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RotatingParts, in What's your current favorite distro that isn't Arch, Debian or Fedora?

MX Linux only because I have it on some very old 32 bit laptops and it supports 32 bit. I don’t really know why I keep those laptops around but they are functional.

samuelinox, in When Windows 10 dies, I am going to jump ship over to Linux. Which version would you recommend for someone with zero prior experience with Linux? **Edit: Linux Mint it shall be.**

My recommendation is to avoid any overly bleeding edge distro while starting out, as when things will inevitably break you won’t have much knowlege on how to fix the issue, and googling it may not always give you an answer.

Caboose12000, in What's your current favorite distro that isn't Arch, Debian or Fedora?

Nobara, as a gamer first it’s the perfect distro for me

kusivittula,

i wish i had an amd gpu… until then i’m stuck with mint. loved nobara, but it’s a mess with nvidia.

Caboose12000,

I have a GTX 1070 and I’ve had almost no issue on nobara

kariboka,

Wayland?

Caboose12000,

yup

Yerbouti,

Works perfectly with my 2080ti.

kusivittula,

3060ti here, and two critical issues. #1: parts of the UI like taskbar, title bars of random windows and entire windows behind those become unresponsive or black after about 1 hour of use, needs a reboot. #2: suspend pc -> monitor (oled tv) goes to sleep -> no signal when i resume. needs forced reboot. same thing if it automatically suspends. happens on both, official and kde versions, and no amount of googling has helped. i suspect something may be wrong with my card, because even windows had intermittent issues when resuming from sleep, and tons of crashes on nearly all games. curiously though, mint has none of these issues?!

Spoonbit, in Some of y'all need to see this and drop the superiority complex...

Linux just moved out of 5.x.x hell. Well catch up soon

Chewy7324, in Distro for POS

Maybe a kiosk compositor which displays only a single app works well for this use case.

github.com/cage-kiosk/cage

errorlab,

I’ve never known a such thing exists, thank you so much for sharing it. Gonna test it out this weekend.

bhamlin, in What's your current favorite distro that isn't Arch, Debian or Fedora?

I miss slackware.

It still kinda exists, but really has become a ghost of its former self.

dvdnet89, in What's your current favorite distro that isn't Arch, Debian or Fedora?
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Kubuntu

pastermil, in What's your current favorite distro that isn't Arch, Debian or Fedora?

Gentoo!

captainlezbian, in TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism

FOSS is an ancom as food not bombs and books to prisoners programs.

itslilith, (edited )
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Don’t know about books to prisoners, but food not bombs is definitely influenced heavily by libertarian socialism

captainlezbian,

Is that why there were so many darn anarchists there?

And yeah books to prisoners programs are both a means of direct action and of spreading anti carceral propaganda to those most effected. Not all programs are anarchist, but the one I helped with had a zine library that included a lot of stuff by former prisoners about the harm, ineffectiveness, and racist origins of the American prison system. Which was good because at least that was something they always had enough of unlike English-Spanish dictionaries. Seriously if you ever have any lying around donate it to a books for prisoners program. A lot of prisoners want to learn to communicate with those they’re locked in a cage with. And for anyone with more liberal sensibilities it’s also a form of self improvement that helps on the outside.

arthur, in Some of y'all need to see this and drop the superiority complex...

@dataisugly material

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted, (edited ) in Some of y'all need to see this and drop the superiority complex...
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Pffff. You losers actually think Linux is better? IBM OS/2 FTW FUCKAHS. 😎

(/s obv)

dankm,

OS/2 was great in its time. I’d very much like to see it open sourced, even though IBM has repeatedly refused.

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted,
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That would be so awesome if it were open-sourced!

TCB13, in Recent GNOME design work – Form and Function
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What are they trying to fuck up down on their quest for the “perfect vision”?

semperverus,
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Im not a big fan of gnome, but this system monitor update is pretty legit

TCB13,
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Looks like a cheap copy of MissionCenter… flathub.org/apps/io.missioncenter.MissionCenter

Spectacle8011,
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So if GNOME does something everyone else is not doing, they’re “fucking up”, but if they follow what someone else has done that you like, they’re just creating a “cheap copy”? How do they win?

OsrsNeedsF2P,

And Boxes looked like a cheap copy of Virtualbox. But now it’s my daily driver because how good it is

TCB13,
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Boxes is so… damn… unbearably… slow. Subpar virtualization.

spongeborgcubepants,

Boxes does not do the virtualization

TCB13,
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Either way, the end result is slow, the UI is basic… and the transition between the host and VMs fails half the time or performs bad like cursor going not where it is supposed to go.

WeLoveCastingSpellz, (edited ) in how do i transfer files via usb c cable from a pixel 6a (grapheneos) to linux mint?

search usb in settings, set it to file transfer while its plugged into your pc. Alternatively you can install kde connect on both of the devices and transfer files wirelessly

Ramin_HAL9001, (edited ) in How do you use your tiling window manager?

Former Xmonad user here.

I had two 5 screens and two columns. One screen was for terminal emulators, one was for writing code and software development, one was for my web browser, 2 others were for miscelaneous things, but most often were for working with files a GUI file browser like Nautilus or Thunar, or for reading PDF files in Evince, or reading PowerPoint or Excel documents in LibreOffice.

On each screen the tiles were always in 2 columns. The left for doing work, writing code, prose, drawing graphics and charts, interacting with the CLI, and so on. On the right was documentation: manual pages, PDF files, HTML documents, sometimes the MPV video player window when watching a tutorial that I was able to download from YouTube.

The right column usually had no more than 3 windows open, they started to get too narrow to be useful if more than that were open. I would occasionally horizontally split the left column as well, usually when going back and forth between two documents I was editing.

However…

I did not use this workflow once I started using Tmux, and then I continued not using this workflow when I switched to Emacs. The reason is of course because Tmux and Emacs both provide their own tiling windowing system that operate within a single application window. So my main workflow was always in a single maximized terminal window, or a single maximized Emacs window, or a single maximized GIMP window. Only occasionally would I un-maximize these windows, but then to keep it from getting too small, I would set it in “floating window” mode. Also my web browser, PDF reader, GIMP, LibreOffice, all worked better in full-screen (maximized window) mode. Even Thunar (GUI file browser) has multiple tabs, and a multi-column mode which was useful for the very few times I ever needed a GUI file browser.

At one point, I actually changed my tiling window manager configuration to always open windows maximized, except for Thnuar (GUI file browser) which would open in floating mode, not tiling mode. At that point I finally realized that I don’t really using a tiling window manager at all, it is just there managing windows the same as a non-tiling window manager would do.

I switched back to the Xfce default window manager, and quit worrying about window managers all together.

navigatron, in How do you use your tiling window manager?

I don’t do anything interesting. I’ve got the ten workspaces, and win+p to start stuff.

The only interesting thing is win+PrintScrn, which takes a screenshot to /tmp, and then opens it in pinta to crop.

Actually I also have win+z bound to turning off the laptop screen. That’s all I can remember

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