Chewy7324

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Chewy7324,

Anyone who wants to install a different OS on a regular desktop is able to do it quite easily, if they can read instructions on a website and an hour or two. It’s similar to swapping tires, which is not difficult but it’s important to read up/get shown how to do it.

But maybe I overestimate the difficulty of replacing the transmission.

Chewy7324,

Some products are only available on Amazon, altough there’s always an alternative on another shop.

I try to avoid Amazon because of how many bad products are on their platform. Other shops also list third-party sellers, but by avoiding those platforms and only buying on proper non-marketplace shops the products usually meet a minimum quality. At least my experience with shops that actually specialize in a specific categorie (pc hardware -> mindfactory.de, electronics -> reichelt.de, …) is generally better.

Chewy7324,

Agreed. Unconditionally recommending Linux to regular people isn’t a good idea. In my opinion it’s fine with all the disclaimers about possible disadvantages and recommend them to inform themselves about it.

Just talking about my experience got them interested enough to at some point try to daily drive Linux on their desktop PC, one of them used PopOS for 2 years on their uni laptop at that point.

At the end of the day it’s all about expectations. Most people are uninterested in computers and want to continue using what they know. Others want to experiment and will learn more themselves after being shown something interesting (through YT, conversations, Steam Deck tutorials, …).

Good luck web devs (lemmy.world)

Alt text:Twitter post by Daniel Feldman (@d_feldman): Linux is the only major operating system to support diagonal mode (credit [Twitter] @xssfox). Image shows an untrawide monitor rotated about 45 degrees, with a horizontal IDE window taking up a bottom triangle. A web browser and settings menu above it are organized creating a...

Chewy7324,

Rotating the display by a custom angle is possible through xrandr on X.org.

There’s no Wayland protocol for custom angle rotation, and I don’t expect anyone to create a protocol extension without a use-case.

My wild guess: Theoretically it should be possible for a compositor to support similar custom rotation, as applications simply draw to their surface (window), without knowing how and where it is displayed on the viewport (display).

But it might require quite a bit of work, depending on the project, so I don’t expect to ever see custom rotation on anything besides smaller/niche compositors.

[1] unix.stackexchange.com/…/rotate-a-display-by-cust…

Chewy7324,

Linux phones aren’t supported because it’s an Xorg feature. Usually Linux phones use Wayland for the better (touch) experience. If someone wanted to they could implement it on a Wayland compositor, but given that no other OS I know of supports diagonal mode, I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Chewy7324,

There’s an increasing amount of wayland compositors, so I don’t think diversity goes away.

Additionally, hyprland supports plugins which can do most things an X.org window manager could do. E.g. there’s a plugin to support river’s window layout protocol, which allows for creating custom window layout generator.

Diversity doesn’t just vanish, it’s replaced by new possibilities, created by solid protocol specifications with multiple implementations.

Similarily, nixpkgs and other repos continue to grow, just like flathub does too. These projects aren’t killing diversity, they’re enabling it.

Chewy7324,

My reason against using Guix is software availability. NixOS repos are just larger, and I like that on NixOS unfree software can be enabled with a single line.

Chewy7324, (edited )

Hopefully their personal information won’t be found out by those lawyers, or they could also be threatened into stopping development. It’s sad to see how companies are bullying volunteers into stopping legal projects.

Edit: SLAPP suits are similar to this, where companies file lawsuits while knowing they’d lose, if the defendent had the time, money and stress tolerance to win the lawsuit. …wikipedia.org/…/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public…

Chewy7324, (edited )

It’s sad to see companies threatening completely legal projects, knowing that the volunteering developers don’t have the time and money to win a lawsuit against a large company with lawyers. It’s nothing less than bullying volunteers, or similar to SLAPP suits.

Edit: typo

Chewy7324,

Same topic, original article linked in post description. lemmy.ndlug.org/post/523560

Chewy7324,

I’ve switched away from Xorg a few years ago because of its terrible multi monitor support and bad experiences with picom. Sway and now hyprland are imo a better tiling wm experience then their Xorg equivalent.

