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llothar, in Arch on semi-critical pc? (Also EndeavourOS vs raw Arch?)

If the goal is to have the most up to date bleeding edge software, but have it on a critical machine, consider immutable distro like Fedora Silverblue or OpenSuse Aeon. Especially the latter will be just days behind Arch, and if an update breaks something you just roll back and try updating again in a week.

I used Silverblue as my main work system and this saved me a few times.

Bomal,

Yeahh immutable system is the way, I spent so much energy reinstalling systems that felt dirty and slow or just distro hopping. Then I tried NixOS believe me I’m not going anywhere else

Helix,

can you rollback on boot like with NixOS? This is one feature I found really cool, but NixOS itself completely turns me off. They have several bootloader entries where you could just boot into a previous system configuration, which is not a filesystem snapshot like with grub-btrfs+pacman-boot-backup-hook or similar.

bizdelnick, in Mullvad has Deb and RPM repositories now!

wget https://repository.mullvad.net/rpm/stable/mullvad.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/mullvad.repo

This command won’t work.

Pantherina,

Better? I was not sure did it with cd and forgot the parameters for wget XD isnt it -O /path/to/destination/ ?

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

I think you can just replace wget with curl.
Alternatively -O - I think.
You can’t use the path directly because of permissions. And you shouldn’t run wget with root permissions.

Pantherina, (edited )

Yes thats why I did that and seperated it from the wget as I also think thats not the best idea

Okay fixed it. Damn thats weird, I think I just used sudo wget X -O /path/ but not a good idea I guess.

qaz, (edited )

Why won’t it work?

Kazumara, (edited )

Because wget doesn’t use standard output for the downloaded file by default, instead it creates a file with the name in the url in the workingdir. If you want it to use standard output you need -O -

Kusimulkku, in Selecting the New Face of openSUSE is Underway

Most of them are pretty good IMO

TerkErJerbs, in LACT: Linux AMDGPU Controller for overclocking and fan curve control

Dope, thank you for posting. Been using ‘Core CTRL’ for quite awhile but Imma give this a rip. For some reason the former tool never could control the fan curve for my GPU (all the other fans in the box worked fine with it) so this might be profit.

solariplex, in Fedora Kinoite Nightly available with Plasma 6 to test!

Niceeeee! I’ve tested a few KF6 apps in a rawhide+nightly copr distrobox on Kinoite, and they’re quick

conductor,

What are the big changes from KDE 5 -> 6?

solariplex,

Definitely the transition from QT5 to QT6. It Looks identical, but has better wayland support and performance.

There are also a few new and hot features which I can’t recount at the moment (it’s 4:30 in the morning), but the pointieststick blog should have the droids you’re searching for

FishFace, in GIMP 3.0 finally has a release schedule

I remember looking into the situation with non-destructive editing about… 20 years ago. I wonder how long it’s been a desired feature!

CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV, (edited ) in Arch on semi-critical pc? (Also EndeavourOS vs raw Arch?)
@CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t know if you should, but you can. I use Artix for my only computer (also used for uni). It never killed itself. I did once, which was my fault. But I just fixed it.

but depending on who you ask Arch is either the most stable distro they’ve ever used or bricked their pc ten seconds into the install process

This very funny, and true. Arch is almost as stable as its user :)

reddit_sux, (edited ) in GIMP 3.0 finally has a release schedule

Reading the blog however it feels they are going to miss the deadline of May 2024.

Edit: Sorry I miss remembered it as March 2024. Still I am sceptical.

LeFantome,

What is the March deadline?

I thought they were feature freezing in December for a release in May.

Blackmist, in LibreOffice 7.6.3 Office Suite Is Out Now with More Than 110 Bug Fixes

I’m still on 4.1

Any major features since then, or mostly bloat?

Turbo,

I’m using flatpack version which is much more up to date.

I think the big thing is compatibility with current Microsoft office versions.

