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Vincent, in Cool fancy programs?

It's a website rather than an app, but if you open it fullscreen, it's just as much fun: https://hackertyper.com

Kalcifer, in The Linux Experiment Channel (From Nick) is on Peertube, and it federates right into Lemmy as a community
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Unfortunately, comments, and votes don’t appear to be federating from Peertube. I’ve opened some issues (LemmyNet/Lemmy#4314, LemmyNet/Lemmy#3837, LemmyNet/lemmy-ui#2161) for this in the past, and, from what I’ve heard, it may be an issue with Peertube’s federation implementation.

BiggestBulb, in Is Ubuntu deserving the hate?
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For anything lower-spec (like, <4Gb of RAM), Ubuntu absolutely CHUGS because of Snaps. Flatpak has no such issue.

Ironically, Lubuntu (a lightweight Ubuntu fork) worked the best for me while I was using it. No slowness, but I installed pretty much everything using Apt (didn't know about Flatpak back then).

I ended up having it lock up and freeze on the sign-in page though, so I moved on to the slightly heavier Linux Mint.

erwan, in Is Ubuntu deserving the hate?

I don’t hate Ubuntu, and it was my distribution from nearly 20 years. Meaning since it was first released until recently. I loved it for a long time because it was based on dpkg which was much better than rpm at the time AND it was way more user friendly than the others. Even as a software developer I like my distribution to move out of the way to let me focus on using it, not babysitting it.

But I moved away because of Snaps. Currently on Fedora and it’s pretty good. I know it’s possible to get rid of Snaps or use a derivative but I prefer to stay close to stock for whatever distribution I use.

If Ubuntu works for you and you don’t mind snaps, then just use that!

So if

PseudoSpock,
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Snaps pushed me to mint on one and endeavour on the other box.

Loucypher,

Same. The idea is to have a machine to code, not to babysit

pruneaue, in 2 years on GNU/Linux - a retrospective attempt

Funny that the printer was the thing that cemented the shift. Ive either been really lucky or linux is much better than windows for printers

Liz_thestrange, (edited )

I’m at college at the moment, so printing is essential for me, right now I can’t print on my desktop but my laptop can do it fine, but yeah that was the final step fot the shift

Edit; I can do it in my desktop too now :)

juli,

Usually linux is better than windosd

pineapplelover, in Is Ubuntu deserving the hate?

Snap is terrible. If you have a bunch of snaps on your system, it becomes very slow and sluggish

tun, (edited ) in Storing SSH keys on gnome-keyring, kwallet, ibsecret or similar

The basic concept is the same. The URL you provide is specifically for Windows.

Check the Arch wiki on SSH keys to achieve what you want. It applies to other Linux distros

wiki.archlinux.org/title/SSH_keys

neonred, (edited ) in Is Ubuntu deserving the hate?

Or just use Debian sid, which effectively is Debian in a rolling variant. 🚀

sheelps, in Announcing Brise theme
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seems like everything i wanted from breeze, might finally drop the long abandoned lightly

m4,

Not sure if you're still following Luwx/Lightly, but there's a fork of it - boehs/Lightly (though for what I've seen the changes it has had have been imperceptible).

sheelps,
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i know about it, using it right now. the fork only takes pull requests from the original repo, no maintenance outside of that is being done.

brax, (edited ) in Is Ubuntu deserving the hate?

I don’t mind it, but I don’t really use it for any of its features. I use i3 over Unity, I think Snaps (and flatpaks, appimages, etc) are dumb as shit.l, and don’t even get me started on how garbage Nautilus is - drives me nuts trying to type a filename in to jump to it only to have Nautilus run a search instead… No idea who thought that was a good idea, but they need to fix that crap already.

I’d probably get by just fine with a full Debian setup tbh.

dannym, (edited ) in what's your opinion on typst?

I love it; it’s been my replacement for LaTeX ever since I’ve hears about it on hacker news

PropaGandalf,

Yeah man. And it keeps getting better!

fossphi, in An update on HDR and color management in KWin

This is looking really promising! Pipewire already has pretty much solved audio issues (at least for me) entirely and now with HDR on the cusp, the year of the Linux desktop is nigh! Barring some Adobe BS and CAD stuff, there really isn’t much left

cmeerw, in Is Ubuntu deserving the hate?

I still think Ubuntu is the best option (particularly if you want to use the non-LTS releases)

Having said that I do hate snaps and also dislike flatpaks. So what I do is just use the Firefox deb package from the PPA and the chromium package from Linux Mint. Oh, and I have actually replaced ubuntu-advantage-tools with a no-op dummy package.

sabreW4K3, in Is Ubuntu deserving the hate?
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I loved Unity. Also, I would argue that both Snap and Flatpak are bad. That said, be happy with whatever works for you. Ubuntu always gives me problems, whereas Fedora runs smooth. That said Ubuntu can read my old Passports, Fedora can’t. They each have the benefits.

iopq,

Flatpak is good because I don’t need to check whether the program is available for my distro.

Before: click Linux icon. They offer a .deb and maybe .rpm

Now: click Linux icon, they tell you how to get it on flathub

And it’s probably available on my distro too, but why bother? Didn’t even search it

sabreW4K3,
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The beauty of Linux, at least for me, is that there’s inter-dependability and so you can run apps using less space than you would on Windows. Linux is like a metaphor for society, if your neighbour has something you need, they should share and vice versa. But alas, some twats with a Windows fetish decided to introduce the likes of Flatpak and Snap 🤮

iopq,

Then you don’t use it, THAT is the beauty of Linux

Loucypher,

Yeah I guess it really comes down to that.

SapphironZA, in Just moved to linux

The sluggishness you experienced has a lot to do with Ubuntu itself. At its base it’s a very good OS, but canonical is messing up on the details.

Ubuntu derivatives like Linux Mint or PopOS have spent a lot of time resolving this. They perform very well for most and have got excellent stability because their software stack is a little older.

For gaming, fedora is probably the base OS that most prefer at the moment. It’s at a good balance point of stability the latest tech.

The other option if you want to go more bleeding edge is Manjaro, but expect some things to break on occasion.

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