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Vipzy, in Writing program

Kile( by KDE ) if you know latex.

rambos, in Writing program

If you are looking for microsoft compatibility check OnlyOffice, its amazing

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

It would be cool to have it also just navigate the web for you as you. Basically would start polluting all the trackers and if enough people used it their databases would be so overwhelmed. Seems like a good tool from a privacy stand point would get hard to really pinpoint you for advertising or whatevertheir other purposes are for tracking.

currawong, in Dell Latitude Frustration
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Install a windows first just to launch the Dell Command Update app (you’ll have to download it from the Dell website) and use it to update the BIOS and Intel firmwares.

These laptops even run badly on win10 until you update everything.

Then install your chosen distro. I bet there will be fewer problems then.

mortalic, in Experience with KDE on Fedora?

Great info thank you. Maybe I’ll just try the kde install first and see how it goes.

halm, in Writing program
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I’ve found that for me markdown is the very simplest, yet versatile way of typing out stuff quickly and regularly. And it’s not bound to any one software or platform, so I use Markor on my phone and Geany on my laptop.

rstein, (edited ) in Writing program

It depends on what you want to achieve.

Vi and it’s descendants are brilliant editors for a programmer but not for writing prose. So stay away from them. ;-)

Do you want just to write text without being distracted by an overwhelming gui or are you fine with the hint at options?

Do you want to write in a terminal?

How much do you want to format while typing? By typing the format commands into the text or by clicking on buttons or ctrl-key magic?

Do you need version control?

For each of your combination of answers there are different solutions.

taladar,

Vi and it’s descendants are brilliant editors for a programmer but not for writing prose.

They work just fine for writing prose too. Though you probably do not need to learn them if you only want to write prose.

qyron,

Version control is an interesting idea.

I used to write fiction as a hobbie and want to return to it again.

The blank sheet of a standard text editor messes with my nerves. I lose myself editing, formating, etc.

If I could find a prompt that I could pre set the font, layout of the final work, and then have the program leave me alone, it would be perfect.

Most writers solutions come with a lot of bells and whistles, like word counter, time elapsed, goals, etc. Unnecessary. Distracting.

gibzag, in Experience with KDE on Fedora?

I had a few random log outs in Fedora KDE, nothing major, but I would recommend OpenSuse Tumbleweed instead.

mortalic,

Ok, why opensuse? I kind of forgot about them.

richardisaguy, (edited )
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Opensuse is stupid fast + its very very stable. Would risk saying its unbreakable(at leaat with regular updates)

mortalic,

Unstable? Would you mind elaborating with some examples? I was literally just downloading it

richardisaguy,
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STABLE****

mortalic,

Hah! Ok I was so confused

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

Dang, I really dislike npm shit, but I might check this out

Sims, in linux phone with external camera?

Just a thought, but in a few years all old ugly photos can be refined, upscaled, content edited, rotated and animated - in 32K ultra. It could even recognize the exact mobile model a random photo was taken with and pre-set the best filters.

It prolly won’t matter much if the photo is taken with a hundred year old handheld plate camera or a brand new digital mounted one - it will look great regardless.

Are you sure photo hardware is the way to go ? I think I would just use whatever you already have and upgrade the pictures later when the software allows it.

Dio9sys,

There is really only so Mich software enhancement can do. At a certain point, there’s not enough data to interpolate.

juli, (edited )

Upscaling isn’t really the holy grail

And it can’t definitely make up for the subpar image stabilisation of the pixel.

conciselyverbose,

I really doubt that. Computational photography is only as good as it is because of how heavily it processes all sorts of data that can't make it into the jpeg that gets spit out.

I would love to see what an Apple camera with the hardware they leverage on iPhone, but a full frame sensor and real lens could do, because what they manage to pull out of the trash ass input is impressive. But it's already processed to absolute hell. There's nothing left for further passes to pull out.

spacecow, in Looking for a WYSIWYG note taking app that is not Electron.

Xournal++ could work, though it’s more geared toward hand-written notes.

xournalpp.github.io

nhowell77, 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?

Just bought a set of Razer Barracuda X headphones at good ol Walmart for $69.99. They can connect one of 3 ways,

USB-C 2.4ghz Wireless Bluetooth Analog audio cable.

I plugged in the USB-C adapter and they worked without a hits.

For specs of the machine they are connected to…

Acer Nitro 5 Laptop Intel I7 processor nVidia 4050 GPU

Endeavour OS

Tested with the latest kernel 6.6.9, and the LTS kernel

No fuss. Just work. Have not tried Bluetooth connection, or analog since the RF worked out of the box.

warmaster, in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?

I game a lot, so I need the latest drivers. So anything with a slower release schedule than Manjaro is a no go for me.

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

Kubuntu 22.04 LTS. 2-in-1 from dell.

Touch mostly worked fine. Xournalpp detected pen fine too. When I flipped the screen all the way back, things get wonky though and I have to reset the Wacom drivers. Sometimes it’s fine. I also had to write a xrandr script to rotate the screen to portrait.

In general, it’s mostly alright. I hear that Wayland is much better but I haven’t tried it yet. I do use the stylus quite often for marking up PDFs though and it works well.

library_napper, in What's your experience with a touchscreen laptop on your distro?
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It has glare

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