So there is benefit from being on a newer version unless you’re only using Libre and not sending each other people who are opening it in Microsoft office versions.

semperverus, in LibreOffice 7.6.3 Office Suite Is Out Now with More Than 110 Bug Fixes
@semperverus@lemmy.world avatar
Catsrules,

I still have hope.

datendefekt, in Just install EndeavorOS lol
@datendefekt@lemmy.ml avatar

I’d just recommend Fedora.

I use Fedora BTW.

Pantherina,

Same. Kinoite-main from ublue, works out of the box

jeremyparker,

Oh you mean the IBM Enterprise Linux upstream? Is that ok to use on a desktop computer?

(I’m just kidding, Fedora’s great.)

TangledHyphae, (edited ) in Just install EndeavorOS lol

So if someone starts using EndeavorOS daily, can they claim to be an arch user? Edit: I’m now wiping my laptop clean and using it as my daily driver from now on. This is probably my first experience with Plasma, and I am loving it way more than gnome so far.

Pantherina,

Yup my best Plasma experience was on Manjaro, Arch based KDE is just good. But actually modern KDE at all is just good, so no Kubuntu or damn MXLinux XD

TangledHyphae,

Oh my God the more I use it the more amazing it is already. The customization in the Plasma appearance settings is exactly what I’ve missed this whole time. I feel like I’ve wasted all these years now. Better late than never I s’pose.

Pantherina,

Hahahaha. I tried out Mint once, crashed randomly so no Mint. Then Manjaro and it was great but said to be shady. So MX Linux which was also great but software was outdated. Then KDENeon and Kubuntu, broke both, then Fedora KDE, broke that too.

Now I am on Fedora Kinoite, KDE is all user folders so everything is still customizable.

You may want to disable file indexing as its really weird and crashy. For security also CUPS and bluetooth, no GUI switches poorly

TangledHyphae, (edited )

I’ve done a lot of bluetooth work and know how terrible it is as a protocol, but do you see any issues with only using it for a speaker/earphone, assuming no other devices even within a valid proximity of the transceiver? If nothing can hijack or manipulate or listen to the session, is it that insecure? I disable it and use wired earbuds when I’m mobile for that reason.

Pantherina,

You can be tracked as you glow like a flashlight in the dark. But its not insecure I guess, but dont use it for keyboard to be sure.

TangledHyphae,

I’m a ham radio guy, so I’m licensed by the FCC to transmit 1500 watts in the ham bands. Talk about a flashlight glowing. It’s on my todo list to make a good antenna for directional finding of signals.

g7s,

Yeah, but don’t tell other arch users you are using EndavorOS… jk!

Dotdev, in Linux Mint XCFE -> Gnome?
@Dotdev@programming.dev avatar

It’s fine for the most part. Just keyboard shortcuts won’t work in default and theming is slightly difficult. You have add extensions to gnome to increase functionality.

wurosh,

Truth be told, once I made myself live without extensions for a week, I realized I never needed them in the first place. Gnome has a way of making you discover a slightly different way of doing the same thing that in hindsight just works better with the overall system than an extension would.

But to each their own…

Sentau,

With something like dash to dock or dash to panel, you get extra functionality while still retaining the stock workflow of gnome. I myself use near vanilla gnome with dash to dock, clipboard indicator and gsconnect. Out of those only dash to dock modifies the workflow but in a way that supplements the stock workflow.

rasensprenger, in Spending a few days with Hyprland made me realize how awesome Gnome is

In your case I would just start by copying a full setup someone else made and then customizing it, starting from scratch always takes a lot of effort. Reddit’s unixporn was great for that, the alternatives on lemmy are sadly still a little empty.

flashgnash, (edited )

I found the opposite actually. I tried others’ configs but nothing clicked and I didn’t learn about the bits I didn’t really care about

Starting from scratch, got the bare minimum to use it (launcher, three finger swipe, terminal bind) and then just attempted to daily drive it fixing bits as I go

Also always had the option to bail back to gnome on reboot if I needed to do something urgently that didn’t work

cerement, in Any experience with teaching kids Linux?
@cerement@slrpnk.net avatar

there’s always the classic Sugar (the interface for the OLPC project)

nayminlwin,

Have’t heard of this before. Will check it out.

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