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neidu2, in Could 2024 be the year of the diagonal linux desktop?

Redcalcium provided a much better link. I’ve edited my post accordingly.

danielfgom, in KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future
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Undoubtedly Wayland is the way forward and I think it’s a good thing. However I wouldn’t piss all over X because it served us well for many years. My LMDE 6 still runs X and probably will for the next 2 years at least because both the Mint Team and Debian team don’t rush into things. They are taking it slow, testing Wayland to make sure no-one’s system breaks when they switch to Wayland.

This is the best approach. Eventually it will all be Wayland but I never understood why this is such an issue. Like any tech it’s progress, no need for heated debates. It’s just a windowing system after all.

itsaj26744, in I've started building a TUI for Lemmy
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There is one named neonmodem overdrive but it is buggy. It also support discourse forums any plan for this?

crunchpaste,
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There is one named neonmodem overdrive but it is buggy.

It really is buggy, iirc I couldn’t even get it to run properly.

It also support discourse forums any plan for this?

I really don’t have any plans (or even a name) for the app, as I’ve just started playing around with pythorhead yesterday. I just hoped posting a prototype or a proof of concept might spark a discussion and maybe inspire someone much more competent than me.

itsaj26744,
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Fine I thought u were somewhere.🥲

mvirts, in Writing program

Vi 😹

wwwgem, in I've started building a TUI for Lemmy
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Wish someone would come with something like tut for mastodon.

crunchpaste,
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While complex tuis are definitely not my cup of tea (I prefer cli tools to be simple, otherwise I would probably use a proper gui), I’m really happy that I’m not the only one wishing for a way to access lemmy from the terminal.

VelociCatTurd, in Using Ubuntu 23.10 with QEMU/KVM. I want to share 3 folders with Windows 10 (guest) but only one is showing up

I encountered a similar issue with NFS a very long time ago. I had to set the option for each of my NFS exports to have a fsid and make sure the fsid is different between them. So one folder has the option fsid=1 Second folder has fsid=2 and so on. I hope this helps point you in the right direction.

jodanlime, in Writing program
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If you base your opinion of vim from memes you are missing out. Anyone who can’t take 10 minutes to type vimtutor in their terminal is not someone to base an opinion on. These memes come mostly from impatient people that can’t read the docs. It’s a fantastic text editor.

That being said, it’s not meant to be used for written words it’s meant to write code and config files. You want to look for a word processor.

Abiword, etherpad, focuswciter are probably the next 3 biggest on Linux behind libre and open office.

Personally I prefer markdown for most things these days but it’s not exactly meant for word processing either.

Polyester6435,

(Neo)Vim is fantastic for writing when combined with some plugins and LaTeX

bellsDoSing,

IMO (neo)VIM is great for writing text as well, when all you need is markdown level formatting. Personally I use vimwiki a lot (many years by now).

trevor, in Beachpatrol: A CLI tool to replace and automate your everyday web browser (Wayland support)

This is really cool! Do you have a rough timeline for Firefox support?

sebastiancarlos, (edited )

It should be pretty soon. I’ve got it working already, but I need to test it more and figure out how Firefox profiles work with Playwright.

If you want you can just clone it and replace “chromium” with “firefox”. It should just work, and it shouldn’t take too long to figure out the rest.

vort3,
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Let us know when it’s ready, I’d like to try that.

sebastiancarlos,

Will do, bossman

words_number, in I didn't know where else to ask this, if there is another comm i should ask please lmk. Do you have any suggestions for wireless headphones i can use with linux?

All bluetooth headphones should work.

KrapKake, in What's your experience with a touchscreen laptop on your distro?

A distro with the Gnome desktop is where I would start. It has the best touch gestures and on screen keyboard. Gnome’s keyboard still could use some work however, and I would recommend you install “improved osk” if you intend to use it a lot. Cinnamon will work fine but it’s not as fancy…at least since I have last used it. (Its been a few years.)