Chewy7324,

Sadly it works for YouTube. Yesterday I noticed a friend disabled uBlock Origin on YouTube. They don’t care that there’s workarounds, they’d rather watch 2 min ads than read up about something they are not interested in.

Chewy7324,

Well, did you know I’m vegetarian and used to run Arch? If you could show me your fridge and computer, please, I’ll fix them for you!

Chewy7324,

[cosmic-randr] uses the wlr output configuration Wayland protocols.

Does this mean cosmic-randr should work on other compositors that support the wlr output configuration protocol (e.g. sway, hyprland, river, …)? It’s great to see cosmic adopting existing protocols, instead of compositor specific protocols (or worse, no external app support at all).

Also, it’s great how portable Cosmic DE seems to be, as it’s already mostly packaged on NixOS. On first look, cosmic-term seems to be a quick terminal so I might switch to it, as well as cosmic-files.

Chewy7324,

Wireguard is awesome and doesn’t even show up on the battery usage statistics of my phone.

With such a small attack surface I don’t have to worry about zero days for vaultwarden and immich.

Chewy7324,

The DNS-01 challenge [1] allows for issuing SSL certificates without a publicly routable IP address. It needs API support from your DNS provider to automate it, but e.g. lego [2] supports many services.

I personally leave my Wireguard VPN always on, but as its only routing the local subnet with my services, it doesn’t even appear in my battery statistics.

[1] letsencrypt.org/docs/challenge-types/-01-chal…

[2] github.com/go-acme/lego

Chewy7324,

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

github.com/cage-kiosk/cage

Chewy7324,

At first I read only docker without the context of the Docker Desktop client.

Making docker a one-click installation on all distros is great, altough I wouldn’t use it myself.

If they actually make a flatpak I wonder whether they’ll only support rootless docker or if it’ll ask for elevated permissions through polkit.

Chewy7324,

I’m not familiar with docker on Windows, but I believe it runs through a (well integrated) VM. Do you run it 24/7 on your desktop pc? If yes, do you notice a performance impact while e.g. gaming?

It’s surprising to me how docker managed to be the ultimate way to run services across all major OSs while only running on Linux specifically.

Chewy7324, (edited )

Not rebooting for a long time makes me nervous once I actually reboot, as I might’ve changed something but didn’t make it persistent. Luckily I’ve become much better with documenting chabges after switching to NixOS.

Chewy7324,

Did you do benchmarks? It probably doesn’t help much for heavily multi threaded apps, as they should use all cores anyway. And most apps aren’t performance critical, altough it might stabilize fps in games.

Chewy7324,

Whether the site’s operator made $35 million from advertising remains a question, […]

I’m really curious, where this much money would come from. Advertising on these sites isn’t as lucrative and I won’t believe that they made on average 0.5$ from each visitor. Don’t people use ad blocking?

Where did you learn partitioning? And do you need a guide everytime you install a distro?

I have been using linux about 4 years now and in that time i’ve done a bunch of installs. Lately i’ve been setting up luks and lvm, but each time i install a distro ive set up bodhi and nixos with this setup but the issue i have is that each time ive done it i’ve had to follow a guide....

Chewy7324,

I recommend unplugging all disks with important data beforehand. Piece of mind about not being able to wipe all data (and having to restore from your backup) is great. Having used fdisk or parted is a good experience to have in case it’s actually needed on some server.

Fedora Discusses Optimized Binaries For The AMD64 Architecture (fedoraproject.org)

Additional paths will be inserted into the search path used for executables on systems which have a compatible CPU. Those additional paths will mirror the AMD64 / x86_64 “microarchitecture levels” supported by the glibc-hwcaps mechanism: x86-64-v2, x86-64-v3, x86_64-v4. Systemd will be modified to insert the additional...

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