge with proper desktop Linux, I consider it a distro which makes 10%+ possible this year.

The wild card for me is Linux gaming. It may not grow fast but it totally could.

Which had me wondering for the first time I hearing about “The Year of the Linux Desktop”, what percentage do we have to hit for this to be the year?

I don’t really expect us to hit it but, for the first time, I feel like it is possible.

shrugal,

Which had me wondering for the first time I hearing about “The Year of the Linux Desktop”, what percentage do we have to hit for this to be the year?

Imo it’s more of a list of things that need to happen, like some mainstream games, apps and devices getting 1st-party Linux support. I suspect this to start happening around the 20% mark, but ofc that’s just a guess.

qjkxbmwvz,

I think the 1st-party device support is a little trickier on Linux than on Windows, which IMHO hampers the widespread adoption of Linux on the desktop.

The reason it’s trickier is that the Linux kernel has no stable API or ABI — which is ultimately a good thing ( www.kernel.org/doc/…/stable-api-nonsense.rst ), but for closed source drivers presents a problem.

Galli, in Make Inkscape installed through Flatpak callable in the terminal as 'inkscape'?

alias?

LemonLord, in Terminal Utility Mega list!
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Emacs it’s different than Vim or Nano. It’s a bridge to Lisp and by this a good learning path. By the way: it’s a OS. 😎

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