I used to have some 2 in 1 HP x360 that I initially had Linux Mint on and it did work well. But then I tried PopOS out on it and I had to switch it over to that because of the touch screen gestures and an on screen keyboard that would automatically pop up when you activated a text field. I wouldn’t recommend PopOS right now if you want the latest and greatest Gnome updates, as it is a bit out of date since they are focusing on creating their own desktop. It’s still a solid choice though.

Ramin_HAL9001, (edited ) in Do you mount an embedded Linux file system to the workstation and use your host scripts or do you SSH/SCP and deal with the limited shell commands?

This is probably not a solution you would want, but I will mention it anyway…

Emacs has a built-in app called “TRAMP mode”, what it does is it works as back-end for all of Emacs’s own built-in text editing and file browsing commands, then it uses ordinary SSH and POSIX shell commands on a remote host as the primitive APIs for this back-end. You could say it uses SSH and a POSIX shell as a RPC mechanism.

What this means is you can use the ordinary Emacs editor with the entirety of your usual Emacs configuration, but all filesystem changes (including editing files, directories, and running shell processes) occur on the remote host via SSH. In order to activate it, you just use Emacs’s special TRAMP URL scheme as the file path you want to edit, and it works seamlessly, (especially if you setup your SSH agent so you don’t need a password). An example of such a URL would be /ssh:user@remote-host:/etc/hosts.

Lem453,

Cries in vim

mvirts,

We’re gonna get through this

Ramin_HAL9001, (edited )

There are Vim emulator apps for Emacs, and you can use them with TRAMP mode for remote file editing as well. Doom Emacs and Spacemacs both provide extremely good Vim emulation that work consistently throughout all Emacs modes, including TRAMP mode.

waz,

Vim has it’s own way to edit/brows remote files. Checkout netrw:

www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1075

NanoooK,

I’ve discovered this not long ago and it makes my work way easier. Also, using the dired mode on the remote is useful.

PerogiBoi, in Where can I post questions on how do construct formulas in Onlyoffice/Libreoffice spreadsheets?
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Have you tried asking a LLM? I find them useful for queries like this.

BlindFrog,

Thanks for checking. I asked ChatGPT3.5 to make a solution with excel since I have limited access to it at work. CG came up with making my data a table with Power Query & using a Fill tool, but Fill>Down isn’t doing what CG is saying it’s supposed to do.

I hope I could do this at home though because I only have Onlyoffice & Libreoffice, & excel in the browser is so limited.

woelkchen, in Experience with KDE on Fedora?
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My experience with Fedora KDE has been very positive with the caveat that the default package selection has been a bit bloated and it’s not just my impression. github.com/edythawne/KDE-Minimal-Install exists for a reason. Stability-wise the experience is good, the liberal update cycle is nice.

Personally, I did not find Kinoite so appealing but maybe things changed since then (I think I tried it out a year or so ago).

lemann, in linux phone with external camera?

Would recommend using an external camera to be honest.

There is a ton of software needed to get the most out of a camera, and from the little I understand about embedded image processing a lot of it happens inside proprietary blobs. You can get the image directly as an alternative, but it will look like garbage without reprocessing the input (preferably inside an open source component, with the downside of sometimes being unable to use the hardware to accelerate this)

Right now if you wanted a high quality, mostly open source Linux device with a camera, IMO you’d be looking at the Raspberry Pi, and there is still a ton of work to do. The work being done there, as well as Libcamera, the V4L2 replacement for MIPI/CSI cameras, should eventually make its way into Linux phones - but no idea when that will happen

juli,

I thought about tethering. I’ve played with tethering in the past for astrophotography which is working alright.

I don’t want to mount the sensor directly to the computer - that’s impossible for a camera noob like me.

pelotron, in Experience with KDE on Fedora?
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I have no knowledge about or experience with immutable distros, but I’ve been maining the Fedora KDE spin on my laptop for several major releases now and so far have found no reason to switch away from it. The Plasma Wayland session has been solid from the beginning and everything has just worked.

mortalic,

Perfect, just what I was hoping to hear.

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