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THE_ANON, in (Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?

(Mod) Ubuntu shit breaks more than half the things i want to use.

Father_Redbeard, in (Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?
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Any DE that looks remotely like Windows. My journey to Linux began with a seething hatred of the way Microsoft does pretty much anything. Including the Win10 UI. So when I jumped ship I wanted something completely different. I tried Gnome on a couple distros but ultimately landed on Pop!_OS and really like it!

gianni,

I agree with this the most. People obsess over the start menu paradigm simply because they like it in Windows. I desire more open mindedness when it comes to looking into alternative ways to interact with your computer, so I align with GNOME.

iopq, in "Must Try" distros and DEs?

Apparently you can already try Cosmic on NixOS

Rentlar, (edited ) in Low battery life due to high power consumption on t490 thinkpad. (help needed)

Well Li-ion batteries are known in conventional wisdom to degrade to 70% of brand new battery life after being charged 500-1000 times. So if it was supposed to have 8 hours when new then 5-6 makes sense.

When I played around with my laptop’s power settings, the LCD screen and screen-brightness were a big power draw between 3W at dim to like 15W at max. That and all wireless functions off, if you can have an ethernet cord plugged in, no bluetooth or USB devices plugged then you can maximize your battery life. Years ago I got my laptop to host a minecraft server with screen off to like 4-5 W at idle.

E: And don’t forget if you have a backlit keyboard to turn that off.

Blisterexe,

Oddly the laptop seems brand new when I got it, it still had the peel on the power button lmao. Also, thanks for the tips!

superminerJG, in Which terminal emulator do you use?

I use WezTerm. Highly configurable and supports every image display protocol under the sun.

AzureCerulean, in Suggestions for consumer cloud syncing on Linux?
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hwittenborn/celeste: Celeste is a GUI file synchronization client that can connect to virtually any cloud provider.

Backed by rclone, giving you a reliable and battle-tested way to sync your files anywhere Written with GTK4 and Libadwaita, giving Celeste a native look and feel on your desktop Written in Rust, making Celeste blazingly fast to use

github.com/hwittenborn/celeste

ShittyBeatlesFCPres, in Suggestions for consumer cloud syncing on Linux?

Other people have mentioned open source products so I’ll just add that Dropbox has a Linux client. I use Nextcloud for my own stuff but I have Dropbox for work stuff and it works basically the same as on Windows/Mac as far as I can tell.

Apollo2323, in Suggestions for consumer cloud syncing on Linux?

Megasync , the app they have for Linux works great!

JoeKrogan, in Which terminal emulator do you use?
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Konsole and yakuake as the drop down for quick tasks

the_tab_key,

And of course, the terminal pane inside dolphin

Thorndike,

I love the terminal pane in dolphin. I use it all the time.

Magister, in Which terminal emulator do you use?
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whatever ship with the distro when I want to open a terminal…

pastermil, in Rust-Written Linux Scheduler Showing Promising Results For Gaming Performance

Now if only gccrs would mature soon!

LLVM-based is fine for most case, but I bet a lot of people would want to stick with gcc for compiling the kernel.

Giooschi,

For that usecase https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_gcc works too and is much more likely to be mature soon.

pastermil,

It seems to still require LLVM, tho

Ullebe1,

What makes you think that? The whole point of it is to create a rustc backend that uses libgccjit instead of LLVM.

southsamurai, in Display blacks out while opening and closing applications on Wayland KDE.
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Since you got the answer already, I’m no longer unwilling to ask where the hell that wallpaper came from.

Gotta hook me up!

Namstel,
southsamurai,
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

Much appreciated!

Tb0n3, (edited ) in Fish rewrite-it-in Rust progress: 100%

These rewrites in rust are merely just training exercises for those doing it. It wasn’t needed and in most cases isnt used.

Deebster,
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Large parts of the rewrite came from contributors who had never worked on fish before.

That’s pretty useful alone.

And there’s this:

Thread Safety

Allowing background functions and concurrent functions has been a goal for many years. I have been nursing a long-lived branch which allows full threaded execution. But though the changes are small, I have been reluctant to propose them, because they will make reasoning about the shell internals too complex: it is difficult in C++ to check and enforce what crosses thread boundaries.

This is Rust’s bread and butter: we will encode thread requirements into our types, making it explicit and compiler-checked, via Send and Sync. Rust will allow turning on concurrent mode in a safe way, with a manageable increase in complexity, finally enabling this feature.

atzanteol,

They did it “for the vibes”

Vibes are just as important to free/open source software as proprietary software and although there were solid technical reasons for the port, the PR outcomes are added benefits.

ParetoOptimalDev,

It was needed to safely further support for concurrent features? If they follow through on adding that support, there will likely be adoption.

The problem is in most cases the implementers stop at “same thing but in rust” without taking advantage of that.

I can’t fully blame them since just duplicating an existing thing is a huge undertaking.

ogeist, in Display blacks out while opening and closing applications on Wayland KDE.

Are you on the open source drivers or in the official ones? You should be using the open source as they are better in this case.

I have the impression it has to do with your monitor as well, could it be some HDR functionality? Try opening the OSD of your monitor and check if something changes when on the application

ogeist,

Also check the AMDGPU archwiki, there are some troubleshooting suggestions you might want to look at.

LodeMike, in [Resolved - now using Onboard] Any recommendations for an on-screen keyboard like the one that Windows has. The one that comes with Gnome is annoying to use...

YOU CAN EDIT TITLES???

mmababes,

Yup

LodeMike,

COOL

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